His Promised Mate

His Promised Mate

Akudo

5.0
Comment(s)
3.4K
View
48
Chapters

Being cursed by a god was one thing. Being cursed to be a human who changed into a wolf every blood moon was another. Now, what will happen when the only redemption is if the god finds mercy on you and gives you a bride after years of pain and agony. Zara and Kaelor, human and werewolf. What will happen when Kaelor realizes that his fated mate is the daughter of the Chief whose village has made him a beast and a murderer. When no one but the gods are on their side, what will happen to their love? Will it prevail, or will it turn to ruins before it begins?

His Promised Mate Chapter 1 1

" That is why you don't what?"

" Come out after 11pm" The children replied with their fear induced voices. Looking at their little faces, some filled with dread and other filled with excitement, I shook my head and chuckled remembering when I was in that position listening to the same folktale over ten years ago.

" Zaraiah!!!" I heard someone shout from the backyard as I was kneeling on a stool looking at the story telling going on outside.

" Yes?" I replied holding the wall so I could come down without hurting myself.

My name is Zaraiah. Just Zaraiah, no surname. In my village, we had a tradition that a person came to the world on their own without any attachment to anyone. That was why in the village, we all had our families, but we only answered our first names. For me, In a formal setting, I was called Zaraiah,child of Ronan and Athelia. Being the only girl and the only daughter of the Village Chief, I was being scrutinized by every single person.

Opening the back door leading to the backyard, I saw my mother boiling some leaves and adding some tree barks into the mixture.

" Yes mother, you called for me" I said walking towards the gazebo where we usually cooked under to avoid the rain.

" It's almost time for dinner and I can't find your Father. I believe that he's in the meeting house with other men. Can you help me inform him that it's time for dinner?" She instructed chanting something to herself pouring the liquid into a small bowl then handing it to me.

Staring at the bowl in her hand, I took a step back because I knew why she was giving it to me.

" I'm not drinking this mother, it's disgusting and I don't see the point of drinking it" I pouted shaking my head sideways.

" You know you have to drink this Zara. It's the night of the blood moon and you know what happens to you at midnight" She said standing up and closing the pot.

" I know but I still have those nightmares" I countered as she touched my cheek with a look of pity.

Everyone in the village knew what happened to me every first day of the month during the blood moon. According to them, I was cursed because my parents prayed to the wrong god while trying to conceive me. Actually, it wasn't only during the blood moon that I had those nightmares. I had them everyday, but during the blood moon, the nightmares became unbearable.

" Just this once, I promise that next month, you won't have to drink the concoction anymore " She said with a small smile putting her forehead on mine as I closed my eyes and nodded. I knew that she just said so for me to take it, but deep down, I knew that she hoped for the day I stopped taking it also.

Looking up at me, she handed the bowl to me and held my left hand tightly in support. Groaning while staring at the greenish liquid, I rose it to my lips and chugged it down with one gulp. After my face made a thousand reactions of disgust, I gave my mother back the bowl and cleaned my mouth with my palm.

" How do you feel?" My mother asked releasing her hand from mine and dropping the bowl on the stool.

" I feel normal" I shrugged as I chuckled in disbelief. I couldn't believe that I was actually indulging in all this.

" You can go and get your father now. It's almost 10pm" She said as I nodded and walked away without uttering a word.

Before I left the house, I went into my room and got my lantern. It was compulsory for everyone in the village to have a personal lantern because they all believed that something roamed around at night and us using the lantern or any form of light, scared it away. After taking my already lit lantern , I left the house and started my stroll to the meeting house which was in the middle of all the houses.

On getting to the house, I peeped into it and saw all the men talking and arguing amongst themselves with my father sitting in front of the audience shaking his head. Knocking on the door, the whole room finally went silent.

" Who is there?" I heard someone ask from inside.

" Zaraiah the daughter of Ronan" I announced waiting for an invite inside. Women weren't allowed into the house but apparently, since I was the daughter of the Chief, I was an extension of my father.

After few seconds, the door opened as I locked eyes with my father who smiled down at me.

" Time for dinner" I whispered as he closed the door after himself.

" We're not done with the meeting yet but I'll come home soon." He whispered back patting my hair gently.

" Okay, Just be safe okay? I'll go home now and let mother know that you'll be on your way soon" I said as he nodded and kissed me on my temple.

" Have you taken your drink?" He asked as I was about to walk away.

" Yes Father, it was as bitter as ever" I replied walking backwards as he shook his head then went back inside. As soon as he shut the door, I sighed as the smile faded from my face.

I was exhausted and I was in pain. Something that my parents never knew was that every night of the blood moon, I had serious headaches all through the day especially when midnight was coming closer. It was as though something was trying to talk to me because I kept on hearing whispers in my head. It was happening again but this time, It wasn't the whispers that meant nothing, I could hear someone calling my name.

Shaking my head, I used one hand to massage my temple while shining the lantern on the floor to avoid stepping on something.

' Zaraiah' I heard the voice whisper again but this time not in my head.

