Prince Damian's Fairy Mate

Chapter 3: The element

Cassidy

It’s morning already. Mom and I are having breakfast together in our living room and I still haven’t been able to stop thinking about what happened last night at the Alpha ceremony.

Mom is seated on the other side across from me on the breakfast table and each of us has a coffee mug in their hand. There are some sausages and bacon placed on our plates alongside slices of toast.

Mom seems busy scrolling through her phone as she takes her coffee, while I, on the other hand, am lost in my thoughts about what went down last night.

I didn’t even stop anywhere after escaping that bonfire where Prince Damian had been. I came straight home and just locked myself in my room. I was so panicked, I actually thought they would follow me for staring so rudely at a Royal like that, but they didn't follow me.

Then later, I couldn’t even sleep all night. I have gone over it in my head a million times now and it still doesn’t make any sense to me. What was that insane pull that I felt in that slight incredible moment when the Prince and I were staring into each other’s eyes?

I can't even lie to you, it was the best feeling in the world. I felt like my insides were melting and I just wanted to keep standing there so close to him forever. No wonder I couldn’t sleep last night just thinking about it.

And I know very well there can only be one thing that a werewolf like me could ever feel so strongly about someone… the mate bond.

But what? How could that even be possible? I don’t have my wolf yet… How could I feel the mate connection without my wolf senses? That’s not possible. Only the wolf’s senses can usually tell your human side when your mate is near.

So that couldn’t have been the mate bond that I felt there. No. Maybe I just took my insane crush for the Prince to another level, and it made me feel that insane electricity coursing through my body like that.

God that was intense. I can still picture him just standing there paces in front of me and his gorgeous eyes set into my own. I felt like I was on top of the…

“Cassie… Cassie?” Mom suddenly calls, shaking me out of my thoughts about Prince Damian's spell over me.

I find her staring at me with a slight smile on her face.

“Yeah… what?” I say to her.

“Where did you go?” she asks me, still smiling.

“What do you mean?”

“Oh come on, I’ve been calling you for like a minute and you couldn’t even hear me, what were you thinking about?” she says and then stands up from the table.

“Nothing, I wasn’t thinking about anything,” I say hesitantly.

Mom chuckles slightly and looks at me as she picks up her handbag from the sofa.

“Okay sweetie, keep your secrets… I’m off to work. Remember to pack and prepare everything for tomorrow, I got someone to cover my morning shift for me so we will leave first thing in the morning, okay?” she says.

“Okay, I’ll get everything ready… have a great day at work,” I say to her and send her smile.

She reciprocates it while headed towards the door to the outside. “You too sweetie,” she says and then walks out the door.

As soon as she’s gone, I finish up my breakfast and then quickly clear the breakfast table. I carry everything in a tray and take it back to the kitchen.

I have so much to do today. Tomorrow is when I’m finally getting enrolled at the Blueridge College for the gifted. I have really been looking forward to leaving this packhouse for as long as I can remember.

I was born here, and I have spent pretty much my entire life within the confines of this packhouse estate, it’s all I have ever known. But since my best friend Mandy died, this place has just been hell for me.

I cant believe I actually get to finally leave and go start a fresh in a new place. That college is a boarding school. Even though it’s not so far from town, no one is allowed to live off campus, so I'll be boarding there.

I have so much psyche for going there because that school is pretty much the best of the best. I read somewhere on the internet that it’s also where King Falcon and Queen Rosa, the Royals, went back when they were schooling.

I’m really so excited. I can’t wait to see what it's like there. I hear students from all over the kingdom are allowed there so I guess maybe I could end up seeing a vampire in real life, or even a weredragon. I’ve always wanted to see a weredragon.

I quickly finish doing the dishes in the kitchen and I head up to my room. I place my travel bags on the bed and open them both out, and then I start folding my clothes and packing them inside.

It doesn’t take me a few minutes to fit all my stuff inside the two suitcases, and then I realize the only thing remaining are the few toiletries and hair products on my shopping list.

I’m gonna have to go to the shopping center and buy those right now, so we won't have to stop for anything tomorrow morning.

I tie my hair up and remove my clothes before quickly getting into the shower. While the slightly warm water pours onto me from above, I find myself thinking about him again.

You know, what if I’m wrong. What if he is actually my mate? Wouldn’t that be crazy? What would I even do if he was actually mine for real.

Just the thought of him brings me so much warmth that I gently touch my p***y as the water pours onto me from above. I close my eyes and start fantasizing just being with him…

Then, I figure all of this is just wishful thinking. There is no way His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Soaria, a Lycan, could be mated to a nobody like me. So I just chuckle slightly in the shower and shut off the water.

I step outside the bathroom while smiling to myself about how crazy I must be to be drooling over something that is so clearly impossible. While I’m getting dressed, I order for an uber to come pick me up.

The shopping center is on the other side of town from our packhouse, and I would rather not walk all that way under the scorching midday sun.

I wear only casual. Blue jeans trousers, and a light cream top and I let my hair fall in waves onto my shoulders. I carry my phone in my hand and close the house before walking down to the ground floor.

I find the Uber already waiting for me, and we are on the road before I know it. While he drives me there, I look out the window at the passing buildings and people and I get lost in my thoughts again.

I can’t believe my wolf still didn’t show up last night. It was such a brilliant full moon though, I really thought I would meet her. Why the hell is she taking so long anyway? I hate feeling this anxious about it, and yet I can never avoid it.

While I’m thinking about my woes, the Uber driver stops the car. I look outside and see we are right outside the shopping center, and so I pay him and quickly walk up towards the store.

Just as I'm walking in through the massive doors of the store, the craziest thing happens, and it just leaves me dumbfounded and confused as hell.

I suddenly trip on a bucket full of water right at the door. The bucket suddenly makes me lose my balance and I tumble forward and fall smack onto the floor of the store.

When I reach down, I turn around quickly, and I see the bucket flipping over and coming towards me on the ground. All of the water inside it suddenly pours out, but just before it can shower onto me, I gasp for air and quickly lift up my hand.

Then suddenly, it just doesn’t pour on me. I lift my eyes over my hand to peek and what I see makes my jaws drop in shock. The water is literally just paused in the air, and its just remaining suspended there without pouring.

The strangeness just confuses me completely, I don’t even know what to think right now.

“What the hell?” somebody suddenly yells.

I look up and see it’s a man wearing a blue apron. He looks like a janitor and he must be the one who left the stupid bucket there in the first place.

Seeing the shocked look on his face, I don’t wait for anymore words. I decide to just run out of here, I’m way too embarrassed from falling like that to even shop anymore.

As soon as I stand onto my feet, the water bucket suddenly splashes onto the floor, splattering the water all over and splashing some onto the janitor.

I quickly look up around me and I see the scene has started attracting people’s attention in the store, and so I don’t even stand there anymore. I just quickly rush out of the store.

I don’t even have time to be furious at that stupid man for leaving his stupid bucket so recklessly on the floor… I’m way too shocked about what just happened to even think straight right now.

Did I seriously just make that water pause in the air? What the hell is happening to me?