Chapter Seventeen

It was Saturday morning and I couldn’t wake up fast due to the intense cold weather. Normally, I would have woken up earlier and left the room for my newly acquired habit; running, after tossing and turning throughout the night as my mate hardly acknowledged me whenever he came into the bedroom.

These days, he comes in very late in the night when he thinks I am deeply asleep and then very early, he will leave the room when he thinks I am still asleep. Unknown to him, I was very much aware of every one of his movements, enduring it in agony and wishing most times that I could give in to my natural instinct and touch him. Most times I even wake up in the middle of the night and just stare at him in abject longing, my heart breaking at having something so precious, yet, suffering in loneliness.

“Your highness,”

I flipped my eyes towards the bedside where Kora stood smiling down at me. Forcefully. I didn't even hear her enter the room.

“What?” I sat up from the bed and tossed the covers