"Your majesty," my guards bowed at me as I left.

I'm visiting my kingdom's streets today, to make sure that there's no chaos among my citizens. I would like call this a secret inspection but in reality, everyone knows that it's my killing spree.

I have my killing ethics too; I don't kill innocent people if that counts. But I do kill people who I feel deserving to die. People who abuse women, people who misuse their strengths, people who feed on humans by killing them, I kill those bastards who is a threat to my citizens.

People call me the devil but I would like to call myself an angel who makes sure to eliminate the threats even before they could think of breaking me. I always abide by the rule, 'break them before they break you.'

"Luke," my mother stood in front of me with a frown on her face.

"Don't," I hate it when she calls me Luke. I'm no more the Luke she loved, that Luke is long dead, the naïve and loving Luke. Now I'm just Lucas, the merciless king who's cursed.

When I said I am cursed, I meant it literally. I have a person out there who's born to kill me. Curse of Agony, the southern villagers killed themselves willingly to put the Curse of Agony on me. A child who's born due the curse with the powers to kill the monster aka me.

I've been searching for the child who has power to kill this monster but to my dismay there hasn't been a single clue of who is it nor my people spotted a child with the birth mark like they say in mythology.

"You are leaving for the inspection?" she asked holding my biceps with a pleading eye.

I know what she is trying to do here, she is trying to use her mom card to stop me from going. She is one of those people who strongly believes in the Curse of Agony. She thinks that the child born from that curse might kill me if I go alone to the markets.

Sometimes that makes me laugh but I won't lie by saying I don't believe in the curse; I do believe it. If I'm being honest, I consider myself a cursed and me not having mate proves the fact.

Let me explain, the royal blood line is said to be blessed with a gift of mates like werewolves. The only difference is all the werewolves have a mate but us vampires and witches, mates are rare. One of the reasons why the royal family have so much power.

My grandparents met each other when they were twenty and so did my parents but me? I gave up on that idea long back. Thanks to the vampire powers, I still look like I'm twenty.

My mother still believes that I have a mate out there and will be seeing her soon but I don't want a mate. I know my end; I will be killed by the curse and I don't want my mate to end up alone in this cruel kingdom. If not kept in line, I know how my people will behave, I don't want my mate alone with them.

Not to forget the fact how people are even scared to come near me, they stay fifty feet's away from where I am. Every time they look at me, their eyes will be filled with nothing but fear and disgust.

Everyone know the things I've done and hates me but no one knows the sacrifice behind it nor the pain I endured for their sake.

People think I love pain and live for it. And I intend to live that way, you cannot break a broken glass more, it'll only cut you if you try to walk on it with the intention of breaking it.

"Luke" she called me again bringing me out of my trance.

I took a deep breath, keeping my hands on her shoulder. "Mom, we're over this argument for over so many times that I lost the count of it. Bye, I'll be back soon." With that I left as she stood there all alone with the fear of my death.

Changing into the normal clothes I entered my kingdom streets observing silently the moves of people. I walked through the streets of Ghaziabad before entering our main market.

Like every day it was full of chaos with people selling things with fire. That's when I felt it, the pull, the goosebumps. I know what this meant, I've studied it by heart. The little Luke looked forward to this event for as long as he could remember.

I started walking towards that pull, hoping desperately that it's not what I think it is.

No, not now. I don't want a mate, not when I know that I'll die anytime soon.

Even though I don't have a heart, I don't think I would be able to accept a rejection from my mate. Who would love the cruel vampire king? Everyone hates me and so will my mate once she knows about me.

Not to forget that, her being my mate only puts her in more danger.

"Hey, this anklet will look good on you. Will you buy it?" I heard a little girl tugging down a skirt of a young women who for some unknown reason perked my interest.

The young women scrunched down to that little girl as she asked "Are you selling this?"

Curiosity took over me as I went to the side to get the full view of this unknown women. She was wearing a simple skirt that came till her knees with her hair being neatly braided that came till her waist.

"Yes, I'm helping my daddy so that we can buy a gift for my mom. Her birthday is coming this Friday." The little girl said.

That's when I saw the young women's eyes, they held some extreme emotions I couldn't get hold of. Pain? Jealousy? Lost hope? Realization?

I don't know, her sky-blue eyes swirled with emotions that made me want to comfort her in my arms. Her porcelain skin, thin lips and her wallflower body, everything of her scream's perfection. I wonder how one could be so delicate, beautiful and perfect.

"How much is it?" the young women asked with a soft voice, as soft as silk making my insides churn in some unknown emotions.

The little girl ran back to his father and came back with a huge grin. "It was three gold coins, since I said to daddy that you are beautiful, he said you can have it for two gold coins." She giggled.

I couldn't agree more, the young women there was indeed beautiful. Listening to her saying the price, the young women's face dropped drastically making my heart fall too.

Did I say heart?

Strange, I don't have one in the first place.

"I'm sorry, I don't have enough money to buy it." She whispered in a sad tone. The girl left with a small okay but I couldn't take the sad look on her face. For the first time in the long time, I feel some emotions, emotions for that young human who I don't even know.

Something took over me as I went to the little girl and brought the anklets, the one she tried selling the young woman. "Listen, I'll give you one more gold coin if you could go give this to the young women over there. Tell her I brought this for her," the little girls eye widened at my offer.

She took the extra gold coin and ran to the young women handing over the anklets she couldn't afford. "Here, the guy over there brought it for you," the girl giggled and left as those sky-blue eyes searched for the person.

That's when our eyes met and the world stopped.

Mate, I have a mate, a human mate.

Now I knew why I felt the pull towards this wallflower. I never wanted a mate in the first place but I neither said that I'm going to let my mate fly away from me once I found her. 

A/N: Yes, there will be both Lucas and Luna's P.O.V as both of them are related to the Curse.