King Mark saddled on his horse and rode down to the humans villages.
Those who saw him approaching with the rest of the beast-guards escorting him and saddling behind him, immediately ran back into their various homes as they didn't want to see him.
He came out to inspected the lands. Dropping down from his horse back he dragged his horse along with him as he walk towards the village head's house.
The elderly man wants to rule and become the king of the humans but he refused. It didn't start with him, as the protest all started during his father's reign as king.
"Your majesty" The elderly man Mr Peter white falls down to his knees as he saw him stepping into his open yard.
There was a way their homes was built, but because of his daughter, he had fenced his compound with coconut leaves and bamboos so other passerby wouldn't peep into his compound.
"Hmm" King Mark nods to him as he approached the human.
"Rise" he commanded the elderly human and the man immediately rose up to his feet.
"To what do I owe this pleasant surprise, Your majesty?" The elderly human asked nervously.
"Hmm, You pretend like you don't know why am here. It not all about the lands and the revenue from the market but most importantly your refusal to show up at my coronation last night" King Mark said earnestly as he stares at Mr Peter.
"I.. hmm " The words failed to come out of Mr Peter lips and his wife stepped out with her two sons immediately, just when King Mark hand grabs on Mr Peter's neck and his hold tightened.
Mrs Ria quickly rushed up to the beast king and falls down to his knees begging, "Please don't kill my husband, We're not intending to rule the village anymore, spare us please " Mrs Ria cried as she curled up to King Mark's leg, holding one of his leg and begging of him to let go of her husband neck and not to kill him
King Mark kicked the human female away and stares to her two sons, standing by the entrance door of their house as they caught his attention.
His eyes darkened as he wondered where he had seen those faces before, as they look so familiar to him.
His hold on Mr Peter's neck loosened and he stares to the two young men that shudders and they bowed to him as they saw his eyes switching colours from yellow to black as he blinked at them, trying to remember where he had seen their faces before.
"Please don't kill my sons they're innocent" Mr Peter begged him as he saw him approaching to stare at his sons properly, he coughed up blood.
Jack and Steve stood at the entrance of the yard with some other beast-guards standing behind them, as they had escorted his majesty from the palace
King Mark approached the two brothers kneeling and he walked round them in a circle trying to remember where he had seen them.
Mrs Ria raised her head from the floor where she bows at him begging and saw him walking round her two sons slowly, she immediately rushed up to him and he stares to her face and stiffens as he now recognize where he had seen the faces.
"Please don't kill my sons" Mrs Ria begged him and he nodded slowly at her, and moved backward staring at the white woman who claps her palms together in a pleading way as she knelt before him again begging.
He shook his head violently not wanting to believe Mr Peter was actually Angela's father and his wife, She looked so much like Angela, even as she was older, She looks so beautiful and white.
He turned back immediately and walked away from them not saying any more word to Mr Peter and he instructed Jack, "Let's go, leave them for now and keep an eye on their activities."
"Okay your majesty" Jack bows to him and they climbed back on their horses and rode back to the palace.
Mrs Ria immediately rushed to her husband and told her son to prepare the herbal medicine as the beast king choked and dug his harp claws into her husband neck causing him to bleed.
She saw the way the beast king stared at her husband in anger like he wanted to kill him and she had to rush out and stop him.
She was grateful her pleading worked. She could have become a widow if she had kept mute and watched him slice thru her husband neck.
"Peter! please don't leave me," Mrs Ria White cried as her husband was losing so much blood.
She dressed his wound quickly and applied the mashed herbal leaves as treatment around his neck, and that immediately stopped the bleeding and her two sons carried him inside.
Soon all the elders that had been pushing her husband to challenge the beast king like his father had done, and grandfather also did started rushing into their compound after they saw the king of the beast has left.
"Get out!. You all get out from my house, How many of you stepped out now to stop the king of the beasts from attacking my husband, but you were pushing him to fight and not attend the coronation, get out!" Mrs Ria went back into her house and brought out a long broom.
She stepped out and started sweeping dust towards the elderly men in council that approached to see her husband, shortly after the king of beasts left.
They immediately turned and left her compound as she refused them from seeing her husband.
King Mark got back home and walked into the castle. He saw Chums and his younger sister Sarah both seated at the dinning hall discussing. He walked away going upstairs to his room as he needed some time alone.
He could have gone to the wolves villages to see their head also as he wouldn't allow them step into power but he decided to let them be as they sent representative that came to witness his coronation.
He walked in straight into his chamber and summoned"Steve!"
Steve immediately stepped into his chamber to see him.
"Send the cook to prepare my lunch and bring it upstairs " He informed Steve.
"Okay your majesty" Steve immediately stepped out and Instructed the cook that left and went to bring his meal upstairs to his chamber.
He was not interested in having his lunch downstairs as he was worried.
"What if I had killed him?" he questioned himself in anger, knowing he really meant to kill Mr Peter.
He could have killed him since, but he never knew the man had a daughter. Ever since his father started abducting the human-males, he never knew the man had a daughter as he had also visited him before to warn him, he sighed.
The maid knocked and stepped into his room.
"Your majesty!" The maid walked over to a table in his chamber and placed the tray of food there. As she was about stepping out, he called her back," Bring the tray of food over here."
The maid carried back the tray of food, and brought it closer to him on the bed and left.
Opening the food and discovering it was some cooked yam and egg, which was his favorite he sighed and started eating as he thought about Mr Peter again.
He was pleased he hadn't killed the man, he wouldn't have forgive himself and he wouldn't be able to stare at the white human in the eyes.
He ate his food silently and decided to rest after finishing the yam sauce.
As he drifted to sleep in his chamber, just then Steve knocked and stepped in, seeing him sleeping, he stepped out back and informed Chums that he was sleeping.
"Am sorry you cannot go in now to see his majesty. He's asleep" Steve informed her.
"But I need to see him right now, Is urgent" Chums said and Steve shook his head.
"No one is allowed to disturb him whenever he's asleep, not even his mother, our gracious one. So is best you return when he's fully awake," Steve dismissed her and she also sighed and went back downstairs.
She has not been given the room upstairs like he promised, she thought to see Stephanie about it, when Stephanie returned, but she did not want Stephanie to also question her about their mated night, as she saw the look of disbelief in Stephanie eyes.
She sighed and went back to the guest room to relax as the sun was already going down.
Angela woke up and sat on the bed she shares with Esther. She had a bad dream again as it was ever since she was caught and dragged into the palace that she started dreaming horrible dreams and painful nightmare.
She couldn't believe that a beast killed her father.
Her father wasn't protected and yet their people were clamouring for him to challenge the beast king to allow him rule.
She sat up on her bed as she remembered her dream.
She had a dream where a lot of rogue beast ran into her village and killed down any human they spot.
They were chanting and growling as they attacked and destroyed a lot of houses in her village.
Next she saw a beast jumps on her father and forced him to the ground as the beast wanted to bite and tear her father apart, she screamed and woke up sweating.