The Reluctant Prince and His Substitute Bride

Chapter 9

“Who was that ” He asked.

“What business have you with my private affiars”Alexis shot back.

“Its a simple question”

“One that I will not answer”She said and walked pass him back to the kitchen.

Ryder signed and trailed behind her, following her back to the kitchen, only to be greeted by the sights of chopped veggies all over.

“Argh, what is with all the greens? ” Ryder asked as he made a nasty face as she went on chopping and steaming.

“You have never had anything but meat?” she joked

“Yes” He answered truthfully.

“Say what now?!?!?”

“I find greens unpleasant, I mean if we were meant to eat them then we will bunnies not werewolves” He said

“Werewolves ???” Alexis asked surprised.

“Your joking right??”she laughed nervously.

“What is there to joke about” Ryder said

She stared at him for a bit before she went back to her cooking as she fried some meat.

“Besides I was hoping to ask I never sniffed your scent, and you smell human all over, I heard the Veronica Duncan was quite a savage wolf in the Duncan pack, hoping you could show me how true that rumour is.”

What the f**k is he raving about werewolves and all this stuffs, is he high on something? She thought

“Yeah someday”she said absentmindedly

After she had had her dinner, she sat in front of the huge tv and began to watch the crime series CSI Miami,munching a bit of chips and chocolates

“Can you turn down the volume, I am trying to work here” Ryder boomed from the room.

“Will it kill you to say please dumpster”she yelled back with a mouth filled with chocolate.

The door suddenly bursted open and a mad Ryder came marching out and was about to attack Alexis when he saw his sitting room.

“What is going on here, and your calling me the dumpster huh?” he sneered as he stepped on a bag of Cheerios. A mess of wraps and cans of sodas. Another huge pile which were still untouched laid next to her as she had her eyes glued to the huge screen ignoring him completely.

“Veronica, this is a mess” Ryder said as he stood beside her expecting her to take care of her mess.

She kept on with the movie, and even went to laugh totally ignoring him.

“ VERONICA!!” he roared

“f**k has anyone ever told you that you're loud?” she whispered totally disinterested in him.

“Look at all this mess”he growled

“I can see this fine jerk, just a few wraps here and there doesn't mean it's that bad. Now if you don't mind I have a movie to continue.” She said and went back to her movie.

Ryder stood ,watching her for a moment before he walked back and slammed the door behind him.

He worked really late into the night and was so engrossed in this work that he had forgotten all about Alexis and her loud ethics. He checked the time when he was done

1:56am

Great I need to sleep.

He was stood up and had just relived himself from the toilet, when he heard that the tv was still running.

How can she be watching a movie this late?

He was so shocked at the sight that greeted him when he went out to force her to sleep.

She had finished the stockpile of potatoes chips, Cheerios chocolates and every snack she bought. The ground was completely covered in wraps that it was difficult to walk with trending on two ror more of them. Cans of sodas also laid all around the room ,and she laid sprawling, half covers with a blanket on the couch with the cutest snore. Her dark locks was all over and she had chocolate stains on her lips and shirt.

What did I get married to??

He thought as he stood ,starring at her for a moment.

She even left the tv running??

He chuckled and began to clean up her mess. He picked the wraps and the cans and disposed them in the trash can.

What does she finds sweet in all this liver weakening poison.

He wondered as he picked up a lone survival of her pile of corpses.

“Try it , trust me it's good ” A voice filled with sleep droned at him.

He turned suddenly to see Alexis staring at him with half shut eyes as she adjusted her sleeping posture and went back to sleep. He was pretty sure that she wasn't awake.

Huh, try it right? He wondered,staring at the bar of Snikers.

Slowly and with the caution of a bomb diffuser, he unwrapped the chocolate, took a deep breath and with a tensed body, he took a bite.

Bloody hell!!!!

This is wonderful.

He thought and devoured it quickly.

God, the goodness to imagine I have never eaten this marvelous food just because mother said it was had for my liver and it could kill me.

He began to clean up hoping to see another bar of chocolate left by Alexis ,but unfortunately she had eaten all.

After the cleanup, he switched off the tv and the lights and was about to go sleep in the room when he turned and saw Alexis sleeping in quite and unusual sleeping posture.

That's bad for her neck.

Why does she find it hard to share the bed with me?

He walked up to her and shook her gently

“Veronica, I need you to come to bed with me , the couch is no good for you ”

She answered him with a snore.

