The Lycan King's Fate Calling

Crystal's POV:

I was distracted by my ice cream, which I ate with gusto, when I suddenly felt a tug at my wrist.

Rufus was already standing beside me, my hand still firmly in his. "We should go and look around, dear. We finally got the chance to get out of the house. We shouldn't spend the entire day on this bench." No sooner had I nodded than I was being dragged forward by the man.

A booth caught my eye as we passed, and I stopped in my tracks, pulling Rufus to a halt as well. I gestured at the booth. "What do you suppose is going on over there? Why are there so many people?" Rufus took one glance at the booth and wordlessly led me there.

As we got closer, I realized that the people were crowding around a ring toss game. The booth keeper stood beside a mound of plushies, countless thin hoops adorning one of his arms. He bent over to retrieve the ring that had been successfully looped around one of the toys' head, and then handed the plushie to the eager customer.

It was a pretty simple and straightforward game, but everyone was inexplicable drawn to it.

My greedy eyes fell upon the two giant teddy bears sitting in the middle of the toy stash. Obviously, the booth keeper had put them on full display in order to attract more customers.

Both Arron and Beryl were fond of huge toys like these, and they would be thrilled if I gave them one each.

The other park goers seemed interested in the huge

bears as well, seeing as how they repeatedly tossed their hoops at them. Although several people just barely missed the bears' ears, no one was lucky enough to secure the toys.

I pursed my lips and grinned to myself, excitement already bubbling up inside me.

to the booth keeper, however, I heard Rufus speak beside me. "Here, give me a few hoops. Keep

him give some money to the booth keeper. Seemingly noticing my gaze, he flashed me a smile. "I'll

stack of hoops out of his

side and eyed Rufus. His shooting skills were excellent, and his sight had always been accurate. I wondered if that

had barely finished the thought when he suddenly threw a couple of hoops at

about it that I smirked. I was just about to make fun of him

hoop spinning around the largest bear's ear, twirling twice

darted around in search of the second hoop, and sure enough, it rested on the ear

I blurted out, hugging Rufus without

felt him stiffen in my embrace, and it felt like a bucket of

senses, I hastily stepped away and acted like

to come up to us with the carefully

Rufus put down his remaining hoops and gathered the plushies in his

he glanced at me and asked, "Would you like

keeper's worried

swr

"How did you meet your ex, anyway? Did

question would be a gross understatement. I paused as the realization hit me-I