The Lycan King’s Second Chance Mate by Sumi

Chapter 0017

"Good morning, Delta Kyle." I greet respectfully.

"Good morning, Ashanti." His scorching gaze hovers all over my face. "You look beautiful this morning." His words jar in my ears like loud music. Did I hear him right? Did he just compliment me? My eyes widen with surprise.

"Thank you." I croak, still not daring to meet his gaze.

"You have your hair down, why's that?" His eyes are trained on my head and that's when I understand the reason why I've been feeling so hot and uncomfortable all this while. It's because I haven't tied my hair up.

"Oh..." a chuckle follows that exclamation. "I ... I actually forgot to tie it up even though I have a rubber band here with me." I say pointing to the two rubber bands on my left wrist. I roll them out of my hand and the Delta steps forward.

"Let me help you." He calmly offers.

What?

Before I know what's going on, he takes the rubbers from my hand and gets behind me. I give Nelly as horrified look. She simply shrugs and walks away, smiling. She's leaving me to perish here. Alone.

"It's all done." Delta Kyle announces after a few minutes of fumbling with my hair and steps in front of me once again, beaming. My left hand goes up to my hair. He has indeed tied it up in a ponytail. Wow.

"Thank you very much, Delta Kyle." I thank him with my most charming smile.

"You are welcome. Jog with me." He takes on his heels and I follow him, but when he sees that I'm struggling to keep up with his pace, he slows down for me. What a gentleman!

pack

out the fact that my father

Pack.

"That's nice."

round in the arena, I'm limp and breathless. I fall on the floor and suck in all the oxygen in the room. Delta Kyle remains standing as he laughs at me. He's about to say something when the peaceful atmosphere is interrupted by loud laughing voices. We all turn to look at the entrance and see a group of soldiers walking into the arena, engaged in a very loud conversation, but the moment they see the Delta, they fall silent and bow their heads down before greeting him. He doesn't respond.

"You are late!"

tremble on my spot.

loud voice that

men and

at seven am for you soldiers, but it's almost nine pm and you are still just arriving. Aren't you ashamed to see that the girls arrived before you guys?" The guys look at both Nelly and I. I cringe to death. "The punishment for your tardies s is

my mouth before I can even stop myself from saying them. That earns

crawl into

me. There's a

calmly. I should shake my head. I should go on my knees and apologise for questioning his decision, but it seems my brain has chosen death for me because I say- "Yes. It's too much." The Delta squints

Nelly flinching

do you

a fair punishment for late

we did ten and we weren't late." His voice is calm and gentle. He doesn't

I

staring at us, definitely entertained by our little

auction.