novelxo Chapter 44
Chapter 44
KATHERINE:
It was time for dinner.
I headed downstairs and when I got to the dining, it was empty. The meals were neatly arranged on the table, but Leo and Tanya were absent.
As I turned around, I heard Tanya’s voice on the stairs,
“Waiting for me? Sorry for being a late ass, so..” She walked past me, but halted when she couldn’t find Leo, “Where’s your mate?”
Why does she like saying that all the time,
“I have no idea where Leo is. I haven’t seen him since we returned.”
Thankfully, Blake began coming down the stairs. When he got us, he kept a straight face which I found a little bit off. “Where’s Leo? Isn’t he coming down for dinner?”
“The Alpha had his dinner before your arrival, and he’s in his chambers attending to work. If you’d excuse me.” Blake uttered and began to walk away. I didn’t want to talk about how he was constantly avoiding Tanya’s gaze while he spoke,
“Do you want to go check on him?” I turned around and asked Tanya, but she left me a smile,
“I’m not his mate, you are, so you do the checking, Tanya responded and began to walk toward the dining table. I took the stairs and began heading towards Leo’s room, but at every step, my heartbeat only increased. I stood by the entrance, contemplating whether to rasp a knock or not.
After taking a deep breath in, I rasped a knock on the door, telling myself that I only wanted to check up on him.
There was no answer, but I knocked for the second and then the third before the door opened,
“Leo?” I called his name because he wasn’t at the entrance when the door opened. I walked into the room to see him standing close to the mirror, but even more shocking, he was half–naked with a towel tied around his waist,
I gulped down nothing and turned around Immediately,
“Okay, I’m just going to leave and come back when you’re fully..”
“Stay” His words made me freeze at my spot, and I felt cold shivers run down my spine. “Stay, Katherine.” He said again, but this time, he wasn’t behind me, he was in front of me.
I swallowed a lump of saliva down my throat, all sorts of thoughts running through my mind. For the first time since I found out Leo could hear thoughts, I was so thankful that he couldn’t do so for mine because I had a lot running through my head at
the moment.
His index finger raised my chin so I could stare at him,
“Thought I told Blake I was busy.”
“I just wondered how you were doing because I didn’t see you even after I was back.”
“Okay, and now you’re seeing me. Is there anything you wanna tell me?” He asked, and in my mind I just uttered,
“You looking fucking hot right now.” I flinched in fear, “Please don’t tell me you heard that!” I asked.
“Heard what?”
His reply gave me the best response I ever got from anyone in a while, “Heard nothing. I just..” This time around, my back was on the wall and his two hands trapped me in between. “I could devour you if you keep staring at me like that.” He whispered to
me
“Leo, what are you doing?” I asked him with beads of sweat forming on my forehead. Everywhere had become so hot even with the air conditioner turned on.
“Staring at you, hold on.”
Chapter 44
“You need to stop it with this speed of a thing, it could..”
“Shhhhhh,” he uttered and raised one hand, then he began to lean closer to him, and I shut my eyes tight thinking about what he was going to do next,
“You can open your eyes, Katherine, I wasn’t going to kiss you. I wouldn’t do that without your permission.”
I scoffed at him. Why the hell was I a little angry at that statement? “What? Oh, I didn’t think you were going to kiss me just now. I just…
“I heard your thoughts, and earlier too.” He said, showing me the rose petal that had been stuck in my hair from the makeover Tanya and I had earlier gone out to do.
I widened my eyes, “what? How is that possible? I thought I was immune to your..”
“Guess it’s when you let your guard down or I’m wrong, I have no idea, but I heard your first and second thoughts.”
“Fuck!” I murmured to myself, clutching my fingers, and thinking about the first thought I had made in my head. When Leo turned around, I cleared my throat aloud,
“Do you perhaps have a brother that I don’t know of?” I questioned him harmlessly, but he unexpectedly rushed towards me and yanked my arm while I winced in pain,
“Ouch, that hurts, what’s wrong?”
He let go of me almost immediately, and replied, “No, why did you ask?”
I was staring into his eyes and I saw fear and desperation in them. Did something happen with his brother in the past, or did I bring back a memory that he didn’t want to think about? 1 shook my head in negation, blaming myself for bringing up a meaningless conversation. If he had a Brother, then Tanya would have certainly talked about him,
“Nothing, I was just curious, that’s all.”
I watched him shut his eyes to take a deep breath in,
“Are you alright?”
He nodded his head. Tll get going now,” I said and began to walk out of the room, but when I got to the door, I heard his voice again
“By the way, you looked beautiful today
A smile curved at the left corner of my lips, and I could feel my cheeks burning up. I didn’t turn around to stare at him, “How did
you see me?”
“Saw you when you returned home, through my window.” He replied and I opened the door, “Thanks. I’ll be happy if you could come downstairs for dinner” I turned to face him when I stepped out of the room,
“It feels incomplete without you,‘ I said and gave him one last smile avoiding staring at his bare chest before walking out of his room. My heart kept thumping so fast as I walked down the stairs, and his words kept ringing in my ears over and over again.
He said I was beautifull
A quick thought ran through my head, “I wish he had just kissed me.” But I discarded that thought because I was scared Leo would hear it again,
BEND DIFT