Chapter 4

He was standing in front of us. Adam was in his signature cloth, black expensive jeans and black T shirt. There was silver chain on his chest with the letter E as an initial. His eyes raked my body from the top to the buttom and then his eyes landed on my waist, halted at the hand of Jimmy that was casually resting there before glancing back at me. His eyes finally landed on our faces. He blatantly ignored mine ans acted like I wasn’t there when he finally addressed Jimmy with his deep voice.

“Maroon, thank you for the help of earlier.” His eyes glanced back down to my waist like he couldn’t help it. This time, Jimmy removed his hands. I could tell he was now uncomfortable. I was starting to get uncomfortable too.

“It’s no problem Prince Adam.” Jimmy laughed nervously. It was so fake I had to glance up at him.

“Err, yes. We have to go now.” I butt in. Adam didn’t even bat an eyelid at me. His eyes remained on Jimmy.

“Goodbye, Maroon.” He said and side stepped us. Both me and Jimmy looked confused till we made our moves.

I was a bit confused as to why he ignored my existence but I shrugged it off. It was all for the better.

“Okay, that was creepy as hell. It felt like the Prince wanted to fry me alive.” Jimmy said and I laughed

“Let’s just go.” I closed the subject simply and Jimmy seemed to understand cause he immediately changed the topic which got us to playing again.

I sighed as soon as I settled myself on the bed. Today had been an exhausting one and I had barely even used any energy. The prince was to blame for everything. The little sneaky man sneaking on poor unknowing women during unknown times. I sighed again, decided if I should remain on the bed or go down for a snack.

“Did you know that they say you lose a pant or blood when you sigh. You should be careful, I don’t really need you to die anytime soon.” A deep voice reverberated through the whole house. I jumped up highlighting whole house with my scream.

I turned to the other side of my room, still horrified. Prince Adam stood still there, casually resting on the walls of my room like it was okay and very frequent to be lounging in my room. I wanted to scream.

“What do you think you are doing?” This time, the wrath of my voice reverberated through the thin walls of my room. How I hadn’t even noticed him earlier was beyond me. It was hard to have though, the walls of my room was dark so his dark clothes blended smoothly with hat that dark corner of my room.

“Hey, you don’t need to scream okay. Even I didn’t want to be here.” Adam raised his hands up in innocence.

“So why are you? What are you doing here?” My voice was still thundering within the whole house. The prince had really ticked me off and annoyed me to an extent.

“Because he has his hands all over you and I couldn’t take it. My Lycan was begging to end him. You had his fucking smell all over you. And now, that. That is the exact reason I am here because if I don’t see you and can’t see you, I’ll do something you’ll consider stupid and won’t even bat my eyelid.” Now, it was Adam’s turn to be angry. I was confused.

“Something stupid?” I asked and now, he sighed.

“You know, sighing makes you lose a pant or blood.” I absentmindedly commented and he raised his beautiful face to glare at him. Okayy.

“I would have hurt him. And that would have hurt you and I don’t want to deal with that right now. My Lycan is contended seeing you like this. Even if you still have his smell all over you. At least you are home and didn’t end up in God knows to do some dirty deeds.” He ended and ruined it.

“What if? What if I did dirty things it’s none…” my speech didn’t end. I was now against the wall, Adams hands on my neck and his face close to me.

“You don’t want to push me to do what you don’t want, Sweetheart.” He whispered to my ear and I shivered. The stupid mate bond.

“I’ll take my leave now.” Adam said and disappeared before I could even blink. What was that about, I wondered. I closed my eyes and tried to breathe. Goddess wasn’t really punishing me like this. What did I do?

I was still staring up at the ceiling, feeling myself doze up a bit when I heard my dad come in. I didn’t want to deal with any of his talk, I knew rumors would have passed around about me and the Prince and I wasn’t a bit ready for it. I just wanted to sleep. And not talk to anyone.

“Cody.” My dads voice stilled the silence in my room and I simply closed my eyes, refusing to move my body and pretending to be fast asleep. I didn’t want to do that to him but I just wanted to be alone.

Dad came closer to me, touched my face and kissed my forehead. “I love you little one.” He sighed and I could feel tears prickle my eyes. Ever since he lost my mother and although, I never saw him before the she died, I knew there once used to be a light behind his eyes. I wanted to hug him and tell him I understood everything. I wanted to tell him it was okay to be happy without mum. But I knew that wouldn’t work. He had lost his mate and had been rewarded by her exact replica.

“And I know you are awake, little one. But I’ll give you time. You must have a reason. Come down for dinner, I’ll prepare it now. I don’t think I would be around. I love you.” Dad said and I wasn’t surprised. He could probably hear my fast beating heart.

“I love you too dad, now off you go.” I moaned out and he laughed and stood up. Dad was nice enough not to bring up wether he had heard the rumor or not. And I was glad for that. At least for the moment because he was a nosy one. My eyes began to close, finding a cool rhythm and the beat of my heart slowed down. Before my eyes got drunk with unconsciousness, I briefly remembered Adam’s hands on my neck and my throat and his smell and his closeness. I slept off.