My Personal Lycan King novel Chapter 52

VICTORIA'S POV

Following him out of the party area, the only thought that was constantly going through my head was, why the hell does I feel such a weird attraction and want of love towards him if he's not my mate.

"So, uhh..you are Alexander's mate," Daniel said awkwardly as we stopped near a hut-like thing in the garden.

"Well, it turned out to be like this," I said, awkwardly looking at him as I folded my hands in front of me.

"You don't have to feel awkward with me, you know. When I said I love you. I meant every word of it. I know I and Alexander had decided that we will consult someone before anyone of us fully claims you as one of ours. Now that you have yourself declared that you are his mate, I don't think there is any need to do that. I just wanted to say that I am hoping that we can remain good friends without any awkwardness between us. Yeah?" Daniel said before giving me one of his signature smiles.

"Of course. You will always remain that one friend that I will always look up to and run to if anyone bullies me or makes things hard for me." I said as I held his hands in mine to show him that I meant every single word I uttered.

"That's great. I can't promise that I will beat up Alexander for you because he is still stronger than me, but I promise I will put up a good fight if he bullies you." Daniel said, making me laugh at his words. 

And just like that, all the awkwardness between us dissolved into nothing.

"Thank you for not leaving me. For not breaking our friendship." I said before hugging him.

"I cannot leave you, even if I want to Victoria," Daniel said before he reciprocated my hug.

"Let's go, before our alpha king thinks that I am going to steal his mate and comes here for us, looking all angry and ready to kill." He said, making me chuckle before he held my hands in his, and we started moving back to where Alexander was.

Initially, I was hoping to eat this lunch with Alexander by his side, but seeing how he was busy with other alphas, I ended up eating with our friends.

"So, it's true that you are his mate," Chris said with an apologetic voice.

"What mate? I bet she is just scheming something." Suddenly Laila said from behind me.

Hearing her voice, I wanted to roll my eyes at her and punch her in the face, but I was too happy to care about that.

As I saw her pulling out a chair for herself, I couldn't help but wave my fingers under the table. And as expected, as soon as she tried to sit, the chair broke, resulting in her falling miserably on the ground.

"Hahaha...your bad luck is really bad today, Laila." Katie laughed, which made us laugh harder than before.

Did she think I am gonna let her go without doing anything to her?

"Well, let's not talk about this mate thing anymore. We don't want to burden her just after she came, now do we?" Daniel said, and I smiled thankfully at him.

He was really like a knight in shining armor for me.

"Yeah, about that, are you okay? I heard from Daniel you were sick. Are you fine now?" Angela asked, to which I only nodded while concentrating on eating.

The rest of the lunch was uneventful, with random questions and answers. 

Or maybe, it appeared uneventful because of what was going to happen next, the real interrogation with the council head, a.k.a Theodore Roosevelt.

Since Alexander was still busy attending to everyone, I asked the maid of the house where the study room, was and went for the interrogation around myself. 

"Come in." I heard a voice from the other side as soon as I raised my hand to knock on the door. 

'Maybe he smelled me as soon as I came here.' I thought as I've recently found out that werewolves have an excellent sense of smell.