Chapter 252: Resolved
Pain! That was what Blake felt in his entire body. Every inch of his existence felt like it was tearing itself down. The beast inside him struggled to get free to no avail. His instincts were pushing him to turn....To shift to his beast form so that he could fight off the pain that he was feeling. But no matter how much he tried, he was not able to shift. Something was forcefully suppressing his inner beast from coming out. Utter agony was he felt at this moment and it kept on increasing as time passed.
However, this physical pain felt nothing compared to the discomfort he was feeling through his mate bond. He could sense his mate’s fear through their mate bond. She was pushing her dread down while putting on a brave front in front of the rootless beastman. Blake felt ashamed of himself for putting his mate into such a situation. What good was he to her if he couldn’t even protect her? And this was happening again and again. First, someone had hit her in the Eagle tribe, and now....Blake just wanted to end his life. The reason his pathetic life held any meaning was because of his mate and without even keeping her safe, he felt like it would be good for him just die.
Noah on the other hand, was in a more precarious state than Blake. At least, the latter was trying his hard to break free from Kaizer’s hold but he had no strength to fight in the first place like Blake. His beast was not at all responding to him and the only thing he could feel was sheer agony. Once again, he was reminded of his low strength. If only....If only had he been stronger than this, then the rootless beastman wouldn’t have done this to him or his mate. Tears filled with raw anger gathered in his eyes as he stared at his mate trying her hardest to get them free. She was sacrificing herself for them.
Lyra had one thing on her mind at this moment. She wanted to somehow save her mates even if it means for her to do something that she didn’t like. Kai.....Kaizer according to their past meetings was a good person. He was a little pushy, yes, but he never tried to force something on her. He was clumsy and always nervous in front of her. That image of his was etched in her mind but not anymore. The sweet beastman that supposedly wanted to kidnap her to only fail by his clumsiness was gone. Now, looking at his purple eyes elicited only dread and nothing more. Those eyes that she had before thought as pretty were filled with madness and a strong need to possess her. He kept on apologizing to her as though he wanted to leave only good memories of his in her mind.
’He is insane’ her subconscious screamed at her to get far away from this person. Darya who had not responded to her for the past few weeks was suddenly waking up by providing enough magic so that Lyra could escape from this situation. But was that really that easy? And the answer to that quickly came to her mind. No, it was definitely not that easy to walk away from him. Once again she was reminded of the harsh world she was in. What Kaizer was doing right now was not that bad according to the standards of the beast world. A strong male could kill a female’s other mates as a way to show off his power and the said female would accept him because as the rules go, ’The stronger the better’
In a place where females were few and had dangers like stray beastmen trying to kill them, it was practical for them to dispose of weak males to get new strong males by their side.
When her mates told her about all these rules, Lyra was left in shock. That followed, slowly adapting to the norms of the beast world so that she doesn’t put herself or her family in danger. From having multiple mates to taking over the position of head of their family, she did all she could. She had to stop her mates from fighting each other by sharing equal affection with all of them. Some of her mates still didn’t like it if she showed a little more love to Blake compared to them. She was already thankful that their resentment didn’t reach her children. Each of her mates loved her children as their own and that was also because it was normal for males to like their mate’s children born from other males in the beast world. To be more precise, they liked them because the children came out of their beloved females.
Nonetheless, the hate for their mate’s other males remained the same. They were considered as nothing but rivals and it was ideal of them to dispose of males that they deemed as too weak to protect their mate. And Lyra was sure that, this was exactly what Kaizer was thinking right now. He was musing about ending Blake’s and Noah’s life because well, he considered them a hindrance and too weak to keep her safe. Killian had also said something this similar to her before, ’I don’t get it, Love. Why are you keeping these weaklings by your side?’ and this sentence was directed to Lucas and Noah. He looked genuinely confused when he asked her this. Like he couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her and this was exactly how Kaizer was looking at her right now.