"I still see no reason as to why I have to come with you." I scowled bitterly as I looked out the box sized window that had been carved out by the side of the carriage. " Couldn't you just go alone? That's what you seem to have been doing for a while now."Noah sighed again for the hundredth time on this trip. He looked genuinely tired and worried, the worry lines and eye bags he was spotting were a good proof to my claims."I promise you it's really not in my power." He started. I was sure he had used this same line in the past explanations he had given but I didn't care. I just didn't care. " If it were up to me you wouldn't even be in here.""Oh really?" I snorted, scrunching up my face in a frown. "So you're saying if it were up to you, I wouldn't be in this carriage with you, meaning you don't want me in this carriage. In fact, you don't want me accompanying you.""What exactly do you want?" It was more of a frustrated groan than anything else. I knew what he meant was far from t
I almost regretted stepping in, but I didn't the moment I caught the eyes of our very own host, Adeline. She lit up and quite beautifully too as she excused herself from the couple she was once speaking to come talk to Noah and I."You came!" She drawled cheerily as she approached us, her heels clicking loudly behind her. The huge bear hug she gave me first before even acknowledging Noah confirmed what he'd said earlier in the carriage; she specially wanted me in attendance.I hoped. "Don't you look ravishing tonight?"Honestly, I was the one to be asking her that question. I guess I hadn't gotten a good look at her the last time we met because the woman in front of me didn't look like she could go head on with Noah or any man in fact. Soft colors from her makeup palette lined her eyes, lips and cheeks. She had on her neck and ears, a matching set of diamonds that I was too scared to calculate it's worth. A gold bracelet lined her left wrist and it matched her blue sequined gown perfec
You would think I'd have gotten used to waking up like this, but I definitely hadn't. Instead, each time I woke up like this, the pain I felt was worse than the last. Why did I have to go through this? I muttered with my eyes closed shut. I knew the drill by now, and knowing the outcome made it hard for me to want to do anything else. The moment I opened my eyes, a very deep pain would follow and to be honest, I wasn't sure I'd be able to endure it."Quick, give me that." I heard someone murmur. I wasn't unconscious, even though somehow I wished I was right now. I was awake but somehow it felt like I was disconnected from my body. I wasn't, it was just my body adjusting to the fact that I'm just waking up. " Quick, before she wakes up. "That was too late now, I was already awake wether they liked it or not and their incessant whispers weren't in any way helping. Not even in the slightest."Stop." I groaned out loud. I was sure I'd been loud enough because of the silence that followed
NOAH'S POV "I am not angry because someone tried to harm the royal family, I am angry because someone tried to harm you!" I had no idea if I'd finally voiced out the thoughts I'd been hoarding for quite sometime now. I wasn't sure if they were true or not. I was still trying to figure things out, but it didn't matter anymore. I'd spoken out, a little too loudly and the shocked expression on Bailey's face proved my fear. I watched her stare at me, her face a blank canvas. But I knew better. She was thinking, turning all the cogs in her head, trying to figure out if she had heard right or perhaps, if I truly meant what I'd said. Even I was stuck on that same hill and there was no going back from here onwards. "Never in my life have I worried about someone else who isn't me not to talk of a woman. I honestly thought something…""Stop." She cut me off, raising a finger to silence me. She made a move to speak but her perfectly manicured raised higher, an obvious sign she was maintaining
I don't wait till the carriage has fully stopped in front of the castle. Before the footmen could reach, I'd already thrown the door to the carriage open before bunching up my skirt and leaving Noah to his thoughts and whatever it was he wanted to do. The ride from Adeline's palace to ours was torture to say the least. I'd thought I'd get at least some moments to myself after my heated argument with Noah, so imagine my surprise when Noah came to summon me that it was time to leave. He was surprisingly calm after everything that had happened and for a moment, I started considering if I was on my hallucinating or imagining things.No, the way he kept on staring at me meant something else. His grip on my arm told me otherwise. Like a gentle reminder, I felt a tingle in the exact spot. Involuntarily, I turned my head back, just to lock gazes with Noah, who was still standing by the carriage but had taken a keen interest on how the back of my head looked like. It was hard not to pay him a
My walk to the throne room this time was different than the last. Perhaps it was the shift in the air or the anticipation as to what I would get when I got there, I wasn't quite sure. The only thing I was certain about, was the fact that I would be getting some answers or at least some clue that would lead me to the bottom of this. Hopefully.I glanced around the hallway I was walking through, memories rushing by. The very first time I'd walked this hallway was after our great Noah had decided I'd been in the dungeon for too long and actually needed some air, after several pleadings and inhumane grovelings from my family that is. If I had known what that devil had in mind for me, I wouldn't have walked down this same path those days ago. Would I?I closed my eyes momentarily and as if Zoe had switched on a reel of my memories, I watched as every memory associated with the hallway whizzed past my senses. With each one I replayed in my mind, my thoughts process changed. It finally stopp
NOAH'S POV "Noah" I'd heard my name a million times but I meant every word when I said no one could compare when it came to the sound of my name on Bailey's lips. It was weird because I'd heard speak lots of times. When I didn't even want to hear her, she was always yelling something to my ears. I'd expected something else, a shriek or any loud means to express her discomfort but instead she kept mute, her eyes flicking from my face to my lips that were only a few inches from hers. Her lips were so close, so close that if I could just part my lips a little, the rest would be history. I hoped. We stayed like this for a while, neither of us moving. I felt something stir in me and I bit back on my lips, fighting the urge to act on this burning desire that seemed to come out of nowhere."Sire." It was my wolf. He didn't need to talk much, I knew what he wanted. I could feel it burning deep in my bones. At least, that was the plausible explanation I could give to all of this. "Your high
I stared at the gift basket in front of me, muttering another string of curses. This should be like, the one millionth time? I wasn't sure, I'd definitely lost count. Despite the fact that I'd been staring at the basket for a while now, it made no attempt to move. In fact, it stayed rooted to it's spot, its very presence reminding me of the person that'd sent it. Noah. Yes, you heard right, Noah. If it wasn't surprising to you, it was to me. Because after our huge and recent fight where I'd clearly walked out on him, why would he send me gifts? Was there a bomb in there that would blow up the minute I got close enough to it? Or perhaps there was a snake in there, just waiting to pounce on me and poison me to my death? Or maybe…"Maybe he's just being nice." Zoe finished my thoughts for me. " Did you think about that?""Nice? Noah, nice?" I shook my head. A lot of words could be used to describe Noah but nice was certainly not one of them. It just wasn't possible. " He's not nice and h