His Mate: Prince Asher

Chapter twenty

‘One day he will answer to his destiny, and that is to be my son!’  the fearful voice said and Asher jerked awake with a gasp. He panted softly, sitting on the bed and glancing around. The room was filled with the sunlight and from his understanding, it should be in the early afternoon. He frowned, he has never had his nightmare in daytime before, what could have happened. He climbed out of the bed, surprised to find himself totally naked and he was hit with a strong headache. He rubbed his temple, wincing in pain as he made his way to the bathroom.
His memory was a blur as he still couldn’t remember how he had ended up in his bed naked. Wait, did he have a woman last night? He wondered but his room doesn’t smell of any she-wolf or lady vampire. He is not so good with demon females and yes he has bed a few, but he has never had anyone in his father’s palace. And even though, there was no demon scent in his room, so, it means he still holds on to his rule.
He was in the shower when he heard Anita in his head, ‘Asher, oh thank God, you are okay. I’m coming there right now.’ She said and the link was cut. Asher frowned, he is okay? Did something happen? He frowned. He hastily took his shower and put on his clothes. He was still getting ready when the door was pushed open and a demon maid entered. Her eyes flashed in shock seeing him awake before it was replaced by excitement and she quickly bowed, “my Prince, you are finally awake.”
Her words only made Asher’s frown deeper. “Where is my mother?”
“The Queen is having tea with the Lunas in the garden. She would be so happy to hear that you are okay. You know, my prince has been out for complete five days.” The maid answered.
“Five What?” Asher’s shock was not an understatement as he stared at the girl, frozen without knowing the proper way to behave.
“Yes, my Prince. I come in everyday to check on you and clean the room. The Queen insisted that the window be left open all time and that I should make sure I put fresh flowers for you every day. She hoped the scent would make you have pleasant dreams,” she smiled.
Asher woke from his shock with a nod, “alright, I don’t think that would be necessary anymore but whatever. I am going to meet my mother. And yes, what about my father?”
“The king is hardly at home these days, at the moment, no one knows where he is,” she replied.
With a nod, Asher teleported to the garden. He saw the women sitting in a round table and having tea by the lake. He walked up to them, his mother was the first person that saw him and she immediately stood up, her eyes watering over. “Mother,” he called with a smile before she fell into his arms like a little girl and he hugged her, breathing in her rose smell that always calmed him since he was a child. Being a night howler, he can perceive the natural feminine scent of wolves unlike the rusty scent that Nightwalkers perceived. Edward being Aliyah’s mate after they had both marked each other, he could perceive her scent along with the rusty scent as well.
“Oh Asher, my Asher, you are okay,” Aliyah cried, getting up from his hug to cup his cheeks, “you are okay,” she sniffled, “I was so worried. They even came today to cheer me up, I’m so happy you are okay,” she cried and hugged him again.
Asher took the time to glance at the Lunas with her, they were, Monica, Luna of the Blue Moon Pack, Vanessa, Luna of the Black Wind pack and Stella, Luna of the Redwood Pack. He smiled at them with a little bow of his head and they returned his smile with a bow as well. He pulled his mother from his arms and kissed her head, “I’m fine mother, your love and care helped me,” he chuckled but his face turned serious as he asked in the mind-link. ‘Where is father?’
Aliyah replied in the link, ‘he has been going to the human woods since you got hurt to find out what happened. No one knows why you became in pain even though you won the fight with the unknown wolves but your father won’t have it, he is determined to find out what happened that night and somehow, I think it’s because of me. I haven’t been eating well for the past days and I am sure it got to him. I’m sorry.’
Asher shook his head, ‘no mother, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have let myself got hurt. It won’t happen again, I promise.’
‘Asher, I need to talk to you. Have you been having nightmares?’
Hearing her question, Asher was momentarily shocked but he knew he can’t hide it from her since she came asking. It was no doubt that someone had told her and since Aunt Irene wasn’t around, then it must be Hephzibah. He sighed and nodded and Aliyah’s eyes wet over once more but she held the tears.
