Elijah’s POV,
‘Is she, my mate?’ I thought as I was completely bewitched by her beauty.
Another gunshot made me come to reality. I can’t let them hurt her. Even if she is not my mate, I can’t let them hurt an innocent girl.
She looked so pure and innocent.
She is everything I wanted in my woman.
I couldn’t break the eye contact. I just couldn’t. I wanted to look into those deep emerald-green globes for the rest of my life.
But if she is near me, they will hurt her. I can’t afford that.
I didn’t want to scare her but that was the only solution I could think of.
I looked at her with a darkened expression and growled.
She was terrified. She took a step back in fear.
‘Good girl! Now hide behind the trees and save yourself’ I thought as I was moving towards her.
With each passing second, all I could think of was taking her into my arms.
I wanted to touch her so badly.
I wanted to touch and confirm if she is my mate but the time is just not right.
‘Once I get rid of these lousy creatures, I will come back and confirm’ I reassured myself.
But this delicate creature was stuck in her place out of fear of me so I took the matter into my own hands. I simply walked past her.
Once I was out of sight, she came out of trance. From the corner of my eyes, I saw her hiding behind the giant tree.
A deep sigh of relief left my mouth.
As I was distracted by my could-be mate, another bullet was shot at me which wounded my back leg, near my paw and I lost my balance.
Without caring about myself, I turned around to see if the girl was still there but she vanished. Her scent was still present but she was nowhere to be found.
She must have run after the gunshot. She didn’t look like she could fight anyway.
‘Good, little lamb, hide yourself until I finish these worthless humans’
Even if I couldn’t meet her again, I am happy that she is safe.
Those six hellhounds circled around me and started attacking all together. I was only defending myself. I was careful not to accidentally kill someone.
Another gun was shot by that tiny guy with a vulgar smile and blood started to flow through my right leg. It was shot twice by now.
But the tiny disgusting guy was more brutal than I thought. He took the fire torch from the other guy’s hand, who looked like a slightly better version of the short guy, and tried to burn me.
“Damn! Burn the beast!” I heard from my left. This third one also looked like them but a little more handsome version of them.
‘Beast? Whom did they call beast?’ At this point, I lost it.
It is enough torture for one day.
I jumped on that tiny disgusting thing and that fool fell back immediately. I wanted to do it so bad. I head-butted one of them, which looked very different from those three monkeys, and the guy flew away and smashed into the tree.
That ugly disgusting tiny minion still didn’t give up and tried to burn me by throwing the fire torch at my back.
‘Come on, I am the Crown Prince of Werewolves! You can’t think I will be fooled by it. This is such an insult. I will make you pay for it’ I thought shaking my head in disbelief.
Without even looking back, I outsmarted him by moving away and the torch fell on the other guy’s leg and it started to burn.
‘Hah! Loser!’ He was really annoying me.
Soon his entire leg started burning. I wonder what kind of fabric he wears.
His screams became deadly, annoying me even more.
I just couldn’t forgive the tiny guy who tried to burn me twice. I attacked him with my claws and tore his skin apart.
‘Satisfaction!’ I took a deep sigh of relief.
I wanted to kill him more than anything but that thought made me back off again.
The rest of the two brothers tried to attack me with spears and axes. I dodged their attack with ease. It was a cup of cake for me. I hated the fact that one of them tried to attack my eyes. I love my Royal Blue eyes. It is one of my favorite features in myself.
I growled in anger when it came near my eyes and they were quick to back away.
As I thought it couldn’t get worse, that ugly tiny sh*t got up and shot me from behind.
‘Coward! Couldn’t attack from the front?’ It hit my vital point.
It was the fourth shot. The previous three made my entire circulatory system toxic with wolfsbane. Normally, a werewolf should be dead by now because there is no place left in my body that isn’t affected by wolfsbane and silver but I somehow survived.
I felt my eyes closing. All I could smell was the rosy scent. Maybe because I am too injured, I only want to remember the good part of the night?
I could hear their footsteps moving towards me.
‘What if they find her and hurt her once they are done with me?’ the thought was more scary to me then the fear for my own life.
