Chapter 58: Chapter 58

Chapter 58 I am hideous

LUCIUS' POV

'Mate! Mate! Mate!'

Lucian kept dancing around in my head as I tried to hide myself from her.

'What the fuck is she doing here, Neal?' I asked through the mind link.

Being in this hideous form, I could not speak properly. Every word I tried to say came out as growling.

'To help you get better. Duh,' he replied.

'No! Get her out of here! Have you forgotten how I look?' I ordered.

"No, Lucius! She has already seen you like this. You need her to be back to your old self. It's already a little too late to hide." He said out loud while looking at me.

I growled at him and pulled the covers over my head.

How dare he defy my orders? I will surely punish him once I get back to my old self.

"I am begging you, Maia. If your mate bond can help bring him back to his old self, I promise that as soon as he is himself again, I will let you leave. No one would know that you were here. Please." I heard Neal say.

My heart ached when I heard Neal begged.

'I told you, she fears me. Are you really fucking stupid, you dimwit?' I growled through the mind link.

'She's not scared, Lucius! She is just lost. Will you just fucking shut your mouth and cooperate? I am trying to get you to your old self. Unless you want to stay like that, then fine by me. I can easily tell her to leave,' Neal spat.

It took me aback by what he said.

The next couple of minutes passed with complete silence. I knew she was still in the room. I could hear her heartbeat and I could sense her.

"I know you know I am here. You are shy or maybe scared, I am seeing you like this. You shouldn't be. No matter how ugly you look, we are mates, no matter what. If me being here can help you shift back to your human side, then I will stay. I am not here because Neal forced me. I am here because you are my mate and I should look out for you the same way you did for me. So, please let me help." She said, breaking the silence between us.

To be honest, I felt bad when she said that. I had been a jerk to her when all she was trying to do was help. What could I do? I did not want her to see me like that, but here I was, a couple of feet away from her, looking like a hideous demonic beast.

'How is she not scared of how I look?' I asked myself.

'Because she is our mate, you stupid human!' Lucian barked.

Lucian had a point. Still, I really thought she would run away the moment she saw me like that.

'Stop being stupid and talk to our mate! Let her help! She came all the way back here just to help us and look at what you are doing - pushing her away!' Lucian snapped.

I let out a sigh and slowly lowered the sheet that was covering me. As soon as I lifted my head, our eyes met, and I saw her eyes lit up.

"Is there anything you want? Food? Water?" She asked.

What did I do to deserve a mate like her? She did not deserve me. She deserved someone better.

'Stop being so dramatic and answer her, you idiot!'

I shook my head in response since I could not really talk when I was in that stupid, hideous form.

"Do you want me to get you a pen and a board? Neal mentioned you can't talk when you are in this form and I am not yet part of the pack, so we can't really talk through the mind link." She said.

I nodded right away.

She stood up from the chair and left the room to get it; I assume. A couple of minutes later, she came back with a whiteboard, marker and eraser.

"Do you need help to sit up?" She asked, looking at me with her pretty eyes.

I slowly nodded my head, still hesitant.

She placed the whiteboard on the bedside table and helped me sit up. The sparks that shot throughout my body when our skins touched were enough to drive my manhood crazy. It took me all the self-control I had in me to stop myself from throwing her on the bed and making her cum all day and all night long.

For the next couple of hours, we talked about what she had been doing when she left and how I was. For lunch, she suggested preparing a meal instead of having the Omegas cook for us.

As much as I wanted to help her, the stupid claw would not allow me. Instead, she had me stay in the room while she prepared lunch.

An hour and a half later, she came back with a big tray of meat.

"It's lunchtime!" She exclaimed, putting the tray of meat on the bed table.

She went out again and came back a couple of seconds later, holding a plate of meat with bread. I watched her as she sat down on the chair near my bed while munching on a piece of meat.

"You should start eating while it is still hot. It won't taste good if it is cold." She said.

I let out a grunt to let her know I agree.

Looking at the tray, there was a sizable chunk of meat, and I immediately took it with my ugly paw. As much as I did not want her to see how I ate, I was really starving. When I was in that hideous form, I ended up eating like a child and a dog. I HATED IT!

I quietly watched her as she ate, but she looked like she did not even have a single care in the world.

After our lunch, she asked if I would want to go to the lake.

The lake - where it held a lot of my memories of her with me.

No matter how I wanted to say no and just lock myself up in the room, the way her eyes lit up when she talked about the lake was something I could not just ignore. It seemed like she saw my uneasiness when she wrapped a big blanket to cover my body before walking out to the deck.

Even though I told myself that I would just watch her, I could not help myself when she asked me to join her in the water.

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