CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
ASHER’S POV
I swear I don’t know what came over me. I wasn’t supposed to be so harsh towards her. She has been through so much in her life already and the last thing she needs right now is anyone treating her badly.
I was just scared the Freya might come down and see her and then start throwing fits I’m not ready for tonight.
I put her in the West Wing of my chambers, while Freya stays on the East Wing to keep them apart. I know they are going to meet someday, but I don’t want that to be now!
When I saw her in the living room, I was so scared that Freya could have met her first and that’s why I snapped, but that doesn’t mean I had to take it out on her.
I have to make it up to her tomorrow.
And for the part where I said I was going to send her back to Alpha Adolph, I was such an ass for saying that. I’m not sure she will be getting any sleep tonight because of that statement I made.
Ugh!
I’m so bad with girls.
Even in the human world, my friends always made fun of me because I never knew how to be nice to girls. It’s either I was savage or just plane rude towards them and they hated me!
They still do.
I remember one time I got sick, I was admitted in the hospital and none of the girls showed up, when they later on called the guys who were there to see me, the first thing they asked was if I was dead.
I was low key sad about that, but I pretended it didn’t mean anything.
I am the worst when I’m around girls, but I have to change that for Astrid’s sake, if I want to keep her.
“Yo bro!” Rowan calls from the living room. I was just about to cross over to the East Wing to see Freya.
“What are you doing here?” I ask descending the staircase still frowning.
“I came to talk about …”He stops talking when I get closer to him. “Why do you look so pissed… nope, that’s not the word… you look hurt”
“Hurt? But I’m not hurt anywhere” I say checking for any wounds on my body.
“No dummy! I don’t mean hurt as in physically hurt, I mean, did you have some heart to heart encounter with someone that pulled some strings?”
“I… do.. I … don’t know what you are talking about” I stutter and he cocks his head sideways and gives me a knowing look.
“Asher, you either stammer when you’re lying or when you’ve done something that bothers you. Now tell me, which one of them have you done?”
“Ugh! Rowan, leave me the hell alone!”
“No, I won’t. You better start explaining before I get Arya involved. You very well know how much she can blow things out of proportion. Remember she is just a mind link away” He threatens and I exhale heavily as I raise my hands in defeat.
“You win!”
“Cool, so tell me what’s wrong”
“I .. juts… I think I’m in a dilemma right now”
“Oh… that sounds intense”
“Yeah, it sure is intense!”
“Okay so, what kind of dilemma. Will be glad if you’d explain it to me. What’s it about?”
” Girls!”
“Girls?” He asks aghast and I nod.
“Yeah, girls. What about them?”
“It’s about two girls, I’m about to get married to one and I do not like her even a bit and for the other girl, I don’t k ow what it is I feel for her, all I know is that I am very attracted to her and it creeps me out”
“Oh… wow. Now, may I know who these two girls are?”
“Freya and Astrid, respectively”
“Ok, so Freya is the one you are about to get married to, but you don’t like her. Am I correct?”
“Do you really have to ask? Isn’t it obvious?” I ask nerved.
“Cool down bro. And Astrid is the girl whom you are strangely attracted to”
“I don’t even know why I’m doing this with you” I say in regret.
Rowan is not the kind of person I should discuss my emotional issues with, he’s only going to frustrate me the more right now.
“So, is that what’s making you look so gloomy”
“No and I do not want to talk about it”
“Then how can I help you if you do not want to talk about it?” He asks looking at me straight in the eye and I just shake my head.
“She did something she was not supposed to do and I was rude to her now my conscience is eating me up. I hate it!”
“Which of the shes? If I may ask?”
“Astrid! I asked her not to leave her bedroom, but when I got back home a while ago, I saw here, standing on the same spot you are standing on right now and you have no idea how that freaked me out”
“And why the hell were you freaked out? It’s not like anyone around here is going to have her killed?”
“I don’t want Freya to see her just yet. If she does, She is going to throw a bad bitch version of a tantrum and that is something I do not want to handle tonight. Besides, I still haven’t figured out how exactly to ward her father off from asking me to hand Astrid over. So I need some time”
“Oh, I see. Let me connect the dots. So, you saw her loitering around the living room, so you got alarmed and scolded her because you were scared that Freya would see her and throw a bad bitch version of a tantrum. Is that right?”
“Yeah”
“That’s lame. You can do better. You better say sorry to Astrid first thing tomorrow morning or mum’s gonna whoop your ass all day tomorrow from her grave. She raised you better than this” Then he spins around and starts walking out.
“What about the real reason why you came here?” I shout after him and her turns around.
“I’ll tell you when you fix that attitude of yours. For now, good night” He walks out of the living room and I let out a heavy sight of frustration as I once more take the stairs.
It had better not be something that could make me lose money.
When I get to the end if the staircase, I take the East End Wing and locate the bedroom I’m currently sharing with Freya. The moment I creak the door and walk in, she gets up from the bed and takes long strides towards me.
From the look on her face, I can tell that I’m going to be having a very long night of blabbering.
“Hello…” I greet.
“What is this I’m hearing?” She asks ignoring my greetings.
“What did you hear, Freya?”
“That you are hiding Astrid somewhere in this castle?”
Oh boy!