Bella’s POV
After nodding my head at him, my stomach grumbled. It has been VERY long since I ate. I think he might have heard as he chuckled.
“Well someone’s hungry I guess.” he said as he had a smirk on his face. I just blushed and nodded my head at him.
“Well let’s go and eat shall we?” he asked and nodded my head eagerly at him. He just laughed at me. He placed his hand at my back and guided me towards the door.
The hallway was quite dark. Not wanting to get lost, I moved closer to Xavier. Seeing this, he grabbed my hands and intertwined our fingers. When he did this he looked at our hands expecting me to push them away.
But I did not. I have to give us a chance as I promised him and I have to take the baby steps. I just hope he has enough patience.
Seeing that I was not going to push away, he looked at my face and grinned at me like a boy who just got his candy, and squeezed my hands as if he was telling that he was happy.
I just smiled at him. Just then I realised that he had two deep dimples. They were very cute. I felt like pinching his cheeks and cooing at how cute he was but refrained myself from doing them.
He guided me down the staircase. We walked past the living room and saw that no one was around. I got confused as to why there was no one .
“Why isn’t there anyone in here?” I asked looking up to Xavier. He looked down at me. That is when I realised how tall he was compared to me.
He was about 6’0″ feet tall when I was about 5’3″ feet. Overall he was very big compared to me. He had broad shoulders and big hands. Really tall legs. I was short compared to him.
“Well only I used to live here. And sometimes the beta stays in the guest room. My parents live in another house that isn’t that far. The rest of the pack lives in the pack house.”
He explained to me. “Oh,” was all I said. He nodded his head at me. “But now onwards not only me, but also you will be living with me.” he said as he smiled at what he just said.
I just smiled at him. Even though I was ok with it, inside I felt a bit of sadness in me.
Soon we reached the kitchen. “So what do you want?” he asked as he went through the refrigerator. “Anything that you have.” I said.
“Hmmm, how about spaghetti?” he asked. “Ok” I replied. “Spaghetti it is then.” he said as he took out the spaghetti noodles. I did not know how to cook. I took a seat at the counter.
Not even for survival. Once I burnt my Maggi noodles and omelette.
“Can I help?” I asked him. “Nope. You just have to sit down. I will prepare this in no time.” he stated. I just puffed and sat down.
Not that I complained. I was not even good at cutting vegetables. Once I tried. They were so badly cut that they weren’t able to be cooked. I even cut my fingers. I searched my finger for the scar.
It was just a slight scar yet still could be seen. I chuckled at that. Hearing me chuckle, Xavier turned around. “What were you chuckling about?” he asked.
I raised my finger at him and showed him the scar. “At this. I got this scar when I was trying to cut vegetables. The vegetables I tried to cut were not even able to cook anymore. I am so bad at cooking.” I said as I smiled at my silliness.
But somehow Xavier did not find it funny. Within seconds he was in front of me. He took my hands, and observed my finger that had the scar. A low growl escaped his lips. I got startled.
“How could you be so careless? Why did you have to cut the vegetables? Gosh. you are not to cook ever. Not to touch the knives ever. You understand?” he asked as he stared at me.
When he asked all of that question, I saw the concern, care and love he had for me in his eyes. I just nodded my head at him as I stared into his eyes. I just realised the position we were in.
He was standing between my legs as I was sitting at the counter. As I realised that, my cheeks start to burn as they start to get red. We continued to stare into each other’s eyes.
His face started to inch closer and closer. When he was just 3 cm away, I realised that he had left the spaghetti.
“The spaghetti” I said as I pointed to them. He quickly turned around and looked at the spaghetti. He rushed to the stove. As he used the fork to lift up the noodles, they were not noodles anymore.
I laughed at the ‘noodles’ and Xavier just turned around and playfully glared at me as he soon started to laugh along with me.
After throwing away the useless noodles, he starts to make new one. Soon he was done with the noodles, sauce and meatballs.
I wanted to help him set up the table when he refused my help. Hence I just sat down at the chair waiting for him to finish setting up the table.
After setting up the table, instead of going to his seat, he came to me. He grabbed me by my waist using his one hand and pulled me up as he sat down and put me down on his lap.
I yelped as he placed me in his lap. I tried to wiggle out of his grip but his grip only tightened. “Stop moving. Someone is coming alive.” he stated. I did not understand. “Who?” I asked in confusion.
He just raised his eyebrow at me. I raised my eyebrows back at him in confusion. He just stared back at me. His eyebrows lowered as if he realised something.
“You don’t know what I am talking about?” he asked me. I shake my head. “My innocent little baby girl” he whispered softly at my ears where tingles form. I just laughed.
He soon broke out from his daze and picked up the spaghetti and started to feed. I turned my head from him and started to giggle. “I can eat myself.” I said giggling.
“I know. But I want to feed my baby girl. And also your wrist is hurt.” he said as he pointed at the cast on my wrist. I puffed out as I gave up. “Can I at least sit down at the chair please?” I asked him while pouting.
He just sighed and nodded his head. As I sat in the chair, he continued to feed me.