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
I looked at him, wide-eyed and gaping, not knowing what to say.Silence stretched around us as we both continued staring at each other.Titus’ eyes usually had gold specs when we both talked about our matebond. I recognize that as his wolf taking part of his thinking and his urges about our relationship. But now, it was just him and those drowning dark hazel orbs of his.They were watching me, as if being very careful and observant of what I might react and how he’d deal with it. But all I could do was gape in shock. I don’t even know whether I’ve already took that in. He was putting the blame on himself for what happened to me and to the rest of the people that his forefathers have wronged. He was apologizing for something he wasn’t directly responsible for. He was ignoring me because he was guilty.And he wasn’t supposed to have a mate as a curse to their blood, but he has me. Still not able to say anything, I just blinked up at him. After a short while, Titus’ hand fell from my
Tongues intertwined, I pulled myself out of his embrace, feeling so out of breath.“W-wait…I need a moment,” I said and inhaled deeply.Titus’ hand caressed my back towards my waist, creating small circles on his way down. It was making goosebumps rise non-stop on my skin.I inhaled deeply again, savoring his scent as it went in my nostrils. He always smelled so good to me, but since we both accepted the matebond, his smell became better, and it was addicting.“Done?”I grasped on his shirt’s neck loosely as I looked up at him after a minute. His usually dark gazes looked sparkling as they watched me. His lips were still shiny from our activity.“You want more?” It was supposedly a casual question, one that we both know we need to stop, but Titus had other plans.“Definitely. You’re addicting.”He once again leaned in and devoured my lips before I could protest. As if we haven’t been doing this for almost an hour now. Or maybe it has been an hour. I don’t really know. He’s not even n
“But now you have me,” I said when I felt how that weighed him down.“You must really have done something good for you to break that curse. I know you did.” He just looked at me while still holding my hand. I shrugged. “I mean, I might not look much as a curse-breaker—because for sure this is going down in history as a first—but still, you got a mate. An Andreyev lycan king, having his mate after many generations.”That brought a smile on his face, which made me also smile back at him.“You’re a curse-breaker material,” he said and pulled my hand up for a kiss. “You’re everything I want in a curse-breaker.” I rolled my eyes at him despite the butterflies that flew around my stomach.“Yeah, yeah. One you didn’t want to do with anything at first. I could still remember the way you threatened me that day!” He laughed at my accusatory tone.I raised a brow at him. “But look at you now.” His smile just broadened at my teasing. I let him pull me closer to him and give me a peck.As much
My heart jumped for a second. I waited for them to confront me, seeing how they were still looking. They were the same people I saw watching me as I talked with Nathan from time to time during breaks.I stayed there standing, waiting. But they suddenly walked away, whispering at each other as they went.I stood there for a while, not knowing how else to react to that.Did they really just see me and Titus? Had they seen everything?Are we going to let everyone know we’re mates?I put my palm on my forehead and closed my eyes for a while. Should I even be worried about this? Does Titus want people to know now? What about Lana?Heaving a deep breath, I put my hand down on my side and just chose to walk back to my house and lock the doors.I finished and started walking towards the quarters. The sky was getting darker by the second. I bet everyone is preparing for dinner now.Deciding to hurry away, I jogged my way, my mind going back and forth between my conversation with Titus and th
“Line up!”Almost everyone moved at the same time when Zen commanded that. I heaved a heavy breath. We had just finished a session and a mere 5-minute break was given before the platoon leader was screaming commands again.I moved my eyes around in front, Titus nor Nathan still weren't present. They had been gone since yesterday evening, and I wonder what has happened in that rogue chase.So far, no news–bad or good–has been given to us. And I hope that’s a sign that everything is alright.The murmurs that suddenly rang around the place took my attention. I looked around and saw that the trainees with me were now looking out in front as if something new or intriguing was occurring.I turned my eyes towards in front again, and I saw that Lana Wintour was approaching. I realized then that the murmurs and whispers were all praises of how good and graceful she looked.She wore a white dress and heels despite our set-up on the training grounds. That didn’t bother the people, though, as sh
“There!” Julian pointed at a tree in the rice field and we all saw a dummy hanging by its hands.We all immediately stayed alert as we all knew now that there will be people attacking us. And attack us, they sure did.Like what happened earlier, Julian and Albert took the first lead in the fight while we all supported them. They took the dummy and passed it to us. I, then helped them defeat the now four warriors–it turned out they have another dummy with them on the other side of the huge tree—and we all ran away to reach their boundary, hearing Zen’s announcement with our success.“...15 victims to be rescued. 40 minutes until we finish.”“We’re leading!” We ran with enthusiasm at that fact. It was also hyping me up that the bugging thought about getting toward the void territory no longer bothered me at all.Besides, that tree was one of the markers of the end of Eden’s territory, yet a victim was put there.Making peace with myself with the thought, I followed through with my membe
“H-help…”I gasped and my frozen state crashed when I heard the man’s small croak.He could be Gerald or Albert!My feet had a mind on its own and it quickly went to the man sprawled bloody on the ground.“A-albert?” I asked, seeing how the man had a closer resemblance with that squadron member.“H-help…please…” he croaked again with heavy breaths.I hesitated for a while when I realized he wasn’t Albert or Gerald. But when I saw him reach a bloody hand towards me, my instinct to help immediately kicked in.“Sir, what happened?” I asked and walked to face him. His face was almost planted on the ground, but I could see the blood that came from his neck toward his chest. He also had splotches of blood on his face and mouth that I could see from where I was standing.“H-Help…t-they w-want…kill…” he coughed up blood. I stood back in shock but immediately crouched to make him turn around. “Wait, let me ask for help,” I said as I tried pushing him on his back so he could breathe properly.