Beast King'S Crippled Mate

27 Chapter 27: Beta in a Rut (1)

Rock walked through the corridor to the Princess's room in a not-so-great mood. 1

He felt complicated after talking with Lady Jade, who had poisoned his mind and made him question his feelings for the Princess..

Of course, Rock wasn't stupid enough to try to touch her. Princess Swan was his Alpha's mate. He respected and revered Gale so much that it was simply impossible for him to have crazy ideas regarding Gale's mate 2

At the same time, it also bothered him that Lady Jade kept on telling him that he was fascinated by Swan's beauty.

'Am I really fascinated? She is beautiful, but surely I'm not that easy to like someone just because she's a beauty, right?' Rock asked himself but found no answer to his question. The more he pondered about it, the more confused he became.

He kept contemplating this until he stopped in front of Princess Swan's bedroom, where the cat maids were standing outside, waiting for order.

Myra and Maya bowed at Rock and stated, "You are a bit late. The Princess has been

waiting."

“Haha, yeah, sorry about that," Rock resumed his energetic self. He knew these two cat maids and anyone who wasn't a soldier didn't respect him as much. In their mind, only His Majesty deserved their respect.

He didn't care much. It was just a part of their culture to only respect the strongest,

and the rest were more or less equal.

Myra and Maya opened the door for him, and Rock saw Princess Swan, still wearing the same dress that showed her cleavage, sitting in the wheelchair.

turned her head and smiled at

his breath. He felt nervous for some reason, and

she spoke, it felt like a feather was tickling his heart. She was timid and often stammered or spoke in a barely audible voice, even for beastmen who had

fact that she sounded pleasant before, but

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talk.

with the Princess? No wonder he specifically asked me to protect her, Rock thought. He masked all of his strange nervousness with his big smile and replied, "Sorry for being

the castle.

turned reddish as she was embarrassed at her own.

and carried her down the stairs just

at first, other than the idea that she had a strangely familiar and alluring scent that he couldn't identify. She kept on covering her cleavage while being carried. He couldn't help but feel that

wheelchair from the castle ground up until the stone pathway leading to the area with lush trees before saying, "Princess, the maids can only accompany you up until here

rest, too," Swan responded calmly. She looked at the cat maids and smiled bashfully at them, “Y-You two

at each other before turning

the Princess, but since Rock had been assigned as her protector, they

they excused

wheelchair through the stone pathway, and Swan found herself clenching her dress

entire place from any source of light until she saw a calm lake in the middle of the shrouded

her a hint that the lake was very deep. Not that she would ever try

area to be serene, a perfect place

stopped the wheelchair at the lakeside, allowing

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