‘That’s it! I have had enough of them! I don’t care what happens next but I am not kneeling down in front of these f*cking disgusting creatures!’ thinking that, I mustered all the power in my body and got up.
I didn’t give them time to contemplate as I started attacking them one by one.
I ripped that tiny ugly sh*t apart. As soon as I was done with him, I attacked another guy and ripped him apart as well. I slashed every piece of flash coming in contact with my claws.
One of the brothers tried to attack me with the spear again but I snatched it from his hand and kicked his brother. I tossed the other to the tree.
Every one of them was severely injured. They were trying to help each other in running away. I growled again and they ran for their lives. Cowards!
“Run, guys! Run! Retreat!”
‘I won!’
Once again, I fell to the ground but this time my entire body was sour. I was feeling shortness of breath. I felt like my body was tearing apart. The toxin was burning me from inside. It felt like I was breathing fire.
I was about to lose consciousness when I heard footsteps approaching me. Before I can react and become violent, the sweet rosy scent hit me on the face and clamed my entire body. I can feel her presence. I can sense her sadness too.
‘She is still here? Did she see everything?’ I thought worriedly.
I opened my eyes slightly to see her, once again mesmerized by her beauty. She was crying, for me. Just then at the edge of death, hanging between consciousness, I felt the most amazing sensation as her soft hand touched my head. My entire body was awakened, filled with electricity, waking me from the lucid dream, and just like that, without my permission, my wolf backed down and my body shifted back into my human form.
And suddenly I heard her,
“MOSTER” I heard her scream like a banshee. Hurting the only thing that was intact, my ears!
Her scream was hysteric. She spun around ready to run away from me.
I couldn’t understand her fear, and I couldn’t control myself and with everything I had in me, I grabbed her leg.
‘MONSTER! BEAST! LEAVE ME!’
She was trying her hardest but with a little pull from me she lost her balance and fell down, but that didn’t stop her though. She was pulling and pushing and literally crawling to get away from me, but I wasn’t letting her go.
‘what is wrong with this little lamb!’
With another little pull, she was lying right over me.
I felt another wave of electricity passing through my body. My entire body was on fire, but a different kind now.
‘She is really my mate’ I wanted to smile but I couldn’t afford that facial expression at the moment.
I was losing consciousness. I really didn’t know what I was doing. I held her tight.
She was struggling for some time and then she stopped. I couldn’t believe the warmth I felt in my heart just by her staying beside me. I opened my eyes to see her only to find her observing me. Dissecting my every feature with awe. We were staring at each other. I can feel the warmth spreading in my body.
“MATE!” left my mouth.
I was so embarrassed to hear my weak voice. It felt like a cat had been choked to death.
“What Mate?” I heard her mesmerizing voice.
She is truly a siren? My own little siren! I finally found her!
“You are mine! You are my mate!” I replied, I wanted to kill myself for claiming her with such a weak voice.
“Excuse me! Who the hell are you to claim me yours, Mister Handsome Naked guy?” I heard her dissatisfied voice.
“Your mate!” I replied in another weak but firm voice.
‘wait! Did she say handsome?’
“What does that supposed to mean?” She asked curiously.
‘How does she not know what mate is?’ I was confused.
I took a deep breath and replied confidently,
“I am the Werewolf King and you are my mate. You are mine now”
‘Well, I can’t say I am the werewolf crown prince who is going to be king. It will sound childish. I am going to be Werewolf King in two weeks anyways, right?’
“What the hell! Werewolf King? Are you drunk? Did they hit you on your head?” She asked angrily and tried to move away but I tightened my grip on her hand.
I looked at her cute but equally confused expression waiting for an honest explanation from me, and the realization dawned on me.
‘Hell! Is she unaware that she is a werewolf too?’ I was shocked now.
“You saw my wolf form!” I replied nonchalantly.
“So what?” Her voice was shaking.
The next words that came out of my mouth were unexpected for me as well. I don’t know why I suddenly ordered but it was the only thing going in my mind looking at her trying to get away from me. I can’t lose you now.
“You have to marry me, NOW!” I ordered, and it wasn’t a request after all.
“WHAT?”