Alpha King Of Fire: Read Chapters 1-5

PYRO'S POV

In a world where there is predator and prey, what would you choose to be? A predator who lives by killing others or a prey who hides in its cave to survive and protect itself?

People encounter different degrees of suffering, it depends on how you deal with it, but in my world, there is no other choice, except to fight. Be a warrior on your own. If not… you will face death.

"Faster!" Hali was dodging Colden's attack. He had a smirk on his lips while Colden was trembling in every strike he did.

"Faster, strengthen your hit! You are so weak! How would you be a king if you were shaking!" Hali used his index finger, pointing at Colden while moving it into 'come here' gesture.

I was just sitting on the above-level tree while watching them. Those are my brothers, taking their training for today.

"Pyro!" Hali put down his arnis, stomped on the soil heavily while moving closer to my location. He looked up. "Get down! I do not want to take training with Colden! It was no thrill at all! I didn't even sweat!"

I prepared myself to jump into the height. When I was in mid-air, I twisted my body so that I could fall straight on my feet, without any injury.

I stared at Hali with my cold eyes. "What fight do you want? An excessive sweat training or a bloody one?"

A smirk formed on his lips. "A bloody one."

I did not respond to his words, I grabbed the arnis instead, stuck my feet on the ground while moving it into a slightly angled side. The knees were facing the same direction as my feet. The feet and knees alignment is one of the powerful defenses, it can lessen the leakage of force and ensure a comfortable attacking position.

When my head moved aside, I viewed Colden, looking down. When his head went up, he was a spark of disappointment. "I'm sorry, Pyro."

I kept my mouth shut. When I gazed at Hali, he did an expected attack, the arnis were flying in a straight direction. It was about to hit my head, but I moved in my side, resulting in it falling into the soil. Without me hurting.

"A cheater." The voice of mine was soft, emotion did not change.

"A cheater always wins, Pyro. If you are kind in terms of the battle. They might betray you without you knowing." After his lines, he immediately ran towards me, hitting me with his arnis into a left slant movement.

I jumped three times backward. He continued to strike me with his arnis, but for me, it was a weak defense. He was doing the same rhythm of hitting. Left and right. Left and right. It was repeating all over, the opponent might memorize his tactic.

He hit me again on my right, I held his arnis. He was forcing it to pull back, but I was just holding it slightly, with no effort, no applying strength at all. He was having difficulty.

In an instant, I threw my arnis in the side and gave him a strong punch on his stomach. He groaned as the result of my strike.

"A cheater can be cheated by others, too." I watched him twisting his body.

It was not allowed to use the punch, kick, and other physical defenses during arnis rehearsal. It was like I felt more comfortable using my bare hands than the arnis. Hence, not all the time, I have a tool to use when there is a fight. I rather use the portion of my body to protect myself.

I turned my back at Hali, walking towards Colden when I heard his shout.

"You think we are done!"

When I turned around to face him again, I got a hit on my chest, resulting in me stepping backward. I touched my chest while looking at the grinning Hali.

"Good job. I am enjoying the fight." Raiden was standing beside the tree, leaning his shoulder on it while having a big smile. "Continue. Don't stare at me, Brothers."

Suddenly, Hali used his arnis again, striking me into my shoulder. I dodged immediately, jumped to move, going to his back. He did not notice my moves. In an instant, I was located on his back. I slowly stepped forward. Then, when he was about to look at me, I cornered his neck with my arms.

"Ugh!" He was gritting his teeth while pulling himself out of my arms. "You are so annoying, Fire!"

"Same as you, Water," I whispered in his ears.

"1, 2, 3…" Zephyrus was counting, raising his finger.

I never let go of Hali when Zephyrus was still counting. Hali was giving all his strength to fight back, but he could not ruin my attack that made him drown in my arms. Cornered.

"The winner is… Pyro!" Zephyrus' laugh echoed in the whole area. "Another day lost for Hali." He was shaking his head when he tapped Hali's shoulder. "Use your brain sometimes for strategies, fighting is not always attacking, it uses head. That is why we can think." He passed us by.

I pulled out my arms on Hali and threw him into the soil. "Practice to teach Colden how to fight, not how to belittle himself."

We heard the loud sound of a clap. We looked in the direction where it came from. It was our father, King Oswald with our mothers on his side. The various five ladies came from different elemental packs of werewolves.

