Chapter 4
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KILLIAN
I let out a breath and took off my suit jacket and subsequently rested it on my chair before taking a seat. Saxon walked slowly and calmly approached my desk. He hadn't taken his eyes from me since he eavesdropped on my conversation in the forest. I tried my best to ignore it but right now, I'm losing it. "You have something to say, Saxon?"
He dropped his hands on the chair, resting half of his weight on it while he slanted forward. "Were you serious?"
I sighed. "About what?"
"You know what I'm talking about, Killian."
"Shouldn't I be?"
"What?!" He shrieked.
"You seem to have a problem with that," I stated.
"Well, you should as well." He gestured his hand.
"She's my mate." Stating the obvious, hoping he buys it and leaves. I really need to think about all this as well.
"Cut me that bulls!t Killian, I know you. You didn't give a damn when your mother committed suicide."
I glared at him. "I'm still your Alpha, besides why should I? Don't bring her up again." I deadpanned.
"Fine! I'm sorry." He raised his hands up in surrender. "I know she's your mate, but she's a freaking slave to a vampire!"
"Oh really? I didn't know that," I said sarcastically, as I tried focusing on the papers in front of me.
"You know how hard and..." He snickered. ",,,impossible it is to take a slave from a vampire. Plus, you have a chance to find a second mate! Why didn't you reject her?!"
"Saxon, it's my problem, not yours."
"I'm your beta, I have to worry about you."
I dropped my pen and comfortably leaned back on the chair. I gestured my hand to the chair facing me. He let out a breath and complied as he moved the chair back and took a seat. He gestured to me impatiently to go on.
"She's the one."
"Yes Killian, I know she's your mate," He replied.
I suspired. "Not that, she's the one we have been searching for."
His eyebrows scrunched in confusion, but it soon spread and widened in realization. "Wait, what?! She's the one that.......how did she end up being your freaking mate?!"
I shrugged and rubbed the crease on my forehead gently with my fingers. "I have no f!cking idea." Part of the reason why I needed to be alone and think.
"That's why you didn't reject her?"
I snorted. "I noticed who she was before realizing she's my mate, who's a freaking slave."
He nodded while chuckling. "So you would have rejected her."
"You know, I'm starting to hate how much you really know me." I smirked.
EVE
I waited, patiently, every day and night that past. Master Raymond still continued calling me every night to suck my blood. Nothing changed but my new-found feeling of hope. A month has gone by since I saw him, Alpha Killian, my mate. I didn't think it would take this long for him to get me out. After continuously occurring thoughts, I concluded he was plotting a way to get to Raymond's good list. I understand, it's not an easy thing to accomplish. Besides, he isn't just a werewolf, he is an Alpha that Raymond despises. I sighed and sipped my coffee. I suddenly felt a hand on my back. I turned around to meet Sabrina, one of the maids stood with a concerned smile on her face. "Sabrina." I smiled at her.
"Hey, are you okay?"
I nodded. "Why are you asking?"
"You don't seem okay."
"It's okay, I'm fine."
"She's lying to you, she's not." Raina replies as she walked narrowly towards us. I sighed and rolled my eyes. Sabrina turned to her.
"You know why?"
Raina folded her arms and stared at me with a smug look on her face. She must really feel like she knows me already. "Well, how would you feel if your boyfriend promises to come and take you but never shows up after a month?"
"Raina!" I yelled. I don't think Raina can keep a secret to save her life. Even though I didn't tell her it was a secret which I regret right now, she's matured enough to know what to not tell and what to tell.
"What?" She shrugged.
Sabrina gasped and slowly and dramatically turned to me with wide eyes. "You have a boyfriend?"
"Obviously not." I replied while glaring at Raina, who snickered in response.
Sabrina sighed and loosed her shoulders. "Of course not, you can't even leave the mansion. I can't believe I almost believed her." She narrowed her eyes at Sabrina and clicked her tongue before walking out of the kitchen with the broom I just noticed she had been holding. Raina just shrugged with that smile, not leaving a face.
"Why did you say that?" I asked her, a bit annoyed that she almost let out my business. Before you know it, it gets to Raymond's ears.
"Well, was I lying?"
I folded my arms and stared at her sternly. "What's with this act today?"
Raina and I became closer over the weeks that passed. She can be bubbly and playful, in what she calls her way of running out of her current situation. As much as she can be annoying and always in my business, she's good company and I know we both need each other to keep ourselves sane in this big, dark mansion. Of course, I haven't told her my story, because I am not ready to run back to that memory lane and get emotional, I want to be strong enough to let it out without shedding a single drop of tear. Though, we meet in my room or hers every day, with her mostly talking about her life before she was brought here. I only told her about my sister, how I was separated from her by these vampires and only knew that she was a slave as well, but I don't know who her master is and where she was transported to because, as much as I asked, Raymond wouldn't tell me and he was the only one in this mansion that knew. He warned me to never mention my sister to him again or he'd take me back to the basement and do all sorts of stuff, leaving new scares over old ones. That's how much she knows about my family. She spoke about how annoying and playful her master is compared to mine. I know nearly or possibly everything about her.
So her behavior today isn't what I call, usual. She folded her arms as well and looking at her expression, decides to act clueless. "What act? I don't know what you're talking about."
"What is it, Raina? Are you bothered about something you would like to share?"
She sighed and turned to the door. Just then, one of the maids walked past the kitchen. She turned back to me. "Can we talk in your room?"
I nodded and picked up the remaining of my coffee which had turned warm. I drank it all and dropped it on the sink. Raina and I walked out of the kitchen.
When we got to my room, I closed the door behind me as Raina made herself comfortable on my bed. I joined her and stared at her with concern. "What is it?"
She suspired. "I was busy cleaning Doric's room when I couldn't stop worrying about if Alpha Killian is really coming to fetch us then I realized something, you have never once said "us"."
I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. "Us? I don't get it."
"You have never once said he is going to take me as well, along with you."
I chuckled at that. "Really Raina? That's all?"
She slowly nodded. "I know, I have been saying us, all the time, but you never agreed on that or assured me. I jumped into conclusion."
"Raina, seriously. I thought it was obvious to you that I would definitely leave this place with you, not without you." I said slowly and carefully to be clear enough to her.
"Are you sure? You're not saying it because I have been rubbing it and pushing it at you, right?"
I nodded. "I am sure. You're my only true friend here. I know how it feels staying here and I do not wish you to stay as long as I did to a point where you lose all hope in the world. Or do you want to stay here?"
She hit me on the arm. "Ow!"
"Tell me that is a rhetorical question, because we both know the answer to that. Hell, I would beg you to my knees every day and hold onto your legs if you were thinking of leaving without me. Do you know what I have to deal with every day from that bloodsucker?"
"Trust me, I know." I replied and ran my eyes across the ceiling.
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