The Lycan King's Fate Calling

Rufus' POV:

The queen's hall was brightly lit. The servants were on their knees, fearing that they would be implicated.

I casually walked in.

Just then, a teacup shattered at my feet.

"What's making you angry, mother?" I smiled at her.

"How dare you question me?" My mother dramatically slumped on the sofa with a grumpy look on her face.

I walked over and sat beside her, ignoring her tone.

Like my father, my mother, too, liked smashing things when she got angry.

leave now." I waved my hand, gesturing for the servants to

her hand to get some air. "Get rid of that

stretched back and cracked my

a slave, after all." My mother snorted and threw her fan aside. "You are

is my mate. I've accepted her," I

mother's face darkened even

seething with rage. I poured her a cup of warm tea and slid it toward

to her feet and scowled at me. The corner of her mouth sank, revealing the wrinkles. "I will never allow a she-wolf of humble status to be your mate.

I do. After all, bloodline and status were

lead all the werewolves with you in the future? Everyone will laugh at you!" My mother's chest was heaving with rage. She took deep breaths and turned to look at me. "Richard has become more arrogant and aggressive off late. He has even begun to interfere in political affairs. If you don't marry a mate from a powerful background, he will trample

that I was cursed, nor did she know that my father had decided to give up on me and let Richard inherit the throne. But I didn't

is a good choice. I want you to marry her. Her father is an Alpha and belongs to the lycan bloodline as well. Only such a she-wolf deserves you," my mother tried persuading me to marry Alina yet again. "Mother, stop it! Don't try persuading me. I only want Sylvia in my life," I said, staring into my mother's eyes. When I said that, my thoughts instantly wandered to Sylvia. If she

father that I won't make our mate bond public until we prove

haven'tyou?" Her face turned livid, and her lips trembled. I