A broad smile grew into King Oswald's lips. "I am glad to see that you, my five sons, are helping each other to be strong."

"They are not. They just love to tease each other about their weaknesses." Raiden spoke while staring at the tree where I was sitting before. "The tree is estimated to be about 63 meters." Raiden hit my abdomen with his backhand. "You are a great jumper."

I just looked at him. I did not respond to his words. It might consume my saliva with nonsense conversation.

"I want to see how my sons fight with each other." King Oswald commanded.

We had no choice, but to get our exclusive arnis. It had a trademark of Fire, Water, Ice, Lightning, and Wind.

PYRO'S POV

"Get ready to die!" Hali immediately attacked me.

All of our brothers, his target was me. Just because I always win over him.

I dodged in the side, climbed up the tree, and sat there comfortably. "Hali, the battle is not yet starting."

"Abide the rules," Raiden said while looking at his arnis, examining the strokes of the trademark. The written letter was Lightning.

"Get down! I will kill you!" Hali was gritting his teeth, looking up at me on the tree.

We heard the loud sound of laughter from our father. "Pyro, get down. The battle will begin."

I kept my mouth shut, prepared myself, and jumped at Hali's neck.

"The battle begins!" One of the Betas opened the war.

Exactly, I was on Hali's neck so what I did was crossed my thighs between his chest and used my arnis, hitting his back. I still had pity for my brother. I could kill him with this position.

"Ugh!" Hali did the overthrow, making me fall to the ground. He struck me with his arnis in a forceful way. I rolled to my left, raised my feet to kick him.

"Use your arnis, Ass!" He was clenching his jaw, staring at me with his burning eyes.

I just gave him a small smile when I put the arnis where I slipped when I rolled. I rotated it in my hand and pointed at him. "Come."

"Haya!" I did not notice that there was someone behind me. He kicked me strongly. I flew to the tree where my favorite location was. When I looked at him, it was Zephyrus.

"Yes! One point for me! I kicked, Pyro! Yahoo!" Zephyrus was swaying his body, raising his hand with a full smile on her lips. Suddenly, Hali threw his arnis on him, the reason why he got wounded on the cheek.

I shook my head as I stood. Zephyrus and Hali were now striking themselves with the arnis. No one wanted to be a loser, although it was always Hali because he was not thinking.

I could feel someone was behind the tree so I looked at it. My eyes viewed Colden, trembling while one eye was peeking. "Don't hurt me, Pyro. I don't want to fight."

I closed my eyes hard and pointed my arnis at him. "Face them. Father will see you."

"But I was scared."

"If you didn't come out. I will hit you with my arnis." After my words I ran towards Raiden, hit him with my arnis in a slant direction, pointing at his back. He prevented it by kicking the arnis. My tool flew a long distance.

"Get your arnis, Pyro." He commanded, a strong voice was visible.

I ran as fast as I could and flipped over in the air as I handed my arnis. In an instant, I was holding it with my straight posture, and cold emotion.

Raiden stepped on his feet like lightning. His fast was incomparable. He reached me, hit me in the left side, I defeated the attack by catching his arnis with my arnis and when I pushed it, I struck him on the hips. I got one point from that.

He was holding his hips while looking at me badly. "It would take one week to heal the blood clot."

I shook the arnis on my hand, spun it as my knee was bent. "It still heals," I said while nothing was written on my emotion.

"Can I have a request?" He stood up, threw his arnis on the side. "I am not good at using my bare bodies. Let's have a fight using just our own strength." A wide smile grew on his lips. I trusted Raiden, he was not a traitor, not like Hali. "According to Leonardo Da Vinci, science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."

He bent his knee, moved his feet into the angular attack, and clenched his fist. "For me, that means something different. Science can study our surroundings, without it any explanation of any single thing. Even the practice had laws to fulfill."

I wrinkled my forehead. I observed his facial expressions. My eyes widened when he attacked me in an instant, his flying punch landed on my face.

Got it. He is putting those words in my mind and when he gets a chance, he will fight. I could not say, it was betrayal, but a strategy, a unique method.

He was about to kick me when Zephyrus hit him on the back. He faced him, the start of their fights.

"Mother!" Colden was running as Hali was catching him. He hid on her mother's back.

