Sold To My Alpha Mate

Venom’s POV

“Okay, I think that’s all we can do for now. We have to leave so we can see everyone and not keep them waiting.” I urged Maya who was still dressing up to leave.

We were on our way to Alex’s funeral. Ig had all happened suddenly for anyone to process. Even me, it felt unreal but it was too real, the body they gave us couldn’t have been anyone’s but him.

We drove to the grave where the funeral was being held. He had only died five days before and they had us burying him already. Ig was traditional to bury Royalty as soon as possible regardless of what the case may be.

Most times , it would be till the full moon and this time around, it came earlier than anyone expected.

Different people came to show their respect and Maya and I spent most of our time shaking hands and holding small talks to entertain the people who had deemed us for to engage us.

“I don’t think she’ll survive from that,” Maya said, pointing at my mom.

I only gave her a look before we continued, everyone was helpless and I wasn’t sure if anything was still even in my power. Everything was going out of controller. Too much was being lost.

“Let’s go join them,” I gestured at Maya to love forward. It was the final duty already, we would burn him to ashes and that was what we would bury.

Again, that was how the rites for the dead body of a royalty took place in our side. The duty of lighting him up was giving to me and for a moment when I stood before his body, I couldn’t do it. It felt like heas still alive to me.

“Be strong,” Maya came to whisper in my ear and stopped back to her former position.

I was about closing my eyes and doing it when something caught my attention. The wound had never healed, his body only dried out from it.

“How could we have missed that?” I murmured to myself.

Then I realized he was bloated and dead, something was wrong. He was executed with something too lethal. Too lethal that it was destroying his body after death.

I closed my eyes eventually and performed what I had to before stepping back so I could stay away from the fire and watch everything take place.

Silence overtook everywhere and all that could be heard was the ashes burning and the sound the dried wood made from being burnt up. I could hear tears, but I never looked bank and only focused on what I saw beside me.

“Everything will be fine.” I heard Maya say.

“I pray so.” I replied to her.

If I’d didn’t have her to watch over me and help cheer me up while everything was going on, I wasn’t sure if I would have held through.

After some hours, everything came to an end and we were the last people at the graveyard. Me and Maya.

“What do you think could have killed him?” I asked her.

“I don’t really know, but someone definitely stabbed him. At least, that was what I noticed from the injury.”

There was no indication of anything otherwise, it was obvious that someone had put something through him to kill him.

“And that’s the problem I’m having. How did the person kill him so easily and how was the weapon that lethal. I found something on his body.” I told her.

She looked at me surprised, “what did you find on his body?”

“His body was still disintegrating even after death and that is no ordinary thing.”

She didn’t look too surprised anymore and I doubted myself a bit for picking up something as little as that and taking it up as a big clue.

“Well, we can only try to tighten security more and be prepared for whatever the people will bring against us. Our enemies.” She said.

I understood and once everywhere was getting too dark, I realized we had to leave already. We had spent plenty time already after everyone.

“Are we ready to go now or you still want to wait a bit?” She asked me, it was as if she had been reading my thoughts all along.

“Yeah, I’m good now. There’s nothing I can do again, I definitely cannot bring him back.” I said to her.

She came close and spread her hands for me to hold on to. I held her and we both walked away from the site to the cat where it was parked.

“Everything will be fine soon. I’m sure things cannot continue like this for too long.” She told me.

I tried to be upbeat about things, but I wasn’t sure if I was strong to that extent. There was too much going on that I was overwhelmed already.

I kept mute as as continued our journey away from the site. When we go to the car, she took up her position and I did the same. We left for the oa k house.

By the time we got home, mom and dad were having dinner, it looked like she was coming around and wasn’t bearing the burden of the pain again.

I looked at them and my dad waved at me. I waved back and went to the room with Maya. We took a big of our time undressing and changing to other wears. She took more time taking off her adornment.

I was in bed already, waiting for her to arrive so we could lie together.

“Waiting for me?” She Asked after she was done and she came towards me on the bed.

“Not really,” I teased. I was regaining a bit of enthusiasm in myself.

“That’s bad, I’ll be going to the bathroom for a bit. Shout-out to anyone who didn’t miss me.” She said.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

At that point, I was tired of waiting and went into the bathroom to get a bath with her.

“I guess we’re doing this together.”