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Back at the Lycan clan, the Lycan king, Marius was a middle-aged man. He was tall and handsome and had beautiful cobalt-blue eyes. A ruthless man and he ruled the Lycan clan with an iron fist. The Lycans were usually stronger than the werewolves but they were extremely strong due to the workload he’d make them do and the Lycans hated him. He had a mate, Eliza. An extremely beautiful woman with blonde hair and deep black coloured eyes, she was tall as well. She was a daughter of a noble and rich Lycan father. She and Marius had been mated since she was eighteen and he was twenty. But she was as ruthless as her husband and more cunning than he was. She was the mother of the Lycan prince. Lucian. And he was their only child.
Lucian grew up having his father’s cold aura. As tall and handsome as his father. He took his mother’s deep black eyes, only his a deeper shade of black. He had black long hair that he always tied behind him.
The Lycan prince had always been a rebel against his father. Marius was a wicked man and his son knew it even though Lucian had a cold and dark aura, he was a good person and he hated his father’s wickedness. At a very young age, Marius cast Lucian away from his palace and the prince built his own home, quite far from the palace where he lived with his servants. He was quite of age and he was yet to find his mate.
Lucian had a best friend and right-hand man, Marcus. A Lycan from a noble family. Marcus was dumbstruck when Lucian told him that he went to the werewolf’s territory to help the Alpha female secure her territory. Marcus had heard about the woman. Every Lycan knew her. A strong and attractive female and how she got to rule the werewolf packs was a mystery to the Lycans. But Lucian made him promise not to tell anyone about it. Marcus came to deliver a message to the prince from the king when they started talking. The king sent for Lucian.
Lucian arrived at the palace and met his mother and father waiting for him at the ballroom. He went to his mother and took her hand and kissed it.
“Greetings mother.” She hugged him tightly and patted his back gently.
He went over to his father and bowed to him.
“Rise.” His father’s cold deep voice echoed in the empty room.
“The people are worried about you son.” His mother spoke. The people could be worried but they would never come to the king or queen with their concerns. The people were afraid of them. So technically, the people weren’t worried, they were the worried ones.
“There is nothing to be worried about mother.” He smiled as he spoke to her.
“You are too old for a mate Lucian.” His father spoke rather too calmly and Lucian wondered what happened to him, Marius was not a calm man.
“I am?” Lucian asked sarcastically and his father frowned.
“We have brought you a wife Lucian. Someone who will take care of you while you wait for your mate. You’re way too old to be alone.” It was his mother that spoke.
Lucian was surprised at his parent’s actions but he didn’t show it. He wondered why they kept the emphasis on him being old. He didn’t need a mate. He was fine by himself.
“But you know Lycans don’t have two mates.” He spoke calmly to both his parents.
“Lycans don’t only get a second mate after the death of their first mates. Only werewolves can have a second mate and a third and so on… But in your case Lucian, you are only getting a concubine.” His father spoke and his mother was nodding at every one of his words.
He wanted to tell them he didn’t need a concubine, he was fine. But he wouldn’t dare.
“I know you don’t want to take a concubine but we need to make a peace treaty with the vampires.” His mother spoke and proceeded to cup his cheeks in her hands.
“So I am to marry a vampire?”
“Yes.” His father’s response sounded firm and final.
“You will come back to the palace and live here and you shall go to the vampire’s territory and marry the vampire princess.” His father spoke again and left the room. He was left standing there with his mother.
“You shall do as your father pleases. She will only be a concubine after all and I’m sure you’re mate will not have an objection.” His mother tried to coax him. He looked pale now. His mother gently touched his cheeks again and left him standing there.
*** LUCIAN’S POV ***
His father doesn’t usually call him to the palace unless there was a problem or he had done something wrong. Marcus told him about his father’s summon and asked him he had been. To an ordinary person, he would have lied to the person but it was Marcus.
He arrived and when he got the news that he will be taking the vampire princess as a concubine, he went pale and was disappointed. Not that the vampire princess was bad, she was beautiful and she was the last of the vampire King’s three children and loved greatly in the vampire kingdom. Zendaya was her name.
He also knew why he had to marry the vampire princess. The vampires and Lycans had been at war for a very long time. Even before Marius, the Lycan king and Charles, the vampire king was born. But Marius didn’t see a need to continue fighting for what they knew nothing about. An old-time generational feud. Charles welcomed the idea and they were to sign a peace treaty and Lucian, the Lycan prince to marry Zendaya, the vampire princess. Their marriage will cement the peace between both species.
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