You Are My Destined Mate

To be honest, I am not as astonished as seeing a beast turning into a human when I heard a male animal has a pouch. As we all know, it is the male seahorse that gives birth to a baby after the female seahorse puts her eggs into the male's pouch.

If there's no female among these beasts, they can only find their mates from women. Animals have different ways of fertilization, it will surely not be the same newborns as human babies. Therefore, the male beasts might need to breastfeed their babies...

It seems a bit awkward if I keep asking things about his pouch, I don't think we are intimate enough to talk about it. So I tried to change the topic:

"Sorry I forget to introduce myself. My name is Bai Lu, you can call me LuLu, nice to meet you and thank you again for protecting me!"

"Your name sounds cute just like you, LuLu." Kruger smiled, and two lovely dimples emerged on his face, making him like a sweet boy living in my neighbourhood.

Now it is even harder for me to connect the deadly beast who killed coyotes before, with this young good-looking guy.

"Actually, I sensed your hormone early this morning and followed your smell here just for you. How lucky I am — caught you in time so you didn't get hurt by those coyotes."

"We beasts can only meet one mate in our entire life, determined by fate. Our destined mates have a unique smell to us, so I can sense you from thousands of miles away."

Is Kruger telling me that I am the one and only mate of his life?

Although it sounds romantic initially, I find it is indeed not easy for the beasts if think deliberately — this is such a vast continent, do they have to spend their whole lives looking for their mates? On the other hand, would their mates accept them after they finally find the one?

I gazed at Kruger, and asked him in doubt:

"Is there only one destined mate exists in the world for each of you? Since now you've found me, should I have to accept you as a mate?"

"YES! You are the only one for me in the whole world!"

"You see how fortunate I am, right? I can't believe I met you before my thirtieth birthday!"

Kruger raised a bigger smile and answered my question in a happy voice, "You don't need to be overwhelmed by this fact, this destiny can only impact us. As for you humans, you can just listen to your heart."

"I will try my best to guard you, love you and treat you well. Just let time tell what I can do, and I believe I will win your heart eventually."

...

Wait, what?

Kruger is almost thirty years old?! Even older than me?!

I can't help getting closer to him and looking at him narrowly: Kruger seems to have a natural smiling lip which always upturned, and his dimples will be filled with honey when he smiles. When he talks to me with a twinkle in his eye, his voice is pleasant and clear — he is sweet like a high school boyfriend.

No matter how I looked up and down, Kruger still looks so young as a healthy active teenager.

Otherwise, is it possible that beasts can live longer because of the difficulties to find a mate?

So many questions are coming up to my mind, for me, meeting a beast-man opened the door to another new world, and even the fear of facing death before was flushed away. Too curious to notice I am still sitting with a naked man, face to face, I controlled my eyes to only make eye contact with Kruger instead of looking down, and kept asking him curiously:

"Kruger, how long can you live?"

"Three hundred years. But don't worry, LuLu. You can live as long as me after making a mate contract."

Sparking his two little sweet dimples to me, Kruger was getting closer and closer to me while speaking to me. After a while, his fluffy head touched my shoulder and Kruger started to cadge for more pat:

"LuLuLuLu, your touch made me feel soooo good, can you please touch me again?"

...

First of all, my name is LuLu, not Lulululu. Secondly, I didn't touch you, you are naked...

...Whatever...

I raised my hands and put them on Kruger's head, rubbing his hair like it is still his fur:

"Do you beasts have your own language? I noticed that you can speak Mandarin fluently like you've learned it for a long time."

"Oh, yeah. It is so enjoyable. Yes, that's it! LuLu, you're the BEST!"

Half of Kruger's body almost leaned on me, he held my hands, trying to keep me clawing his head and chin, and even his voice became softer and lighter:

"We do have beast language. But for the convenience of communication, and to avoid the obstacles of culture and language, I can automatically speak your mother tongue after listening to some of your sentences."

Awesome! It is a gift!

Damn... I even start to feel a little bit jealous of them — this talent is so cool. If I had one, how easy it can be when I try to write an essay in English...

We continually talked about life on this continent. The fact is obvious that I know nothing about this world, never heard of beast-man, and all of a sudden, appeared in his sensation area — I am from a different world.

I frankly told Kruger my situation here, waiting for his response. Surprisingly, Kruger hugged me and patted my back, speaking in a warm voice:

"No worries, LuLu. And you don't need to be scared or lonely, I will always be by your side from now on."

I doubt if he is not in the human form at this moment, his tail would wag like an electronic fan again.

Kruger has shown his love for me and how happy he is when he stays with me so many times, and it is hard to believe we only met each other for hours! Additionally, he saved me from coyotes and looks like the young vision of Leonardo Dicaprio...

Yes, let's call a spade a spade, I also have a crush on him.

Maybe that's the reason beauties always fall in love with heroes, or why we like knights.

I can feel my heartbeat getting faster and faster...