In the freezing country, far away behind the icy Northern Sea, the brutish Lord Ziran watched how the grey-haired King of the Frosty Tiger's tribe was dying...
"Thank you for saving my people..."The old King said hardly," Please, spare my son if you can and take my daughter as your mate..." he looked into Ziran's eyes with hope.
"Not possible..."Ziran shook his head coldly," I can spare your son, but I'm not mating your daughter. Die well!" he stood up and left the stony castle room.
When Ziran came back with Vallerie to her tribe of Frosty Tigers, they were still surrounded by the rest of the ghoul army. The brutish tiger left her behind and went on slaughtering them just for fun...He was thinking about Sienna while they walked there, and it made him feel angry and resentful somehow, so venting on the ghoul army eased his frustration a lot...
The settlement of Frosty Tigers welcomed him as a saviour, and the old King Vallador invited him to stay as a guest...
Vallador had a daughter, Vallerie and a son, Evan. His Queen Eriena was killed by the ghouls, so sadness broke his old heart even more when his son decided to betray him. Evan saw that strong Ziran could mate with his sister, and as he won over the ghouls became the rightful next King. The Prince became resentful and angry. He challenged Ziran to a duel, and after he lost humiliatingly, Evan ran with his loyal warriors to the neighbouring tribe to launch an attack to either overcome his past tribe or to get rid of his sister! He sent the assassin to shoot her from afar with an arrow, but Ziran was close and brutally made the man spill the truth before killing him with an axe in front of the old King. Vallador was worried about his only daughter and thus tried to match her to Ziran...
Ziran stood on the massive castle wall, staring at the snowy mountains..."It is nothing here to fight over," he thought when Vallerie came to join him.
"My father is gone!" She hugged Ziran sadly, tearing...
"I will talk to you after you finish mourning," Ziran noted coldly.
"There is no time to mourn. We are without a King, and my brother will attack soon," she bit her lips worriedly." Would you become my mate and be our King?"...she asked him hopefully...
"No!"Ziran said bluntly.
"Don't you like me as a woman?"Vallerie asked.
"No."Ziran shook his head."I want another and I want to fuck her till she drops!" he growled so upset that Vallerie rather stepped a few steps away from him.
"I'm not jealous, you can have us both."She bit her lips. She was so ashamed to tell him this but felt as if she had no other choice. Her father made her promise to protect her people at any cost!
"She would not like that..."Ziran shook his head resolutely.
"Well, will she not be happy if you are happy?"Vallerie asked curiously.
"Yes, she would, and that is the problem..."Ziran clenched his fist in anger."But I want just her..." he looked to the blue sky covered with clouds as if searching for a familiar face...remembering how Sienna liked to find the animal shapes in the fluffy clouds. He felt a deep longing, and it was making him angry again. He could not take well to be so far away from her for long...he felt like a spoiled brat in self-imposed exile, but he convinced himself he was in the right, so he concentrated his thoughts on what he would do to her when he gets her...and the content of this was so hot, that it was boiling his blood just thinking of it!
"What now? You heard my father, if you help us against the rebels, you can get my hand and this Kingdom..."Vallerie tried for the last time.
"I will not mate for the throne, and I will not fight against your brother! Watching two depleted tribes kill each other is pitiful," Ziran growled." And she will not like that!" he rasped. The wild scene in his mind was making him hot.
"What will your Queen do then?" Valerie asked, staring at him. She felt the wild energy seeping from him and felt a little confused, a little desperate, but somehow expectant. He was a puzzle, and she wanted to know his thoughts.
"She will take both!"Ziran grinned almost madly." And that is what I will do..." he nodded his head with a wicked smirk on his face.
"Take over both..."Vallerie whispered, thinking."And what about me?"She asked curiously.
"You are not my concern. You are free to go and have the life you want..."Ziran shook his shoulder nonchalantly like she was a thing of the past...
"But my father..."Vallerie opened her mouth, shocked at his brute manners.