"You are a coward! So annoying! Come here!" Hali had prepared arnis on his hands, glaring at Colden with a threat of death. "Fight for me!" He hit Colden into his arms. "Fight! I will not stop if you do not use your arnis! You need to be strong, Alpha King of Ice!" Another hit, over and over again.

Colden was just holding his arms covering it due to repeated strikes by Hali. "Stop, please stop!"

I stepped forward to watch them. I stopped myself from helping Colden. He needs to prove to anyone that he can be a king.

"Stop!" Colden spun his right hand one time, like a Ferris wheel rotation, and faced his palm on Hali. My eyes widened when there was an ice formation on the ground. When I looked at Hali, he was now cornered with ice with just a head exposed.

"Cold! Let me out of her! I am chilling!" Hali was pulling himself out of the ice, but he could not. It worsened instead when he used his gifted water power.

Raiden and Zephyrus were laughing as they teased Hali.

Zephyrus leaned his hands on the ice pack. "I love to see you there." He grabbed his phone and took a picture of Hali.

"You, bastard!" Hali moved and moved, but he could not do anything.

Our father was chuckling. He was enjoying watching us. "I told you. Colden is different." He walked forward to tap Colden's shoulder.

Colden was now biting his lips, looking at Hali, guilty of what he did.

"Help me…" Hali looked at me, I turned around. Then, I heard him calling Raiden. "Help me, Lightning!"

"Sorry. I can't do anything. Didn't you have knowledge that only hotness can melt the ice? It is Pyro, then." Raiden's comfortably sitting on the rock with his cross thighs.

"The problem is Pyro didn't want to cooperate." A loud sound of Zephyrus laughter could be heard.

"Pyro! Help me! I am cold!"

I was annoyed by his loud voice. I wanted peace of mind.

"Do you want your brother to be killed by freezing? Huh? How heartless you are!" He had lots to say, that was why the surrounding was noisy laughing at him.

I turned my face on him, stepped forward, and put my palm on the ice. It started to melt. The ice becomes liquid with just one tap.

Hali ran faster when he slipped away from the ice prisoner. He did not even say thank you. What a rude man.

"I will kill you, Colden!"

FIRA'S POV

"Yuck. The omega is coming! The loser!" Jina was gesturing an L on her hand.

I passed her by not looking at her with dried woods on my hand.

"The weakest of all packs." Lina blocked my way, she threw the woods by kicking it.

These triplets were boiling my blood. They were the triplets Beta: Lina, Jina, and Hina. If only I could fight, I did. But my family would be in danger if I kicked his ass off. One thing, it was not my usual to fight. Omega was treated like a servant, just a slave, not a fighter like Beta.

They were not satisfied by making my wood fall, they also stomped on it, the reason why it broke into small pieces and scattered on the ground.

I clenched my jaw, looked at them with my very sharp eyes. I closed my fist hard.

"What? Do you want to hit us, huh?" Jina tapped my cheek three times. I just stared at my side, seeing the sharp wood.

Lina rolled her index finger on my hair. "Pathetic."

Even though they had the same features, I knew their differences according to their hair. Jina had red hair, Lina had blonde hair, and Hina had violet. They were like rainbow sisters, rather than Betas.

I turned my back, managed my temper not to burst out. The more I fight, the more I get hurt.

I was about to walk when Lina slapped me. I touched my cheek, glaring at her. In my mind, I wanted her to die.

"Opsy. My hand slipped." Lina was raising her eyebrow.

I left them laughing out loud. I hoped your mouth would be inserted by bees.

My tears flowed as I walked into the forest, holding a piece of the sock. I could not see things clearly because my eyes were blurred. I was wiping the tears over and over again, but I could not stop them from sliding into my cheek.

It was hard to be an omega, the weakest of all weakest. Sometimes, I was ashamed of my own family. They could not even fight for themselves, their life was dependent on the protection of the higher ranking: Alpha, Beta, and other officials. I wanted to fight like them, but it was not allowed. Our duties were to serve them food, clean the areas, and do other things that a maid does.

I inhaled deeply and blew it out harshly. I also had a dream. To be a fighter someday.

Is there a possibility that my rank will go up? I don't know. Even my mate is not yet showing up, if I have.

Where are you? What does your face look like? Would I like you?

Lots of questions were popping into my mind. Anyway, I should not be problematic. Maybe I would meet him some of these days. They say… your mate will come in an unexpected way. Just feel your heart.

