Not impossible
Not too long after Damien, my loyal and well-trusted beta, left, Simon got back, and I frowned as he barged in as usual.
“Well, hello,” he said as he strutted his way to where I was seated on my office chair.
“Wow, I thought people still had the courtesy of knocking before entering someone else’s private space.”
“Knock? Stop playing with me, bro. We literally shared the same womb. What’s this privacy thing you’re talking about now?”
“Whatever. So, where did you go all this while? Who’s this friend you went to visit?”
“And why should I tell you?” I raised my brows in surprise, looking at him like he had probably gone mad or something.
“Wow! Says the guy who apparently shared the same womb as me, right? Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten your own words,” he chuckled, raising both arms to surrender.
“Fine, you’ve got me. I actually went to see Odeus.”
“Oh, okay then. How’s he doing?”
“Quite okay. He asked after you, by the way.”
“Oh really? That’s nice.”
“Yeah, well, today we really couldn’t connect and go out like we used to because his daughter is really sick, and they fear she might die soon.”
“What? That’s terrible!”
“Yeah, I honestly felt so bad for him, but he’s trying to keep himself optimistic and strong.”
“As he should. I think I’ll pay him a visit one of these days.”
“Please do!”
“Yeah, anyway, what’s going on with tonight’s supposed dinner? What’s the occasion, and why are we even having it in the first place?”
“What do you mean? The mating season is fast approaching, so I thought we could just bond with our mate to get all familiarized and used to her before we mark her.” I looked at him, and a laugh immediately escaped my lips! I found it extremely funny that Simon actually thought I would eventually accept Veronica as our mate, what a funny assumption if I must say
“You’re joking, right?” I continued laughing, but seeing that he was not actually joking about it, I had to stop.
“So wait, you seriously think that we are actually going to be able to go through another mating season deceiving ourselves that Veronica is our mate?”
“What do you mean? She is our mate, and you know it.”
“Ugh, are we seriously starting with this again?”
“Yes! You keep denying her, and for who? All for that thing, that dirty and disgusting thing we bought.”
“Well, too bad! You can call her everything you want, but you cannot escape the fact that she is our mate who was ordained by the moon goddess, so there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“There is something I can do about it, and I won’t hesitate to do it over and over again.”
“Oh, so you think rejecting her would just change everything and we’ll be fine accepting Veronica? Listen to me, Simon, if we reject her, she’s going to feel the pain and heartbreak, no doubt, but you see, that void is going to be there, one Veronica would be too small to fill. Basically, we would be going back to square one in the sense that we’ll be having a new mate, making the next mating seasons to come as bland and boring as it has always been all this while.”
“Well, I, it’s, I mean it’s uh okay, at least we won’t be with a slave.”
“Oh, why were you stuttering?” I laughed out loud, and he turned to face me with a deep frown on his face.
“What?”
“How do you know that, huh? What if we reject Ashley now, and we’re given someone even worse after? Do we keep rejecting and rejecting, wasting our years just because we don’t like changeable things in someone?”
“Ugh, whatever.” He fell flat on the chair, and I chuckled lightly.
“By the way, you do realize that this dinner tonight might cause even more controversy amongst the people, right?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Oh, so you don’t know what’s been going on?”
“Don’t know what? What are you talking about?”
“Well, I also just found out, so I can’t really blame you for not knowing.”
“Not knowing what?”
“Well, after the whole drama that happened during the moon fest, it would be silly of us to think that it hadn’t consequently resulted in the people talking and questioning what’s going on inside the mansion’s walls. Before you returned back home, my beta, Damien, had paid me a visit. He told me about what was going on in the pack, and how everyone seems to think there is some sort of a conflict between us, which we can’t blame them for; it did look like that during the moon festival.”
“But we’re not fighting. I mean, look at us, we’re in the same room conversing.”
