MALIA’S POV
“Here, cover up” He tossed the piece of clothing that I had laid out on the bed toward me. I did not attempt to catch it and it fell right next to my feet. My gaze veered from him to the dress and I kneeled and gathered it into my hand before ambling back into the bathroom.
With so many questions in my head as to what had brought him here all of a sudden after he left in the most bizarre way possible. As much as I wanted to drag my stay in the bathroom, it came to an abrupt end when a firm knock sounded on the door.
“Can you come out? I do not have all the time in the world?”
Well, neither do I. I would have preferred to just stare at myself in the mirror the whole time than face him right now. I just didn’t have a good feeling about him.
But I strolled out of the bathroom nevertheless, my head facing the well-polished floor the whole time. I only raised my head to inspect if he was still on the bed and when I saw that he wasn’t there, I proceeded to skim around the entire room and I sighted him sitting at the exact location he sat the first time he was here.
Wordlessly, I followed the route that led there and took a seat opposite of him, my mind still thinking about what he possibly wanted to talk about.
With the urgency he inserted in his tone when he told me to come out of the bathroom, I was honestly expecting him to get on with whatever he had in mind as soon as I stepped out of the washroom but I should have known by now that this wasn’t a kind of person I could predict.
He continued to gape at me for a solid minute or even more while from my part, I did all I could to evade his gaze, looking at every other part of the room but him.
The awkwardness kept weighing me down and in the end, forced me to open up before him.
“Are you planning on returning me to Zade?” curiously I asked.
But my question was left unanswered while he continued to stare at me and after some time, I deemed it okay to speak again.
“Just so you should know that by leaving his pack, I have done him a very huge favor and if you are thinking of returning me to him, you should know that he isn’t going to appreciate your effort” I commented honestly, tucking a stubborn strand of hair behind my ear. “At all” I added for more effect.
Even that didn’t get him to speak and I was just on the verge of giving up and just ignoring his entire existence totally when he finally spoke up.
“Zade is an enemy” His sentence was curt and clear but somehow took me by surprise.
“Sorry, what?” I inquired, not because I didn’t hear him the first time, but because my mind failed to comprehend his statement.
“Zade is an enemy. We do not get along” He added another sentence probably as a form of elaboration.
“I grabbed that but why?” I moved my hands around in sync with my question.
“You were once a Luna, you should know that we don’t just get along, for no apparent reason” He shrugged like it was one of the simplest things he had ever said.
“I…. yeah I guess so but you saved me. I don’t understand. You didn’t retaliate even after knowing I was the Luna of your enemy. Are you not supposed to like, have me imprisoned and use that to your advantage something?”
My question caused him to chuckle softly. This was the first time I had seen him move the muscles of his face from its usual reserved immovable manner and boy did he look stunning when he smiled.
“You are giving me quite the ideas. But fortunately for you, I do not intend to use them. Besides you just told me how Zade doesn’t give any regard to you, what will be his loss when he is informed that you have been imprisoned by his enemy?” He questioned.
“Uhm… none?”
“Correct none. So instead of keeping you locked up and roaming around trying to get back to him through you. I would get back to him but in the smoothest way possible. Do you know what I would be doing?”
“No”
“I will treat you like a princess, raise your status higher than most people’s, let you explore your full potential, and only then will I let him see just what he was incapable of doing. I think that will be easier to carry out”
“Who is this man?” I asked myself as I stared into his eyes. Did he just easily announce his intention like it was nothing? If I got him right, he planned on nurturing me into something Zade could never dream of getting, and then he would rub that on Zade’s face.
This was not a form of revenge for only him but for me as well. Reminding Zade just how important I was is what I wanted to do at the moment and he took that job from me without a care in the world.
“I… that will be pleasant I guess”
“Yes. So I hope now you understand why I acted the way I did when you told me the pack you are from. I wasn’t in any way strange which I know you have already labeled me in your mind, but I was just taken aback by that piece of information and at that time, didn’t know how best to react to it” He explained.
“Yes I do, I do know” I nodded vigorously, finally coming to terms with everything.
I was about to start a new life here and I can’t wait to see how it will turn out to be.