Helanie:
"Yeah, and put Rudy Archer and Sage Milan as the instructors for the day," Maximus was on a phone call with soone, organizing the whole day’s routine for the juniors and assigning two top seniors as their instructors.
I was sitting in the backseat of his car like a child scared of being scolded by her parents. But it wasn’t my fault. He was so angry and yelling a lot too.
I had never seen him look at with that much anger. He even slamd his car door twice when getting in.
"Where are we going?" I asked after I couldn’t just sit in silence and let him take wherever he wanted.
"Helanie, I want you to stay silent for a while," he muttered, fixing the rear view mirror to pass a challenging glare.
I sank back in my chair and kept looking outside the window. The fact that he just drove around for half an hour without any destination and then finally seed to take the right path—but a path to sowhere I didn’t expect him to take —confused .
"Wait, are we going to the mansion?" I put my hands on the window, looking outside like a child, and questioned him.
"Yeah," he answered bitterly, grunting right after that.
"But why? I didn’t want to go back there," I blurted out, instantly making it clear that I had no plans of returning to the place where I was once kicked out from.
"Helanie, you are going to sit in silence and let drive. I get extrely distracted when I’m angry and soone is talking to , you get it?" he hissed under his breath, making it clear that he wasn’t in the mood to listen to anything.
"Are you angry about what that alpha said?" I hesitated at the ntion of that alpha. Even thinking about him saddened my entire being.
He didn’t answer and kept driving. I rembered the road to the mansion, especially the road up to the main gate.
It reminded of the day I had escaped my death sentence and ca to my mother for shelter.
In those monts, I badly wanted a mother to hide in her wings and protect from everything harsh in this world. But that didn’t happen.
I t the angry gaze of a mother who would rather hug and call her friend’s daughter her family than embrace her own vulnerable daughter.
My pout hardened, and I folded my arms over my chest as he stopped the car and got out. He walked over to my side and opened the door, but I stayed sitting, swinging my legs and staring at my white knee-high socks.
"Helanie, co out," he insisted in a harsh and commanding tone.
"Did I not tell you I didn’t want to co back here? Why didn’t you listen?" I muttered, not even turning my head to look at him. I kept my chin down and continued swinging my legs, slamming one down and then raising the other, arms still crossed tightly over my chest.
"I wanted to have a talk with you here, not at the hostel or academy," his tone softened a little once he realized I wasn’t going to act guilty and take his anger.
"Then there are cafés for that," I hissed, finally turning my head to glare at him.
"Yeah, but this is your house too. You can’t just ban it for yourself, especially when—" He stopped mid-sentence after receiving a disapproving glare from .
"I want you to co to the mansion. And you are going to, since you’re my mate. You need to warm up to coming back here because the way you’re so aggressive about returning to the mansion makes wonder if I don’t do anything now, you’ll only grow more stubborn about it," he spoke in a whisper, causing my body to twitch slightly.
It felt entirely weird to listen to soone make such future plans for . It’s Maximus now, but it was Kaye before that.
And, to be honest, I’ve never had anyone make plans with or for . I used to be the one constantly asking Altan about our future, and he would dodge the question.
"Please, can you co inside? Or do you want to be dramatic and cause a scene so everyone starts talking about how the rogue king tossed his stepsister over his shoulder and took her inside?" He had a sly smile on his face when he posed the little threat, making narrow my eyes at him.
"Fine, I won’t do anything like that. Which is why I’m requesting: can you please co in?"
I could tell he was holding back his anger from the earlier issue. I felt like I could go in and hear him out. If I didn’t, he would assu my group just sses around, like Rayden made us seem.
After I sighed and slipped out of the car, he held my hand to drag after him. It looked so weird, but I just followed him in silence.
Once we entered the mansion, my body was covered in goosebumps at the sight of my mother, Aunt Emma, and her daughter Charlotte sitting in the living room, enjoying so tea. They wore beautiful dresses, had full-face makeup, and even their hairstyles were done perfectly.
One could easily tell Charlotte wakes up late, does her morning routine, and then gets showered with love by the won around her for the rest of the day.
The minute they saw arrive with Maximus, their hands froze, teacups suspended mid-air. Charlotte was quick to elbow her mother, clearly expressing how distraught she was to see . I rembered when Maximus told Charlotte had made a pass at him.
Was that why she looked so upset seeing being dragged upstairs by Maximus?
My mother tried to make eye contact with , but I quickly looked away.
Maximus took to his bedroom and slamd the door shut. It felt so weird being alone in his room after he had kicked out the first ti.
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