The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King novel Chapter 7

Chapter  7

Everyone adjourned to their rooms for a short rest before dinner. The Lycan in Xandar was

already whimpering at the thought of parting with Lucianne.

‘Do you mind if I kept you until dinner, Lucianne?” He asked nervously. He couldn’t remember the last time he was this nervous, if there was such a time in his past at all. He was a King, and before that he was the Crowned Prince. There was never really an occasion that h

e had to feel nervous about. Overwhelmed, yes, with rogue attacks. Fearful, perhaps, like

when he was about to witness the death of his father. But never was he nervous.

Lucianne narrowed her eyes and said, “That depends on what you want.”

He smiled. It was a sad smile as he explained, “I want to talk to you more. I want to know you, really know you. I don’t want you to feel like you have to keep things from me.” He took her hand and kissed the back of it briefly before placing her palm on his chest, over his heart as h e whispered, “And hopefully, I can convince you that I can love you. I’m not like the rest, Lucianne. I only want you. You’re the only mate and Queen that I will ever be willing to

accept. Please,” he took her other hand and kissed her fingers. “Please, let me get to know you.

Lucianne was touched by what she just heard. His words went straight into her heart. She wondered if it was the effect of the mate bond. She cleared her throat before nodding her

head gently and uttered, “Okay.”

Xandar looked relieved and ecstatic. He took Lucianne’s hand and led her out of the dining hall. He drove them to his villa and ushered her into the living room. After making coffee,

Xandar passed Lucianne her mug and sat next to her.

When their eyes locked, Lucianne shrugged and asked, “So, what do you want to know?”

His eyebrows furrowed as he thought about what to ask first. What he really wanted to know was no doubt a very painful topic to touch on at this early stage in their relationship, if they are in a relationship at all. He was contemplating on the second thing he wanted to know

about her. “Who are your parents? What do they do? Any siblings?”

Her lips curled up, and she had a cheeky glint in her eye as she said, “That’s definitely not what you really wanted to ask first but I’ll gladly oblige if it makes you feel comfortable. So…”

Before she responded, Xandar asked with a smile, “How are you so sure that’s not the thing at

the top of my head?”

Lucianne simply explained, “Well, for one, you took a little too long coming up with the question. We travelled from the dining hall to your home so you would’ve had your first QUESUOH 10119 before now.” She chuckled. “And two, you have a look when you’re trying to lie.”

“Is that so?” He smirked as he moved closer to 1-19;

She chuckled and nodded, “You might be a good liar when you’re prepared but taken off- guard, you look very uneasy, like you’re coming up with an excuse after being caught stealing a candy bar from the fridge.”

“Well, you have to admit, if it’s my fridge then I’m technically not stealing.” He said with a

charming smile.

“You would be if it belonged to someone else in the house.” She said, and Xandar laughed. When his laughter died down, she looked at the marble floor as she spoke, “You want to know about the five rejections, don’t you?”

Her smile was subsiding, and she was avoiding his gaze. He took her hand carefully into his own as he said in seriousness, “We ‘don’t have to talk about that today, Lucianne. There are a million other things I want to know about you.”

She smiled meekly as she met his concerned gaze. “Yeah, butyour mind won’t be at ease until you know.” His expression said it all. He wanted to know. Not because he wanted to judge her worth or question her past. He just…wanted to know. He didn’t want there to be any secrets between them. As her mate, he wanted to know about the pain from her past, and just

hoped that by listening, he could take some of the pain from her.

“You seem a little lost for words.” She said with a sad smile, and chuckled once depressingly before she started, “It’s okay. I’ll just say whatever comes to my mind. So uh, the first mate

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“Lucianne, before you tell me about that. I want you to know something.” Xandar held her

hands tightly as he sat upright, locking his eyes with hers. “I’m not asking because I want to judge. I just want to know everything about you. And if something made you upset or has hurt you, I want to know that even more. I don’t want you to think that you have to bear those emotions alone. I acknowledge that I can never fully comprehend what you went through, and there’s no way to transfer those feelings to me or to someone else but I was hoping…” he sighed in frustration before shaking his head and uttering to himself, “Goddess, this is lame…” 1

“It’s not.” She said with glistening eyes. “It really isn’t.” Her thumb started stroking his palm a s two stray tears trickled down her cheeks, and she looked away. Xandar held her hands tighter when she tried to retract them to wipe away the tears. He leaned in closer and kissed

away the tears from her cheeks, tasting the saltiness in them.

Xandar looked deep into her eyes as he whispered, “I’m not like them, I promise. Give me a

chance to show you, okay?”

Lucianne nodded when she seemed to have lost her voice for a moment. The reluctance in

her eyes squeezed his heart but he ignored it. At that moment, he was grateful that she was

giving him a chance.

When Lucianne got hold of herself again, she cleared her throat and started, “So, uh…my previous mates, all five of them weren’t from my pack. That’s the good news. At least things

Scanned with Cams nnnn er didn’t get awkward and uncomfortable back home after each rejection. The first was a Beta from an ally pack. He didn’t think I had the build to be a Beta’s mate and rejected me. As you

can already tell, I’m really small, even for a wolf. The second was a warrior, not a Gamma, just a warrior in training. We met at a training collaboration hosted by Blood Eclipse. What he told me was that the mate bond was messing with his head and objectively speaking, I wasn’t pretty by his ‘uninfluenced’ standards. He also didn’t want his mate to be a warrior. He preferred a female who had a ‘less aggressive job’, in his words. I never bothered asking what that meant.”

She took a sip of her coffee. “The third and fourth were Alphas. The third was already engaged to be married to a chosen mate, and he felt that he owed it to his pack to choose her, who had Alpha blood, over me, who is not from that bloodline. That was definitely the most amicable severance. Consensual and amicable. The fourth mate wasn’t the type to settle for one female so it was a no brainer to sever that bond. However, he made it clear that he

wouldn’t have wanted me even in his next life before accepting my rejection.” She chuckled depressingly.

“And then,” Lucianne stopped to take a breath. “I don’t know what was going through the Moon Goddess’s mind but she paired me with a Lycan for my fifth—chance mate. You already

know this one. He’s Sebastian Cummings.”

She shrugged, “We met at this meeting last year. He took me seriously at first but then all these lies and inconsistencies started popping up. When it came down to another Lycan and me, he never chose to defend me, even if I had the facts and they didn’t. I didn’t think much of it because I just thought that was how most Lycans are brought up — spare the Lycans, punish the wolves. But the last straw was walking in on him sleeping with another Lycan when he told me that he was going to be with his father discussing state affairs.”

She swallowed a lump in her throat before she continued in a softer voice, “After that

experience, I went home and prayed to the Moon Goddess every night to stop giving me a mate. I told her that I would do anything…but I didn’t want to experience another mate bond. I

didn’t want to meet or see another person being bound to me like that.” She took a breath before uttering, “I have never prayed or even asked for a mate in my life. And after mate number five, I decided that I’ve had enough of the emotional roller coaster, and begged our Goddess to spare me.”