Chapter 22 I can trust her
Anaya’s P.O.V.
“Here. Drink this.” Willow gave me a bowl of hot soup on a small plate. Her voice was so small, as if a bit high pitch can break me.
I smiled weakly and took the plate from her hand. I woke up an hour ago but was so weak that I couldn’t move a bit without Willow’s help.
She helped me sit down properly and adjusted the pillow on my back to give me a comfortable position.
I was so tired and weak that I didn’t want to speak a word, but I was curious to know why I was in this condition.
The soup was hot, but it made me feel better.
With every sip, all my aching muscles in my throat and in my stomach relaxed a bit.
“I know that you are curious to know about your situation, right?” After some time, Willow, who had finished tidying up the nightstand, sat down in front of me and spoke calmly.
I blinked in agreement and continued drinking the soup.
“This is because of the mate bond that should be built between you and Lucifer, but it still hasn't been built, causing that curse to affect you.” She told me, and my fingers trembled.
I looked at her with a stunned expression.
“I know that it’s shocking, but Lucifer is cursed. Not only us, but Lucifer is also trying to figure out why he was so adamant to make you his mate and forced you to accept him, but how did you forget that during accepting a mate, you need to mention the word “CHOSEN” if the person is not your fated mate?” she continued, but accusation is evident in her voice.
She was angry but worried at the same time.
I just blinked while processing her question.
I slowly put the plate down on my lap and took a deep breath before looking at Willow again.
“He is my fated mate, Willow.” I told her in a monotonous tone; too tired to add any emotions in that statement.
“What?” she exclaimed in confusion, narrowing her eyes.
I didn’t speak again, just stared at her blankly.
For the good few moments, none of us spoke; we just stared at each other with different expressions and mental states—I was blank, and she was confused.
Slowly, her expression started changing.
She was stunned. Her eyes went wide.
“I am an alpha blood, Willow. Even if I don’t have my wolf, I have all other abilities. The second, I met Lucifer in the right state of mind, I scented him. He can’t scent me or feel the mate bond in its original way, but I believe that it’s the mate bond that made him possessive towards me, hence.”
I didn’t need to finish the whole sentence because Willow was an intelligent woman.
As for why I told her everything????
I don’t know.
I just felt a connection with her, and my instincts told me that I can trust her fully.
She listened to me with a blank expression, too stunned to speak, but she nodded in the end, moving her gaze to the other side.
“Now it made sense. The absence of your wolf fated mate bond, the poison in your body, and his curse….. everything together made sense. Why are you in this condition, and why did Lucifer succeed in saving you by using his strength?” she mumbled absentmindedly, but I narrowed my eyes when I heard her last statement.
“Goddess!!!! What a mess?” she mumbled in resignation and took a deep breath.
“Yeah. What a mess! I was mourning my soon-to-be husband's death…. I Got abducted…. I fought with my father to free my stepmother, and then boom…. I found my mate…. and …. Top of that…. Both my deceased boyfriend and the mate have the same face and the same set of eyes. What a mess?” I mumbled, summarizing everything that happened in the past few days with a bitter and painful smile.
I saw sympathy in her eyes, but it only made me feel worse.
“Di… did you tell this to anyone else? About you and Lucifer being fated mates?” She suddenly asked me anxiously, looking back at me.
I was now feeling much better than when I woke up earlier.
“No. I fainted and Lucifer brought me here.” I replied to her and closed my eyes as I felt exhausted once again.
“That’s great. This is between us, okay? Don’t tell Lucifer too. I have a feeling that it will put your life in more danger because having his fated mate with him can make him more powerful than he already is. To stop this from happening, his enemies can go to any extent, even trying to kill you. The whole world now knows that Lucifer has taken a chosen mate. So, no harm will come to you in that way.” She was anxious, and it seemed like she was trying to convince me.
I didn’t know what to feel right now, but her anxiousness and worry made me feel warm.
She was like Nancy and Rose. We didn’t have a proper conversation till now, and yet she was worried sick for me.
Vincent was also like this when he was with me.
I felt pain in my chest, but I brushed it off.
Vincent was gone, but I was still alive.
It means that I still have to face hardships and troubles, including the emotional turmoil of losing Vincent and the complicated relationship with Lucifer.
Now the biggest headache was Lucifer—the person with the same face as Vincent and also my fated mate, but he can’t feel that.
“You don’t need to stress about this. Even if he can’t feel the mate bond like other fated mates, he accepted you as his fated mate, and from what Theo told me, he also swore that he will never let any other woman come between you. This is not him acting on impulse; it is the mate bond that makes him swear loyalty to you. You… you don’t know how pleased I am right now.”
She was really unpredictable, but easy to read her emotions.
She was absentminded when she started speaking and became excited by the end. The sparks in her eyes intensified, indicating that she was genuinely happy for her alpha.
I don’t trust in my fate now. It never let any happiness stay in my life for long, and Lucifer’s entry into my life is definitely not the road to happiness.
He wasn't only famous for his cruelty and ruthlessness but also for his scandals with various she-wolves.
Taking a pledge for loyalty isn't going to bind him.
But I am not going to end like my mother. Even though he is my fated mate, I know one thing for sure.
I will never fall for him.
I smiled bitterly at my fate and looked at the soup bowl on my lap.
“You need to finish this, okay? You are my Luna, but I am still superior to you. I have been working Luna for three years.” She ordered me by holding her chin high, showing arrogance, but she appeared kind of adorable.