The Lycan King's Substitute Wife

Prologue

At the dawn of the year, fourteen hundred, the Lycans came out of hiding and brought war onto Humans. The Lycans were powerful and skilled in combat, unlike the humans. They conquered the Humans and ruled over them. The Lycan King of that century was cruel and turned every Human into a slave or a sex worker.

After two hundred years, from the human slaves came a man with the name Vitalis. He despised the werewolves and their rule, along with some other Humans. They secretly learned combat skills from the Lycan army. Once they became strong, they led a war against the Lycans.

They were strong but not as strong as the Lycans. They fought well and slew one-fourth of the Lycans, while their numbers remained less than half. The Lycan King decided to end the war by bringing forth a proposition.

He offered a treaty for peace to reign, he wanted to ally with Humans. In exchange for peace to reign, he would marry the first daughter of Vitalis, whom he thought was beautiful. Vitalis was reluctant but the other Humans convinced him to relent, that his sacrifice would last for generations to come.

Vitalis agreed and gave his daughter's hand in marriage to the Lycan King. Because of the bravery and sacrifice made by Vitalis, he was crowned the King of the Humans. The treaty of peace would hold so long as every century, a Vitalis daughter would marry the then Lycan King.

But they could not predict what would befall them in the hundreds of years to come.

Chapter 1

Hope

"Light, are you ready?" I asked my twin, and her green eyes glinted in mischief as she nodded.

We both took off our robes, then dove into the open lake, making loud splash sounds. Once we resurfaced, our smiles mirrored each other.

Even though we were twins, we looked nothing alike. Our only similarities were the shape of our eyes-siren-and the colors of our hair-jet black. And while I wore my hair long, Light wore hers short. That was where the similarities stopped, we even had different mannerisms.

We danced inside the lake, giggling, playing, and singing. Crows flew above us in the bright sky. I looked up, watching them for a while before I turned my attention back to Light.

"I'm going to miss you," I whispered. She smiled sadly, then burst into a fit of laughter.

"Stop talking like I'm going away forever. I'm just getting married, it's not that huge. Besides, you can come visit me anytime you want." She said flippantly, then started swimming back to shore.

I chased after her. By the time I got to land, she had already worn her robe and was drying her hair. I walked out of the water and did the same.

"Really? I can come visit anytime?" I asked with uncertainty. She nodded, throwing the towel away.

"You can even come live with Darius and I." She suggested.

"Darius…" I repeated. The name tasted bitter in my tongue. He was the Lycan King who Light was going to get married to.

I had only met him once, and that was when my family and I were invited to the Lycan Palace for Light's engagement two years ago. He was mean and looked like he wanted to kill everyone on sight.

Somehow, Light said that was just his resting face, and that he was very nice-at least to her. I didn't think he was nice. I was afraid for my sister who was going to chain herself down to him.

"Yes, sister. My soon-to-be husband is the best person in the world. I can't wait to finally be with him." Light said with a lovestruck tone, and I stared at her blankly.