Helanie:
"Good morning, how was your night?" Maximus uttered from behind , joining in my morning walk.
I’d suited up in the tracksuit early this morning as I was determined to work on my strength. I was determined to get used to doing things beyond my capacity.
"It was weird," I replied, taking long and big strides. Maximus looked fresh as hell. He was blushing red in the cheeks from the cold and was probably headed for his morning jog as well.
"You can go ahead, jog, I am only brisk walking," I said, acting like I didn’t know he was purposely walking slow so that he could spend ti with .
"My goal is right beside , so I don’t need to run after it." He probably smirked. I know him so well now. Every ti he talked and smirked, his voice sounded much more cheerful.
"Maximus," I cleared my throat, noticing him quickly jump in front of and face . He was now walking backward, making sure he got to look into his eyes.
"You saying my na like that races my heart unlike any other exercise or workout could do," he was becoming so overly flirtatious that he could not talk without flirting.
"Can you please quit for a minute? I have sothing important to talk about with you," I groaned, making him look down dramatically like I had saddened him.
"Okay fine, break the innocent guy’s heart," he complained, changing his position and walking beside now.
"Did you hear sothing last night?" I asked and noticed him shrugging.
"You an to say the loud noise of soone shattering sothing on soone’s head?" I instantly knew Norman had told him about it. As I turned to look at his face, I found him smiling weirdly.
"It is okay. He is fine," he added.
"Actually, that was because I thought a lycan had broken into the mansion." He stopped dead in his tracks at the ntion of the lycan. I noticed how quickly he turned to face , and this ti, he didn’t even look like he was in a good mood.
"Why would you think like that?" He was frowning hard now.
"I heard a howl, and then I saw—sothing outside my room. I got so scared," I uttered, genuinely petrified when I recalled those red eyes watching .
It was not at all easy for to let it go since I had felt the mate bond with that thing. And now that thing was outside my room, staring at ? That made wonder if it ca for .
"What? Outside your room? Are you sure?" Maximus instantly pulled his phone out to text soone.
"I’m sure. Who are you texting?" I asked while he stepped away.
"Just the warriors to make sure any of them, umm, saw sothing," the hesitation in his body language scared .
Was it really that scary of a thing?
"I am sure you just saw sothing sparkle and thought it was eyes," Maximus’s voice was not steady at all, and his eyes lingered a little too long on his phone. He was trying to step farther away from while texting soone.
"Umm, yeah, the warriors didn’t see anything," he was finally back to reality as he slid his phone back into the pocket of the jacket he wore over his shorts and paid attention to again.
"Oh, then yeah, maybe I was imagining things." Seeing how he was doing his best to convince I was wrong, I decided not to have this argunt or discussion, whatever it was called.
"Hey, I am sure you saw sothing, but a lycan on our property is a big deal, Helanie. It ans we are not safe in our ho," he faced , standing tall in front of with his lips puckering and his eyes observing for a reaction.
"Sure," I replied, sticking to my decision not to talk about it with him again.
However, I saw his eyes move a little behind , and then a gulp ran down his throat.
"Let’s continue the walk," he added, almost like trying to distract , but I quickly turned around to follow his stare.
There was soone coming out from the woods, in the process of wearing a shirt.
"Kaye! What was Kaye doing in the woods?" I asked, turning to Maximus, who broke his stare from his brother just to pass an awkward smile that failed to hide the shock on his face.
"He is a rogue king, must have gone to the woods for a quick transition. We start our mornings differently," Maximus rushed past to Kaye, who was clearly out of it. He was wearing black jeans, and while buttoning up his shirt, he was looking away from us with his legs shaking.
Once he heard his brother talk to , he turned around and almost lost his balance. Maximus had to run to support him, and so did I.
"Oh, Helanie," Kaye greeted tiredly.
I didn’t think a rogue king should be so tired, like he had been running around the whole night. It couldn’t be just a fun morning run.
"Are you okay?" I instantly posed a question because I noticed Maximus was trying to steer him away from .
"I think he needs to rest." There was so much guilt in Maximus’s eyes. His entire body language had changed after he saw his brother co out of the woods.
"I am fine. I just wanted to say sothing to Hela—" Kaye cleared his throat, almost falling to the ground.
Maximus held him up and gave an awkward look. "You should go ahead. I will take him ho. I guess he’s exhausted. Must be from the stress and all."
Maximus’s voice lacked emotion—or, one might say, life. He sounded lifeless.
I watched him hold his brother and walk him to the mansion, his arm wrapped around Kaye’s shoulder to support his body.
This interaction was going to stick with . It just looked very suspicious.
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