Closing my eyes, I shook it off and kept on walking.

'Why was this stroll taking longer than expected. I was meant to be home by now!' I thought to myself praying that my latern would stay on till I got to the house.

Another thing I didn't tell my parents was that the wick of my lantern burnt out really fast . I didn't see the point of telling them, but now, I regretted it so much because before I could open the lantern to blow on it for it to stay on, It went off leaving me in darkness with no familiar route back home.

' Just breathe, everything is going to be fine' I said feeling faint all of a sudden.

" This can't be happening, not now." I whispered to myself holding a tree for support.

" Somebody help!! Is anyone there?" I shouted as loud as I could hoping that someone could hear me and come to my aid.

Sitting down on the ground and leaning on the tree, I sighed.

' Someone please help me' I said as the air carried my voice to absolutely no one.

Feeling my body weaken, I closed my eyes and began to breathe in a calculated manner.

' Don't be afraid Zara. I'm here to take you home' I heard someone whisper in my ear as I accepted the darkness with just one thing on my mind.

That wasn't the voice of my father or anyone I had heard before.

Continue Reading

You'll also like

Woke Up Married To A Secret Zillionaire

Woke Up Married To A Secret Zillionaire

Amelia Rivers
5.0

I went to the New York City Clerk's office to handle a simple administrative matter, but the woman behind the glass handed me a nightmare instead. It was a certified marriage license from Clark County, Nevada, filed exactly three months ago. My vision blurred as I read the name in the spouse field: Baxter Noel. I was legally married to the ruthless billionaire whose legal team was currently suing me for intellectual property theft and trying to destroy my career. I remembered the conference in Las Vegas and a drink that tasted far too sweet, followed by a twelve-hour black hole in my memory that I had chalked up to exhaustion. When I sought help at my family's estate, my stepmother and sister didn't offer comfort; they stole my passport, shredded my clothes, and framed me for academic plagiarism to strip away my university fellowship. Even Baxter himself looked me in the eye with cold indifference, claiming he didn't know me and promising to have me arrested for fraud if I ever showed him that document again. Within twenty-four hours, I was homeless, jobless, and being hunted by the most powerful man in the city. I couldn't understand why a man who "eats people for breakfast" would be caught in the same trap as a struggling scientist like me. The confusion turned to pure terror when I looked at the witness signature on the license: Gene Mcclain. My mother, who was supposed to have died in a car crash ten years ago, had signed that paper with a fresh, trembling hand only ninety days ago. "I am holding a grenade, and I have no idea when the pin was pulled." Standing in the biting November wind with nothing but a laptop and a marriage license, I realized I was just a pawn in a much deadlier game. I stopped running and began to fight back, determined to use my unwanted status as the billionaire's wife to uncover the truth about the mother who came back from the dead.

The Billionaire's Blind Bride: No Mercy

The Billionaire's Blind Bride: No Mercy

Emma
4.3

I married Clive Harrington, the coldest billionaire in Manhattan, under a strict contract that forbade any emotional burdens. When I needed a high-risk surgery to save my sight, I checked into the clinic alone, hiding the procedure from a husband who saw me as nothing more than a legal asset. I thought I could handle the darkness in silence. But while I was blind and bandaged in my hospital bed, my biological mother called, screaming that if I didn't produce a Harrington heir by the end of the fiscal year, she would cut off the life-saving treatments for my disabled sister. I was crawling on the cold hospital floor, desperately feeling for a cane I had dropped, when I touched a pair of expensive leather shoes. It was Clive. He was supposed to be in London closing a multi-million dollar deal, but there he was, watching his "contract wife" groveling in the dark like a beggar. He didn't walk away in disgust. He carried me to a five-thousand-dollar-a-night VIP suite and sat by my bed, listening in chilling silence as another voicemail from my mother filled the room, calling me a "useless broodmare" who was only worth the trust fund disbursements my marriage secured. I expected him to remind me of Clause 34B or hand me divorce papers now that I was "damaged goods." Instead, I felt his thumb brush a stray tear from my cheek, his presence shifting from a statue of ice into a predatory shield. "I thought I was just currency to you," I whispered, my voice trembling behind the gauze. "Just an investment." Clive didn't answer with words. He picked up his phone and called his head of legal with a single, terrifying command: "Kill the Douglas family’s credit lines. Every debt, every lien—trigger them all. If they want a war, I’ll give them a massacre." As he leaned down to kiss my bandaged forehead, I realized the contract was dead. My husband wasn't protecting an asset anymore; he was hunting the people who had dared to touch what belonged to him.

HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION(An Erotic Billionaire Romance)

HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION(An Erotic Billionaire Romance)

Viviene
4.9

Trigger/Content Warning: This story contains mature themes and explicit content intended for adult audiences(18+). Reader discretion is advised. It includes elements such as BDSM dynamics, explicit sexual content, toxic family relationships, occasional violence and strong language. This is not a fluffy romance. It is intense, raw and messy, and explores the darker side of desire. ***** "Take off your dress, Meadow." "Why?" "Because your ex is watching," he said, leaning back into his seat. "And I want him to see what he lost." ••••*••••*••••* Meadow Russell was supposed to get married to the love of her life in Vegas. Instead, she walked in on her twin sister riding her fiance. One drink at the bar turned to ten. One drunken mistake turned into reality. And one stranger's offer turned into a contract that she signed with shaking hands and a diamond ring. Alaric Ashford is the devil in a tailored Tom Ford suit. Billionaire CEO, brutal, possessive. A man born into an empire of blood and steel. He also suffers from a neurological condition-he can't feel. Not objects, not pain, not even human touch. Until Meadow touches him, and he feels everything. And now he owns her. On paper and in his bed. She wants him to ruin her. Take what no one else could have. He wants control, obedience... revenge. But what starts as a transaction slowly turns into something Meadow never saw coming. Obsession, secrets that were never meant to surface, and a pain from the past that threatens to break everything. Alaric doesn't share what's his. Not his company. Not his wife. And definitely not his vengeance.

One Night With My Billionaire Boss

One Night With My Billionaire Boss

Nathaniel Stone
4.5

I woke up on silk sheets that smelled of expensive cedar and cold sandalwood, a world away from my cramped apartment in Brooklyn. Beside me lay Ezra Gardner—my boss, the billionaire CEO of Gardner Holdings, and the man who could end my career with a snap of his fingers. He didn’t offer an apology for the night before; instead, he looked at me with terrifying clarity and proposed a cold, calculated business arrangement. "Marriage. It stabilizes the board and solves the PR crisis before it begins." He dressed me in archival Chanel and sent me home in his Maybach, but my life was already falling apart. My boyfriend, Irving, claimed he had passed out early, yet his location data placed him at my best friend’s apartment until three in the morning. When I tried to run, I realized Ezra was already ten steps ahead, tracking my movements and uncovering the secret I’d spent twenty years hiding: my connection to the powerful Senator Grimes. I was trapped between a CEO who treated me like a line item on a quarterly report and a boyfriend who had been using me while sleeping with my closest friend. I felt like a pawn in a game I didn't understand, wondering why a man like Ezra would walk up forty flights of stairs on a broken leg just to make sure I was safe. "Showtime, Mrs. Gardner." Standing on the red carpet in a gown that cost more than my life, I watched my cheating ex-boyfriend’s face turn pale as Ezra claimed me in front of the world. I wasn't just an assistant anymore; I was a weapon, and it was time to burn their world down.

The Scars She Hid From The World

The Scars She Hid From The World

REGINA MCBRIDE
4.6

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

Chapters
Read Now
Download Book
His Promised Mate His Promised Mate Akudo Romance
“Being cursed by a god was one thing. Being cursed to be a human who changed into a wolf every blood moon was another. Now, what will happen when the only redemption is if the god finds mercy on you and gives you a bride after years of pain and agony. Zara and Kaelor, human and werewolf. What will happen when Kaelor realizes that his fated mate is the daughter of the Chief whose village has made him a beast and a murderer. When no one but the gods are on their side, what will happen to their love? Will it prevail, or will it turn to ruins before it begins?”
1

Chapter 1 1

14/12/2023

2

Chapter 2 2

14/12/2023

3

Chapter 3 3

14/12/2023

4

Chapter 4 4

14/12/2023

5

Chapter 5 5

14/12/2023

6

Chapter 6 6

14/12/2023

7

Chapter 7 7

14/12/2023

8

Chapter 8 8

14/12/2023

9

Chapter 9 9

14/12/2023

10

Chapter 10 10

14/12/2023

11

Chapter 11 11

10/02/2024

12

Chapter 12 12

10/02/2024

13

Chapter 13 13

10/02/2024

14

Chapter 14 14

10/02/2024

15

Chapter 15 15

10/02/2024

16

Chapter 16 16

10/02/2024

17

Chapter 17 17

10/02/2024

18

Chapter 18 18

10/02/2024

19

Chapter 19 19

10/02/2024

20

Chapter 20 20

10/02/2024

21

Chapter 21 21

10/02/2024

22

Chapter 22 22

10/02/2024

23

Chapter 23 23

10/02/2024

24

Chapter 24 24

10/02/2024

25

Chapter 25 25

10/02/2024

26

Chapter 26 26

10/02/2024

27

Chapter 27 27

10/02/2024

28

Chapter 28 28

10/02/2024

29

Chapter 29 29

10/02/2024

30

Chapter 30 30

10/02/2024

31

Chapter 31 31

10/02/2024

32

Chapter 32 32

10/02/2024

33

Chapter 33 33

10/02/2024

34

Chapter 34 34

10/02/2024

35

Chapter 35 35

10/02/2024

36

Chapter 36 36

10/02/2024

37

Chapter 37 37

10/02/2024

38

Chapter 38 38

10/02/2024

39

Chapter 39 39

10/02/2024

40

Chapter 40 40

10/02/2024