She Is Different

“Will you tell me now what’s your deal with this girl?” Lucifer asked Killian as soon as they entered his limousine.

“She is my mate.” Killian didn’t hide and told him in a cold tone, looking out of the window absentmindedly.

“What? You are kidding me?” Lucifer shrieked in shock, but Killian didn’t even glance at him. He was still processing the fact that now he had a destined mate who is almost 100 years younger than him, is not a lycan but werewolf, and her wolf is in deep sleep right now because of the rejection two days ago.

“You are completely f*cked up, man.” Lucifer muttered in shock and frustration after some time that he took to regain his composure. He knew that he should be happy for Killian but couldn’t because it would increase difficulties for Killian and for Pearl too.

Lucifer looked at his friend and his king with a hint of sympathy in his gaze. Not so many people knew, but Lucifer knew why Killian didn’t take a chosen mate all these years when he passed his age of finding his fated mate.

“What you are going to do?” Lucifer asked Killian in a worried tone. Killian’s mind was numb right now. Because of Velan, he announced Pearl as his bride in front of all the influential alphas tonight. Now, leaving her would only tarnished her reputation.

At first, she was rejected by her pathetic excuse of first fated mate, and then, her would-be husband also side-tracked her. His fated mate or not, he couldn’t do this to Pearl because she did nothing wrong to him.

On the other hand, she didn’t show any fear or disdain in front of the sea of the people inside the hall. His emotions were now in a whirlpool.

“Damn it.” Lucifer cursed when he got a mind-link for Hugh, telling him that he is going to Pearl’s apartment, and they didn’t even give a car to Pearl to use.

“What happened?” Killian asked him calmly while moving his head lightly to his side. “Hugh mind-linked and asked to send a car behind him. They didn’t have given her a car to commute. Hugh… he… he took her to her residence on a piggy-back ride.” Lucifer told Killian, but scratched his nose awkwardly in the end.

Killian immediately snapped his head towards Lucifer with a low and muffled growl. “Relax, Killian… for him, she is our future queen, and you know him very well.” Lucifer tried to calm Killian down.

Velan growled angrily this time. Although, Hugh was like a brother to them, the idea of having his mate on his back didn’t sit well to him.

“Tell him to keep her safe, and meet us at the border. I don’t want to stay here even for a second now or else I will kill all of them.” Killian growled his instructed and looked out of the window towards the banquet hall.

He saw people now coming out of the hall. Lucifer immediately signalled the driver to drive immediately. They were capable enough to take all those alphas down without even sweating once but it would destroy the harmony that they had maintained between two species for ages.

“Man… this girl, Emily, their new princess…. She is nothing but a pest. What does she think she is?” Hugh mind-linked Lucifer while ranting something angrily.

Lucifer looked at Killian with a calm gaze, but Killian was still looking outside, clearly lost in his thoughts. “What happened?” Lucifer asked him through mind-link, moving his gaze towards the window.

“She reached here, flaunting the wealth and status that Pearl has left in front of Pearl, and once again tried to guilt-tripped Pearl. I am sure that it was Emily who called the office, not Pearl. That girl is nothing but a sack of schemes.” Hugh explained, still pissed.

“Just ensure her safety, Hugh. We are not here to start a war, but it doesn’t mean that we need to tolerate nonsense of someone insignificant like Emily.” Lucifer instructed him calmly and took a deep breath.

He too had the same thoughts about Emily. He wondered about how foolish a person could be let alone the whole family. Even if Pearl wasn’t their real daughter, she was a force to be reckoned with whereas Emily was nothing but full of schemes, and malice. There would be no wonder if she leads this family and pack to its doom in the future.

“We reached, Beta Lucifer.” The driver informed Lucifer in a low voice, pulling both Lucifer and Killian out of their thoughts. “Where are they?” Killian asked him in an exhausted tone this time, leaning his head at the backrest, closing his eyes.

“They will be here soon.” Lucifer informed him while checking the time in his watch. “I guess we should spend tonight at a hotel instead of travelling the whole night.” Lucifer suggested, looking at him with a serious gaze.

“Do as you see fit.” Killian dismissed him and took a deep breath. He didn’t know for how long he would be able to stay calm. “I want my mate, and I want to mark her the next second she will be here with us.” Velan demand, but Killian growled at him.

Killian’s P.O.V.

“We are not going to mark her, Velan. You asked me to take her with us, I did. But that’s it. With what we truly are and what is waiting for us in our future, I am not going to drag her with us. She is our mate, but she doesn’t deserve ill-fate when she is already going through a lot.” I replied to him in a cold and firm tone.

He growled in displeasure, but I knew that he had to agree with me because this was our harsh reality. There was a time when I wanted a mate too just like other lycans and werewolves, but everything changed after that battle years ago.

I stiffened when I felt her presence near me. The calmness that I had succeeded to settle in me vanished into thin air as soon as she opened the door of the car. I gulped hard, trying hard not to open my eyes and see her.

“My queen.” I heard Lucifer greeting her in a formal tone. “Please, call me Pearl. The titled makes me feel that I am old enough to be called grandma.” She asked her in a sweet tone with a hint of tease in her voice.

Though she was still in her early twenties, she really carried an aura that demands respect. Even making a joke, her voice didn’t leave the graceful aura that it always had.

The space beside me dipped a little, and it took everything that I had in me not to open my eyes and pull her into my embrace.

The mate bond really s**ks….

“We are staying at a hotel in the nearby city, Pearl, then we will have the first flight in the morning for our pack.” Lucifer informed her in a calm tone before going out of the car.

“Jerk.” I muttered internally as soon as he closed the door. The whole interior was now filled with her alluring scent of mix of jasmine and gardenia.

I heard her taking a deep breath. I was glad that she had maintained some distance between us, but it also disappointed me.

“What were you thinking, Killian? With this horrible face of yours, do you really think that any sane girl or woman will throw herself on you without feeling disgust?” I berated myself internally.

There was only one she-lycan in my pack who didn’t show her disgust for me in front of me, earning to be my bedpartner all these years, but her solely goal was to be my queen. With Pearl in picture now, I guess, I needed to make some amendments and also, I needed to put an end of my relationship with her.

There was no way that I would let Pearl feel the pain of betrayal at any cost even if she doesn’t want to be with me.

“Do you mind if I touch this scar on your face?” I stiffened immediately when she asked me in a very low tone. “I mean no disrespect, my king. I am not sure if you know this about me or not, but I am pursuing medicine, and treating scars and burns is my specialty.” She explained in the same tone.

I was now surprised and slowly opened my eyes. My breath hitched when my gaze met with her beautiful emerald eyes, looking at me curiously. What took my attention was the purity of her gaze.

“She isn’t disgusted by us.” Veland purred, and a flicker of hope rose somewhere deep in my half-stoned heart out of nowhere.

“You are not afraid of me?” I asked her while tilting my head lightly, but the fear also grasp my heart. What if she said yes??

Her expression changed and she frowned in confusion. “And why should I afraid of you?” she asked me innocently, her tone filled with confusion, making me blink harder, processing what she just asked. For the first time, I was speechless in front of a young girl who had just reached 20.

“This young and beautiful creature is our mate, Killian.” Velan snorted in pride, but my whole attention was on her.

“If you think that these scars (she pointed towards my face, rolling her finger) can scare me that I am sorry to disappoint you, my king. I have seen and treated the worst. Remember a fire broke in The Black Shadow Pack a year ago in which, their Luna and their daughter burnt severely?” she asked me in a confident tone, that confident smile on her lips which tempted me the most to kiss her right now.