The Ruthless Lycan King Fell For His Slave Mate novel Chapter 65

Anna was leaving the library late one night when she noticed a movement to her left. Normally, she would have been alert, but she could tell it was Zero even before he stepped out of the shadows and into the light.

“What are you doing here?” she asked as he walked towards her.

“Waiting for you,” he told her.

“Me?”

He nodded. “I'll walk you back to your room.”

“Were you waiting for long?” she asked him. “You could have come inside to get me.”

“I did not want to distract you,” he told her. “You get really absorbed when you are reading.”

Well, that was true, but she wouldn't have minded if he had gone inside for her. He was right, she would have been thoroughly distracted. But she wouldn't have minded it a bit.

“I'm done now,” she said with a shy smile. They had been hanging out a lot lately, but she still got flustered when he was being all sweet.

Stepping forward, Zero leaned down and gave her a short soft kiss to her lips. “I missed you,” he whispered when he pulled away.

Anna's face heated up while her heart beat crazily. “I missed you too.”

He smiled and reached for her hand. “Have you had dinner yet?”

She nodded. “Yes, before I came to the library.”

“Alright,” he said. “Let me walk you to your room.”

Anna did not want to go to her room so soon. She wanted to spend some more time with him. “The sky is so beautiful tonight.”

Zero followed her gaze upwards. It was a clear sky with the stars twinkling brilliantly. “Yeah.”

“Do you want to go and sit in the garden for a while?” Anna asked him. “It'd be a shame to let it go to waste.”

Zero looked down at her and chuckled. “You are right.”

They walked to the garden behind the library and sat down on one of the benches, staring up at the sky. Zero put an arm on her shoulders and pulled her into his side. They sat in the peaceful silence, occasionally pointing things out in the sky. Shrouded by the darkness under the starlit sky, it felt like nothing else existed in the world.

Zero had never felt such a sense of contentment before. He constantly wanted to be close to her and the thought of being separated terrified him. All day long, he thought about her, looking forward to when he would see her. Once, he had thought that he would never feel anything close to this for another person besides Lyra. He had been wrong.

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“Where were you last night?” Anna asked Lyra the next day as the two friends caught up over lunch.

“In my room, why?” Lyra asked.

Anna shook her head and waggled her finger in the air. “No, you were not. I came by to look for you. It was quite late.”

Lyra smiled slightly, then looked down at her food. “I was with Julian,” she confessed in a low voice.

“Ooooh,” Anna cooed mischievously.

“It's nothing,” Lyra said, shrugging.

Anna lifted her brow. “Are you sure about that?”

Lyra looked at her friend. “ I mean…I don't know. He is probably passing time while looking for the next best queen candidate.”

Anna frowned. “Would he really do that? Choosing another Alpha's daughter after unceremoniously abandoning another would be like fuelling chaos in the kingdom, right?”

Lyra imagined that was true. Blacksword was not a pack to be trifled with, after all. After Julian snubbed Crystal, they had already caused many packs to turn their backs on the royal family. If Julian was to choose a different Alpha female as his queen, it would not bode well with Blacksword and their allies.