Chapter 18: Chapter 18

Poking my head out of the small space, I look around. It is all clear.

At a point in time, my wolf would have been amused at how paranoid I am being right now, but the weight of everything is holding her down and it’s my duty to shield.

She has already being through enough.

I pull myself out of the room and quietly close the door.

This is paranoid me is stepping out of my room.

I try to make my steps quick as I look around for the library. The last thing I want is for Sebastian to see me.

I open the door to the library-

Goddess, it’s gigantic.

How am I going to find it in here

And some people say they want to get married to a guy who has this- a big library.

I walk to the werewolf section and look around. There must be something about a double mark in one of these books.

I just have to find the right now.

“Looking for something?” I jump out of my skin when I see Sebastian standing in a row of books.

Of course, he would find me.

He can sense me through the bond, our half bond.

“Are you stalking me?”

I notice how his eyes darkens as he stares at me, “Why would I do that?”

“I don’t know…maybe because you are a freak,” My fingers graze a book, expecting a peck of dust but I see none.

This place is actually cleaner than I expected.

“Ah, you’re hurting my feelings here,” He smirks, feigning hurt as I walk pass him with a book in my arm, “Is this how you want to use you freedom to hurt me?”

I shrug as I sit down on a chair, cross my legs on the table in front of me, and gaze at him as I open up the book, placing it high up, close to my face.

“That’s actually not a bad idea. Maybe, seeing you bleed will be fun.”

He finds a seat and places it in front of me before he sits, “Are you flirting with me?”

“You wish. That can only happen in your dreams, and in those dream I will do that when you take your last breath.”

He scoffs, “I see you still have that mouth on you. It went up a notch.”

“Your blood is going to be plastered on this walls then we can talk about my mouth because I am going to drink your blood,” I smirk.

He drags his fingers through his hair, making him have that boyish look. The one that makes females go crazy. The one slowly making me crazy.

He scoffs, “I never took you for a vampire but that’s not what I came to talk about.”

I don’t answer him as he leans forward with his hands clasped.

I can barely focus on what I am reading.

I don’t even know what I am reading.

He always forces my attention to himself when he steps in to a room. It’s a classic thing that I am getting tired of.

“Talk faster. I got a lot to read about,” I turn the page over and watch him from the corner of my eyes.

“Grace told me that you want nothing to do with me.”

So she’s a tell tale.

“Isn’t that obvious. You’re a lunatic, a freak and you’re very frustrating. That’s not actually the end of it.”

I close the book and come face to face with him.

He sucks on his bottom lip and stares, “You know that’s not true.”

“I know not to believe a word you say, Sebastian but I am asking you to tell me when I am getting out of here, and I want the truth.”

He smiles and leans back, “How about never.”

“Hmm, that’s a very strong word. How about right now,”He watches me through hooded eyes.

“All I need you to do is remove that weird thing you did to me. I don’t want my insides to get fried.”

“I can’t.”

“You can’t or you won’t,”I narrow my eyes at him.

“Let’s say a little of both.”

I scoff, “And yet I though you were a king, I’m sorry I took you for someone else.”

His expression changes and I drop the book on the table.

“You’re testing your luck a little too much, Minerva,” The dark look he gives me sends a shiver down my spine, “You are a prisoner and you will remain to be that.”

“Didn’t your wife say the opposite?” I nod my head to my question, “Yeah, she did.”

He sighs, the dark look fading away as he digs his back in to the chair, “Paul and Gwen thinks what I did to you is wrong, but can’t I be selfish for once. All I do is for the kingdom. Everything is for the kingdom. Can’t I do one for me,just one thing, Minerva.”

You mean, what you are doing to me is wrong…

Sadness falls like a heavy cloak on him and my wolf whimpers. She doesn’t like seeing him sad even after all he has done to you.

He turns his face to me, “Frankly, even in my selfishness. I can’t stop doing things for the kingdom.”

“That’s why you marked me,” I mutter.

“Yes, the kingdom needs a strong heir and who better to give me that but you, my true mate,” He gestures, “I am sorry for hurting you, Minerva but I will do anything to make this work.”

The strange glint in his eyes doesn’t disappear as he stands up, it is only gone when he is.

“Yeah, that’s right. Make me feel bad for you, just to make me mad again,” I mutter with a roll of my eyes, “Crazy bastard!”

“I can hear you.”

I am startled and I look back to glare at his smirking face, “That’s not really nice.”

“Well, I don’t want to be nice. It was never found in my dictionary. Please, leave me to sulk in peace,” I lean back in to the chair and take the book in to my hands again.

“I never asked you to be nice, Minerva. I love you the way you are.”

Frowning, I turn back to ask what he means but he isn’t behind me anymore.

It’s crazy how he can make me jump from being angry to being sad and then, confused. The mood swings are making me wonder if I have my heat coming up.

That will be bad for business.

I glare at the book in my hands as I stand up, “Look what you’ve caused. I just had to see his face again.”

My wolf grunts, possibly because she doesn’t know what to believe anymore, she barely knows what to feel.

With the book in my hands, I walk to my room. Gladly, no one is here to see me as I sulk down the halls.

I jump on my bed and open the book in a second. Just as if the book read my mind, the page I turn is the one I have been searching for.

The double mark.

It looks back at me with thick ink and I smile.

The door bangs open and I spring from the bed immediately, hiding the book under the pillow after I close it shut.

Turning back, I sight Gwen and she walks towards me with Estella behind her.

“How did you get here?”

They both share glances before looking back at me.

“What are you doing here? Why would you bring her here?”

And how did you know her in the first place. I should have probably asked that first.

Gwen rolls her eyes, “You ask a lot of questions. It’s getting annoying but I like it.”

Estella ignores her, “I think I have a way to get out of here.”