The Lycan King's Mysterious Mate

Prologue

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Elena sluggishly opened the door and with worn-out legs, she walked to the couch where she sat and even if she didn't want to, her eyes dared to close. It was the first time in the day when she gave rest to her legs and butt but little did she know that her little rest won't last for longer.

Weeping sounds came from the door to her right and she ran into the room looking for the three year old kid who she takes care of.

She saw little Chase hugging the pillow with tears on his face and uncontrollable shivers in his body made goosebumps erupt on her body. She ran to him and pulled him into her arms and rubbed his back.

'Did he visit while I was away?' She thought.

"Chase..."

She wiped his tears and kissed his head making the little guy a bit comfortable and asked why he was crying. He was silent at the moment, he only kept looking at his aunt's hazel eyes with his teary eyes and then started to stutter, "He-he-he c-came."

These two words stopped Elena's world and she started looking for injuries over his body but luckily she didn't find any. She blew a breath of relief and took his fluffy tear-stained cheeks in her hands, "What did he do? Did he try to hurt you? Or did he say something?"

She made Chase drink some water and rubbed his back to encourage him to speak. Chase held his aunt's hand tightly and said, "When you l-left, he c-came. He said no mon-money, then he will be-beat us to-"

"To?"

"D-death..."

Elena shut her eyes to stop herself from crying and hugged Chase, she was out the whole day looking out for a job but wherever she went, she only got disappointment.

Though she even got almost selected for a waitress job but when she heard the current waitress yelling at the manager for touching her inappropriately, she quit even before starting.

She already had enough traumas which gave her the experience that she never wanted in her life and this was the only thing that never happened to her so she wants to keep herself away from that kind of trauma. She already had a pretty goddamn list of suffering in her hand.

"Money?"

Chase asked with hopeful eyes and Elena's lips formed in a straight line. He is only three years and seven months old kid but he has seen the suffering that no one wishes for a kid to see. Because of their hard life, he was growing faster than the age of his kids.

She barely shook her head and blew a breath which made the little Chase gloomy. To clear his mind, she picked him up and walked into the kitchen where she started making his favourite pancakes.

Chase giggled when she danced with him on his current favourite hip-hop beat. She served him the chocolate pancakes with chocolate syrup all over it and cherries at the top.

Just like the usual time, he gave her the first bite and asked if she didn't make some for her. She sweetly smiled telling him she doesn't have an appetite although she was hungry still she didn't make some for her as she only had things to make pancakes for one person.

After spending some time with her nephew and telling him bedtime stories, she put him to bed and went under the shower to take the day's stress off.

Every rejection she had today played in her mind and she heavily sighed thinking about Chase, how will she keep him happy if she couldn't find a job soon?

"I wish you were here Becs..." She whispered leaning on the wall.

A teardrop rolled down her cheek and she cursed herself for the day when she chose not to listen to her sister. If she would have heard her sister that day, they wouldn't be living like this today.

Her life wasn't all roses in the garden before but at least she never slept empty stomach or never feared anyone because her elder sister was there to take care of her and to protect her. But now when she is gone... She has to take care of herself and Chase on her own and needs to protect them from the people who were once her family.

She walked out of the bathroom and got into her oversized t-shirt and pj's. Taking the newspaper, she again started listing out all the jobs which met her qualifications. Her eyes landed on the article where Black Enterprises was written in big bold capital letters and there she saw the requirement for a receptionist. She grinned, she worked as a receptionist before. She had experience, maybe she will qualify for the interview.

As far as she heard about the Black Enterprise, it is a startup company by the big businessman, Noah Black's son who is in his early twenties and is a man of ethics. So if she gets a job there... there is a high chance she will survive in the business environment and the world. But there was only one challenge, the company was 20 miles away and she was in deep thought that how she will make it there on time as she had no money to take a cab.

She was thinking about the transport when the door of her living room opened with a bang and her heart started hammering in her chest. With shivers running through her body, she walked out of the room and saw deadly brown eyes glaring at her.

She locked the room in which Chase was sleeping and walked to the man who was flaring his nose at her.

He grabbed her face and growled, "Money!"

Her nose scrunched with his alcoholic breath fanning on her face and she tried to wriggle free from his grasp but she was too weak to handle him. He growled again and she cursed his werewolf side, she hates how strong his wolf is.

She tried to push him back with the help of her wolf's force but nothing, just like her, her wolf was also weak. They were nothing but useless werewolves who can't even protect each other.

He grabbed her hair and looked straight into her feared hazel eyes, "I WANT THE MONEY. Do whatever needs to be done but get me the money before I kick you and that little s**t out of this place. And you know me... I will take your soul out before leaving you on the streets."

The man threw her on the couch and stormed out of the house huffing and puffing.

Elena ran to Chase and hugged him while looking at the paper where she listed the jobs, no matter what it takes, she will not let anyone throw her out of her own house.

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Whereas Noah and Serena were looking at each other in worry, Aneria was chewing her lips while looking worriedly at her brother.

The moment Asher announced that he wants to live in the city, all of them tensed. Does he want to leave everything behind and live between humans?

"I hope he is not affected by Sharon and Skyler's presence." Serena mind linked to Noah.

"Ash you know you can't leave the pack. You are their future king..."

Noah tried to convince him not to leave but Asher was adamant to leave and live between humans.

Serena and Aneria exchanged looks with each other and Serena expressed his thought to Asher which she discussed with Noah in her mind link.

"You don't have to worry about this brother..." Aneria tried to comfort her brother.

Asher looked taken aback by his mother and sister's thoughts and when he saw the same concern on his father's face, his blood boiled, how can they think that he was affected by his cousins' pups?

His eyes changed their colour from beautiful blue to murderous red and he growled, "I might not have found my mate but that doesn't mean I am jealous of my cousins or their pups. I am not leaving forever, I want to go and make my name on my own! I want to be called Asher Black for Asher Black in the world, not Asher Black as Noah Black's son!"

He calmed the smoke that was surrounding him and stormed out of the room leaving his parents and sister cursing themselves for thinking that way.

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~Author's Note (Please read)~

So the final and third story of the 'Royal Series' is finally here!

Thank you, everyone, for choosing to read this story!

If you are here after reading the first two stories of this series, so let me express my gratitude again to all of you for trusting my work and reading my stories. I wouldn't be here if you all wouldn't support 'The Legendary Wolf' (TLW) and 'His Snow Princess' (HSP). Thank you so much for reading those stories and bearing with all the mistakes that I unknowingly made in my writing.

If you are reading my story for the first time then I will highly recommend you go through the first two stories so that you can have a better understanding of every character (Let me tell you Asher has a pretty big family *giggles*). I am sure you won't regret reading TLW and HSP.

If you don't know, English is not my first language but I am trying to improve my writing and work day by day and trying to come up with a plot and characters that you will always remember.

Though it's my third story, I will still ask you all to be patient with me and my writing as some people take time to learn and I am still in my learning phase.

If I make mistakes or grammatical errors, then please point them out, I will be happy to correct them and learn more.

Once again, thank you so much for being with me on Elena and Asher's journey.

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