“Veronica ” he said as he gently rocked her

“Thats not my name” she said sleepy

“Huh??”

“Dont call me Veronica”

“Oh really? Then what should I call you”

“Alexis”

“Ok it's a nice name. Alexis come up to bed with me”he said as her shook her

She had sleep off again this time with no hopes of waking up.

Great am going to have to carry you to bed. He thought.

As he was about to carry her, he remembered how she had fought him off with her little hands when she had cracked her as earlier that morning.

He smiled and bent to pick her up

“What the f**k do you think you are doing” She roared

I'm dead.

“I wanted to take you to the bed because you look compressed on the couch and...” He tired to defend himself but suddenly stopped as he heard her snore again, this time louder.

Did she just sleeptalk???

He was so surprised at her defence even in her sleep.

Ok let's try that again.

As he bent to carry her again, she moaned a little and gave very little resistance before she finally gave up in his hands.

He gave a proud smile of triumph as he carried her bridal style to the bedroom.

That was easier than expected. He chuckled as he laid her down in the bed.

Just as he was about to let her go, she gave him a really hard kick that sent him sailing and crashing on the bulit in full length mirror which shattered on impact and sent shards of huge glass pouring in him.

I think I spoke too soon. He groaned as he held up his arm which had bits of glass poking in them.

Great I'm injured.

He thought the loud house of glass shattering was going to wake her up but as he stood up, he heard a soft snore as she cuddles closely to his pillow.

Huh she is quite the sleeper.

He softly picked himself up and walked down the kitchen.

In the kitchen he pulled out he shards of glass from his arm and washed off the blood. He had it covered with a few band aids, even thought he knew that in a day or two he was going to be peeling it off because as one of the benefits of being a werewolf was quick healing attributes.

H then swept the glass and settled on the couch.

It's best I sleep here rather than share a bed with that wildcub.

The next morning, Alexis woke up with an upset stomach which was immediately replaced with panic as she noticed were she was.

Something is not right .

I am pretty sure I sleep on the couch so why am I here on his bed??

Just at that moment,Ryder walked out of the shower with his white shite one and blue pajamas pants. His hair was wet and fell over his face shielding his eyes and he had a towel hung over his shoulder.

“Oh great you are up”He smiled

No!!

“What the f**k are you doing here”She screamed

“What do you mean by what I'm I doing here ,for Godsake this is my room ,my house for that matter”Ryder said as he dried his hair with the towel

“Oh No what happened???”she grasped for breath as she tried hard not to think what her mind was thinking.

“Oh last night...” he started and then he notice her expression and realized where she was heading at .

He smirked evilly

“...was one of the best night of my life I mean after the junk food spree we both passed out and..and...and..”

She began to fall short of breath as she tried hard not to imagine it

“...It was just fantastic!” He laughed

Then she cooled down and threw him a pillow

“f*****g liar” she chuckled

He laughed as he realized that she had figured out a hat had happened.

“i mean who gets a hangover on junk food”he laughed

“ Let's just say I have a weakness for them” she smiled

He pursed and watch her smile sincerely for the first time since he met her and she was stunning.

She has a beautiful innocent smile.

“You know that's the first thing you have told me about yourself” He smiled at her

“ Probably the last” she said as her regular frown came one like a switch replacing the beautifully smile.

Huh forget the innocent part she still rude.

“ I'll be leaving now” she said as she got off his bed and walked off.

While he was working, his mind kept drifting back to the night and the wonderful chocolate which he had.

I wonder if I can get more from her.

Suddenly he stood up and walked to the fridge, opened it up and began to check if she had some.

“Why are you going through my stuffs”she appeared behind him.

“Your stuffs??? This is my stuffs” he defended

“I separated your meats and spicies from mine so yeah it's mine also ” she said with her hands in her hips .

“Uhmm... I just wanted to ask, do you have ...ahhh... a bit of those bars of sweet liver poison remaining” he starmmered

“Sweet liver poison??” Alexis said confused

“Yeah you know what you Americans call chocolate”

“Oohh.. what do you want with my chocolate” she growled.

“I just had a taste of a bar last night for the first and it was just wonderful”

“Wait what!!?!? This is your first time taking chocolate??” she yelled.

“ Yes”

Great not only is he a mommy's boy but he is lacking in good food.

This is gonna be a long honeymoon Alexis.