The Lycan King's Female Alpha Mate

at the golden rimmed full body mirror to see what was out of place and then my Beta's sigh coming all the way from the door. "Why can't you ever let the royal designer do her job? no offense, y

everyone has expectations of me and I need to live up to them... I know..." It was not easy being a king, especially when you had to tuck your personal feelings to bed and do only what was expected of you. I placed my palm on my face. "Arlo, I'm sorry... I..." "Don't worry, let's just get going." I didn't want to be so cold to my second in command, but it made my blood boil. Just hearing about that woman was enough to make me like this. I had waited my entire life to meet my mate, but the moon goddess had not blessed me with that. It was an experience I doubted I would ever forget. It hurt me, it tore me open. She wasn't even my mate, but she had succeeded in.. in.. breaking my heart. I arrived late at the party, it seemed, because everybody had already started shifting then I heard whispers around me and some people were saying "Omega Alpha." "I was getting really worried when the Alphas kid did not transform immediately. Just imagine having an Omega for an Alpha." I heard someone say, I was a bit curious about that, but before I could inquire into it, the most intoxicating smell that my nostrils had ever had the chance to absorb filled my senses and I could hear Ivan, my Beta calling me, but it sounded so far away as my only focus was on that smell. Before I was even able to think about it, my body was already moving towards the smell in the direction of the centre of the hall where the new wolves had just shifted, my heart was beating so hard against my chest, I had waited my whole life for this moment. Could it be that finally the moon goddess would allow me to meet my mate? The smell was now so appealing that I became a little dizzy, then suddenly it was gone in the snap of a finger and I was sniffing around frantically for traces of it, and then it led me towards... A male wolf? I had thought that nothing would ever shatter me more than that woman's betrayal, but it se