Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

"I don't understand a lot of things," Dylan spoke up, "if the goddess wants to be together with someone why does she put so many hurdles in our way?" 

"Which hurdles do you talk of?" Xavier asked barely opening his mouth to speak because he knew his shift friends would be able to hear him clearly. 

Dylan gave a small yet uneasy shrug. "I don't know. For months I could not recognise that Elizabeth was my mate and she thought that I was actually human." He scoffed. "That's fucked up." 

Xavier looked at his friend. He had heard his story and it was fucked up. Dylan could not tell that Elizabeth was his mate for a few months into their dating and Elizabeth had not mentioned it to him because she assumed that he was a human because she had never seen him shift in the back.

The fault of assuming him as a human was not of Elizabeth because Dylan was not someone who could be found living in the pack. It was his father who was a loner and was not accepted in a pack. The main problem was the custody of his brother. 

"I know," Augustus said with a torn expression over his face, "it's more like the human love story of Romeo and Juliet. We are meant to be, we have a god who is assigning each other to us, so why does it happen to us?"

Xavier and Dylan glanced at each Other before they looked at Augustus together. 

Xavier scoffed, "you have the balls to call me whipped have you ever seen yourself?" He shook his head as Dylan laughed. 

"Romeo and Juliet? Really Augustus? you could have given a much better example from our folklore." Dylan shook his head before he sniffed something. 

He stood up and focused on the scent but it went away just as it came, making him turn to his two friends that were watching him in confusion and in question. 

"Did you catch that?' He asked them. 

Xavier raised a brow as Augustus asked, "What?' 

Dylan romantically waved his hand around in the air, "the scent. Did you not catch any scent?" 

Augustus shook his head and Xavier raised his nose slightly in the air sniffing twice before shaking his head as well. "Why? what did you smell?" 

Dylan shrugged, "I don't know what it was. It came and it went just as quickly. It was something foul, like something rotting." 

"Huh," Xavier mumbled as looked at the scenery in front of him. He did not smell anything and his nose was just as powerful as any of them. Augustus smelled nothing either which only made him question Dylan's sanity.

He shook his head in the end as he told Dylan with his sullen expression, "might be a forest animal carrying a dead meal aur someone about to die." 

With shifters it was observed that if someone was about to die and their body had started to slow down the organs would start to shut down and one could smell that the shifter was going to die from afar. 

"Could be," Dylan muttered to himself before he sat down on the ground again. "What are we to do when we go back first? Because I don't think there is much time left for us here Now." 

He looked at Xavier who gave them a nod. "We start to resume our duties from the second day. I think we all deserve a rest for the first one." Xavier's nose twitched at the familiar scent he smelled. 

It was the smell of mangoes and mangoes and only belonged to one person in his life which was his mate and that meant that his mate was somewhere around here. 

His forehead creased up and his nose twitched at the smell. It was definitely mangoes and that meant that Adeline was around here. 

"Adeline's here," Xavier announced to his friends who stood up immediately. 

"What?" Augustus spat. "She is here? This deep in the jungle?" 

Whether or not someone was the mate of a shifter, no matter what ranking the mate might be on, it was still forbidden for humans to enter the forest alone. In fact shifters mates were cautious enough to not let them enter the forest even ten steps in by themselves. That was never good for any human. 

Xavier turned around and walked into the forest ready to find where she was before he stopped. He heard the pounding of footsteps on the ground. The speed of them alone told him that someone was running and he knew that someone was his little mate. 

He cursed and turned around and it happened right in front of his eyes. Adeline appeared from the words into the clearing, the small distance in between the Cliff and the forest.

She was looking behind them and he knew what was going to happen. 

The clearing was wide and reaching her on time would be difficult. She was too fucking far away from him and she was to close to the cliff. 

It was going to happen right in front of his eyes. His worst fucking fear. 

He could not even say it. 

His feet started to move before he realised it. His feet picked up speed and covered more ground as he watched Adeline look-ahead. She turned to look ahead but it was too late. Her eyes widened and he quickened his pace even further. 

Fuck, fuck, fuck, he cursed in his mind. 

He watched nearing her through the wide space and he heard the steps of his friends behind him. He increased his pace, pushing his beast forward to take on to the strength of a body. The need to see Adaline alive and not falling down the cliff was more important than himself. 

He watched as she planted her feet firmly to the ground but the momentum was too much and she ended up sliding forward just as he reached near her to hold onto her sweater. 

He slipped, his finger barely grazed the wool.