In the middle of me picking the dried woods, I heard a loud sound of a gunshot. I looked around. I could not see anyone, but I was sure it was a hunter.

I moved up, ran towards it. I looked to my left and right, observed the swaying of the leaves, which means it was near my place. I stepped my feet like thunder, holding the small knife in my hand.

"Get the wolf! It is huge. We can price it with a thousand dollars."

I was right. There were two hunters with their M26 shotgun, hanging on their frontal.

"Hey! What are you doing!" My voice echoed in the place.

I saw the other man was about to pull the trigger. I ran with big steps in every move I made. I jumped so high to stop him, but I was a failure. It hit the wolf, groaning in pain, twisting his body on the ground.

When I stared at it, I heard her voice.

"Fira, take care of the family. I love you all."

Mom?

My tears started to condense in the corner of my eyes. I gritted my teeth as I stabbed one of them on his shoulder.

"You are ruthless!" I stabbed him over and over again, resulting in him shouting. He got the attention of his companion, that was why another one suddenly fired a gun. It struck my stomach. I held it with tears flowing into my cheek. I looked at Mom, her eyes were closed. The wolf form became human, making the hunters terrified.

I saw they were about to pull the trigger as my body fell. "No!" My sobs could be heard in the area, at the same time, the sounds of a shotgun echoed everywhere in the near place.

"No!" I crawled, using my elbow. I was having difficulty reaching my mother. My stomach was bleeding, a stinging sensation could be felt in that portion of my body.

"Mom!" I did everything to arrive at her location, when I reached, I grabbed her hands. "Mom." The sound of my sobs turned loud. "Mom…" I touched her cheek. She was not responding. I looked at her holistic feature, her blood served as her body covering because she was nude.

"You see her, right? She changed into a wolf to be a human." One of them laughed.

Is it funny to kill someone? I glared at him deadly, tears were flooding, teeth were gritting, and fists were clenched.

"Yeah." The other one chuckled as if he was enjoying seeing me suffer. He moved closer to me and pointed his gun. "Mom? She is your mother? Show us how to transform yourself." He grabbed his phone in his pocket. He was taking a video. "It would be viral." They both laughed. Their laughter made me curse them into death.

"I will kill you!" I said with my gritting teeth. "I will kill your generation now, the second, third until no one is left the same as your flesh and blood!"

Their laugh started to be loud, teasing could be heard the way they did that.

"I will kill both of you! I swear to the Alpha King of Fire!" I said that with all my madness and grief.

"Calling me?"

My mouth barely opened as I stared at the man standing behind them.

I did not know this man, but it seems like I saw him somewhere.

"Do you call my name?" He asked the two men standing. They both shook their heads from left to right.

When he looked down, his eyes met me. There was no emotion written on his face. He did not care about seeing me bathing in blood with a dead person by my side.

"So, no one called me?" He asked again. "Fine. I am leaving."

The only hope I had in my heart was lost. He was leaving me without helping? How ruthless he was!

He turned his back at them, then faced them again. "Wait." He looked down, staring at me. "Where do you live?"

"Elemental Kingdom." I was stuttering, and weakening was almost consuming me. My vision was turning black.

After me saying those words, the man's dark expression could be seen. He gave the two men a flying kick in the face. They were about to pull a trigger when he leaped so high and jumped on their chest since they were lying beside each other. Their guns were nonsense as he grabbed the bullet.

He was about to turn his back again, leaving me when one of the men threw a big rock on him. He prevented it by moving aside, without looking at it. That made me amazed by his actions.

Is he an alpha?

He faced them again, with no emotions. He grabbed a big rock and threw it at them. They were about to dodge, but he was like a professional in striking, he knew the angle, so he hit them in the face. Both noses of the hunters were bleeding.

"Who are you!" One of the men asked, he was covering his nose, the blood overlapping on his hands.

"If you know me, you'll die."

He ran as fast as he could towards that man, he flying kick his chest, resulting in him being knocked out. The other one was kicking him, but he just moved by his side, preventing every strike, swaying his body to confuse the enemy. Until one brave strong punch landed on his stomach. The hunter coughed in blood.

"Give me your gun." My savior opened her hands, gesturing to the opponent to put the gun on it.