"I don't care!"Ziran interrupted her rashly." You are a woman and a warrior...strong...fearless, beautiful..." he touched her cheek almost gently." Not an object to be given, so go... live a free life. Take whatever you need from your castle and make a new home, mate whoever you want, take gold enough to start again..." he looked at her thinking..." or stay here as my right hand, third in charge." he shook his shoulder, realising that he would need someone who to trust with helping him to rule his new tribes.
"Who will be second?"Vallerie swallowed hard when she understood that Ziran had already claimed her throne in his mind.
"My Queen, of course..." he said brutishly.
"Ahh, so you do not hate her?"Vallerie asked, confused.
"I do, I hate her to the bottom of my bones, but I yearn for her as for the sun. She is the scorching sun I want in my bed and next to my side...I want to be with her. She is the claim of my life. Unattainable but soft and wanting, I will reach out and drag her here under my body till she begs me for mercy!"Ziran blabbered almost insanely.
"Will she beg you? Is she so weak?"Vallerie asked curiously.
"You do not understand. Just decide and shush, I'm thinking of her!"Ziran daydreamed about bringing Sienna to his own Kingdom." A week just for myself..." he murmured and almost felt her sweetest kiss on his lips.
"I will stay here as your right hand."Vallerie decided." I will help you to unite my people, and I will do everything to ensure the prosperity and peace of my tribe."She nodded.
"Good, I will make this tribe strong again and get my Queen..." Ziran growled wantingly...
"Why are you so obsessed with her?" Vallerie asked, trying to decode how manic her new King really was.
"There is none like her...her kindness is enraging and alluring alike... her beauty is breathtaking and her soft body ripe for love and hot mating. I need her or I will get crazy..." he shook his head wildly to awaken from his daze.
"I see," Vallerie noted...
The next day, Ziran went to talk with the neighbouring tribe of the Black Tigers. They used to be one tribe before but split after their overly prominent black stripes were perceived as a genetic fault and lived separately from others.
The Black Tigers invited the brutish brown tiger cautiously. They were very happy he got rid of the ghoul army, too, but were wary of the strong warrior.
"Evan, why are you hiding here like a coward? You lost the duel for being a King so get your ass back to your tribe and help your sister to mourn your father!" Ziran shouted in the Forum.
"Hey, you usurper of the Throne, what did you do to my sister?"The tall young tiger warrior raised proudly from the shallow houses.
"She is fine, she decided to be my right hand, third in charge, so do
not worry, I will not let you kill her..."Ziran grinned as the tigers who stood around him started to murmur.
"I'm the heir to the throne!" the young warrior said.
"We all are tigers..stronger takes the lot.."Ziran growled."You were not able to defeat the ghouls by yourself, so you are not ready to be a King..." he chuckled." If you train hard, you can make it to Lord Protector. I will train with you."He grinned rather cruelly."Take it as a fair chance," he added, thinking how he would beat Evan every day to teach him a lesson for trying to get rid of his own sister.
"That is not fair! I'm a Prince."Evan called enraged...he was always so proud to be next in line...
"That is the tiger law!"The tribe chief of the Black Tigers nodded..."If you want to repeat the duel here, feel free," he glanced at Evan.
"I will."The Prince nodded proudly.
"Here.. you might...and bring your friends along, I was bored last time..."Ziran roared brutishly.
"I want my sister back, too," Evan called.
"No..she is a free woman warrior..she can decide what to do..."Ziran growled.
Ziran completely destroyed the Prince and his warriors who joined him alike and grinned...The strongest wins!" he chuckled brutishly as the injured warriors were taken care of by the people of the Black Tigers tribe.
Ziran became the King of all Northern tigers.!!!
"You will act for me."Ziran looked at Vallery firmly after both tribes joined together again and he was declared their King. It went very fast.
"Why?"Vallery asked curiously. It was unheard of!
"One sweet reason."Ziran glanced at her thinking and she nodded when she realized the weird truth."He did not want his future Queen to find out yet!"