Mated To The Lycan King

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(Theresa's Pov)

That night I had just finished an argument with Ian, my abusive mate when I decided to leave the house and find peace for my soul. Ian was the pain in my neck and spending more time arguing with him would only hurt me. Leaving the house for him at that moment was the best option.

I made my way into the streets with thought of what to do to get out of the miserable life I was living when suddenly I came across a pub. Deciding to relieve myself from all activities going on in my head, I went in to have a drink.

"Mind if I join you?" someone who seemed to be a stranger in the pack asked me and as I raised my head, I was captivated by his look. I couldn't help but drool at his beauty. I really can't tell how handsome he looked after that night but I knew he was very attractive, so breathtaking that I accepted almost immediately.

"You're drunk," I told him as soon as he took his seat and he giggled.

"Says someone who has finished three cans of beer," he taunted and I looked down at the table to see that truly, I had drunk three cans of beer and was gulping down the fourth one. I was indeed drunk.

"I'm a strong drinker though," I told him, still trying to sound active.

"I see."

Our conversation went on and on as we both shared how life was treating us and after a while, it ended. By that time, we were both wasted. After a short silence between us, he mumbled, "I need to leave now before they find me here with you. Take good care of yourself."

I nodded, not ready to ask any further questions. All I did was watch him stand up from where he sat and paid the bartender. But as he took two steps to where I was, he staggered.

"Be care_'' I didn't finish my words when he tripped on something, who knows what it was but he landed straight on me. "You're the worst drinker ever," I almost screamed when I heard him already snoring on my chest. Haewu!

I bit my lips in anger knowing he wouldn't wake up anytime soon and I was left with no other option than to take care of him. I called the bartender instantly and asked him if there were available rooms. He told me to reach out to the receptionist which I did while pulling the sleeping prince along with me.

I collected the key to the room I rented and began to haul him into the passage that led to the rooms. Moments later, I had successfully opened the door and helped the strange man into the bedroom.

I was still trying to place him well on the bed when he suddenly pulled me by my neck and clasped his lips on mine. Trust me, his kiss was so lovely that I couldn't help but kiss him back without remembering that I have a mate.

**Three weeks later**

"You slut! Get out here!" Ian yelled at me in anger and I staggered out of the house in fear even though I knew this was surely going to happen. Ian was ready to feed me with agony and I could see them in his eyes.

"I didn't do it on purpose," I said, truthfully and fell to my knees, ready to plead for forgiveness. "I never knew how it happened, please forgive me."

Ian let out a mocking laugh and by this time, people were already gathering to watch another scene of me and Ian. I could hear them saying it was me again. I have caused trouble again.

"What did she do this time?" an old woman in her late 60s inquired from Ian and all he did was point at me.

"She's a slut, Coco!" He referred to the woman by the name she got from pack members as she was good with growing cocoa.

"Yes, we all know she is a slut. Tell us what she did, we're ready to punish her," Coco uttered and I couldn't help but drop more tears. My punishment this time would be worse if not ending my life.

"She cheated, Coco and now she's pregnant with a bastard!" Ian snarled and I felt anger spark from his wolf since he was my mate.

The pack members watching all yelled in unison, "Pregnant?!"

"Yes! Because I can't father a child, she went out to cheat on me and now she's carrying another man's child!"

"Abomination!" They all began to yell. "She must be killed!"

I knew this was going to be the end of me, getting pregnant for a stranger who I can't even recognise again. Truly, it was an abomination because the child wasn't for my own mate.

"Who is the man that impregnated her? He also must be killed!" One of them exclaimed and the others agreed with her. "Tell us who the man is!" She added but all I could do was sob. How will they believe that I had gotten drunk that day and mistakenly slept with the stranger? Won't they say I was lying and only trying to create an excuse?

Ian came to me and gripped my hair, pulled them for me to raise my head up. "Tell them who the father of your child is!"

I saw fury in their piercing eyes on me, all of them ready to pounce on me. It was too much for me to take. Humiliation. There was no day in my life that pack members won't gather to hear what caused me and Ian to fight. We were always calling for attention. But I got to know that it was Ian who loves to disgrace me and doesn't mind if we are mates or not. He finds pleasure hurting me which was what I didn't understand. Why would a mate hate his mate? We seemed to be the only different people in the pack or rather maybe I caused it myself.

I grew up to be a wolfless and mateless orphan that has no ambition in life. Everyone all hated me because of who I am and had always picked on me even before I was mated to Ian.

My wolf finally recuperated after twenty one years of my age and that was when I discovered that Ian was my mate. It was truly an abomination.

"Speak up, i***t! Who impregnated you?!" Ian asked for the fifth time as he continued to pull my hair while I groaned in pain. There was nothing I could do to help myself in such a situation than to beg him.

"Please, please. I don't know who he is. I didn't do it on purpose. I was drunk." Laughter echoed from them and just like I said, my excuse was lame. They wouldn't believe me and for real who would accept the nonsense truth?

Ian landed a slap across my face and I winced in pain. He let go of my hair, harsly, making me fall flat on my face. "I'm sorry," I pleaded several times but Ian wasn't ready to listen to me. He was in rage and I don't know the reason because he never loved me. Getting pregnant to someone else wasn't the best but then Ian doesn't show a bit of love to me so why was he bothered?

"Hit her more!" I heard Coco say to Ian and everyone agreed that I should be beaten. All I did was prepare myself. It was time for me to die but if I eventually get through this, I am surely running away from all of them.

I saw one of the men throw a rod for Ian and he joyfully grabbed it. The moment I saw his hands raised up to hit me, I trembled heavily, waiting for the pain to coarse through my body when he hit the rod on but suddenly a voice let out.

"Seize him!" Was the word I heard when I saw the rod Ian was holding fall heavily beside me and Ian struggling with the pack guards that had held him from hitting me. I became anxious and agitated seeing the shocked faces of pack members. Who had stopped Ian?