The peacock queen glared at me and said in a threatening tone :"Ember is my future mate , if you accept him I will kill you ."

That was so funny : "well look at what we got in here , are your mates that strong and I didn't know , you literally can't touch me with how weak your mates are , and listening to what Tana said , this Ember is a picky person with how you look and how you act , I am sure you had already asked him to be your mate but he refused , so honey don't try to threaten me because there is nothing that you can use to compare with me ." I said the last part with a cold smile .

She was so angry and was about to answer when she looked behind me and started acting literally different :

"Ember you're here , this female was threatening me ,, you should protect me " she started acting all cringy , while twisting her body and faking tears .I was shocked by this 180 degree change and was completely disgusted /

"Why should I fucking protect you?" questioned an arrogant cold male voice behind me .

I snickered when I saw her ugly expression , I turned around to see the new male . When I saw him I was mesmerised , he was also staring at me mesmerised .His mother looked at us and said all proud : " I told you she will be your type , your mother wasn't lying " he nodded and then looked at me and mumbled :" that fucking lion hide you from me and refused to let me see you , he forgot his friend directly , I will take my revenge when I see him next time"

Then he smirked at my direction and said arrogantly : "well since you want me to be my female , I will accept being your mate, don't worry it's not a dream , Ember himself accepted you as a mate "

Well now I know why grandma hated him , no matter how handsome a male was or how strong he was , the character is the first aspect that I take in consideration .

"Sorry Tana , but I will not accept him as a mate" I said seriously

"Why I am handsome , strong , I have an amount of emerald that you can consume for all your life and all the females want me , so why don't you accept me as a male"

"No matter how strong or handsome you are , the most important thing to consider is your character , I hate arrogant people the most so I refused your offer "

Tana hit her son head and said : " well I tried helping you but you perfectly ruined it, good luck finding someone else "

But Ember didn't listen to her , he just declared :" I finally found her , so she's going be my female in the future , I was acting arrogant in front of the other female so I could find someone who can accept me on who I am and not to what I have and I finally found it "

"Hi female , my name is Ember , a phoenix prince , I am four level and I am asking to court you , I acted arrogant all this year to finally find my female so I hope that you don't take my arrogant act of earlier to heart , this is my true self "

I was shocked and I think everyone around us ,even his mother .He gave a charming sexy smile , just like the one his mother gave me , and I was taken back by it , so when he asked the question for a second time , I just nodded without thinking, he smiled again and said:

"don't regret it , you already accepted so I am starting courting you , I will leave don't miss me"

"Who accepted you, you trashy male come back , I didn't accept to it "I yelled at him but he just winked at me

Tana was once again laughing hysterically :"oh god you're so cute , I finally have a daughter in law that I like , I am so happy"she hugged me and said"Ember will be a good male , he may sound arrogant but he is so warm and charming , he may like to tease you because he's my son , so hope you give him a chance , he's the last son that stayed without a female with my king mate ,and I see that he really loves you and you know what will happen to him if you refuse to be his female "

I didn't answer because I couldn't promise her that , I just excused myself and went back to my mates .

They were already waiting for me , Aryan took my hand and asked : "what happened to you , you was angry and after charmed and then angry again and finally embarrassed , is there something happening"

"Do you know a male called Ember?"I asked

"Why are you asking about that arrogant male?" he said with a blackened face and I could feel his jealousy and anger inside me .

I gave him a peek on the lips and it made him happy and then answered :"well he want to court me and he said you are his friend"

"I am not his friend and did you accept his offer of courting ?"

"Well he tricked me "I said embarrassed

"That nasty phoenix" he mumbled and the anger came back

"Well who cares about him now , it's not like I accepted to be his mate anyway and today we should probably enjoy the bonfire , right my love "

He nodded and pulled me in his arms and walked toward the bonfire , he sat and put me on his lap , well Curtis was on my left and he had already put his tail around my ankle like always , and Winston was on my right and the other males was around me , so I smiled to them completely forgotten that shameless phoenix.

Well some people doesn't really want to be forgotten, Ember wasn't afraid of my mates and he approached with a big piece of meat , and gave me a sweet grin , my mates were all glaring at him and started growl, Curtis was going to start taking action but Aryan stopped him : « he may be on the same level as you but he is actually on my level because phoenix have the ability to control fire, you will be harmed »

When I heard that , I pulled Curtis toward me and glared at Ember .

« Eat that meat yourself, you tricked me to start courting me and you literally know I don't want you as a mate »

He wore a hurt expression and said: « but you didn't even give me a chance to get to know me , that arrogant me was only a facade okay , so please give me a chance »

Fuck , I hated it but I like his appearance that I already don't want to refuse him , so what if I let him court me , if I like him I can have my tenth mate , I like that number , but I will test him before . (In the beast world the average number of mates is 20)

« Okay I will give you the chance to court me but I am not sure if I will accept you or not »

He nodded and gave Max the meat and sit on the bonfire , well he tried to sit next to me but I glared at him , like hell I will tell Curtis or Winston to leave to give you a place .