Luka Arnette {Werewolf!} x Female Reader {Human!}
Centuries passed, and much changed for Idlen. The old little town in the Craven Kingdom, just south of the Capital. However, for one stubborn library that refused to go, there was a generation of librarians loyal to its books and scrolls.
Where our story begins, its little life, is in the very town of Idlen, following the very librarian who now watches the library. To watch over the library, her grandmother taught her to keep a very trained eye. The library moved on its own playing tricks and just being downright mischievous. Mara could not turn her back or it would attack. Last time she did, the library changed all its books to Creole, which no one in the vicinity of the library knew. So her patrons left. It took a scolding, to get the library to return to English, even then it pranked her with ink explosions when she opened a book. However, after all that, the library still tucked her into bed when she fell asleep at her desk reading its scrolls.
On a fine cloudy day, Mara helped Miss Leona Price find a book about ancient heroes. Miss Leona was eleven years old, every time she finished a book, she would ask Mara what her favorite book was so she could read it. Of course Mara never ran out of favorite books so she gave Miss price a list, and since then the library’s most popular patron was Miss Price. For Miss Price’s sake Mara ignored Miss Prices little crush on her.
After Miss Price left with her new book, Mara waited for the familiar jingle of the front door bell, with a book in hand. She reminisced of when her grandmothers face lit up when she heard it. The library always amped up the jingle for her grandmother as she got older and her hearing got worse. So, Mara would keep ear plugs in as a little girl.
It took about seventeen minutes for Mara to hear the bell ring. Mara shot out of her seat and bookmarked her page. When she went to welcome the patron, the library seemed to not want her to. It shifted creating an intricate maze of bookshelves blocking her from greeting the patron.
Mara stomped her boot scolding under her breath “Lib!”
The bookshelves didn’t budge.
(Y/n) weaved through the maze finally making it to the door, to see no one.
She clenched her fists at the library, by now it would seem the Patron was wandering the library.
The library calmed down as she went back to her desk to find the floor plan of the library. It seemed the library was up to its mischievous ways again however she was ready with an enchanted map that could spot anyone in the library's location.
She saw the customer in the ‘beast, creatures and everything in between’ section. It seems they stopped and were staying their for the time being.
(Y/N) squeezed through the library’s shelves, it was keeping up its shenanigans and not letting her through.
Once she was through for some reason (Y/N) grew nervous approaching the patron whose back was to her. A very broad and handsome back at that. His focus was into a book she was familiar with ‘Lycanthropy.’
In her Library was a werewolf. A very large and handsome one at that.
Mara walked up to the wolf greeting him like any other patron. “Welcome, do you need help finding a book, sir?”
The wolf jumped and turned around knocking his elbow into the bookshelf.
As his eyes looked into hers they widened into saucers. He froze with a hand on his elbow.
Mara laughed and asked “are you all right? These shelves are pretty hard.”
Just as she said that Lib dropped a book on his head. A very big encyclopedia.
The werewolf rubbed his head. Mara winced and hovered her hands over him. “I’m so sorry, why don’t we head to my desk and I can get you some ice.”
Mara wondered how an encyclopedia ended up in the beast creatures and every in between section.
“Yeah, I’d like that.” Mara blushed at the voice she thought sounded like honey. She lead him to her desk and walked to the back struggling with her kitchen freezer as it wouldn't budge.
After a while she came back with a back of ice wrapped in a paper towel.
“Here, I’m so sorry, that's really never happened before, that book wasn’t even in the right section.”
“Its all right, my pain disappeared when I saw beautiful your face.” He cockily grinned holding the bag of ice on his head. To Mara he looked ridiculous but she couldn't help but blush harder.
Now that she got a good look of him, she could see his curly black hair, deep blue eyes, and a gorgeous pair of hands. He looked exactly like what she pictured a royal guard to look like. She heard rumors about the handsomeness those guards possessed.
He didn't have the normal burly bulky werewolf look. He looked half werewolf half Fae to Mara.
The man put his elbows on the desk looking at Mara across from him with a dopey smile.
Mara quickly got her shit together, her grandmother would scold her for acting like this with a boy or even talking with a boy.
“So what exactly were you looking for or were you just browsing?”
“Well.......my sister seems to love it here, she talks about this little bookstore and its most intelligent librarian. I came to see what the fuss was about. Now that I’ve come myself. I see how beautiful this librarian is.”
Mara tilted her head quizzically. Was he talking about Miss Price?
“yeah, Leona, I always wondered where she wandered of to.”
He let out a small smile when he talked about Leona, and Mara scolded her self for what seemed the hundredth time because of the butterflies she felt.
“Miss Leona is the wandering type.” He laughed at that.
“So Ms. Librarian, may I have the honor of knowing your name?”
“Oh of course its....um...Mara. Now may I have the honor of knowing yours?” Mara smirked gaining a hint of confidence and getting control back from his spell.
“Luka, nice to meet you Mara.”
“you as well.” she curtsied playfully.
Both of them laughed playfully.
“Prince!!!!” A sudden voice came running to Luka. Once in front of him he pointed to Luka full of rage. “You and your sister are one in the same, your highness.”
Luka glared at the man who abruptly entered the library.
“Damnit.” Luka mumbled under his breath.
The voice ‘Quin’ bowed to Mara. “I'm very sorry to interrupt your day but the Prince must be leaving now.”
“Prince?” Mara said quizzically.
Luka, winced as she said that. He knew how people reacted when they see royalty he was ready to leave getting up from his spot on the other side of the desk.
What he didn't expect was Mara to Belly laugh in front of him and his future attendant Beta.
They both looked at her with quizzical looks.
“You?!” she asked dumbfounded wiping tears from her eyes.
Quin began to scold Mara but was held back by Luka. “What's funny?” he asked.
“I'm sorry its just, I've read and heard things about you, and from the royalty my family has met you are a pleasant surprise.”
“Thanks? I guess...what do you mean about Royalty you've met?”
Mara walked over to a bookshelf behind her grabbing a heavy looking book. She placed it on the desk in front of her. She flipped through it and rotated it toward the two men. She pointed to a picture.
“My father?” Luka asked. He was surprised at the picture. Not only was his father in the library in the picture but he was at least 20 years younger looking through a book with his mother.
“Mother?” He said gripping the edges of the book tightly. Mara then flipped to pages before. She showed him all the royalty that came to this library.
“My grandmother told me about the King, he was always bringing the queen to the library after visiting the village. They came to ask my grandmothers advice on many occasion.”
Luka looked toward Mara who looked affectionately at a picture of her grandmother.
Mara finally flipped to the last pages of the book. She came pointed to a picture and tapped twice. A little boy and girl sat on the floor thighs touching, a book laid across their legs. Whereas the girl marveled at the pages, and pointed with a smile, the boy was looking at her with a wide grin.