‘You should have told me,’ She said in a stern voice in the mind link.
‘I’m sorry mother but I didn’t want you to worry.’
‘And now, am I not worrying?’
‘Please mom,’ he grabbed onto her shoulders. ‘I will be fine. Now I have to go, Anita is on her way and I am sure your friends are waiting for your attention. We will talk later okay and I promise I won’t leave anything out.’ He kissed her forehead and pushed her softly, waving at the Lunas and walking out quickly before she would stop him.
He bumped into the panting Anita in the living room and she threw herself in his arms, just like his mother had did earlier. He hugged her for a brief moment and then grabbed her shoulders, a frown sitting pretty on his eyebrows. “First of all, tell me how you were able to mind link me here from Blue moon pack.”
“The distance is too much, dummy,” Anita slapped his shoulder with a roll of her eyes.
“Exactly.”
“I was in the woods,” she revealed. “I was practicing when I felt a pull on your link and I knew immediately you were awake.”
“Oh, I see,” he nodded. “Been out for five days, huh.”
“Yep,” Anita replied and one could still see the relieve in her eyes that he was okay.
“Have you been to school?”
“What? Come on Asher, the only reason I went there is because of you. What makes you think I will be going there without you and with what happened to you and how everyone has been worried. Even Alpha Damien has not rest easy. You are his successor after all. He has been traveling the woods with your dad and mine, including Alpha Steven.”
Asher frowned, “why are they all with him?”
“It’s obvious, your father is worried about his son, Alpha Damien is worried about the next High Alpha and my dad and Alpha Steven, well, let’s just say that they are the only alphas that would not sit still and watch something happen to the woods,” she rolled her eyes, “oh perhaps its because you are my father’s godson and Alpha Steven is your second godfather,” she giggled.
Asher chuckled and ran his fingers through his hair, “remind me to thank them later. However, I need to get to school.”
“Excuse me?” Anita asked, shocked that he would say that.
“Come on Ann, you know the reason we registered in the first place.”
“Asher, please, there is something going on, no one knows what the deal with the unknown wolves are and no one knows how they were able to hurt you and put you in coma for five days and you wake up and the first thing you want to do is to see a human girl?”
“When you put it like that, it sounds like I am stupid.”
“Because you are.”
“Come on Ann, you don’t have to go if you don’t want to.” He said, walking away.
“Yeah, like you can handle the human teenagers without me.” She rolled her eyes and went after him, grabbing his hand and they teleported to their manor in the human realm. Asher grabbed his car key and they went outside to get in the car.
Getting to the school, the lunch period just started and so they went straight to the cafeteria. Everyone looked shocked on seeing them and not ready to answer any question, Asher said, “hi everyone,” and with that, he had grabbed their attention and he sighted Naomi at the corner talking with Justin. Even though he wanted to be angry, he had to remind himself not to be so petty and seeing all eyes on him, he smiled, his eyes flashing red as he tapped into his nightwalker’s powers, “the party at my place five days ago was a blast and you all had fun and just couldn’t stop talking about it.”
Shane was the first to react as he jumped from his seat and rushed Asher and Anita like he was just seeing them for the first time today, “dude, what a cool party. I have never been to such a party before.”
“Yeah,” everyone seconded and their voices started overlapping as they kept talking about the fun they had. Asher smiled and dragged the shocked Anita to Justin and Naomi. “Hello,” he smiled.
“Nice party, I had fun,” Justin said and Asher didn’t even glance at him, his gaze on Naomi.
He stood, waiting for her to make a comment about his party like everyone would for the rest of the day but she didn’t look at him and so he snapped his fingers twice in front of her, bringing her gaze to him. “Nothing to say to me?”
Naomi licked her lips and asked, “why haven’t you guys been in school for the past five days,” shocking Asher to the bones.