“But they don’t know that. How are they supposed to? You publicly announced Veronica as our mate, knowing fully well that Ashley was our true mate whether we like it or not, and I came along to oppose that. This all happened in front of so many people, so of course rumors like that would definitely move around.”
“So what are we going to do now? We wouldn’t want the people to start revolting or something.”
“That’s exactly what I told Damien. We need to address this, and very quickly at that.”
“Alright, so what’s the plan?”
“There’s no plan.”
“Oh come on, what do you mean by that? Aren’t we going to do anything about it?”
“If we want to do anything that’s actually going to make a difference, then it is for us to come to an agreement on who our mate is, and I know dang well this is not something we would be able to resolve so quickly.”
“Lucas, please stop being so difficult, oh my goodness! I need you to trust me when I say that Veronica is the best bet on this.”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah, we’ve known her for so long, and she’s such a sweetheart, but you see that Ashley girl, we barely even know her. That girl was brought in amongst the slaves we got from Klaus, Klaus for heaven’s sake. For all we know, she could be dangerous or some sort of spy, so let’s just go with the one we already know and are familiar with.”
“Hmmm, I see,” I said, nodding my head whilst stroking my chin sarcastically.
“And so what happens next? We mark Veronica and live our lives with the one who wasn’t given to us by the moon goddess? We remain lost for the rest of our lives and let ourselves be bound to someone that wouldn’t be fit for us during the mating seasons. Oh, and what if she eventually finds her true mate and then leaves us for him? Or do you think she would not find her true mate the way we found ours? You’re not thinking ahead, Simon. Look at the future and not the present.”
“But I am, and if we get there, we’ll know how to handle those situations by then.”
“Says who? Look, there’s nothing wrong with Ashley. She’s just a girl who has quite been beaten up by life pretty early. The moon goddess doesn’t make mistakes, and if she merged us kings of glory and valor with a lowly slave, as you call her, then there’s something very important that we might just not be seeing right now.” Simon remained quiet, his face having a bit of indecisiveness written on it, so I took it as an opportunity to push further.
“On a lighter note, that woman you don’t want us to be with is extremely beautiful, and her body, oh my goodness.” He turned to face me with a surprised look, and I just shrugged my shoulders.
“You can’t blame me, I couldn’t resist last night. Her soft and supple lips, her buttery smooth skin, and that feel of her touch, it felt like I was in heaven, Simon.”
“Well, come back to earth. I can’t believe you went inside a slave.”
“Will you please stop calling her that? Ashley. Her name is Ashley.”
“Whatever.”
“If you won’t call her mate, the least you can do is to call her by her name. Anyways, as I was saying, that woman is so amazing. I had the best night of my life in her arms. She was submissive when needed, and when it was time for her to be dominant, oh my gosh, I…”
“Alright, that’s enough. I don’t think I want to know all the details. I’m out of here,” he said, standing up from his seat while I laughed out loud as I watched him leave.
“Wait, hold on, don’t you at least want to hear how I…”
“Nope, not hearing it. I’m going to take a shower and start getting ready for tonight. Bye. Geez, the mating season is yet to come, and this crazy brother of mine wants to push me to start with mine now,” he said, closing his ears and walking out, while I continued laughing at him.
As soon as he was finally out of the room, I sat back down, chuckling at how our conversation ended up going. Just as much as I didn’t really enjoy the idea of being mated to someone as weak and vulnerable as Ashley, I just couldn’t deny the truth that she was our mate whether we liked it or not. On the other hand, that was something we could even help her with as our mate. Being the Queen of our kingdom, it was very much needed that she even trained and got herself strong enough to protect herself and those around her, so why reject someone over something that could be changed about them.
It wasn’t going to be a quick and instant process, but I was willing to be patient in getting Simon to finally agree to us accepting Ashley.
“It might take a while, but it’s not impossible,” I said to myself, as I relaxed on my chair, hoping to have some alone time in the silence. In just a matter of a few hours, Veronica and her family members would start arriving for the dinner plans made