Crown Prince Mark sat in his furniture seat in his room. His mother wouldn't let him be.
"Mark what was the meaning of that?!. Why would you walk away from the elders, you disrespected them and yet you know you need their support to be crowned king!" Queen Melissa thundered.
"Mother can you just let me be for once!" he replied her, As she wasn't even allowing him think.
"Let you think about what, your mate?. Obviously the mating ceremony is tomorrow but I cannot understand why you kept your gaze focused on the field. Chums wasn't there as I saw her in the hall. So who where you staring at?. You got us all worried and yet you disrespected us by walking out on us" Queen Melissa informed him and he sighs.
"Mother I want to be left alone" he replied and look away from her.
"Why?. You should explain to me first what made you angry?. Elder Jerry, said that you saw your mate but that is not why you should be angry. Be ready to apologized to the elders tomorrow for walking out on them" she warned him again.
"Fine, have heard you mother can you leave me alone now,?" he asked.
"No!" Queen Melissa replied surprising him and he shook his head.
"I still want to know, what made you annoyed son, give me a detailed explanation or a brief of what you saw at garden that made you annoyed. I remembered staring at the field and all I saw where the humans, the slaves. Was it that white human you were staring at?" She asked him to observe his reaction and he remained calm, controlling his temper and rage
"I didn't see her there mother. I have other things am worried about, Why must it be her?. Did you see her there?" He asked his mother, denying his own true feelings for the human as he knew his mother hated the human females too, just like Stephanie and she was the one who brought up the idea to have them stripped and punished, when he first thought about the human females usefulness, since he was only focused on the males.
He hadn't even for once gone back to the human home that discovered the cure that cured them five years ago to reward the woman, but out of his hatred and jealous as his parent brainwashed him to hate the humans, he agreed to tortured the young ladies as punishment to their fathers, Instead of rewarding them as gifts to their mothers who cured them five years ago.
His brows furrowed not even listening to his mother's rant anymore as she was still talking to him.
"Mark, what are you thinking of tell me?. Chums is already here, I can ask her to come over and spend the night with you if that's what you want?" she asked him.
"No. That's not what I want mother. I need to be left alone and that's exactly what I want now. Leave my chamber I need to think." He stood up from the seat and walked to the window to stare out at the location of the field, he couldn't see the Labour-house from there and he regretted building the labour house far away from his castle as he could have used the opportunity to see if she was still in the arm of the male he saw her with.
But who was the male?" he thought, as he didn't properly catch the glimpse of the man she was holding his face. She already used her palms to block him from seeing the man's face so it could only mean, she was in a relationship with the man, before they were both captured.
"Hmm" His rage growls as he stood by the window.
"Fine son, Am leaving. Since you don't want me to invite Chums, and you don't want to tell me what's wrong. Can you as well come downstairs to join us for dinner as it's already late?" Queen Melissa asked him as she sighs and stood by his exit door.
"No mother, I have already eaten before I stepped down for the meeting with the elders" he replied and walked back to sit on his bed, taking of his black coat.
'But we have a guest and it wouldn't be nice not to welcome her properly. She will soon be your bride, you can't just leave her hanging. Just your presence at the dinning table is enough, even though you're not hungry" Queen Melissa said.
"Oh mother! Can you just leave me alone for once. Fine!. I will come downstairs, but just let me relax a bit, or you all can go on and have the dinner!" he thunders and Queen Melissa sighs.
"Fine I will be waiting downstairs for you. If I don't see you then I will be back here to drag you down by myself!" she warned him and left, and he smirked, remembering when he was a child, how his mother used to forced him downstairs and shook the beef into his mouth, telling him to eat, as he mostly doesn't use to have appetite to eat any of their foods, until he went out to the human village one day when he became a teenager and walks into a restaurant he saw some of his beast-men and women seated, both young and old, and he orders for a food and the waitress there served him humans food. Ever since then, they adopted the humans style of cooking and after his father noticed, they had to hire a cook to come cook for him in the palace.
His father had always complained, that he shouldn't love anything that has to do with the humans, but as he was starving they had no other option than to allow the cook continue to work in the palace despite being a beast, she knew how to cook the humans fries and cooked food meal unlike the raw foods they eat
He thought about the white humans for a while, he didn't even know her name and yet she had audacity to romance a male in his palace, being a newcomer too. What will now happen when she finally stays a week or a month in the palace?. Seduce all his guard or sleeps with all his trusted men.
"Hmm" his anger boiled as he didn't even want to think of her giving her body to another male. He wants her and she was beginning to drive him crazy.
He needs to do something fast about it. He had perceived her scent and notice she hadn't slept with a man, but with the way he saw the human male peck her cheek. He doubt they wouldn't want to do it.
He finally walked out of his room and went back downstairs to have dinner with his family, as he knew his mother's threat ain't empty. The last thing he wouldn't want, was his mother to know that he's in love with a human. She will kill the human and it was no threat as she had killed the restaurant owner he used to eat her food in the past..
Coming downstairs into the hall and towards the dinning room, he saw his mother and sisters already seated on the dinning seat and they haven't started eating.
The food was all covered and he saw their guest, Chums Wilfred seated beside his younger sister Stephanie on the left side
He calmly walked towards the head seat and sat. While he pulled his seat closer to the dinning table.
"Now his majesty is here, Can we all start eating!" Queen Melissa said and they all started opening their covered plates.
He stares at the food and was surprised to see raw meats and some vegetables instead of cook ones. Although the mixture was good, but ever since he started eating the humans food, he never tasted anything raw. His brows furrowed as he opened his own plates and discovered it was a raw meat too
"What's the meaning of this mother?!" he asked surprising them all and Chums stares to him, and the smile on her face disappeared.
"What do you mean by that son?, Food of course!" Queen Melissa replied him as she stares to his twin sisters who looked away from him, understanding he doesn't like eating their traditional food.
"Son you will be crowned king tomorrow and you know the customary tradition of our lands. Your father and I allowed you eat the humans food with hope that when you become an adult, you will change and adopt our ways of living, but I am personally regretting while i allowed you in the first place as you never changed. Up till this very moments, rather you're becoming worst and inconsiderate that as a king, the first thing you are to do is adhere to your own rules, that you give out to your people."
He swallowed in anger as he stares at his mother. He shifted his gaze to stare at Stephanie and Sarah who kept quiet and he knew it was because of her friend Chums, that made her keep mute as she also has a sharp mouth like her mother..
He sighed and just want to wrap it all as he wasn't in the mood to argue with his mother. They all started eating in silence but he still finds it difficult to chew on the food as he got nauseous eating on the slice peices of fresh meat and washed vegetables.