The Beast And The Blessed

Fourteen: Killian

Killian’s P.O.V.

“I just heard the most interesting thing,” Joselin said as she entered my office with the collection of crystals and candles that she insisted she needed. I had given her a tower of her own to practice her magic and keep all of her belongings, yet she still insisted on bringing them everywhere else and leaving them all around the castle like a toddler.

“I am really not in the mood, Josie,” I muttered as I focused on the task before me. It seemed like an impossible endeavor. Every few seconds, I would see a flash of Natalie’s hurt expression and all of my focus would go right out the window.

I had almost lost control last night. It wasn’t just my beast who wanted to claim his mate.

I wanted her. Her display of power and strength had me ready to bend her over the bed and *her until she couldn’t walk. Perhaps I would even let her climb on top and show me what it felt like when she took control in the bedroom.

But it wasn’t as mates. I wanted to *her as just a man and a woman.

Knowing she was my mate was the only thing stopping me. If I gave in and had *with her, I had no doubt my beast would come forward and place our mark upon her, claiming the beautiful woman as ours forever. That was the exact thing I wanted to avoid.

Once the mark was placed, the pull I felt to her would multiply and she would have the ability to completely destroy me.

Holding her at night and having that contact with her was the only thing I found that could satisfy my beast to keep him at bay.

the hypnotizing woman and away from the important matters at hand. “A servant seemed to overhear you. yelling at Natalie to leave you alone and that she was annoying you. Really romantic stuff. It’s the talk of the castle, right now. I think the

her vision, Natalie would save my life, but it wasn’t set in stone. Things could still happen before then that

also couldn’t let her in. Every time she was near

hadn’t even marked her, and she

she started to set up around the map, wanting to try for the fifth time to trace the magic that was hiding the vampires. But this time, she was using what she claimed were

into flames. “This may take a while anyway. If you wanted to go

opened my eyes, staring at her with incredulity. “I am the king. I

lifted her hands in surrender, but quietly laughed to herself. “When you finally give in and have

thus far had already gone too far for my comfort, and I felt my short temper getting the better of me. Ever since Natalie was brought here, my fuse seemed to shorten with each passing day. “What do you know

this on me? You’re just trying to

friends, the only man I trusted to protect my mate except myself, and how long he had been in love with Joselin but could never have her because

If I chose to be with Tobias or anyone else, they could find their fated a year or a decade from now and walk away from me without ever looking back. I

I asked, frustrated that all of the women in my life were being so insufferable

from you, Your Majesty.” Her disgust was clear in her tone as she spat my title, and I clenched my jaw to keep from yelling at her

one last glare, she flickered once before teleporting from my office. I knew she would be all the way at the other side of the castle in her private tower, but my fury was controlling me. I knew if I didn’t * off

on all four paws at a

ready to go back, but my beast was still on edge. I knew he would not calm until we marked Natalie, or at the very least, had her in our arms. Having the beautiful creature mad at us or feeling hurt because of how I treated her

and as I followed my mate’s scent back to our