Beauty in the beast world
Chapter 185: Feeling bad

Chapter 185: Feeling bad

FOX TRIBE

"Please open the door, Michael" Lexi said while banging the wooden door with her fists. With her constant knocking, her hands turned red but she didn’t stop. She couldn’t stop. How could she when her Michael was silently suffering beyond those closed doors?

She blamed herself again and again for his predicament. If only she hadn’t listened to her father and canceled her spousal mark, then he wouldn’t be suffering like this. After that day in the ice room, Michael didn’t return to the stray beasts and instead stayed back in the fox tribe. And the worse started from there. Lexi never thought that being a stray beast was this painful.

Every night he screamed while painfully clutching his chest and Lexi could only watch because she was incapable of helping him.

"Michael, please....tell me what is happening. I can’t help you if you remain silent"

Michael felt his heart clench painfully hearing her earnest plea. He could see that she was hurting as much as he was. But he couldn’t dare explain what was happening to him. How could he say that his excruciating pain would diminish if he slept with a female? Every one of the stray beastman went through the same pain as him and the only way to stop it was by mating. The solution was only temporary because the pain in their chest would return the next day. This was also their reason for capturing the females and forcing themselves on them. In the heat of the moment, they would lose their rationale and end up taking out their anger or killing the females.

They did this to other females to keep thier own females safe. Even during thier rut, they did not dare seek out the females that abandoned them, They loved their females so much for them to harm them.

Michael was currently going through the same phase. He had already promised his beloved that he wouldn’t return to the stray beasts so the only thing he could do now is go through this pain. So he locked himself in a room when he felt the familiar ache in his chest. Even by mistake, he did not want to bring harm to his mate.

"Lexi.....Please leave...." I can’t control myself for a long time and might hurt you. So, please. The last sentence remained inside his throat and didn’t come out.

Meanwhile, outside the door, Lexi felt her heart shatter. His voice sounded so pained and filled with anguish. While he was suffering, she couldn’t do anything but cry silently and hope for him to be alright.

She was so immersed in her grief that she failed to notice a figure observing her from a distance.

Xavier furrowed his brows as he continued watching his sister weep in silence. After a long time in his, he felt sorry for someone. Sorry because it was very sad for Michael to be abandoned by the only person he had ever loved. Lexi was everything he had in his life and he lost her. Yes, they were reunited now but at what cost? They couldn’t even talk seeing each other’s faces and could only hide their pain from one another.

Then coming to his sister, Lexi chose the late eagle king who was her first mate, and canceled her spousal mark with Michael. She didn’t think about the consequences of her actions and went ahead doing it to only regret it now. She was an idiot for even heeding their father’s words.

The late fox king, their father was a power-hungry beastman. He was so immersed in getting revenge all his life that he failed to notice the small happy things around him.

And after thinking further, Xavier felt that it was correct for them to suffer now. Both Michael and Lexi deserved it. They were just reaping the seeds that they sow.

Even he was sometimes baffled by his heartlessness but what could he do? It was in his nature to not give a damn about things that didn’t concern him. He was always like this and was quite happy with his thoughts and decisions but why was he feeling like this now? He felt awful for no reason.

His feelings and thoughts were all over the place nowadays and to his horror, he couldn’t control them. Xavier hated to admit this, but for the past few days, all he could think about was that pretty female’s face. She plagued his dreams all the time. So the conclusion that Xavier came to was that this was all her fault. He was sure that she was an evil witch who was trying to lure him into her trap with that pretty face of hers and for a damn sake, he was helplessly falling into that trap.

Xavier groaned in frustration. He was doing it again. Thinking about her.

For a second, he thought about going and confronting her. To make her confess about whatever that she was doing to him. But the question here was, Did he really want what he was feeling to stop? No! He did not want it to stop because this emotion he was feeling felt good. It was scary and unnerving but good.

’Here I go again’ he sighed tiredly. It was not her that needed confrontation but him. He needs to figure out these new feelings before it gets out of his hands because he very much thought it was possible. And whatever the outcome it results will only be a disaster. He could feel it.

"Your highness?"

A voice calling him brought him out of his thoughts. Xavier turned around and saw a familiar guard standing.

"What is it?’’

The guard said, ’’Your highness the elders wanted to discuss about the coronation banquet"

’’Ah, that....’’ Xavier muttered in boredom. His coronation banquet was not yet completed and without that, he wouldn’t be recognized as the king of the fox tribe.

But according to him, it was nonsense. It was just a ceremony to show off that the fox tribe’s new king is an immortal beastman.

’Wait!’ something suddenly flashed in his mind. She would also come to that banquet if it takes place right? He slowly started to feel happy the more he thought about it. Some of her mates are the kings and princes of their individual tribes, so she would definitely attend.

But his guard’s following words made him frown in displeasure.

"Due to the happenings in the black wolf tribe, the elders have decided not to hold the banquet for some time, your highness"

"What!?" Xavier exclaimed clearly irked, "And who the hell are they to decide it!?"

The guard flinched due to his anger-filled words and Xavier continued, "I don’t care about the things happening in the black wolf tribe. My coronation banquet will be held soon and that is final"

"Got it!?"

"Ye-yes, your highness" the guard nodded before darting out of that place.