"Explain, Irene," Edward was the first to find his voice and he asked without his eyes leaving Naomi and at that moment, they shone a bright blue as he perused her. He heaved a sigh of relief second later and his eyes toned down to midnight blue.
"It's not me that needs to explain but Asher, don't you think?" Irene asked.
"Asher, I don't understand, what is going on?" Naomi asked, feeling scared and anxious at the same time.
Asher licked his lips, wanting to comfort her but also knowing that he needs to answer his elders. "It-it just kind of happened. I can't even explain it. I just saw it this morning and had to bring her over to hear from you, aunt Irene."
"Why me, what can I do, you have marked her," Irene replied.
"The good thing is that the mark has not been embedded on her soul," Edward spoke up, his eyes going to his son now, "and that is because you have not accepted it. The mating mark cannot lay a claim to a soul if the marker does not accept it. You and I are the first accidental mark I have ever heard of. Mine turned out to be with my mate, so I got lucky because the mark became deep-rooted the moment I started considering her my mate and when she marked me, the bond became complete. The blood moon night is in eight days, I guess we have till then to find out if she is your mate just like your mother is mine."
"She can't be my mate," Asher said, shocking everyone around.
"Why is that?" Rasmus asked.
"She is human," Asher answered.
Edward shrugged, "it doesn't change anything. I am a Nightwalker and your mother a Night Howler, our union was considered an abomination when it was newly revealed and at the end, here we are."
"Plus, how did our kind multiply?" Sean asked, "it started with our ancestors mating with humans and Prince David who was the Alpha king initiating the mated humans and turning them into one of us. As the future Alpha king, you have nothing to worry about, you just have to hold an initiation ceremony for her and make her one of us or you ask High Alpha Damien to do it for you if you don't want to yet."
"Exactly," Edward concurred.
"I'm sorry," Naomi spoke up softly, "I think you misunderstand. It's not that Asher is afraid I'm not his mate but that he doesn't want me to be his mate."
"Don't say that," Asher reprimanded her immediately.
"That's what it looks like ever since you saw the mark. You even refused to tell me what it was no matter how I ask and the next thing I know, we are here and I have to find out that the tattoo on my neck is not even a tattoo at all, but a mating mark. Your kinds mating mark." Naomi smiled sadly, "to top it up, you had been so scared since you saw it."
"Because it's not supposed to be. I told you, the blood moon night helps us find our mate and then we mark them, not a careless bite turning into a mating mark," Asher explained.
'You don't love her, Asher?' Sean asked in the mind link for only them to hear.
'No...I mean...I-I don't know, it's just so sudden.'
'But you were with her last night?'
'Yes, like I have been with other women whom I have casually bitten as well but you don't see them showing up with a mating mark.' Asher responded difficultly that it showed on his face.
"No mind linking, Sean," Edward warned.
"Yes, your majesty," Sean bowed.
"Majesty?" Naomi asked shocked. She was blown away by what that address might mean despite what was going on.
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His Mate: Prince Asher
Vampiri"I know you are there," she said, her heart beating loud in her chest as her eyes searched frantically around. "I can...sense you." She added, hoping that might just scare whoever of whatever that was following her. She sighed, waiting for an answer...