The hunter removed the gun from his body and put it in his hand. "Please, don't kill me. I have two sons and two wives."

Two wives? What a freaking bastard.

"Plead to her." He looked in my direction.

The hunter immediately crawled towards me with his kneel down. "Sorry. Please, spare my life! Please." His hands were begging on me.

I glared at him, looked at my mother then gazed up as there was a gun offering to me. It was my savior nodding his head.

My eyes viewed the hunter again. His eyes widened, his body was shaking, his sobs became loud.

I grabbed the gun that my savior was offering. I pointed it at the hunter. My eyes were watering excessively. I could feel the choke in my heart, knowing that they killed my mother and they would never revive her life again.

"Let me ask you." Despite my weakening body, I talked with my crack voice. "Can you go back to the past and make my mother alive again?"

He was stuck from moving, looking at me with his tears. "No. But can you give me another chance?"

My eyes viewed his companion when we heard the sound of crack-dried leaves, catching our attention. He was escaping. I pointed the gun at him. I closed my eyes before pulling a trigger. A loud sound of the fired gun echoed. That hunter was the one who hit my mother uncounted times.

My sobs got worse when I pointed the gun at the hunter in front of me. He just closed his eyes.

"It will satisfy your grief, but never get back the life of your loved ones." My savior, located on my back said. "You killed the other one with just a simple suffer, one second, he died. Think carefully. He deserves torture."

My mind lightened as I heard his suggestion. He was right. I still pointed the gun at the man. "Get this man."

"Are you commanding me?" My savior asked.

I smiled at him as I closed my eyes. Everything went black, I fell to the ground.

I was shouting, pleading, and crying as I saw my mother bathing in blood, her eyes gradually closing. She could not respond to my call, she died in front of me.

"Mom!" My tears slid fast to my cheek, flooding my face. I could feel the heaviness in my heart, the stinging sensation that results in my breathing difficulty. "Where is mom?"

My sister Eira stared at my face with a spark of sadness. "She died."

"No!" I stood up immediately, went to the kitchen. In the early morning, she was preparing food. "Mom?" I went to the small wooden sofa, she was sitting here sometimes with dad, cuddling. I stepped outside, she was in here at times, wiping the dried leaves.

"Mom!" My strength was consumed, my knee fell on the soil, looking down and sobbing so hard while holding my chest. "Mom!" I shouted as loud as I could, as if she could hear me as if she would walk towards me and hug me saying she was okay.

Nothing came. The reality of her death was slowly absorbed in my head. I wish everything was just a dream.

"Fira." Eira gradually knelt down and hugged me. The noise of our cry echoed in our location.

The smile of my mother popped into my head.

You will always be in my heart, my mother. You are the best mother in the whole world. I will never forget every lesson you mark in my mind, every moral you teach is always remembered.

I managed to stand up, but I fell again. I had no strength to move. Tears were severely flooding, my heart was failing to beat. Her last words came into my head.

"Fira, take care of the family. I love you all."

One month later.

"Hey, hey! Wait!" I pointed at the man walking in front of the Elemental Kingdom. Actually, there were five men so all of them looked at me. I smiled widely as I stared at his face. I waved my hand.

"Hi, Honey." One of them was about to walk, but the man with a tan color of the skin avoided him by holding his arm.

"Stop that, Zephyrus. She's not looking for you." He waved his hands at me. "Who are you pertaining to?"

"Him." I pointed at my savior. "Hey, can I talk to you?"

"Fire?" All of them stared at him as if this was the first time someone called him.

"Fire?" I repeated. "Is that your name?"

The four men moved their heads from left to right. Two of them were smiling so broad and the two were having a smirk on their face. They had a race going to me, Fire was left alone, looking at me with his no-emotion look.

"What's your name?" The smiling face man who told me Honey asked. "Zephyrus." He encircled his arms on my shoulder.

The other man looked at him badly, resulting in Zephyrus removing his arms from me.

"Is that the proper way to act?" The man was having a threatening look at Zephyrus. After that, he waved his hands, too. "Raiden."

"How did you know him?" The other one with super white skin asked. "By the way, I'm Hali." He offered his hands so I grabbed them.

They had lots of questions which I could not answer. Who are they?

"Colden." He gave me a small smile. "Don't tell anyone about our names. It should be revealed in the full moon."

I moved my head from up and down, my attention was not on them, but on Fire who was now walking away. "Give me a second."

