Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

Something that Adeline had not expected was her aunt to March over to her while the people cheered, held her hand and dragged her inside the palace. 

If it was not enough to be in the LimeLight with hundreds of people around her, her aunt had to drag her inside the palace like she had done some kind of crime. 

"Would you stop doing that?" She whispered as she tugged on her hand to have a back. 

"No," her aunt gritted out the word. Teresa did not take her to any room. She climbed up the stairs before getting on the first floor and closing the door shut on them in a random room. 

Adaline stood in the middle of the room where her aunt had left her to stand as she watched Teresa ramage through different roles in the room before pulling out a stick. 

"What are you going to do with that?" Adeline gave a confused glance to the stick wrapped up in her hand but Teresa waved it off. She picked up a lighter and lit the stick before leaving it around the room and keeping it close to the door. 

Teresa turned around once satisfied and walked closer to Adelene. "That is a sage stick. It would help us so that no one can hear our voices outside the room." 

Confused as ever, Adelene asked further, "why do we need to keep our voices inside?" What was such an important thing to talk about that no one else could hear about from them? 

Tessa's eyes went to the neck of her niece. "I don't care if he is the king and I don't care if he is the strongest one of them all. You tell me right now you got that mark on your neck and why." 

Adeline felt her throat dry up. Her hand immediately reached for her throat and she touched the bandage on the left side of neck. It was obvious that it was a wound particularly on the junction and it did not take any one a lot of brain to put the pieces together and find out it was a mark given to her especially in the world of shifters. 

"I was going to die, Auntie Tess—"

"Bullshit!" The woman screeched. "That family has been planning this from the beginning of time. This was exactly what they wanted. This is the exact reason why they wanted you two to go there alone. Of course, in the mountains and people that were on their side it would have been very easy for that boy to force his mark on you!" 

Adeline recoiled back at the accusation. Half of her was grateful for Xavier to to prepare her of what it meant to place his mark on her without her consent and half of her was grateful for her aunt to be this protective over her.

"Auntie Tess," Adeline began slowly, "honestly do not know what happened and this is why we came here earlier than intended. It's a jumble of stuff that I don't know how to explain and that is why we want you all to sit down together."

"What?" Tessa spat. "Is that what the boy told you it could be?" 

Adeline huffed. "No!" She shook her head. "I don't know how to explain all of it and I need his help!" 

Tessa scoffed and shook her head seemingly unconvinced about all of it. "This is definitely what the boy is telling you to do. His parents are definitely going to cover it up and my mate would never go against it!' 

Adeline gave a helpless sigh at that. "Auntie.. .please." she begged. "I have no other way to explain it otherwise. We all need to listen to the point of use of each other because..." The more she thought about it the more it got difficult to explain to her aunt. How was supposed to tell Teresa that they were fragments that all of them knew?

"Can you please go and talk it out?" She whispered and closed her eyes at how pathetic it felt to whisper like that. "I just need some calm and quiet and I need to figure it out. The only way to do that is to….talk." 

Tessa silently stared at the child letting her speak before she finally slouch her shoulders and just gave Adaline a hug. 

"I am sorry, my little love," she cooed to her niece, "but I am just worried about you. It's hard to believe that anyone else would care for you like I do.'

Xavier did. Adelene wanted to add that but remained mum. Given how angry her aunt was, it did not make sense to voice out the opinion. 

Adeline nestled into the form provided by her aunt even more. Teresa woods might not be her mother but she was no one less at the moment. 

"Thank you for protecting me." She whispered gratefully. "I have no idea how I would have survived if it was not you by my side." She admitted the truth and it only made her and pulled her closer than ever. 

"I got you kid and don't ever thank me for that again." After sometime Teresa pulled away and patted her niece's cheek lovingly. " Come on now. We should go out before the shifters get the panties in a twist." She winked, making Adeline giggle. 

Holding her niece's hand, Teresa walked both of them to the door before opening it. The moment she did, the first face they saw was of Xavier who was standing directly in front of the door. 

"Hello you," Tessa chuckled bitterly, "how does it feel to have your mark finally on my niece but without her permission?" 

A loud gasp was heard and Teresa's eyes moved to Cassandra. Nodding, she stepped aside to let the mother know and see for herself.

"Oh my," Cassandra whispered before angry eyes went to Xavier. "What have you done!" 

"Not here and not now," Javier gave them both a look.. "We shall go to the discussion room.'