Chapter 42 - Unacceptable Reply

I

They laid on their bed completely exhausted yet with smiles on their lips. The Dragon Chieftain’s right arm was tightly wrapped around his wife’s waist while the latter was gently caressing his arm.
“Hubby, I remembered, the wedding anniversary of my parents will be two weeks from now. It will be their twenty-second year anniversary.” Princess Shelyca murmured as she suddenly remembered the date of her parents’ wedding anniversary.

Dareon kissed first his wife’s head before replying, “Then we need to prepare for our gifts for them. We will be there a day before their wedding anniversary,” he said gently.

Princess Shelyca nodded. She turned her side to face her husband. “I am actually thinking what gift should I give them.”

Dareon smiled naughtily, “How about a grandson?”

Princess Shelyca was stunned and then redness rushed all over her face. “That’s so fast hubby. I … I am not yet pregnant,” she replied sheepishly.

Dareon laughed at the expression of his wife. “I was just joking wife. We will enjoy each other first before we decide to have that little heir came running around.”

“That’s right; anyway, I am still young, right? I am just turning twenty-one, three months from now.” Princess Shelyca said as she looked at the man, who at the onset already made her wolf wriggled with madness.

Suddenly Dareon’s expression turned to complete tenderness as he heard what his wife said. “I am sorry wife; did I take your youthfulness that early?”

Princess Shelyca shook her head. “Of course not. You see, most of the werewolves are actually mated at the age of eighteen. I did not find mine at that age; so I thought it was because I have not seen yet the Duke of Sussex after my age of adulthood. I had the idea that Duke Simon was actually my mate.”

Dareon’s face automatically became like a crumpled sheet of paper upon hearing Princess Shelyca’s words. “So, do you still think that Duke Simon is your mate? Have you found your mate already? Mate means, a werewolf too?” he asked, with such incredulous expression painted on his handsome face.

“I have not found my werewolf mate yet.” Princess Shelyca’s short reply. At the back of her mind, she was saying that “I already found my mate, but he was not a werewolf but a dragon.”

“So, what will happen if you will find your werewolf mate? You will cheat on me and run away with him?” Out of the blue, he asked his eyes in their most squinted form.

Princess Shelyca laughed seeing the seriousness in his expression. “Of course not. Why should I do that? You are my husband and as a dignified Princess of the Kingdom of Gold Valley, I would not tarnish my reputation.”

But Dareon’s expression never changed, it even darkened more. “So it means, you are not going to cheat on me because of that dignified princess thing?” His voice seemed to be with disappointment.

II

Princess Shelyca deeply looks into her husband’s eyes, which from its bluish ones, slowly turned to its deep-seated brown. “Did I miss something? Have I not given you enough reasons so that you will believe me?”

Dareon shook his head, removed his arm around her, and stood up. “I don’t know; maybe you think more what would be the reason behind so that a woman; a wife will not betray her man, her husband.” He replied with irritation, put on his clothes, and then walked out from their bedroom.

Princess Shelyca was left on the bed, furrowing and confused.

While Dareon on one hand marched out of their hovel with such pain in his heart. His mind wanted to understand Shelyca that right now, she could not love him yet because of their whirlwind marriage and maybe because he is not a werewolf and could not be her mate; but his heart seemed to ignore such fact.

Dareon decided to refresh his mind. He went directly to the shore, removed his shirt, and then unceremoniously ran into the water and dived thereafter. When he floated again, he was a little bit far from the shore. He felt a little sense of relaxation as he just floated his body on the seawater while letting the heat of the sun scattered throughout his body.

From the shore, Threma saw their Chieftain having that alone moment while bathing under the heat of the sun. She felt that warmth all over her core that she never felt yet right now with Glendo. Only their Chieftain could let her feel like that since the time, she and Duri saw him, having sex with one of his bed warmers before.