Submitted to Love

Chapter 6

--Adrian--

I was sitting alone in my room after the incident today with Isabella. My thoughts were awry and subconsciously drifted back to the girl. My wolf is enamored of her. It keeps replaying the intimate moments we just shared.

I needed to calm down after all that transpired in the ball. Holding Isabella in my arm and breathing in her scent lulled the anger inside me. What intrigued and aroused me most was the smell of her own arousal. It was like a drug to me. Everything became a distant object the moment I caught a whiff of her arousal.

Frustratingly,  thinking about her has given me a very painful hard-on and I need a cold shower right now.

She affects me in a way that is unexplainable ….except perhaps by the fact that she might be my mate. That thought dampens my mood. I do not want a mate right now and I definitely did not want a human. A she-wolf by my side would complete my vision of transforming the villages. She would not be needing constant protection as she would possess heightened senses and strength.

I was wallowing in my back luck when my mother walked in.

"Ady honey. Are you okay ?" Mom asked me softly after sitting by my side.

"Yes mom..I am okay now."

" Get some sleep sweetie. I will get someone to send some food for you. And before you complain let me remind you young man, a grown up wolf does not function on an empty stomach. " My mother glared at me. There is simply no point refusing her.

"Honey, Isabella will be staying inside the castle with us from now on. "

"What!!! Why? Why do we need some random village girl in the castle ?. Also our secret will be revealed to her. Why mom ? We do not need some ordinary peasants here."

I was stunned to hear this piece of news.  I was counting on her dismissal after Justin's wedding and before my birthday so that I and my wolf could avoid finding a mate. The fact that she will be present always in this castle riled me up so much that I almost shouted at my mother.

"Watch your tone Adrian. The poor girl has been neglected, mentally abused, assigned back breaking domestic work and denied basic events in a child's life. Have you not noticed how thin she is ? It is because she has always been starved. Finally her Aunt sold her here , so that she never returns home. I will not make that poor girl leave this place ever unless she wishes to leave on her own accord. You get that clear young man."

The anger I am feeling right now was enough to burn down the whole castle. If my mother has not been in front of me surely a furniture or two would have suffered my wrath. How can someone treat a child like that ? My wolf wanted blood and this time so did I. Not surprisingly my instinct to protect her doubled. I wanted her here , next to me , in my room and I wanted to give her everything I can.

"My my. For someone against her residing in the castle you sure seem pissed at her ordeal back home." My mother's voice broke my train of thought.

I cleared my throat and replied normally . " As a future Alpha I would like my villagers to be treated justly"  I replied as normally as I could manage. But there was no way I could hide my charcoal black eyes.

" They need to be killed." I added staring at my mom.

"Calm down my baby boy. They will be punished as per the rules. We will leave it to the village council to decide….I know you are trying to avenge a mistreatment, but involving ourselves in matters of the village will not bring back Isabella's childhood will it ? We can try to give her here everything she deserves.

She will be helping you out with the event management. I want her under your protection all the time. I have asked for a meeting day after tomorrow. She needs a day to wrap her head around her new life."

My mother left me alone with those words.

I groaned internally. While I never meant to leave her without any protection, working with her is surely going to be difficult with the attraction and tension I feel towards her.

Pinching the bridge of my nose I breathed in deeply. I won't let any peasant girl distract me from my ambition. I am going to keep my distance from her as long as it is needed.

Making the promise to myself, I made my way to the kitchen to fetch some food and stopped midway on my track when I spotted Isabella. Soundly asleep with a hot chocolate cup in one hand and a photo in another. Her face was smeared in tears. The sight bled my heart and before I realized what I was doing, I scooped her up and took her to my room where I wrapped in warmly in my blanket and planted a soft kiss on her head.

I left the room so as to not make her uncomfortable in the morning. I have to share a room tonight with someone but I cannot be very far away from her. Justin and Joseline's room is adjacent to mine and Callum's is the immediate next. I planned to share the room with Callum for night and informed Justin of Isabella's presence in my room.

I broke my promise even before I started to act on it...I sighed heavily. This will be tougher...much tougher than I originally anticipated. Only hope is that she is not my mate. Then this attraction would disappear on my eighteenth birthday.