Chapter 51 The King’s Mate?

• King Pontione’s POV
• “Mate!” my lion Zuka roared wagging his tail at the back of my mind. I couldn’t believe this. I wasn’t expecting this. How come? My fated mate died when Lance was only three years old. For 18 years, Goddess made me suffer without giving me a second chance mate and he decides to give me a human mate in my old age? I know we live for centuries and I’m not really that old, she doesn’t appear that old too but I can’t accept a human mate. How will my subjects look at me. My eyes had softened towards her but I wasn’t going to let the mate pull play with me. I debated and reasoned with Zuka, he told me he wouldn’t forgive me if I rejected his mate. She is beautiful, gosh! She is the only sunshine I am looking at right now. My eyes grazed all over her, checking her curves, her flawless skin, her green eyes. She was an epitome of beauty. I lifted my eyes and roared, “Lance! What is the meaning of this?” I looked at her from the corner of my eye and saw the hurt in her eyes. That broke my heart but she is human, I knew she doesn’t feel the mate pull. “Father! This is Princess Margaret Foster, daughter of the late Leo Lemot Foster Snr. And with her is Princess Lucy Foster, daughter of the late Leo Lemot Foster Jnr. of the Northern Kingdom. The only two surviving members of the Fosters.” This has got to be the biggest joke of the year. I couldn’t believe my son would be so stupid and naïve to bring humans to my presence, and expect me to believe they were lions.
• “You are kidding right? These humans? Do I look like a joke to you son? Have I gone senile according to you? You think I forgot my friend, for you to claim this is his sister and daughter? We all have heard that the whole family was massacred in a challenge. Do not…” my sentence was cut mid air. The authority and sweetness of the voice both had me submit to it. Me the great lion of Badosa kingdom, the kingdom of magic, was submitting to a human who spoke with all the confidence there is. “With all due respect King Pontione!” the human who Zuka is claiming as his, spoke. “You only heard of our demise, you did not witness it. Did you attend Lemot’s coronation sir?” she asked. I nodded. “Yes I wouldn’t have missed it for anything.” I responded.