The Vampire Kings Slave Mate

Chapter 40: Mary

“And when will you tell the kingdom that their new Queen is a human?” Ash stated loudly a large sinister smile on his face.

My heart pounded in my chest. This is it. This is the moment the kingdom revolts against Nikolai. This is the moment that everyone I love dies. This love I found with Nikolai, it’s too good to be true. Everything and anything I care about eventually dies. My parents, my baby sister, my best friend Karina from the village. And now Nikolai, Nevaeh, Draq, Dru, and Kade where all going to die. And there would be nothing I could do to save them.

“And why should the kingdom care that Mary is human?” Prince Ambrose asks, standing up for his seat up front and staring out at the crowd, “We should all be living in harmony together.”

Loud cheers of agreement erupt throughout the first and second rows, even some of the smaller supernaturals in the middle row are cheering in agreement. Looking further back I notice the wolves and the witches are glaring daggers at the faerie prince. The trolls who sit a row ahead of them seem like they could care less one way or another. My heart was overwhelmed that the majority of species in the audience didn’t care that I was a human. They only wanted to support their king and his new mate. It was in that moment that I realized that how great of a ruler Nikolai must be if he was able to bring peace amongst so many in his kingdom.

Nikolai’s words interrupt my thoughts, “Mary, may be human, but humans are one of the strongest species I have had the pleasure of meeting. Humans; they love fiercely and unconditionally, they let themselves feel every emotion and they wear their hearts on their sleeve. They’re loyal, they’re passionate, and they’re strong. The humans are a force to be reckoned with because they’re united as one. Mary, my human mate, brings the strength of the humans to the kingdom.”

My heart fluttered in my chest, seriously could I have gotten any luckier than having Nikolai as my mate? His words touched my soul, I didn’t know he thought so highly of humans. What had changed his mind, was it being around me? I knew that Nikolai treated the humans in the castle, better than

the humans were treated outside of it, but he still kept blood slaves and he still allowed those in the castle to use them for their quench their appetites, both that of hunger and sexual pleasure. Maybe, just maybe, this was the start of a change.

make my Queen my mate, then I’d like to go back to the castle and worship her in every way.”

prove that he did just say what I thought he did. There were jealous whispers from the single females about them wishing Nikolai would worship their bodies, there were whispers from the elders about

started again. I felt my nerves start to heighten once

human, that the wolves thought I was? For a moment, I considered fleeing, leaving Nikolai by himself to rule over the kingdom, but the moment I thought it, my heart felt like it was going to break. I couldn’t imagine living life without Nikolai. He had become so much to me in such a short amount of time. And my kind, they needed me. They needed me to become Queen and to change the laws. They needed me to pave

was sitting and joined Nikolai and

unite two mates as one. King Nikolai, Your hand

Elder’s. The elder grabbed a knife from the podium and made a quick slash on Nikolai’s wrist before raising his hand over the golden chalice and spilling Nikolai’s blood into it. I scrunched my nose at

well.” The elder stated reaching out to me after he let go of Nikolai’s hand that had already begun

replied hesitantly looking at the

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palm of my hand, causing me to let out a slight hiss. Nikolai grimaced at my pain, and I could tell he wanted nothing more than to rush forward

elder shouted while raising the chalice above his head,” Solus nati sumus. sed donum nobis datum est invenire alteram partem animae nostrae postea in vita. Hodie celebramus coniunctionem duarum animarum in unum.” Alone we are born, but later in life we are given the gift of finding the other half of our soul. Today we celebrate the joining of two souls

now tell that the blood had come from two individuals. I tried to recall the times I had seen Nikolai’s blood, trying to determine if it had been different than mine, but every time I pictured it, it was the same dark red color. One swirl of blood was a deep red color with flickers of tungsten appearing throughout it. I could tell that this was Nikolai’s blood.

if the swirling of blood was normal and something I should expect but he seemed distracted by the swirls of blood as well. I looked out towards the audience and noticed they all