Arabella’s point of view.
I moaned softly as Wymond cupped my right breast and gave it a gentle squeeze, but a painful hiss followed shortly when his leg mistakenly dropped on my wound.
That’s when I woke up from my little steamy dream and I remember that I’m heavily injured, mating would do me more harm than good -my wound might reopen.
He made to unbutton my blouse, but I quickly grabbed his hand and stopped his movements.
“What’s wrong?” he asked huskily, with a small confused frown as he looked in my eyes.
“I-is there really no other way of checking if the bead actually worked?” I asked in a quiet tone.
He stared at me for a few seconds.
“I thought you wanted this too” he gestured between us.
“Yeah, I want it but it’s really not convenient for us at the moment”
He shut his eyes and inhaled deeply, then lifted himself off me and fell on the space next to me. He facepalm himself as he continued taking deep breaths, which made me think he’s angry and I couldn’t help but started explaining further.
“Wymond, I’m injured and mating would reopen the wound, at least we sho….”
He cut me off by planting a short kiss on my lips, then he smiled.
“It’s fine, I wasn’t thinking straight” he said.
His eyes trailed down my body for a moment as he briefly checked me out, then he sighed.
“You shouldn’t blame me for being too horny, because you’re too fuçking hot and tempting, so d@mn hard to resist” he said sulkily.
He lifted me gently and rested my head on his chest, then started caressing my hair softly.
“Hmm” I hummed as I thought of what to say to soothe him. “How about we mate immediately my wound heals?”
I took a peek at him and realized he’s no longer keeping a sulking face, he’s grinning from ear to ear now.
“Don’t forget you said it yourself, because I’ll be giving extra attention to you and make sure you heal quickly” he said.
I laughed at his words, but I kinda feel like he’s not joking.
“Well, there’s actually different ways of checking if the pearl can actually grant wishes”
“Really? How?” I asked anxiously.
“You can just make another wish, it should be a wish that can be granted physically” he said.
I frowned slightly at his words.
“Make another wish? As simple as that?”
“Yeah”
I sprang up at once, but hissed loudly when I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen, and quickly sat down.
“Are you ok?”
Wymond quickly sat up too and was checking if I reopen the wound, but I grabbed his cheek and pulled as hard as I could.
“You knew there’s another way to check the originality of the bead, then why did you suggested mating in the first place?!” I asked sternly.
He grabbed my hands and laughed goofily.
“I’m sorry” he apologized.
I glared at him for a moment before snatching my hands from him, I pushed my hair back and sighed deeply to calm down.
“Come on, let’s make another wish then” I said.
He stopped laughing and scratched the back of his neck, as his eyebrows furrowed slightly.
“Er… there’s a tiny problem”
“A tiny problem? What is it? How tiny is the problem?” I asked quickly.
“It’s one wish per day, I’ve used up my chances and I can’t make another wish” he said.
My shoulders slumped down at once sadly as I felt every ounce of hope slowly draining out of me, but it was only for a few minutes -my eyes suddenly lit up as a thought crossed my mind.
“I can make a wish” I shouted loudly with a smile.
“You can?” he raised his brows questioningly.
I nodded quickly.
“Yeah, I didn’t make a wish when you were making yours… doesn’t that mean I can give it a shot?”
“Wow” he awed and nodded. “You can give it a shot” he said which made my smile widened as joy burst in my stomach.
I moved away from Wymond and sat with my legs crossed just like Wymond and I did few minutes ago -then I closed my eyes.
“What are you gonna wish for?” Wymond asked, but I shushed him and let silence fall on us.
My eyes snapped open after I’ve made a silent wish, only to find Wymond laughing, which made my eyebrows furrowed instantly as I started wondering why he’s laughing.
“Why are you laughing? Are you a hyena?” I snapped at him.
I know what I wished for is kinda funny, but he said a wish that would be granted physically -my wish can’t be that bad.
He snapped his fingers and a mirror landed on my laps, he nodded at it but didn’t stop laughing.
“Take a look, baby” he said.
I narrowed my eyes as I glared at him, I believe his laughter is exaggerating things just to infuriate me.
His laughter urged me to take a look, I raised the mirror and was greatly terrified by my own reflection that was staring back at me, I couldn’t even recognize myself.
My mouth fell open and a very loud scream, that can set the whole palace ablaze escaped my mouth and the mirror fell off my hand as shock swallowed me.
Wymond quickly slammed his hand over my mouth, but I pushed him off me and started crying.
“I’m bald! I’m bald! I’m ugly now!”
It seemed Wymond found my predicament even more amusing, because he’s laughing very hard to the extent he’s holding his stomach right now.
I could take his mockery anymore, so, I began hitting his chest as hard as I could -he should be crying too.
“You caused this, I made this ugly wish because of you, I made it because of you” I cried even more.
“It’s fine, it’s fine, baby, don’t cry”
He reached forward to wipe my tears, but I pushed him off and continued hitting his chest.
“It’s gone, it’s all gone, how do I get my hair back? How do I get my beautiful long hair back?” I opened my mouth and let out another loud cry.
Wymond caught my hands that were still hitting him and kissed my knuckles softly.
“It’s just a simple wish you made, even the dumbest witch or wizard can undo it.. then why are still crying when your mate is a pro wizard?” he asked.
My cries slowly died down until I’m only sniffling.
“You can really undo it?” I asked quietly.
He didn’t reply me, he leaned forward and planted a lingering kiss on my head instead.
“Take a look again” he nodded at the mirror.
I shook my head, I’m afraid of seeing that ugly bald girl that looks like me -cause I ain’t gonna agree that I’m that ugly duckling.
“Trust me” he said.
“Oh”
I reached for the mirror and raised it up, but my eyes were closed because I didn’t wanna see it right away.
After a moment, I slowly open my eyes and a big smile spread on my face when I saw my thick, black and long hair was back on.
“Wow! Beautiful” I gush over myself.
I continued admiring myself in the mirror until something dawned on me, I paused and stared at Wymond for a short moment.
“Darling, I wished for my head to go bald and it did”
He nodded.
“Doesn’t that mean we got the real bead?” I asked.
He nodded again and he broke into a smile this time.
“Doesn’t that mean your curse has been lifted and we can mate all night long?!” I asked again, excitement was obviously overwhelming me right now.
He nodded again and I couldn’t control myself, I threw the mirror across our room randomly, grabbed Wymond’s face in my hands and started peppering his face with kisses.
“Alright, I love it when my mate harasses my face with kisses” his arms went around my waist and he pulled me closer to himself. “… but you’ve got to stop right now or I might not be able to control myself and fuçk you brainless” he said.
This statement made me stop my harassment immediately, I wiggled from his hold and sat back on the bed as I rested my back on the headboard.
“I’m happy for you” I said.
“For me? Or for us?” he asked, coming to sit next to me.
“For you”
He raised his eyebrows.
“You can boldly face Oak now, he has nothing on you no more”
He nodded in agreement.
“Yeah and this is all thanks to you” he kissed my right cheek.
He pulled me closer and cuddled me, we stayed in this position for a while until I recalled the battle and my mind flashed back to Drake and those kidnapped kids.
“We’ve brought them all back” Wymond answered my unasked question -he read my thoughts again.
“Where are they right now?” I asked.
“Drake’s locked up in the dungeon… ”
“Dungeon?” I interrupted him.
Drake’s not a bad guy, he was just working under a bad influence and I believe he’ll come back to his senses if I have a good talk with him.
“… you’ll be handling his case since he was once your friend”
“Hm” I nodded. “Then what about the kids?”
“They’re in isolation”