“I was told you won’t be able to come with us, but here you are.”“Yeah,” I just said as I walked towards Nathan who was waiting for me beside his car.“What happened? What changed?”I put my bags behind the truck and faced him. “There was just… a little problem. But we’ve dealt with it.”Nathan narrowed his eyes at me, sensing how I wasn’t telling the entire truth. I looked away from him and walked towards the door. I saw some other trainees already inside as they waited for the others to come.“Beta Sebastian personally told me you’d be coming.” Nathan followed behind me. I sat on the empty side of the truck and faced him, still standing outside of the car. “Was it important? Is this something I should be concerned about? Why would the second-in-command relay the message to me personally? He said it was an abrupt decision from the king.”I sighed heavily, remembering how things turned out last night.If we didn’t need to breathe, that kiss would have never ended. And that would h

Time passed by quickly, and we were allowed to rest when the sun started setting. I looked around the area, memories of when I was younger playing around my head as my eyes darted towards areas I used to go to.The blacksmith’s stall where Nathan and I used to hang around was still there, and instead of the old and blackened walls it had that I remembered, it was now bigger and well developed. People came in and out of it, unlike before that barely no one goes there.My eyes darted towards the line of houses that led to the small plaza circle we had. It was near our house and the forest. I smiled, remembering how we used to play all the time in that place. It was also there that I became friends with Nate when he was being bullied by some other kids.The huge trees, the farmlands and the colorful flowers were also my favorite part of Eden. Dad used to collect them and create a small garden in our small yard. He said Mom loved it when he planted flowers near our house.I inhaled deepl

“Sabrina my dear—oh, Your Majesty!”Our staring at each other stopped when someone suddenly came inside the De Luna’s dining area. And when I saw who it was, bowing at the presence of Titus in the house, I smiled brightly.“Nana Naia,” I breathed.The elderly woman turned to me, and that very familiar huge and warm smile quickly plastered on her face. “Rina, my darling.”I stood up from my seat and walked towards her, getting inside her now wide open arms. “I missed you,” I said against her neck when she wrapped her soft and warm arms around my body. She rubbed my back, reminding me of all the comfortable things in my childhood.“My dear, I missed you more.”I hugged her tighter and then let go. I beamed. Nana held my chin and surveyed my face.“Beautiful, just like your mother.” I held her hand. “Always have been beautiful, with that brave and good heart.”“It’s all because of you,” I said. Naia shook her head and raised a finger at me.“I bet it wasn’t me nor anyone else when you

I sighed, not knowing what was happening to him.We had just smiled for the first time at each other last night, hadn’t we? “That was a bloody fight.”I looked up at Nathan and didn’t make a move. I made myself comfortable on the ground for a while, not wanting to receive his hand for some particular reason. Seeing I wasn’t willing to move just yet, he crossed his arms again, but that strict and Alpha presence was exchanged to a smirk and a teasing glint in his eyes. I groaned when I tried scratching my arm and it hurt. A lot.“Were you all trying to kill us on our first day?” I grimaced and tried standing up. Nathan stretched his hand again, taking mine as he guided me up.“Killing, no. Training your reflexes and instinctual responses, yes.” I just rolled my eyes at him, but I do understand what he’s trying to do.“How was it?” I asked more seriously this time. I want to know how well we did in general. He said first assessment was important for all of them to know which trainin

Silence filled our space as he just continued cleaning the wound in my fingers.I stared at the dark raven strands that went loose on his forehead, almost covering the thick brows he had framing his gorgeous eyes.He was kneeling on the ground but he was still basically face to face with me with how tall he was when I was sitting on the sofa. His whole attention was just down, on my hands that he was meticulously cleaning.I sighed a deep breath and once again spoke.“Why are you here, Titus?” With the mention of his name, his movements paused for a while.His pair of orbs went to me, and even when I’ve just seen them not a minute ago, I was once again surprised at how they looked in this kind of lighting.He stared at me as I waited for him to speak. And for a moment I thought he was going to ignore me again, but as he leaned down to take the wrapper on the first aid kit, he spoke.“You didn’t clean your wound. I saw you running opposite of the quarters,” he said as he started wrappi