Beast King'S Crippled Mate novel Chapter 41

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Have we met before? (II)

"Have we met before?" Swan asked, and Gale frowned hearing that question.

"What are you talking about? We are mated for life."

"No, but—" Swan knew it was hard to describe because she also didn’t understand how she could associate Gale with the kind knight who helped her that night. "I mean, have we met before you took me out of Holy Achate’s Palace?"

"No," Gale replied firmly. His past before he met with Swan was dark, filled with curses, war, conquest, and bloodbath. They could never have met before.

On top of that, Gale didn’t want Swan to see his past self, because he was more of a mindless animal than a beastman then.

"I-I see... never mind then," Swan thought. "I was mistaken."

"Mistaken?"

"Mhm, I thought you were the kind knight who helped me once at the palace," Swan explained. "He is so honorable and kind, but I never get to know his name... or his face."

It was late at night when Aria said that she couldn’t sleep, so she told the guards to drag Swan out of her room and tie her up on a tree at the palace ground. Swan was so scared because it was a very dark night in the middle of autumn. The air was so cold, which only worsened the pain in her leg.

The pain and fear took over her then, so she prayed as hard as she could to Goddess Asmara for a kind and strong man to come and save her. She prayed so hard until she heard the deep and commanding voice of a man who stopped all the torment that she was experiencing.

—

’What are you doing to her?’

The guards’ bodies stiffened instantly, and once they turned their heads at the knight, they all apologized and ran in fear.

Swan opened her eyes slowly as the knight loosened the rope around her body. Once she was freed, she looked up only to make eye contact with a man whose face was obscured by the darkness.

It was a moonless night, so she couldn’t identify him at all.

’T-thank you for helping me, Sir. M-m-may I know your name?’

’You will know my name eventually, Swan,’ the kind knight said. ’I will find you soon enough."

’B-but I’m just a maid in this palace, Sir. Why do you want to find me?’

’Because you are my other half, Swan,’ the kind knight replied. ’Once we reunite, all you need is to call me and I will be by your side, no matter what. I promise.’

Swan was stunned because he seemed serious about his promise, but then turned around and walked away from her.

"I know humans can’t eat raw meat, so I told them to grill it for you," he said. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}