Leila's POV.
To my utter disappointment, I didn't see him in the hall but I could tell that he is close.
I kept staring at the door so that I may not miss him when he gets in.
"What is she looking at?" I heard Marcus ask but I was so occupied to look at him and answer since I was afraid that any moment I remove my eyes from the door, he might escape.
"The door," Aurora asked.
"Don't tell me that you aren't her mate? She is sensing her mate at the door and that's why she is looking at door's direction," Elana explained.
"Yeah, I also wonder who is the lycan who is her mate," Aurora said.
We the sound of glass been tapping with a spoon interrupted my thoughts.
"Sit down already, dad hates people standing when addressing something, Aurora said as she grabbed my hand and pulled me to the vacant sit next to her.
"Good evening..." The king trailed but his eyes fell on our table and gave Aurora a question eyes.
We turned to her and saw her giving her father an innocent smile making us chuckle. The king shook his head and averted his eyes.
"Well we are all gathered here for my son's coronation. This day is a special day to us all, as lycans and wolves when the prince will take over the throne and start leading as the king. I have prepared him for this day throughout his days but we know that good things always take time," he said making everyone laugh out loud cause of his last statement.
"In between, I even asked the moon goddess questions. I am old, since the boy turned eighteen years, we expected him to find his mate but that wasn't the moon goddess plan. He didn't find his mate in our kingdom, he had to start the journey of going around every pack looking for his mate but unfortunately even after four good years, he didn't succeed. The council gave up, I also was giving up. We had to call him back and tell him that he had to choose among the daughters of the councils to be his mate. He went against us all, claiming that that was a taboo. He believed that the moon goddess had installed the best female for him. I remember he told me, 'Dad, what if my mate hasn't turned eighteen years yet?'" We all laughed cause we knew that wasn't most likely to be.
"You all are laughing? I was flabbergasted. I love him so dearly therefore I requested the council for another two additional weeks for him to look for his mate. But the moon goddess always work in a miraculous ways, the moment I was just talking with the council, he come in and whispered that he has found his mate and that she is the most special wolf he has ever encountered. To say I was shocked would be an understatement, I nodded my head and told the council to continue preparing for the party and that's why you were all invited and we are here."
"I would like to welcome my son, so that we can pass over the throne and then on the next full moon, we will have a ball to crown his mate after the mating process is done as our rules say," he concluded and we are clapped our hands as we bowed down to show our respect to him as the leader of all the werewolves.
"Mate, mate," my wolf cheered and I looked to the direction which my mates smell was coming from.
I was shocked to see that he was the prince of the lycans.
"Mate," I murmured and I could feel the eyes of my family and Aurora on me.
I knew they were shocked as I was but my mind running crazy. I didn't know what to do.
"Good evening to you all, I am so happy for this day cause I have been waiting for it for so long since I was told that I was the one who was going to take over my father's throne. The journey was never easy and when I thought that everything was through, another challenge of been mateless and preventing me from finding my partner came forward. I was at the edge of giving up. That day, I was giving up that I even went away from the kingdom to clear my mind but what I never expected was to find my mate trying to commit suicide. I was in a lot of pain. Trying to think that I have found her but she wants to take her own life. I thought that life was playing a stupid joke on me but I remembered my father's words.' We as the pure lineage of the lycans and meant to lead, we are never meant to give up. We strive, we pretend to be strong even though we are weak. We have to remain strong till we overcome it'. I later realise that each one of us have our own issues to deal with. Life is never easy, the road to why we are heading is never smooth, we have to rest for sometime but we need to keep going no matter how difficult the journey is," he said with a sigh at the end.
Throughout his speech, his eyes never left mine. I was trying my best to concentrate on what he was saying but it was kind of difficult but that didn't mean that I didn't hear anything.
Honestly, I was motivated by everything he was saying, I knew that his words were meant for me. He didn't want me to try anything selfish and stupid thing like I did.
"Were you trying to commit suicide?" I heard Marcus words but ignored them.
"Why? Who did you want me to be left with? You are my only family, the only blood I have left in this world but you also wanted to leave me?" I heard Elana saying with a cracking voice and I turned to look at her.
"It was hard, Elana, people see me as a curse, mom died because of me. My mate didn't want me, I didn't have a wolf like everyone else, what did you want me to do?" I said as tears escaped my tears.
"Hei, you all shouldn't cry here. It is a joyous day. And you, don't you have everything now? I handsome mate, a beautiful wolf, a new sister and family, so don't ever do that again," Aurora said as she claimed both Elana's and I's hands making us turn to her.
"Yeah, she is right. Don't ever. I think he is the only person who can protect you from them," she said.
"Who is them?" Aurora asked as she was confused.
"It's a long story," Marcus said.
"It's now time," one of the elders said as he walked to the stage.
A knife was used by the elders to cut a tiny part of their left hand to allow draw blood. It was later passed to the king and later my mate. The blood was put on a bowl so that they can all mix.
It was later, poured in the fire as one of the eldest women said, "By the power of the moon goddess, our almighty creator, mother of our kind, the source of our life. With the mixture of the blood that is shedding on the fire, we join our clan, the lycans and werewolves to Aiden. Who will lead us all with wisdom, power and knowledge gifted to him by our mother. From today, he is our king whom the gods have chosen and we always have."
As she completed we all howled as a sign that we agree to her statement. After some minutes the process was done.
"We would like to call our future queen to take an oath as well," the king said and I felt my heart beating after.
As I was preparing myself to walk forward, I smelt something that was all familiar to me making me shiver in fear. I looked at Aiden and our eyes met before all the aphas, betas and gammas shouted,
"Rogues."