chapter 33

" ..hmm.. " accidentally fall asleep under the soft and gentleness weather, the subconscious Claire found her head resting on someone's shoulder but it wasn't someone she knew.

" ..Hm? you're awake? sleep more. I've already put a barrier so that those people couldn't bother you while you're asleep, my Claire. " a big hand, gently pulled my head back against his broad shoulders to make me fall asleep again.

" Hmm.. " my eyes become heavy again and eventually I started to lose consciousness on his shoulder. Everything is very soothing this morning. With the warmth I feel now, the gentle breeze that gently caresses my cheeks, makes me lulled to sleep even though I was just sleeping on a bench in the garden like usual.

" ..... "

" What a picturesque.. " suddenly a voice of a familiar guy came when she was deep in her sleep. crouch before of her with his usual cold stoic face. He brushed Claire's pinked hair with his big hand in tenderness but then his eyes that were admiring the face of the person in front of him in silence were suddenly fixed on the red circle that was on her neck. Due to his strong grip yesterday, leaving such a scar on Claire's neck... Very unforgivable.

" You must have been very hurt... "

" •••••••• " placing his hand near Claire's neck, his mouth began to move in a low voice, he recited the sentence of the growth spell on the scar and then miraculously the scar gradually disappeared without any effect as the wound had never been there before.

" That would be enough. " Satisfied with the results of his spell, he began to get up again from his crouch as to stay away from the sleepy Claire so that she would not be surprised by his presence when she woke up later.

" ....noff? "

" ...dy Romanoff? "

" ...lady..? "

" Claire! "

Gasped in shocked with a sudden shout, my head that was leaning on the bench slipped from the bench in a flash.

" Ah! "

' I'm gonna fall! ' my eyes closed reflexively in fear as my body began to fall to the ground very quickly.

" ... "

" .... "

" ....hm? "

' Why didn't I feel any pain at all? wasn't I fall to the ground? ' fear to open my eyes, I just silently imagining that I might have either lose consciousness or something...

" Can't you open your eyes now? "

" ....!! "

Quickly, my eyes widened while looking at his face which was now very close to mine. With a state of loss of words, my green eyes and his red eyes looked at each other for a long time until the man suddenly cleared his throat in embarrassment and make me awake from my daydreaming in shock.

"...ugh! "

Unable to control the embarrassment of closing her eyes from earlier, Claire quickly pushed the body of the man in front of her with one push, making her small body lose balance on itself and she was pushed back hard but then suddenly a strong arm immediately wrapped around her waist to keep her body from falling again.

" ....! "

" ..uuhh! " embarrass again by her own mistake that happened twice, Claire quickly bends her flushed face from being seen by Adam while Adam suddenly began to frown in dissatisfaction when Claire seemed unwilling to face his own face again. Tightening his grip on Claire's small waist, Adam brought his distance closer to Claire with the feeling of hurt being treated like that by his own fiance.

" Claire, why do you keep on avoiding me? Are you scared of me..? "

" ...! "

" No! how could I..! " with a desire to protest, Claire unconsciously gripped the shirt on Adam's chest tightly and with a desperate face, she's facing directly into Adam's red eyes with a firm gaze.

Turned blushed by Claire's sudden aggressiveness behavior towards himself, Adam gently held her waist tighter to make her body get more closer to him. " Then.. why did you run from me..? " with a hurting expression, he bends his face to look at Claire closer.

" .....!! "

" ...uh! " again, Claire hide her flushed face from him by leaning her head on Adam's chest.

" I'm not.. " mumble in embarrassment, Claire gripped Adam's clothes with her trembling hand.

' Ugh! I can't look at your charming face! I might get fascinated by it and my eyes would only stare at you for the whole day!! ah.. so embarrassing! such shameful thoughts! '

" Claire.. look at me. " his hand gently held Claire's chins and forcefully he makes Claire rise her blushed face to directly meet him.

" You're really not scared of me or anything? After what I've done to you... "

" Ugh. No. I'm not scared or anything... " I tried to use all my might to bend my head again but his hand was so much tougher!

" Then you'll not run away from me again? " his desperate face that was currently looking at me right now, make me speechless for a while before my hand unconsciously touch his face and stroked it like I usually do to his beast form blatantly.

" yes.. "

' ah! ' with an awkward smile when I was looking at his stunning face, suddenly my mind came to realized how closer our distances are and in a big gasped with the situation here, immediately my hand unconsciously let go of his clothes in reflexes while my eyes were doing it best to avert his tender gaze on me. When did we get into this close distance?? and what's with him? Can't he just let me go now? I can't dare to look at his hella pretty face any longer than this! even my naughty hand has touched his face now! I'm ashamed!

" ....! "

" .....!!! "

' gah!! '

Suddenly Adam pulled my body into his embrace and squeeze me so tightly. His arms that were wrapped around my shoulder make me freeze in stunned by his sudden behavior towards me. Why!? why did you even hug me now?! I can felt your tough six-pack through your thin clothes, ya know!?

' Kyaaa!! take this guy away from me before my hand begins to get naughty again!! ' Claire's face that flushed in ashamed, stiffened while maintaining her pride to stopped her desire to hugged Adam's bodies back. what should I do..? did we'll.. after this.. me and him..!? Kyaaa! He really wanted me to die in embarrassment!!!

