(Asrai’s POV)
This can’t be happening.
The first time stepping out of our kingdom, and I find my mate. I can’t have a mate, I never wanted one. Mother used to tell me about all these fairy tales, ironic right, on meeting your mate and instantly falling in love. Finding the person who completes your other half of your soul. Mending together as one, having that one person who will never betray you. I dreamed every day that I would find that one person and live happily like my parents and theirs before them. Well, that was until my parents died when I was five years old. My grandparents took over the kingdom, that was until they were killed when I was eight years old. I had no one left, no family and only my kingdom. I took over the kingdom, losing my childhood way before I should have.
