The Lycan’s Contract Mate

Kendrix

Once again, within the space of three days, I was driving to my father’s house, wondering why he didn’t just tell us what it was that he wanted us to do to get the throne, three days of me thinking about what his request would be and coming up with the weirdest stuff, like him sending us to war, funny because there was no war, at least not within Owhen, several packs coexisted in the country but so far, at least not since I was born, there hasn’t been any issue, just random disputes that were easily settled.

I honestly didn’t know what my father intends for us to do but what I do know is I will win no matter what, I looked out through my car window and spotted a lone woman walking along the part slowly, I wondered why she felt safe enough to walk on her own in a place like this, it was lonely and the only few people on the roads were all in their cars, “maybe she lives around here,”

I concluded even though I knew there weren’t any houses around this area, there was just a park and an automobile shop that was still far away, as I got closer to her, I realized she looked familiar, so I slowed down.

“Ours,”

My wolf moaned and I finally got the memo, yup, it was her, the woman that has been finding her way into my head for the past three days, I thought of her at random moments, I still couldn’t believe she had been actually mated to my annoying half brother, and that he had rejected her, I resisted the urge to look her up on the internet, I didn’t want to find out things from her there, I slowly stopped and honked and she turned to look at me, her eye widening when she saw me.

“Want a ride?”

I asked waving at her, she stared at me like I had a mask on or something.

“Arielyn?”

I said when she didn’t answer me.

“No, I don’t want a ride, I can walk,”

She finally answered.

“You know the distance from here to the nearest bus station is far right? What are you doing all the way here?”

I couldn’t help asking.

“It is none of your business, why don’t you keep driving, pretend like you didn’t see me,”

She said in a hostile voice but that was not enough to send me away, I knew I was going to be late for the meeting with my father but I couldn’t leave her here on her own.

“Come on, I can’t leave you here, let’s go, I will drop you off, be on my way and we can pretend we didn’t see each other,”

I insisted, she looked like she was going to say no again, but then, she opened the car and got in.

“Ours,”

My wolf chirped in excitement, I mentally rolled my eyes, he was still obsessed with her and there was no helping it.

“So? Why are you walking? Don’t you have a car or maybe someone to pick you up?”

I couldn’t resist asking.

“I do, I told him to go home, I wanted time to myself to think and you had to come and ruin that,”

She accused.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to ruin your alone time,”

I said and looked at her real for the first time since she got into my car, she didn’t look happy at all and the way she was upset with me offering her a ride, I didn’t know if I should ask or mind my business, since I was nosy, I decided to ask.

“You don’t look too good, are you okay?”

I asked and for a moment, I thought she wouldn’t say anything but when I looked at her, she looked like she was fighting back tears.

“No, I am not okay,”

She said and yup, she was indeed fighting to stop herself from crying, for the first time in my life, I didn’t know what to say or do, how do you console a sad woman, how does one ask what is wrong without sounding insensitive, the last thing I wanted to be right now to her was insensitive.

“What? You aren’t gonna ask me what happened?”

She asked looking at me, there were tears in her eyes, and for the first time, both I and my wolf panicked in unison.

“Hey, don’t cry please,”

I begged, I didn’t know what else to say, can’t remember the last time I had to deal with an emotional woman.

“I can’t help it, my life is a mess, I feel so useless,”

She cried.

“Don’t say that, nobody is useless, especially not you, you are doctor remember, you save lives,”

I said trying to console her but she wasn’t having it.

“You don’t get it, my life has been a mess since the day I was born, I can’t do anything about it, I want to be okay, I should be used to it but it still hurts, why can’t I just have it normal as other people do? Why do I have to be the only miserable one?”

She cried. I pulled her to me and hugged her close, she would probably push me away later but now, she cried into my arms, I wanted to know what happened to her that made her so sad, going by her words, it must have been a long time coming.

We sat like that in the car for more than thirty minutes, I just sat quietly even though in an uncomfortable position, and let her cry it all out.