I ran towards him. My feet stuck on the ground when he faced me. "Don't."

"Huh? I just want to say thank you for what you did for—"

"That's my duty."

I was about to step my feet to move forward, but he gestured to me to stop. Cold emotion was written on his face. I was curious why he did not want me to come near him.

"Duty? What kind of duty? Are you a Beta? A warrior?" I stepped forward and stopped when he talked again.

"You are taking the boundary."

I could not guess what was on his mind. All I wanted was to say thank you, nothing more, but he was giving me an action that was unpredictable.

"Boundary?"

He hardly closed his eyes and turned his back to me. "Pyro. That's my name."

I was about to move towards him, but he spoke again. "So naughty! Don't follow me! Stay away from me! That's a command!"

My eyes widened. His voice was loud enough to be heard by the men who approached me before. I had nothing to do except watch him away.

"Sorry." Colden shrugged his shoulders before following Pyro.

"He seems uninterested." Hali tapped my shoulder.

"According to my observation, he is like that three times a week." I could hear the laugh of Raiden. "Go back tomorrow."

"Honey, I'm free tonight." Zephyrus winked at me. "See me at the terrace, if you are willing."

I watched them walking away from me. Actually, my mind was messed up. Who are they? Are they guests? I did not see them before. And why should I not tell their names to anyone?

"Fira, King Oswald is calling you. Your duty is at the Kingdom's dinner." Eira called me when she saw me walking.

"Woah! Really?" I jumped with happiness. This was my first time at a huge long table of royals. I will meet the Alpha Kings from different Elemental packs.

"Faster!"

I fixed myself before going upstairs. My heart was pounding so hard and loud. My smile was growing to my lips as I observed the luxuriousness of the kingdom. I was not usually in here because my duty was always in the kitchen or cleaning the clothes. Luckily, I would serve the Alpha Kings.

"Hi." A broad smile was written on my lips as I saw the crowd of Omega wearing a red uniform, holding utensils. That red means we were assigned to the Alpha King of Fire. "My name is Fira from the family of Hayes."

"Hello. I am Cass from the family of Leonardo." She soundly sighed. "Our deepest condolences for your loss."

I still managed to not remove my smile although the sadness started to consume me.

After they introduced themselves, taught me the areas and our duties we moved to the dining area. I looked around while my mouth was barely opened, mesmerizing with the beauty of sacred dining in. There was a long gold table, a strong chandelier light, paintings of different elements, a statue of the 5 Kings, and other symbolism of the kingdom. My feet stopped with the Alpha King of Fire.

"Fira, Move! They are now here!" Cass grabbed my arms and guided me to form align.

"I can't play basketball here." That voice was familiar to me.

"Me, too."

I moved my eyeball in my side, not including my neck. I had a curiosity to look at who they were. My eyes widened when I saw the four men that I met before. In their back was Pyro, no emotion, no energy walking.

So, they are the Alpha Kings?

I almost slipped the tray on my hand, but I managed to tighten my hold on it. I would be dead if I break this. I could not believe that Pyro was one of them!

"Fire…" I whispered. I heard them call him 'Fire'. Our eyes met when he gazed at my direction.

He is the Alpha King of Fire. I was busted not to know that!

In our kingdom, the kings were hidden not until the full moon. That was why they said their name was confidential.

"Fira." Zephyrus waved his hands. Being friendly. "You are here." He was about to walk towards me when Pyro stepped faster. He got the tray in my hand and put it down on the table.

"Give me a sec." He said to his brothers.

I looked at his back while following him. He brought me to the third-floor veranda, near the Fire room.

"Show me your wrist." He was commanding me. His voice was thick.

"Why?" I stuttered as I looked into his eyes. I wanted to avert my look, but it glued me to his almond eyes. My heart was pounding so fast as I observed every detail of his face. He is more handsome when near, his scent was strongly attractive.

I did not show him my wrist that was why he grabbed it and slowly opened it.

"Fuck!" He gritted his teeth.

When I looked at it, my mouth barely opened. There was a symbol of fire.

"What is this?"

"Imprinted." He said while facepalming. "Don't show your wrist to anyone. That's an order!" He left me absorbing what he said.

Then, when I realized I spoke, the reason why he stopped but never faced me again.

"You are my mate? But… how?