The Lycan King’s Second Chance Mate by Sumi

ASHANTI'S POV.

"Hello, you've reached Conrad's cell phone, please leave a message." A loud beep follows the voice and I instantly end the call, sighing heavily.

"Come on Conrad!" I cry in frustration as I pick up my purse and rush out of my bedroom.

I've been trying to reach my boyfriend for hours and it's frustrating the hell out of me.

He hasn't called or texted to check on me either since this morning, which is unusual of him. This has never happened before.

I need to go over to Conrad's apartment and check on him to make sure everything is alright. We are supposed to go on a date today and he said he would come here to pick me up.

As I descend the staircase, I try to call him one more time and it goes straight to voicemail again. I almost shoot my phone against the wall.

"Ashanti!" A familiar voice calls my name as I'm about to exit the living room.

I signed inwardly and turn to look at her.

"Yes, mum." Everytime I address this woman as mum, I almost swallow my tongue.

I hate to do it, but my father keeps forcing me to do so.

"Go get Rhea for me. There's something I need to tell her." She instructs and I look at her in total disbelief.

"Can you send one of the servants to do that, please?" I ask as politely as I can. "I'm about to go out and it's kind of urgent."

"Are you trying to disobey me?"

"No, I'm not... I'm just trying to say..."

"Wait till your father hears about this." She gives me a wicked look before walking away. If I let her walk out of that door and go to meet my father, she'll tell him something I never have done which unsurprisingly my father will believe in her and it would never end well.

"Alright fine!" I surrender. "I'll go get her." I make sure not to look at her because the smile of victory on her face will make me snap.

the staircase. My thoughts travel back to Conrad and I dial his number one more time, but I get the

never happened before. I'm

stop at my half-sister's room, I heard

bedroom. It's hers. I stop in my tracks to listen more and her voice rises. Chills run down my spine

course it's hers and she's

no news, but why does she have

or he'll be heartbroken to hear his favourite daughter

sister and date me instead? I am father's favorite daughter. If you marry me, you stand a higher chance of becoming

My heart is pounding in my

I want

That voice!

That smooth baritone voice.

to no one else,

personality intrigues me. You are the one I want to be

I'm good."

me like the worse kind of physical pain. My chest is rising and falling, my breaths are coming in too hard. I am

to my heart that's telling me to turn and leave,

when their eyes fall on me. Conrad is looking at me like I suddenly grew

a shaky voice. Tears are burning behind my eyelids and I have to blink many times to

He's not worth it!

he tries to step down from the bed, but

my bedroom?" Rhea screams at the top of her voice and I drag my eyes from Conrad and plaster them on her face. She doesn't look scared or guilty at all. She

to bring you downstairs. And what the heck are you doing

him. What are you going to do about it?" She folds her arms over her chest and smirks at me. Her bluntness gets me

me understand that this isn't the first time they are sleeping with

tell her to her face right now that I'm the one you want to be with

been the favorite child in this family since her arrival. Our father loves her to bits and he let's her have anything she wants, but it seems she only ever wants what I have. Since we were children, she would steal my friends by turning them against me just to prove to me that she is

of nowhere with Rhea in her arms. That's when my mother found out that my father had been having an affair with another woman. She couldn't take it, so she left her family and her pack. They didn't allow her to take

but he never went to find her

think my father loved me so deeply that he kept me by his side, but the way I got treated by everyone in this family made me feel like