Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

Adeline shivered in the cold and the warmth that the small animals were providing could only keep her inside the waterfall for so long. 

"Really?" She groaned lightly as she shivered again. The natural climate of this world was springtime in the day and January in the night. 

This would usually never bother any shifter but for the human mate it was terribly cold and the brown silk dress was not helping her. 

She closed her eyes when she felt a shiver come again when the cold wind blew. Adelen had no idea how it was possible that inside a closed space where the entrance and exit was the water falling from above them had cold wind inside it. 

Her eyes forced themselves to be closed as she tightened her body when she felt the wind blow right next to the ear—

"Hello baby," 

With a gasp, Adaline stood up and her head was around to look at who had spoken those words. 

Xavier stood there with his hands folded behind his back and watching her with the tilt of his head. 

Her mouth opened and closed for a few quick seconds, as she thought of what to say before she noticed that the little animals that had been keeping her company were in a panic and were getting around away from them. 

"Oh," his eyes went to the ground where he saw scrambling possums and rabbits. Picking one by the scruff of his neck he extended the rabbit towards her, "you got our dinner for tonight?" 

"Wh-what?" She stuttered as her eyes darted on the rabbit and then back and Xavier to check if he was serious or not.

He indeed was. There was no crack of a smile on his face making and snatching the rabbit away from him and holding it close to her chest. 

"That's not dinner," she chided him softly. "That's a little rabbit."

"Hmm," he hummed but then tsked, "a snack, then?" 

She huffed before keeping the rabbit on the floor and letting it run away. "No! Nothing! We are not killing an animal."

He stared at her with slight bewilderment before he shook his head slightly. "I am not going to correct you there with how wrong your statement is."

Xavier took a few steps closer to her bringing their chests close enough to feel the outline of the other. "However, it is commendable how you have worked it all out."

"Worked what all out?" She repeated for him to elaborate further knowing where he was going with it. "Please explain what you want to say."

His eyes narrowed before he bent down and placed his lips right next to her ear and whispered, "how are you figured the waterfall out." 

Adeline shivered whenever his ear touched the shell of a year when he spoke. 

"I never thought that my mate good work out that the sound of water would cover my ears and my hearing completely and the water would wash off your scent leaving no tracks for me to find you." 

She gulped and closed her eyes, arching her neck more so that he could touch her more. 

Adeline could feel his nose touching the shell of her ear before he dragged it down to her crook of her neck before taking a huge sniff. 

Her hands went to the study shoulders of him when he suddenly pulled away, making Adaline blink her eyes several times to get rid of the haze. 

"Wh-what?" She mumbled in confusion when she saw him standing a few steps away from her. He was breathing heavily and was barely in control of himself from restraining himself from touching her. 

He shook his head and he gulped. "Not yet, Adaline." 

It did not take her much long to figure out what he was talking about and when she did, Adeline ended up shaking her head no. "I want this."

He chuckled, "now I don't mean it like that." Coming closer he cupped her cheeks and placed a kiss on her forehead, "I marked you in the wrong way. The most sinful way I could have, and I intend on doing the mating ceremony right." 

Holding her hand in his, Xavier tugged on it gently, "Let's go." 

This was probably the first time when Xavier had said no to have. The entire ride that she had written on his back solidified the fact that he had said no to her and the reason that he gave only made her blush.

Perhaps it was the right decision for her to go ahead with the traditions and rituals. It proved to be the right decision especially when he said that he had already committed a sin of marking her the wrong way and wanted to correct it by doing it the right way by whatever he was left with. 

Xavier did not stop running and only when the palace came in front of them Xavier stopped while they were still hidden with the trees. She saw a pile of clothes and with how Xavier immediately went towards them they must be kept for him. 

Even though the same was delicious and irresistible to watch, Adaline still looked away to give him the privacy to wear his clothes. 

"Come on," he held out his hand for her. Once she was within arm's reach, he wrapped his arms around her shoulders, " my winning penguin." 

Adeline glared at him, "You know when you say that to me you only push me forward to call you cut—." The next word came out to be muffled because they had placed his hand on her mouth as they near the entrance with everyone awaiting them. 

"Well done!" Cassandra yelled from where she stood. "You won!"

Adeline smiled before Tessa engulfed her. Breathing in the scent of her protectiveness, Adeline felt nothing but comfort and relief. 

After a few seconds and pulled away and adaline came face to face with the priest who had made the announcement.

That man had a smile on his face as he looked at Xavier and Adeline standing together. 

"Congratulations on the win, Luna," he bowed his head slightly, "for the next ritual we shall meet in the early hours of dawn tomorrow."