Damon
"What if you try being nice to her?" Landon suddenly said, breaking the silence and I leveled him with an unimpressed look. He rolled his eyes with a lazy shrug.
"After you explained the whole thing, I think the biggest problem here is because you're too cold to her." He continued. We were seated around a feast, and after eating together, we were finally talking about the reason why I was here. I then thoroughly explained the whole thing that happened last night and this morning to them.
"That's bullshit. Am I supposed to be nice to her? After accepting her as our mate, she's supposed to be docile and treat us with respect. But she's the complete opposite. Her mouth never stops running, and she's just a lot to handle." I spat out, feeling irritated at the thought of my mate. Her face appeared across my mind and I felt a deep longing from my wolf, one which I ignored.
"Dear brother, you're missing something here. Are you forgetting that she tried getting us to reject her countless times? That's why she's not falling at our feet in thanks that we accepted her as our mate, because she actually wanted us to reject her." Angelo pointed out after taking a sip of his wine.
"That's why you should try to be nice to her, for the sake of the curse at least because you need the curse broken as soon as possible, so that she can come spend time with us and help break the curse on us as well." He continued and I let out a disgruntled sound. The thought of being nice to sue left a sour taste in my mouth, especially whenever I remember our encounter this morning and the slap she gave me.
"Right now, I plan to fuck my pent up energy out tonight." Landon announced and Angelo and I rolled our eyes simultaneously.
"Trust me, no one is surprised." Angelo responded with an amused snort.
"Damon could use a good fuck as well. I'm certain fucking our mate would do a lot of wonders to you." Landon drawled, eyes trained on me as he spoke and I rolled my eyes before leaning back against my chair.
"She's not even my type and I have no intention of doing that with her anyway. I'm only interested in breaking the curse then I'd wash my hands off her instantly." I breathed out in response and Angelo narrowed his eyes wt me.
"What do you mean by she's not your type? You don't even have a type." He accused and I rolled my eyes because he wasn't actually wrong. My type was more of someone with curves to hold unto when fucking, but I could still fuck anybody if I wanted to. However, I still wasn't sure of why I left out the fact that I scented our mate against her will, which led her to slap me.
A part of me decided that it was because I didn't want my brothers to laugh about the fact that I lost control, especially seeing as I wasn't the one to ever lose control.
Among my brothers, I had the strongest self control. I slept around the least among my brothers and I was the most disciplined, so it was quite embarrassing to dwell on the fact that I actually lost control a little this morning, just because I got a little whiff of her scent. In all honesty, I thought her scent was gonna irritate me like her attitude had, but it was the complete opposite, her scent had smelt so damn good and my wolf had instantly loved it, that was why it fully shoved past my self control and made me grab her wrist before shoving my face against her throat.
I shook my head a little to get that thought out of my mind, there was no need for me to keep thinking about that, especially since that was never gonna repeat itself again. On moving forward, I'd have to make sure I'd always be in full control of myself whenever I was around her, to avoid a repeat of this morning.
"What do you think about her so far? Apart from her not being nice to you." Angelo asked this time, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Well, she tried escaping last night and I'm certain she'd still try running away again if chanced." I explained and Angelo barked out a laugh.
"Now that's hilarious, the fact that she's always trying to run away. She keeps surprising me, I can't even lie. I'm getting more intrigued as it is." Angelo continued and I stared at him closely for about a minute before leaning forward, and then I spoke.
"Do you like her?" I asked. Angelo was the one who found our mate, and as soon as he did, he instantly mind linked us to break the news. He sounded very excited in that moment and claimed that our mate was the most interesting woman he had ever come across, because she freaking led an army over to capture him. Women don't fight here in our pack, they don't get involved in things made for men, so it was very understandable that Angelo got intrigued by our mate from the very beginning.
Angelo shrugged before pushing his chair back and rising to his feet.
"I wouldn't say 'like' yet, but I'm definitely intrigued by her. She seemed very… cool, you know? And also badass and fearless. In all honesty, I think that's hot." He explained, staring between Landon and I and I stared at him for a few moments before letting out a snort.
"You can't be serious. She's literally wolfless." I pointed out to him and only rolled his eyes.
"So? That doesn't really affect anything if we're being honest."
"I have to say that I definitely expected someone powerful to become our mate after what that seer told us, and not someone wolfless, but Angelo is still right, it doesn't really change anything." Landon added and I narrowed my eyes at him, getting to my feet as well.
"You aren't starting to fall for her as well, right?" I demanded and Landon looked at me like I've grown two heads.
"Stop saying nonsense, you know that's not even my style. I don't do emotions, remember? I only fuck and move on." He snickered as he spoke before rising to his feet.
"After you successfully break the curse, Angelo should be next to get his curse broken. I'm fine with going third." He informed us as we all walked away from the dining area to the sitting room area of this section of this park which Angelo was heading.
Our pack was the largest pack in this country, and it was divided into three sections because of how big it was, but we were still side by side. I was to remain home and head the pack with my father, while my brothers took care of the remaining two sections.
"Why?" Angelo asked Landon who held his hands up as he responded.
"That's because if the two of you get your curse broken before me, that means she'd have already been aware of the state of our curse and what it entails to get broken off. Then I won't have to be overly nice to her or get close to her before she lets me regularly bite her till the curse is broken, then she'd be able to leave, and there'd be no use of unnecessary emotions." He explained.
"If she wants to fuck, that's fine with me, but I'd tell her before hand to not entertain funny thoughts about it meaning anything because it definitely won't. I don't do feelings and won't start just because it's her." He continued before flopping into one of the couches in the sitting room.
"Can you get off your high horse for a second? She doesn't even strike me as someone who'd let herself catch feelings easily." Angelo snorted out as he sank into another couch.
"Didn't you say her fiance was getting married to her sister while she was smelling all sad yesterday? That sounds pretty dumb of her." I snorted out and Angelo's lips thinned but he only rolled his eyes and remained silent.
"The upcoming ball, what's gonna go down there? You guys coming with your betrothed?" I asked and my brothers let out a loud groan.
"Don't remind me about that, please." Angelo bit out.
My brothers weren't fond of their betrothed like I wasn't fond of mine. Despite having different personalities, we do have a lot of things in common at the end of the day.
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When I returned back to the palace, tiredness settled in my bones at the thought of attempting to be nice to my mate, because that was the last thing I was looking forward to right now.
As soon as I stepped into the palace, the two maids I assigned to sue this morning instantly rushed towards me, wearing matching panicked expressions and the first thing I thought of was what she had successfully managed to flee.
Before I could get a word out, they began to speak at the same time.
"Your highness, Miss Sue- Miss Sue… she's about… about to be killed!"