Not Mine but His Mate (Completed)

Chapter 10: Questions 🐾

~Hazel's POV~

Birds chirping
Water flowing

A sweet aroma filled my nose and I opened my eyes. The blue sky greeted me as well as the sun. I smiled and lifted from laying on my back. Once I sat up, I looked down at myself wearing a white off the shoulders dress that complimented my dark chocolate skin tone.

I looked at my hands that held a bouquet of white roses. I closed my eyes and brought the bouquet of roses to my nose.

They smelled divine.
I smiled.
I felt happy.

I opened my eyes again and took in my surroundings. I sat surrounded by white roses.
These were my absolute favorite flowers.

"White roses are your favorite, eh?" I heard a voice say, startling me. My smile dropped and I began looking around until I noticed.....a black lion staring at me in the short distance. I stood frozen, not daring to make a move.

Then it began walking toward me, and I stood to my feet right away.

"Relax, I'm not going to hurt you, Hazel," it said to me in my head.

The f**k?! How the hell is it doing this?

"You have questions, Hazel. It is okay to ask them," it said in my head again.

I watched it walk closer to me, each white rose turning into a black rose as the lion walked pass it. One would think that I would be used to seeing this huge Alpha Lion by now, but hell no. I was still scared s**tless.

But......
... he's giving me a chance to ask my questions...what better time than now?

He paused a few inches in front of me and sat. How content he was staring at me at eye level, was freaky as f**k to me. When he sat I felt the gush of wind hit my face, turning everything into black roses. I looked down at my dress that went from a flowing white, to a leather black fitted dress. Everything turned black except the white bouquet of roses that I still held in my hand. I looked back up at him staring back at me, once again with the same curious look in his eyes....but this time...I heard him purr lowly.

I mean...cats only purr when they-

"Ask," he repeated-- as if he were listening to the thoughts in my head.

"Why are you in my head?" I blurted out.

He tilted his head, "It's the only way I can communicate with you."

I lifted my eyebrows in shock, "Communicate with me? I don't understand."

"What don't you understand? How the hell else am I supposed to communicate with you? You obviously don't speak f**king Lion, do you?"

A Sassy f**ker, he was.

"What I mean is, why do you want to communicate with me? You're the Alpha Lion....and I'm-"

"Hazel Haynes," he interrupted.

".....Yes....that's who I am."

It was silent for a moment, I was still battling with my nerves. I sighed and looked down at my white roses. I shook my head and just asked that one burning question I've had for a while now, "What do you want?"

He then stood on all four of his paws, "What do I want? Ha. We don't have enough time for me to tell ya." He turned around and began walking away before stopping to look back at me one more time, "But in short....I want.....