Chapter 7

Longwei's POV

" Then why haven't you found yourself a mate all the while?"

My mother can be pretty stubborn especially if she wants something done.

"What if this girl is a trap to come kill me and you want me to spread my arms and receive her?" I frowned.

" None of such would happen. This is for a truce. You are King Longwei. You have to show your people that you can sacrifice for them as they can for you. This is not a very hard thing to do".

" Are you implying I sacrifice my life, love and peace of mind for my people? I said already getting angry with her pestering me.

She should know that once I say I don't want, I don't want.

"Just accept the lady. No one is telling you to be so close to her. All we just have to do is take good care of her" she said plainly.

I shook my head at her words.

"Are you going to ruin the poor girl's life just for your truce?"

" No it's not ruining. It's a sacrifice" she argued.

I hate to hear that word sacrifice. That's exactly what killed the old handler and my father. They all think they were doing it for sacrifice. I'm then not going to get myself involved in that ruining sacrifice.

"Damn sacrifice mother. I don't need it" I said, stood up from my throne and walked away.

This I've never done to my mother but I don't want her to pester me into accepting what I don't want. I don't want to get married to the girl. I don't want anyone getting entangled in my life. I'm a monster. That girl might be a handler but she has blood flowing in her veins. Her bonding with me will bring her nothing but troubles. My life is already messed up and I don't want her coming into such a life.

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I was grateful that my mother didn't pester me with that marriage of a thing with that handler. I was glad that she accepted my decision of not getting ready to marry, not wanting a handler for a wife. But a few days later, I was in my office doing my thing when I felt this powerful aura. Then I decided to look out the window, I noticed a lot of people gathering. Then I noticed a carriage was moving in between.

"What the hell is going on?" I asked myself.

I looked again to see if I would know but the more I look the more confused I am.

"Who's there?" I called out knowing a guard is always stationed at my door.

"Your highness," in no time a guard walked in.

"What the hell is going on down there?" I asked him.

" I don't know, your highness," he replied.

"Call me Xingyun". I said not wanting to waste time with him.

That is My Beta's name. Even if the guard doesn't know who the hell entered my territory in grand style without my permission, my Beta wouldn't dare tell me he doesn't know. The door to my office creaked open slowly and instead of my Beta I saw my mother walk in. The behind her was my Beta.

"Alpha," she said.

I knew something was up immediately when I saw my mother and how Xingyun was trailing behind her. I didn't even bother to reply to her, I just looked at her.

"They've arrived," she said.

The way she said it was as if I'm supposed to know who came into my territory when I'm not informed at all.

"And who did I invite?" I asked blankly.

" The Willand kingdom. They came to sign the truce" she replied.

" The Truce" I scoffed.

I should have known that with her silence all these while she would definitely be up to something. Now she's telling me they've arrived as if I know a thing about it. My mother just loves to test my patience.

"Alpha...." She called.

I know she wanted to give some unreasonable explanation which I'm not ready to listen to.

"Don't you Alpha me, mother" I snapped glaring at her.

" Please listen to me," she begged.

"I don't need to since you don't listen to me. To you, my sitting here and called Alpha king is just nothing but a figurehead to you. You are the one doing the ruling" I said harshly.

I was glaring at her while she was looking sad as if I was the one who disobeyed.

" You know that's not true, Longwei," she said. " I just had to do something. We were losing people" she said in a very pained voice.

" And I enjoy losing people" I said crisply.

" I never meant that Alpha," she said.

"Well what can I do? The deed has already been done" I said calmly.

I looked at my Beta who quickly looked away. I'm sure I'm going to deal with him later. I then returned to what I was doing before I noticed the people entering.

"You have to come sign the truce Alpha" she said, reducing her voice.

This was then I really dashed her a real angry look. I didn't want to make her weep so I just focused on what I was doing.

"Longwei" she called softly.

"Don't get me involved in your thing. You are the mastermind of this thing. Go ahead and sign the truce yourself and don't pester me" I said baldly.

" I know you are angry with me but please save our land" she pleaded.

Now she's doing that thing again. She's playing the pity party again and now I'm not going to let it work on me.

"Stop it!" I ordered in my Alpha voice. "Don't you dare blackmail me with that save our land of a word. You are the one who wants friendship with the handlers, not me. So go finish what you started and just know you are definitely the husband of that handler girl coming here not me" I shouted.

I'm not ready to get any woman into my life. Women are distractions and I'm not going to get one. Not even a handler at that. I can't even imagine myself having a handler for a wife.

My mother looked at me for the last time and left sadly. I knew she was equally angry with me but I was more angry to notice her anger. I thought my Beta was going to follow her but he didn't. He stood there and watched me.

"What are you waiting for? You should follow her and maybe you can be the husband to the handler. It shouldn't be bad since you are next to me" I said in a very hostile voice.

Xingyun didn't say a word. He just stood there. My anger grew, then I took the golden little statue on my table and threw it at him. Xingyun didn't try to avoid it. He let it hit his head and blood gushed out. I didn't mean that it should hit him but I had thought he would try to avoid it. Seeing his blood gushed out melted my anger.

"Why didn't you avoid it?" I shouted glaring at him.