novelxo Chapter 209
199-Take Off Your Clothes
Author's POV:
Two Days Ago:
'Can you stop crying and tell me what happened? Who did that to you?" Maddox had sat her down in the car the instant he found her and taken her to where he was headed.
u-choose café.
'It was a big monster!" she hiccupped while wailing. She was still traumatized by what she had encountered.
'A monster?" Maddox frowned at her, not sure if he could trust her words in the state she was in.
'Have you been drinking?" he asked her, and she opened her mouth but then shut it instantly.
■took a few shots - but I know what I saw," she didn't lie to Maddox as she did take a few shots before the whole branding thing was done. She thought a little booze would help her get distracted, but now her credibility was getting questioned.
'Where did you see that monster?" Maddox asked her, his eyes traveling to her neck and noticing the marks on her skin.
'Wh-en I was headed to the fields," she murmured in guilt, as she had no business to be in those fields.
'That's where-- why did you want to go there?" Maddox was more stern after remembering Beatrice.
'I was just walking around when somebody grabbed me and pulled me into the tall grass. It was so scaly-," she cringed, hugging herself at the memory of the monster.
'Okay! Calm down now. He tried strangling you?" Maddox wasn't sure why a monster would want to strangle her and not eat her alive.
Besides, where the heck did this monster come from?
'He clawed me in the back," she then said, holding her shirt tightly.
'Show me the claw mark," Maddox said as he pulled away from her to take a good look at her back.
'I am - I don't want to go naked in front of you,* she instantly turned her face to the other side and puzzled Maddox.
'Why not?" he asked in bewilderment.
'You know very well why not,' she responded to him in a bit of a sad tone. The fact that he was so clueless was unsettling to Reign.
'I know what you mean, but-," he paused when she turned around to face him.
'So, you felt it but didn't feel like talking about it?" Reign had been keeping the truth to herself and excusing Maddox's ignorance. She had somehow convinced herself that maybe he didn't talk about it because he didn't feel it.
However, it seems like she was wrong.
'Yes! I have felt it with you, but Reign! I have felt an even stronger mate bond with someone else.' Maddox didn't hesitate to talk to her about his feelings. He had been feeling extremely lonely ever since Helel died. His brothers had been avoiding each other, and Flynn was walking around wearing Helel's crown.
It wasn't easy for him to act normal and keep all these things to himself.
'Is the rumors true?" She asked him in a whisper, "That you felt a mate bond with your stepsister?" she continued.
'She wasn't my stepsister from the beginning. And yes! What Dream told you is true: I was in love with Beatrice!' He knew for sure that Dream was the one walking around confirming the rumors.
'I -Reign, sat back and sighed.
'The problem is- I still love her. It is not easy to forget your fated mate, especially when she is your desired one." Maddox closed his eyes to take a deep breath and then focused on Reign. "Take your shirt off. I need to take a picture of it and do some research. If what you are saying is true and there is indeed a monster in the field, then she might be in danger," he spoke freely, even when he could tell his affection and concern for Beatrice was upsetting Reign.
*Okay!" Reign said and took off her shirt. Maddox took the picture first before he examined the mark. His heart broke for Reign. He could tell she must be in excruciating pain. He helped her put on the shirt, and soon she rushed into his arms to cry out loudly.
He didn't want to push her away or comfort her. She was his second mate, after all. But then his eyes traveled to a sight that enraged him. Seeing Beatrice brought back too many memories of him, and he felt an urge to take his rage out.
So he did what he thought was the best option. He cupped Reign's face and kissed her while making direct eye contact with Beatrice. Reign was in shock for a moment before she melted and kissed him back. She completely forgot about Mykel for a moment. Beatrice's eyes shone with tears. Maddox could tell it affected Beatrice.
Beatrice kept watching them before she lowered her head and ran into the café. Maddox didn't feel like continuing anymore.
After he broke the kiss, he closed his eyes and covered his face with his hands. It wasn't that it didn't hurt him; he just wanted to punish someone for what happened to Helel.
'I don't und―," Reign paused once she saw Beatrice inside the café from the glass windows. "You did it because you knew she was watching?' Reign felt hurt, but it wasn't like she just didn't cheat on Mykel. 'Why are you punishing her and yourself?" Reign sighed and looked at Maddox, who was in pain.
'Pain is all we are going to get now," Maddox answered as he remembered how forbidden their relationship is now.
'Maybe you can-,' Reign had to hold her emotions in and give him some relationship advice when he interrupted her.
'Do you want to help me?" Maddox let out a sigh and asked Reign, watching her nod her head miserably. She couldn't say no to him in any situation.
'Let's have breakfast here," he said to Reign, who understood that he was only doing all that to piss Beatrice off and take revenge on her for something that she wasn't aware of.