The Alpha's Cursed Princess

The heavy secret

Neil's POV

I could hardly wait to see Elena and I hoped that the sighting of the Phoenix didn’t scare her off. It seemed that the Phoenix had set a lot of things in motion and unsettled a few people too. My father had been talking about it none stop and I was now getting tired of it. it was showing me a side of my father that I had never thought existed and a side that I had never seen.

He wasn’t only fascinated with the fact that there was a phoenix hidden in the kingdom, he was convinced that the phoenix had the power to shape shift and he saw that as a possibility for him to get that power for himself so that he could fulfill his life long dream of being the most powerful Alpha. He had been so obsessed with finding this shape-shifting phoenix and I was getting tired of it.

To be quite honest, lately I didn’t like my father at all.

I left my father’s mansion shortly before the clock hit midnight because I wanted to be early for my date with Elena. I had only met her briefly the previous night and we hadn’t had the chance to get to know more about each other even though we knew we were mates.

Something about Elena fascinated me, I wasn’t sure if it was her fiery eyes or her melodic voice that made her sound like she was singing even when she was just speaking. Whatever it was, just thinking about her made me want to be beside her even more. I was mostly excited that from now on I would have someone else to confide in besides nosey Chris, I was sure that Chris shared almost everything I shared with him with my father, the guy acted like he wanted to be friends with my father more than he wanted to be friends with me

I got to the spot where we had met earlier and I could already pick her scent when I got there. After a few minutes of standing there she came out of the water all naked, she looked so beautiful and she looked like she was very confident and comfortable in her own skin and I loved that

She got out of the water and wrapped her wrap-around dress on her body, and. the dress immediately stuck on her skin due to its wetness making me swallow saliva in lust for her.

After she got dressed she ran to me and like she was about to give me a big hug but to my disappointment she stopped herself midway and wrapped her arms around herself instead.

“I am so happy you came” she said, “I thought you were not going to make it” she added

“Can I get a hug from my mate, whom I haven’t seen in 24 hours?” I asked as I moved closer to her and she moved back

“Let’s talk first” she said as she sat down and I felt like something was wrong, I felt like I had done something she didnt like, was she about to reject me? The thought of that possibility made ky knees shake with fear

“What’s wrong? Are you ok?” I asked concerned

“I am fine, I just have something to tell you” she said with a sigh as if she was carrying a heavy burden on her shoulders.

“What is going on?” I asked hoping that she wouldn’t tell me that she couldn’t be with me because of some reason.

“Firstly I want to tell you where I am from and who I am” she started “I am Alpha King Michael’s daughter” she said and that was like a confirmation of something that I had already suspected and I wondered if she thought that would be bothered by that. But I still felt like that was no reason for her to act like she was carrying some heavy secret that was eating her up and a threat to our relationship.

“That’s not a problem at all...” I said and she cut me off

“Let me finish” she said closing her eyes “you were not supposed to see me yesterday,” she said and I shook my head in disagreement because I believed fate had brought us together.

“No Elena, I think I was supposed to see you yesterday and if I hadn’t seen you yesterday I would have seen you today or any other day. We were fated to meet and there is no one that could have stopped it from happening” I said trying to reach for her hand and she moved it away from my grasp.

That hurt my feelings...why didnt she let me touch her? Why did she act like I disgusted her?

“Why won’t you let me touch you, did something happen?” I asked again

“No Neil nothing happened, I am just protecting you” she said

“Protecting me from what?” I asked

“From myself, I am not who or what you think I am. Anyone who touches my skin gets burnt. And I don’t want to hurt you” she said, this didn’t make any sense to me. She was talking as if there was something wrong with her even though in my eyes she was perfectly perfect.

“How is that? Are you sick” I asked

“I was cursed with the spirit of the phoenix at birth” she said dropping her head and avoiding my eyes. As her mate my first instinct was to obviously deal with whoever had cursed my bride, but all I could do at this point was listen to her as she told me more about her curse.

“What do you mean the spirit of the phoenix?” I asked her with a lot of interest in what she was telling me.

“I mean, I have a phoenix living inside of me and a wolf. But my wolf is kind of MIA” she said

“If you don’t have a wolf then how did you know I was your mate?” I asked "I mean if you cant find your wolf how could you have possibly known it was me?" I asked he as I struggled to understand what she was telling me because I had never heard of such a thing. What was common was a wolfless girl or boy but never a replacement of a wolf by a phoenix.

“I don’t know, look all I know is that I have to be honest with you and tell you what you are getting yourself in with Me,” she said and I noticed that my million questions were getting to her

“Were you the one I saw on the night of the fire moon and is that why you left in such a hurry?” I asked

“Yes, I didn’t want to scare you,” she said and I let out a sarcastic laugh " I also didn't want to bring you any harm right after finding you," she said sweetly, even in worry, her voice still sounded like a beautiful song.

“You kind of already have, but I guess it’s too late for me to back off now. I mean we found each other and I can already feel the mate pull getting stronger” I said

“I feel it too and I am beginning to get worried,” she said

“What are you worried about? Did you think I would leave you because of this?” I asked in disbelief. I would never abandon my mate.

“Kind of, but that is not the reason I am worried,” she said “I am worried about the intimate part of this relationship. How are you going to mark me, and what if I go into heat?” she asked standing up from where we were seating and she started pacing around.

I could tell there was a lot more worrying her but she wasn't telling me any of it. I also couldn't understand why going into heat was worrying her so much because that was supposed to be my part and my worry. If she went into heat I would simply help her out as any other wolf would

“My father has kept me locked up in the Palace for almost all my life and I only got to go out on the day of fire moon. When I got home after I met you he told me that he saw me flying close to the moon and he says that I have matured and reached my adult stage, he says this year I have to participate in the mating ball” she said and I now understood why she was worried

“And you are worried that people will notice that you are the phoenix they saw,” I asked

“Yes, but it's a little more than that," she said and I was glad that we had the whole night for her to explain everything to me and I was ready to hear everything that she had to tell me.