Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

"What?" She whispered in bedazzlement before she closed her eyes in frustration. "What do you mean he left? Is he never going to come back?" 

"oh no," Ashlynn shook her, the dreadful expression washing away from her face. "He leaves during the day almost always, trying to follow some kind of trade or attending to the matters of his realm." 

Her expression turned sleepish, "the problem is, I don't know when he returns. It is usually father who deals with this meaning that you would have to ask him when Alexandier is going to come back." 

Seeing the scared expression on Adeline's face, Ashlynn continued, "well, it is not like he is a representative. He holds a powerful position and is the leader in lieu of his brother. So, he has to go back time and again! But if you want, you can tell that to someone because the moment he leaves someone else comes in and continues the investigation." 

"Why does someone come in?" 

Ashlynn's panicked expression turned sullen. "It is a big thing that someone is trying to play with the dead and the living. You have no idea how many kingdoms are involved in this." 

"Bu—"

"Come," Ashlynn grabbed her hand and started to walked towards the stairs. She was careful given that if Adaline fell she was going to break a bone or two, also the fact that the Alpha would kill her but was still relatively quick in taking her a floor above. 

The floor where the family members reside. 

"It's familiar," Adaline commented, around the huge, maybe more than 12 feet high ceilings and familiar designs. 

"Well," Ashlynn chuckled while still dragging her, "you had to live here, forcefully for a while, so I expect you remember this." 

Adeline nodded. That was something she did remember but now walking in the same halls felt different than before. 

There was no longer the feeling of being changed to something, the overwhelming feeling that everyone was weary of her, even the maids. 

Perhaps that was the only indication that where she had reached now was definitely an improvement. 

Ashlynn walked towards huge double doors before opening them with one hand and painting both of them inside. 

"Now talk," she nodded at Adeline. "This is my room and I just had a sage burned here. So no one will be able to hear what we have to say." 

"So many kingdoms involved in this?" 

Ashlynn nodded her head before moving inside the room and towards a particular room (an apartment). "Bringing back the dead is going to bring Chaos into this world. The dead just do not come back as the people they were before, but something was inside them because they have completely rottened and have no soul." 

She turned around to give a sad smile, " is because of you I understand that. Otherwise I would have either been long dead or maybe, I would have joined man."

Nathaniel. She meant nathaniel. 

"You don't know that." Adaline felt the need to defend Ashlynn from herself. "He is a vile man that can kill and can do much more for a cause that is not meant to anyone good." She told her before following her into the apartment. 

Ashlynn barked out a sarcastic laugh and shook her head. "You have no idea what you can do for someone you love. Sometimes you blur the lines between insanity and reality.. with the way Alexander was taken away from me, I would also do everything to bring him back." 

Adeline came to stand still at the entrance of the kitchen and leaned on the threshold. "Would you?" 

"In a heartbeat," came her answer before she sighed softly, "but then I remember that he was the one who accompanied Xavier to get you back. He was leading more than Xavier was," her voice cracked in between. "I-I know what he did, it must have.. it must have been his decision." 

"It had to be.." Ashlynn sniffed and it broke Adeline. "I know he would have sacrificed himself for his family without thinking twice and that is what he did." 

Adeline moved closer to wrap her arms around her friend. "I am Sorry."

It was her fault. Alexander had died saving her from someone. 

"No.. don't.." Ashlynn sniffed and choked as she leaned into the hug. "I just hate that we did not have enough time." 

Something came to her mind. Something that her mother used to do and Adaline in had no idea how I should remember it after so long. 

"Tell me something beautiful about him," she whispered to Ashlynn, "beautiful about you two." 

Ashlynn fell silent for a few seconds before she spoke up. "I was blessed, you know? I was blessed first to receive a mate but I was lucky enough to have one that understood my need to stay away too." 

"No one would allow their female to stay away from them, to stay away separately. But heated because it was one of my dreams to be independent." 

"Wow," that was a surprising decision made by someone of possessive nature. "He did?"

"He did." Ashlynn confirmed before she broke out of the hold and held Adeline's hands. 

Staring into Adeline's eyes with her teary ones, Ashlynn said, "do you know that you are magic, had inside you, has given me a new purpose to live with? Earlier, I would drown in my sorrows but now he is a thought in my mind. Someone who is always present here it's livable." 

She smiled through the tears, "and it's because of you." 

Someone was definitely cutting onions, because even Adaline felt like crying. 

"My point is," Ashlynn sniffed and tightened her hold, "you are more stronger than you think." She didn't even correct her grammar. 

"With what you have been through and how tall and proud you stand, you are one of the strongest I know, Adaline.' 

"Thank you," Adeline whispered through her tears. "Thank you." It felt nice. Warm and nice. 

Ashlynn kissed her cheek.. "It's okay, because even the strongest sometimes need to hear it."