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LIRA'S POV
“I came back not to be your mate. Please, reject me. Zild. This will make both out lives way more miserable than it already is.” He momentarily stopped and gently put me to the ground.
“I will not do that. Spare your energy. Your return is anticipated so I cannot do what you want. Whether you like it or not, I am your man and you are my woman. I marked you years ago and that makes us bonded. “
Does this man secretly loves me? Why can’t he let me go?
“Stop thinking too much about it, Lira. I do not love you. I am simply living to follow rules. “
Fuck! I forgot he can read my thoughts
It is strange though. He can hear my thoughts but I cannot seem to hear his. Isn't that a bond thing to hear your partner's thoughts?
Maybe we aren't partners all along, maybe the marking wasn't effective or maybe it was not completed back then. I touch my neck, I can clearly feel the mark so I knew that’s not it.
Either way, I need to make him wanna reject me. I look at him suspiciously. “I cannot read all your thoughts, just those thoughts that you are heavily thinking about. The more you think about it, the easier I can read it.”
I caress my neck, where his mark from years ago is located. I watch as he leads the way. I don't have anywhere to go and he is the only one who is willing to give me a shelter for tonight when my own family kicked me out. “If I was able to dodge him that day, my life would have been so much better now. “ I thought to myself.
This bond cost me my freedom and my relationship with my family. Once this is over, mi will take my family back. Before ant of that happen, I need to make sure that he is not taking me somewhere to secretly murder me.
The place feels foreign to me. I do not remember taking this way back then.
“Are we still far from the place?”
"Are you okay?" He looks back and asked me, his eyes were on my feet "does your feet aches? I can carry you if you want to."
He was just grumpy earlier and now he's giving me concern.
That's a red flag right there! Too many mix signals!
I crossed my arms. "No need. I can walk on my own. It's just we've been walking for a while now. This kingdom does not seem to be very poor, why can't we just take a ride home? You are a prince, isn't that one of your advantages?"
He took a sigh as he turns his head back to the road. "Just keep walking then. I don't even know why I bothered asking. You are still as selfish as you were back then and ungrateful."
My eyebrow ark when I heard those two adjectives. I was never selfish, I just don't want to be controlled by their power. I just rejected being under their dominance.
Is choosing what's best for me, selfish?
"Now, I am the one who is selfish? You are the one who can't seem to let go of whatever bond we have just because you want me miserable. Come on, if you just agreed to reject me easily then we wouldn't even have come to this situation. I will be gone and you will have your life back. See? Win and win." I commented, we stopped walking for a while.
He turned his body, facing me as we talked or should I say argue.
"You left while the whole pack is basically in your hands that time. Don't talk about selfishness here. You'll win every single time." His eyes are like a void, you cannot see what's in it nor can you guess what's missing in it.
I stand there utterly confuse about the things he's saying. "Whatever! I don't even know w-what you are talking about! Also, are we near yet? We have been walking long now!”
He turn his body back to the path and his hand raised, pointing a manor, with shiny lights outside. "That's where we are going to stay for tonight"
We arrived in a manor. There were few servants who greeted us at the door. An old lady stands among them.
“Is this the lady, your highness?” Zild just nodded and went inside.
“Welcome to your abode, our highness.”
I wave my hands in front of me and shyly bow my head. “Please drop the formalities, I am just a woman who will spend a night here. I will be gone by tomorrow so please don’t bother.”
The old woman scans my figure with his eyes.
“You can’t be just anyone, I can remember your face, you are definitely her. This house is a betrothal gift, crafted by the prince himself so he won’t bring just anyone here”
My jaw dropped when I heard that. Zild is a prince, when did he learn how to build a house and not buy them?
“W-Wait? This is a marriage house?. Our marriage house!??”
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