Chapter 8: Nightmare

It’s been three days since that sudden ambush happened. There’s still fear in my heart after that because there are so many things coming to my mind lately. Even though I’m now prepared for everything, still I don’t want that to happen again.

If I’m going to sum up everything, my mate and I are always together. I don’t know what happened, but he seemed very protective after that incident, even if I didn’t tell him about it. No one knows about the sudden ambush in my residence, even my parents don’t know about that so I can’t pinpoint what was the reason he’s being like that although that’s very common to every couple since their safety is their priority it’s very unusual.

“Something’s in your head?” he asked while slicing the meat for me. Suddenly, the butterflies in my stomach started to fly when he met my gaze. It’s always been like this whenever I see him or he meets my eyes. My heartbeat will also become fast as if I’m nervous even though I’m not. Is this what love feels like? I don’t have any idea since I’m clueless about everything.

I shook my head at him and smiled, “Nothing. I was just enjoying the view of where you are cutting the meat for me.”

A smile crept over his lips that made me stunned to speak. “That’s how I treat you, my queen.”

After saying that, I can’t help but feel emotional. This isn’t what I’m expecting from my mate. I never imagined being with a wolf who treats me like his queen because I’m too far from that. However, I’m very thankful to him for letting me experience this kind of treatment, love, and caring from him. All my life, I’ve been facing tons of challenges, and I almost became heartless because I always tried to hide my emotions. They did not train me to be this strong, emotionless, and authoritative, but I have no choice because no one will make me feel protected.

I’m the one who’s in charge of everything because my parents didn’t even dare to make a move after my sister’s sudden disappearance. I understand their pain, but how can’t they just find a solution to locate my sister? Why is it always me? I even didn’t experience my youth before and I missed a lot of things to enjoy my life because of facing the problems that my parents passed on to me at a very young age.

It hurts me, but why can’t my parents do something about this? Can’t they see that I also need support and guidance from them? After being the CEO of our business, I have no other choice but to act like my father. Even smiling genuinely, I didn’t even make it so being teary eyes in front of my mate feels new. It’s been fifteen years since the last time I let my guard down so I feel shy, seeing like this.

“Why?” he asked when he saw how teary eyes I was while looking at him. I can also hear his voice become soft after seeing me like this, so I feel guilty for making him worry.

“I’m just happy. I didn’t expect you to treat me like this,” I answered.

His forehead creased after hearing my answer, “Expect the unexpected from now on. You’ll witness some of my surprises soon, so you better prepare yourself for that. But for now, you should eat. After this, we’ll go home, then you’re going to rest. Tomorrow, I’ll come to your residence again to fetch you up.”

“You’re being bossy, Lyall,” I commented, but he just raised his eyebrow at me, then gave me the fork to eat the steak that he sliced.

“I’m just trying to remind you and as far as I remember, you’ll rant again for not getting enough sleep because you didn’t sleep early. So who’s at fault? Me? That’s unbelievable, Louve,” he uttered, which made me laugh heartily.

“Stop laughing, Louve. I’m not even joking!” he commanded, but I can’t help but laugh at him because he also tried to act how I looked before ranting at him and also, I feel so special being babied by this wonderful werewolf.

“If you don’t stop, I’ll kiss you,” he warned, but I felt excited upon hearing him.

“Go on. I don’t feel scared,” I challenged him, which made his jaw clench. I just love to challenge him, but aside from that, I also miss his lips brushing my lips.

After that wonderful dinner with him, he drove me home just like he used to. Well, our night would not have ended if I didn’t place something on his skin to tell everyone that he was mine, which he did the same to me. The only problem is that there’s not just one but too many marks on my skin. Good thing, the place where I can hide it easily, so there’s no problem with that.

We haven’t done the ritual yet and we’re just making out or foreplay whenever we feel heat in our body, but after that, we are trying our best to limit ourselves, especially me because I still have to hide my problems with him. I can’t reveal it easily because it’s an enormous mess. Wizards and Vampires are our enemies here, and I can’t take the risk for him if his safety will be the exchange for our happiness.

For now, I need to finish everything before doing that since this is an enormous mess. I don’t want someone to get in trouble because of me, so there should be a limit every time, even if he’s my mate, and he’s powerful enough. I love him so much that I can’t afford to lose someone again. Not this time. Because I will do anything to get my revenge, to look for justice.

I let out a deep sigh and lay on my bed, thinking of another plan soon in case there was a sudden attack again, but my eyes became so heavy that I couldn’t even notice that I had fallen asleep. Maybe I can rest for now and face everything again tomorrow.

My forehead creased when I saw my sister smiling at me. I don’t know what’s happening, but I can see my sister, no, the grown wolf version of my sister, smiling at me. At first, I thought she was somewhat strange, but upon noticing the similarities between my father to her features, I couldn’t feel but to get emotional.

“You’re beautiful, Your Highness Celeste, and it’s been a while since the last time we saw each other,” she uttered. Her voice is soft, as if she’s whispering, but she’s not. She was just standing right in front of me, smiling innocently, but everything became blurry before I could hug her tight.

She’s now lying on the ground with a lot of blood in her mouth, crying in pain while there’s a huge wound on her chest, “Your Highness, I apologize for being a burden to our family. I apologize for being weak.”

“No! Don’t talk, Alazne! We can do something about your wound, okay? Just please, hold on,” I shouted. My hands began to tremble and my gaze started to blur because of my tears pouring down to my cheeks.

“I love you all, Your Highness Celeste. Please tell our parents that I love them too,” she muttered. But before I could reach for her hand, I came back to my senses where I was trying to catch my breath while my cheeks were so wet due to my tears.