The Alpha King's Battered Luna novel Chapter 5

Alpha Asher’s POV

“What’s your name?” I asked in a soft voice, and her eyes darted all over the place as if she was looking for an escape route.

I don’t want my mate to stare at me like she was scared of me; I don’t want my mate to be scared of me.

I want her to love me and me to love her back in return. This wasn’t what I planned at all.

I have been trying to get her to talk for the past ten minutes, but she wasn’t budging. I don’t know how to do this, but for her, I wanted to put in every possible effort.

This was the person I’ve been waiting for all my life and I wasn’t going to let things get messed up.

I kind of understand considering that she woke up from a terrible nightmare hours ago and she has been too scared to even blink talk-less of sleeping.

I watched her close her eyes for a bit before snapping them open again. After she had her bath, I had Edna, my Zeta get a few clothes for her till she was ready to shop for herself.

I wished she didn’t go through all of these before she met me, I wish I left my region more often.

Maybe we would have met and I would have saved her from whatever was tormenting her even in the dreams. I watched her go through her last nightmare and I really felt helpless.

“Okay, Let’s do this. My name is Asher. What’s yours?” I asked with a whisper and she finally raised her eyes to look at me.

At last, I was making progress, her eyes were fixed on her hand as if it was the most interesting thing in the room all day. I was close to giving up but her looking at me definitely means I was making good progress.

“Maya, my name is Maya. The nuns from the monastery said it means a good soul.” She whispered back and I tested the name on my lips. I loved the way it sounded and pronouncing it brought a smile to her face.

This was real progress. I didn’t know what to ask next, I was selecting my questions carefully so I don’t trigger her into silence. It took a whole lot of effort after she woke up to get her to talk.

I picked her hand from the bed and I watched her jolt back in shock, she could feel it too, she could feel the mate bond too.

I was glad that I’m not the only person feeling this way, explaining it to her would be easier this way. I wondered if she ever knew what a mate was or how the bond worked.

“We are mated. Wow, I don’t want a mate. I want to walk around the whole world free from everyone.” She added a few minutes later and my whole body dropped in disappointment.

She was giving up on us before we even had a chance to explore our mate bond.