" I had a present for you, my fiance. " with his delighted voices that suddenly broke the atmosphere between us and even my naughty and immature thoughts, Adam immediately loosen his arms while my mouth sighed in relief after he finally let my body away from him. I look at Adam in wonder when he suddenly turns his tough body from me to take the gift he was mentioned about.

' thank goodness he has stopped.. '

" Here."

" ...? "

With his eager face when he has clearly stood before me again with the same distance as before, my legs reflexively step backward while he suddenly handing me a sack with something stink in it. I can even sense a strong smell of fresh blood that came from the inside of the sack. With a big frown on my face, unwilling to take the sack from him, I looked at his delightful face in doubt.

" Why don't you take it? you don't want it? " with his voice that begins to get cold and firm like usual again, his eyes intensely look at me with his usual cold stoic face.

' Yikes! ' looking at his expression towards my behavior, my hand unconsciously rise in reflexes to take the sack in the frightened state from his bloody hand while his expression suddenly began to be delighted again when my hand has already held the sack in the state of loss of words.

" What is this? "

" Try open it. " with a rare smile on his brightened face, my hand slowly open the sack in doubt while my eyes hesitated to look at the inside.

" .....!! "

" Kyaa..!! " without managed to take a good look at my own present, my hand immediately throws the sack away from myself reflexively while my leg begins to lose its strength in frightened by my own view.

" What's that!? " shout in shaken by the content of the sack, my whole body trembled while looking at Adam that begin to look shocked with my reaction towards his present.

" .... "

" ...you don't like it, Claire? " his expressions begin to change into fierce when I looked at him in frightening.

" Why.. why did the baron's head.. in there..? " in the state of loss of words, I cover my face with my own hand while scared to look at the bloody sack once again.

" .....!!? "

" I do it for you..! " a sudden grip on my shoulder make my eyes directly meet his in speechless, his face fiercely look at me like he wanted to eat me all alive while his grip gradually tightening on my shoulder to make me look at him intensely. Adam's face was desperate as he was asking me to forcefully accept his own present for me.

" He has opposed your words so I punished him for you. You should be delighted by my present, right?! " his intense gaze instantly makes me shudders in fear. Is he perhaps crazy? who would want the head of a dead person just because they offended you once??

" ....uh... "

I really can't hide my frightened face from him right now even when he's continued to glare at me. When did I say I wanted a gift like these?!

Looking at Claire's unhappy face, Adam's expression changes into shock. He loosened his grip blankly and when Claire has lowered her head once again from him, his heart feel aches and pains all of the sudden.

" ...you... don't like it..? " his voice turned low in unhappiness and slowly he gets away from Claire in despair.

" I thought you would like it since I've done it for your sake but you look more scared of me than the last time.. " his face turned into sadness while facing away from my direction. I look at him in wonder with what was his true intention to done these abnormal things for me. Is he perhaps wanted to comfort me after what he does last night? in these horrible ways?? really?.

When I look at him trying to pick up the sack that has been thrown away by me earlier with his blank face, In guilty, my hand unconsciously stopped his moves when I suddenly gripped his clothes from his back.

" ...your grace. stop. I'll take it. "

Suddenly his whole body stiffens with a single word from me. With a blanked gaze in hesitation, I look at Adam that suddenly freeze up when he was trying to pick up the sack from the ground.

" ..... "

" ..your grace..? "

After a while he's stood there doing nothing at all, he immediately turned his face to look at me dumbfounded just like me after he regained his consciousness back.

" Why did I stop so suddenly? " with a doubted gaze, Adam quickly looked at his whole body to checked out what makes him unconsciously do as I say earlier.

" ...I don't know.." step backward from him, my face stiffened in a big frown. Does the curse still last in his body? but why? he shouldn't listen to my command like when he was in his beast form except if the curse still...

" .....uh."

" .... "

" I want to head back. " Turning around from him, my legs quickly take a big step towards the palace in hurried leaving him alone in speechless by my sudden attitude towards himself. While my face frown in disbelief in these impossible things that had happened to me lately, my legs keep on walking towards the palace aimlessly.

" My lady! where have you been all this time? We've been looking for you since this morning and it's already noon! " trembling as she held Claire's arm who now was standing before her in front of the gate of the main palace hall, Daisy hurriedly brought Claire inside with a worried face.

" ...hm? "

" What do you mean by looking for me? I just fell asleep at the center of the garden at my usual place. You also knew that place and you even used to accompany me to go there too, Daisy. " With a confused face, I looked at Daisy who looked shocked by my sudden appearance in front of her now.

" No. It's weird, I've been looking for you many times there. Are you sure you've been there all this time, my lady? "

" Yes. I'm sure. I fell asleep there until someone came to me and bothered my peaceful day with his abnormal gift.. " held my head that aches in annoyance with someone who had something wrong going crazy in his own mind, my legs quickly take a big step towards my room in dizziness. He really is not in his right mind at all! was he always acted like that? gave someone a dead person's head as a gift? is he perhaps insane?!

' Tch. Whatever. '

" I'm gonna take some rest for today, Daisy. Make sure no one could come and disturb me. "

" Yes, my lady. "