His Queen

CHAPTER 3: Royal Prophecy

Eros's POV

The sun is starting to rise on the mountain. I'm standing on my balcony in my Castle staring at the beautiful view of my surroundings.

"Let's go on a run" Luc, my Lycan wolf said.

"No we can't, you know we have to go to the village today," I said annoyed by his whining.

He huffs "You know that's not your job to do." he argued.

"But fine, maybe we will meet our mate there."

I rolled my eyes and block him from the link.

Every once in a week or two I always go to the village to check on how the daily lives of my people are doing.

My Generals said that I can hire people to do that for me so I don't need to go down there but I refuse to listen to them because I'm not only checking on my people but secretly hoping to find my mate in one of my visits.

The people don't know when I go there because I hide my face and strong aura so they can't feel and see that it's their King. I can't risk being seen alone in the village. Not that I can't protect myself cause I'm more than capable of doing it but I have too much enemy.

"Are you ready to leave the castle, your majesty?" Carter, my second in command said in the mink link.

"Yes," I said in an emotionless voice.

"Okay, but may I asked when are you going to return?" he said politely.

"Tonight, maybe" That Is all I said before cutting the mind link.

I begin to walk out of my room and into the long hallway to the stairs. My face is already covered and I already hide my aura.

I fasten my pace out of the big Castle. Soon I'm already outside walking in the direction of the village.

Every big step I make the more my anxiety grows. In the past few days, I and my wolf had been restless and I don't know why. Something Is nagging in my head and It's been annoying me and the need to find my mate Is growing and growing every minute.

When I was a teenager the palace Oracle said that my mate Is going to be a very powerful woman and that I have to wait for her even if it cost forever. He also had said that she will have a big part and role in the Castle for being my Mate and Queen and all my people are going to cherish and love her. But he also said that our relationship and lives are going to be tough so we need to be prepared.

And since then I begin to search for her. When I first shift, the first thing I and my lycan wolf do was search for her. I look for every woman in the palace and even in the village and other packs but I can't find her.

Then years of searching have happened but she remains hidden and unseen. But even though I can't seem to find her, I never once touch any other woman because she is the only one I want. Even If I don't know her yet, I already love her.

So while I waited for her, the only thing that I do is focus on keeping my people safe and the Kingdom powerful.

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After what feels like forever of walking I already see the houses of the village. The palace is placed on the top of the mountain so I need to go down because the village is located down the mountain.

Soon I'm already in the village looking around. There are so many villagers walking around, some of them are lycans and the others are a werewolf. I don't know when the both of them start to mix because usually werewolves and Lycans are always separated from each other because of their difference.

Lycans are bigger and stronger than werewolves. And the werewolves feel intimidated by us so they keep their distance.

And Lycans value their mates more than werewolves. If lycan mates die, they don't

take it easy. They go crazy and went on killing or they die. Some of them are lucky enough to be alive after their mates die because they have a child, a piece of their mate.

But werewolves, easily rejected their mates if they don't think that their mate is enough. Even if the Moon goddess is the one that paired them. That was one of the things lycans don't like about werewolves.

I keep walking and observing the stores and houses but I frown when I see a lot of homeless werewolves. I don't remember that many when the last time I came here.

Men and women are sitting on the side of the stores. The children's face was covered in dirt and their clothes are dirty and torn. They all look so skinny and look like they haven't eaten in days.

"What if our mate is one of them? and she's starving to death." Luc panicked in my head and show me an illusion of our mate being skinny and wearing torn clothes sitting in one of the dirty rags on the sides of the store.

I growl and feel my heart clenched painfully at the thought and shake my head to remove the image from my head and quickly sprinted in the direction of the werewolves at the side of the store.

I look around for my mate but I don't see any sight of my possible mate. I sniff the air for her smell and then I smell it. Strawberry with honey and mint. It was so intoxicating and addicting.

But I froze, If I can smell my mate's scent then that means she's here and... And she's one of the homeless wolves!!

I quickly look around and try to sniff the air but her smell is so faint so she must be gone here for a while now. For the first time in a very long time, I feel fear creep down my spine. Scared of what I see when I see her.

Is she okay? does she need anything? does she have a home? is she hurt?. Is all the questions that are running on my mind.

I follow where her scent would take me.

In the middle of sniffling, I stopped dead in my tracks when I smell another scent.

And I froze.

Rogue! I growl and run, both the scent is mixing each other and into the forest.

"A rogue has our mate!" Luc growl with a slight panic and fear.

I can't blame him for being angry and scared, we've been looking and waiting for our mate to show up, and then what, for them to just harm her when we finally find her.

I keep running and running. When I finally get to the forest surrounded by trees I finally shift. I did not bother to strip my clothes off and just shift mid-air, my clothes were completely ruined but I did not care. My mind is only focused on how to find my mate and kill all the rogues that took her and silently praying for her to be okay.