Chapter 579
As Xaden led me out of the hall I couldn’t Uther a single word.
Why?
Why had he just stood to defend me?
It made absolutely no sense to me.
I was led away and soon I don’t feel Auburn and Cherry’s glaring at me anymore.
The moment we made it to a private corner, I hastily withdrew from him.
“What was that about?” I asked him.
He blinked at me, taken aback.
“I didn’t like the way they spoke to you.” He stated point blank.
I hadn’t expected that response either.
Xaden who always wanted to hide me.
The very same Xaden who despised me was for some reason or the other taking my back.
Was it guilty?
Was it perhaps because the guilt of losing our child lurked deep within him.
It made me angry.
“There is no need for that.” I said adjusting the imaginary wrinkles on my dress. “I can take care of myself.”
“Jasmine you don’t understand this castle.” He said and then looked around me. “I’m here with you but I won’t be here for long.”
I blinked in disbelief.
What did that mean?
“What do you mean you won’t be here for long?” I asked.
He seemed hasty and upset that he had said those words.
“It means nothing.” He said. “Will you come for the event? The Queen might want to see you.”
I thought of all the people who would be there.
Ex friends of my father who most likely wanted to kill me with secrets they believed I had.
And I thought about how o had caught the king himself sleeping with his sister in law.
I shuddered in horror.
I still had no idea to go about that.
“It’s not quite my thing.” I said. “Princes Auburn deserves to have her moment. Being long lost grand daughter of the King and Queen of all wolves is worth celebrating.”
I envied Auburn for what she had.
Finding her grand mother, her family.
What a ludicrous dream that I, a slave and latent wolf who never shifted would be born into such powers.
I simply wanted to find my mother’s family.
That was all that genuinely mattered.
“Moreover I don’t fit.” I said more tho myself than to him.
“Does anyone ever really fit anywhere?” He asked me.
I rose a brow confused because he was right?
I felt him step closer to me and he was barely an inch away from me.
He was staring right down, his handsome face and the spot where he had had a scar over his eyes looking me.
There was something written there.
The sudden tension that erupted between us.
I wanted to push him away from me, but my hands were weak.
I should hate him.
After all he had done to me.
After all he had done to us.
And yet here he was, his face getting closer to me while I stood.
I could feel his breath and suddenly, the de ja vu of how hot his body pressed on mine used to be, overwhelmed me.
There was a lingering hunger within me.
Hunger that I had believed had been fed and killed.
But rather it felt like it had been starved and was only holding out for what it deserved.
He reached his hands into my newly raven hair and squeezed the curls.
He used his free hand to catch my waist and pulled me up to him.
It was at that moment I felt the bulge and in that instant my body became warm with memories of the hunger of our lovemaking.
I could barely breathe when he sniffed my hair.
“God Jasmine.” He swore.
The way he called out my name made me weak to the bones and my knees trembled.
I moaned softly as his lips went to my ear.
No kissing or nibbling, simply hovering as though testing me in
The call of my Alpha.
The call of the man who had married me and given me a child.
His fingers traced my waist line in expertise and sent my head on fire.
My mind screamed NO!
And yet my body said yes.
My body and hunger told me this was what I want.
My inner parts throbbed in anxiety and desire to be bent in that corner and ravished.
At that moment, just when Xaden had tilted his head to mine, one of his men interrupted us.
“My Lord.” He said.
I jumped away from him in that instant.
I mistakenly pushed a servant who was passing with a tray of food and everything came tumbling down.
The stainless tray crashed and made such a loud sound that brought me back to reality.
Scattered and a mess, I went down to the floor and began helping the servant pick the fruits before placing them on the tray.
“It’s fine.” The servant told me as she gathered it. “Thank you.”
“No it’s my fault.” I stuttered as I handed her the last apple.
She smiled and left.
And the horror of it all was exposed.
I looked around and saw that we were still standing in a barely closeted corner and I had wanted him to make me there and then.
Xaden stood speaking to the Omega from our pack who had interrupted us.
Good Goddess!
What of the Queen had caught me?!
What if the King himself has caught us?!
He would use that to kick me out or revoke the immunity the Queen her placed on me and I would never be able to find my mother’s family.
What the hell was wrong with me?
Was I so shameless that after everything I had witnessed with him I was still nothing but a shameless girl who was always going to be at his beck and call?
I should hate him and yet here I was, so wet it slippery warmth spilled down my thighs.
Evidence of how hungry and shameless I was towards me.
I turned around and fled.
“Jasmine! Wait!” I heard him call out to me.
But I didn’t stop.
I ran far away.