Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Adrian’s pov

Getting to the chambers, I met Claire coming out of the chambers with her father, the two of them were in a serious discussion as she was nodding her head, acknowledging and assimilating whatever her father had said.

Till now, I am still irritated by her presence. They got to the direction where I stood and bowed their head, I nodded my head slightly and said a word

“Rise”

They rose up their heads, Claire’s could not look directly to me, obviously she remembered the threats and warnings I had given to her as a result of accusing and slandering Lena.

I could not be bothered about her expression, her feelings, or what is running through her thoughts as I left their presence and headed towards the throne room.

The throne room was so lonely and silent, there was no sound of birds chirping in the end or the sound of rats having their meeting and deciding on their next line of action.

I had a sullen countenance because centuries ago, the throne had the company of somebody – a beta.

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A week after my parents death, the next agenda that the Council of Elders felt they could do to me was to boss me around which led to my immense anger that day.

I had not gotten to be strong in order to wave their words aside, the pack which I vowed to protect was not helping matters, everywhere I go to, I was been called “murderer”

It was terrible after the first war in which I lost as rumors spread that it was my dead parents who tormented me during the battle, that was the reason why I failed in the war.

I needed a way to unleash my anger and the forest was the perfect spot for me to unleash the anger, I went into the forest as all manner of beasts bore the full brunt of m to wrath.

After killing many beasts, my anger subsided, I came out to behold a young male beta wolf eating a leftover lamb, obviously it was eating by another wolf.

I had concern and I was sympathetic towards his condition, so I gave him a full lamb. He looked at me, gratitude was seen in his expression as he ate the lamb hungrily.

I waited for the young beta wolf to finish eating the lamb, when he was done, he looked at me, blood stained his lips. He cleaned his lips with his hands and said a word which I have not heard for a long time.

“Thank you” He said.

I was shocked at the same time amazed at the genuine feeling that was emanating from him. My eyes which were full of vigilance dimmed as I brought out my right hand in order to help him.

He looked at my hands and his hands, I understood the gesture that he was trying to show that his hands was stained with blood.

“Don’t worry about it” I said.

He brought his hands closer to my hands as I pulled him up, we went to a nearby stream as he washed his body which was filled with blood.

Coming out of the stream, he bowed his head towards me, I did not introduce myself as the ruling Alpha of the pack so he did not know that he was before the ruling Alpha of the pack.

I guess his act of bowing was an act of gratitude not necessarily an act of acknowledgement. I chuckled as I smiled at him, I went towards him and introduced myself to him.

“Adrian, the ruling Alpha”

He was surprised on the sudden revelation, he introduced himself.

Hegel – an orphan.

I suddenly found solitude in him, this begun a friendship that was considered an abomination in the pack. “The bond between a murderer and an orphan”

The bond between us was so strong that he was the only one who knew the secret and underground bases that I have.

He was the only one who had the freedom to talk to me anyhow and anytime he wished. The time when I exercise the Alpha’s authority which was very deadly that made the wolves afraid of me, he will come close to discuss an issue with me.

This made my heart warm, the only thing I admired about him is that he knows how to respect his boundaries.

The bond between us became more intense as he became my battle armour, he was my closest buddy. Hegel made the throne room interesting, he was always explaining things while I was busy signing the documents.

The second battle in which I fought was one of the intense war that had ever happened ever since my ascension to the throne as the ruling Alpha. It marked the end of the friendship between Hegel and I.

We did not separate but he gave himself up for me by becoming my body shield when he found out that a sword was heading towards my direction, I saw that the sword was already deep into his stomach.

The sword was filled with vervain, I knew that they had ready made preparation in my case, this was the second time I was witnessing the death of a dear one, too weak to do anything to the case.

Hegel smiled before succumbing to death, I looked at Hegel’s body and I vow to protect my dear ones at all cost.

BACK TO PRESENT

I heard footstep in the throne room as I lifted my head up to see the intruder, I noticed that it was Claire’s father that had entered. I was always vigilant of him because he was bad news himself.

I looked at him for a short while before continuing signing the documents. He sat down. In front of me, this led me to stop signing the documents.

Although I respected him, I was disgusted by his presence because he was the one who had Claire as his favourite daughter.

He left without a word after a short while, I could not be bothered on the emotions that ran through him, I stopped signing the documents and retired to the chambers, it had been a long day