Mate I never wanted

Silver haired foxes secrets revealed

Vivian

Did Lucien belong to the Royal family?

How was he related to the emperor's family to have the honor of being addressed as your highness? But wasn't this name only used for the royal family... did he belong to the royal family?

Before I could ask about it, my brother continued.

"Prince Ninth, why are you in my sister's room?"

The Prince?

The famous, mysterious Prince no one has seen in public since his birth?

The emperor had only one child, from his second marriage. His first wife died before giving him a son, but the second wife succeeded in that. It took her years to birth a son for the emperor. On the day the boy was born, the whole empire had a huge celebration. However, only a few had seen him since he was born.

The public information was that he was very sick and fragile, so he couldn't attend any public events. Officially, he spent all of his time in the emperor's summer palace by the sea, because the climate there helped the princes' health improve.

My eyes shot to the silver-haired fox I had spent the last twenty-four hours with.

Was it possible that he was the crowned prince of the planet Alpha?

The mysteriously strong prince that has earned his mane, due to the fact that he had a nine-tailed fox as his animal. If you were to believe gossip and stories that are told about the princes' powers, you would know that he was so strong and none even knew if his powers had any limits.

From first glance, he did not seem sick at all and there was little to no resemblance to the emperor, but maybe he looked like his mother. At the same time, you can not say that he is extraordinarily strong. Sure, there was an air of power around him, but I can not say that he had limitless powers.

"Darling..."

It was clear that the silver-haired fox ignored my brother completely, as his eyes were only concentrated on John's hand on my upper arm. His eyes were filled with dark jealousy and anger. s**t, if it's true, and he is the all-powerful prince, then I really need to get away from John, before Lucien kills him for touching me.

Quickly, I pulled my hand out of John's grasp and stood up. Ignoring my brother's confused face, I stepped towards the silver-haired fox, and he pulled me into his arms without hesitation, burying his face in my neck. The moment his face was buried in my neck, he released a pleasurable purr and his body relaxed.

"Vivian?"

I met my brother's confused face over the silver-haired fox's head.

"Care to explain what the hell is going on? Why do you have the emperor's son in your room..."

He sniffed the air around us and his eyes widened in shock.

"Is... is he in heat?"

I released a frustrated breath as I pulled Lucien into the room.

"Why don't we continue this conversation inside?"

My question woke my brother out of shock, and he looked around to see if someone had seen or heard us. When it was clear that no one was here, he nodded, and I led Lucien inside. John followed us. When he stepped through the door after us, Lucien released a growl of threat at him.

"It's okay, he is my brother, he is no threat, I promise you."

I said to the man in arms, and his body relaxed instantly.

"If you say so, darling, but he has to stay on the other side of the room."

My eyes found my brother's, and he nodded, understanding that if he did something stupid, like come closer, it would cost him his life.

"He will."

I promised Lucien as we sat down on the bed, leaving my brother to sit on the chair next to my work desk.

"So, now, explain what the hell is going on."

I took a deep breath and began telling my brother the s**t storm yesterday was.

"I'm not sure if mother told you, but Margaret drugged me the day before and while I was passed out she signed me up to be genetically matched for a mate."

An audible gasp left his mouth as he stared at me with shock on his face.

"What?... why would she do something like that?"

"I don't know why... but I guess she saw me as a threat to her place in the family. She wanted to be the only daughter, and this was a sure way to get rid of me for good."

John's eyes darted around the room as he tried to process what I just said to him.

"But you were not the one that signed up... there has to be a way to retract your application... they have to let you get out of this, especially because you were not the one to sign up for it... Have you told mother? I'm sure father can pull some strings to get you out of this..."

I chucked sadly at his question.

"Oh, I told her, and she said that I was blaming your sister for my desperate behavior while I was wasted and angry."

My words once again shocked John, but they only left a sour taste in my mouth.

"I will talk to them... this can not be... but it still doesn't explain why you have the crowned prince in heat at your dorm."

"Well, when I came to the center yesterday morning, they found me a mate and I had to meet them. I was matched to Prince Ninth. The staff there led me to the room where my mate was waiting for me, but they forgot to mention that my matched mate was in heat..."

Another audible gasp left my brother's mouth as he stared at us. There was a clear wave of sadness hitting him as a realization came.

"Did... did you mate with him?"

I shook my head as I answered him.

"No... we didn't go that far... but I did spend the peak moment with him."

There was no need to explain that we had s*x, because it was clear.

"And after that he followed me here. He is still in heat, so he is extra clingy, but I did not know who he was... there was no way to contact his family... and I just couldn't kick him out..."

Anger started to brew in my brother's face.

"They did not give you information like that? They let you into a room with a hybrid in heat? That is against the law, not to mention immoral."

"Yeah, well, I think they tried to tell me about who he was when I left after our meeting, but I was too furious to hear them out. I kinda stormed out of there, scared that I would rip them to shreds for putting him in danger like that."

My brother looked at me and his eyes softened. He was one of the few that really understood my temper. As we were growing up together, he witnessed first hand what a wolf hybrid's temper looked like.

"Okay... I see... so you are not mated... so it means we can still fix this. I will call father right away, and he will not only fix this by removing the mating match, so you won't have to mate, but I will make sure that the people that let this happen will pay for this."

A distressed cry came from Lucien's chest...

He pulled away from me and stared me in my eyes with his teary ones.

"You... you... you do not want me?"

The silver-haired fox whispered in the most broken voice I had ever heard. The desperate tone and the hurt in it tore my heart apart.

Fuck...