Unwanted intrusion

(Damien)

Loud howls and whines could be heard coming from the king's room as he was having yet another nightmare. I sighed and shook my head, trying to sleep was proven to be hard. 

Closing my eyes, another loud howl sounded making me groan and sit up. I guess I wasn't getting any sleep tonight. 

While I was there trying to figure out what I was going to do next, Amelia appeared in my room out of nowhere scaring the crap out of me. 

"I can't believe that worked," Amelia whispered as she turned around and looked at me with wide eyes. 

"What are you doing in my room?" I asked, suddenly feeling irritated by her presence. My wolf growled, not liking the fact that he was so close to a witch.

"I..I heard the noises coming from the king's room and I got scared. The first place I thought of was to come here." Well, that explains it. 

"So you're here looking for protection from me, I thought you hated me for kidnapping you," I replied, making her scoff. 

"Of course, I still hate you for that. But you and I both know the real reason why I'm here, Damien, so stop acting naive." Damn, she has some balls coming in here and saying shit like that. If it wasn't for the king, I would have ended her pathetic life by now. 

But he ordered me to get her to like me enough so that she could help him, so I have no other choice but to follow his orders, for now at least. 

"If you think that something is going to happen between us just because we are mates, you're wrong. I don't do relationships, never have and I never will." My tone was challenging as I waited for her reply. What I didn't expect was that she would start laughing.

After she sobered up, she made her way towards my bed and sat down making me growl from the disrespect.

"You said that you've never been in a relationship before, are you a virgin?" I glared at her, hoping that she would be able to tell because it was a bit dark in here. 

"I never said I was a virgin. I said I don't do relationships, meaning that I've fucked before, yes, but they always know where they stand." That was a lie but she didn't have to know that.

Yes, I'm a virgin. 

I've had this stupid rule that I was going to wait for my mate to lose my virginity, but now that I've gotten a witch for a mate, it just made me want to fuck someone else. 

Dark agreed with me instantly, making me widen my eyes in surprise since he was the one who also wanted to wait as well. 

"Wow, ok so you're a whore." Damn, where had this innocent Amelia gone? A day here and she was already acting vulgar. 

"Whatever you want to call it," I replied, trying to act cool but failing miserably. 

"I spoke to Sig earlier, your king took him from his family to protect him. I didn't know that men could be so cruel and heartless." She said as if I would care. 

"Sig offered to go because of the benefits he was getting. No one forced him to leave." That reply only made her mad. 

"You guys did not give him any other choice. What you did was wrong and that's the truth. You gave him no other choice but to leave!" I cringed at the sound of her voice, I guess there was no sleep for me tonight at all. 

"Look, if you came here to lecture me, stop. I'm not in the mood right now." I said in a serious tone, which made her huff and mumbled a few curse words. 

After a moment of silence, which also included the king's howls and whines that had now quieted down, Amelichose asked me yet another question and this time, I wasn't sure of how I should answer her. 

"Can I stay here tonight?" 

I thought that she hated me; I mean, who wouldn't? I wasn't gentle with her when I grabbed her out of that jeep the first time. Even after we arrived at the castle I was still manhandling her. But here she was, asking me if she could stay with me. 

Dark got quiet, too, I'm not sure how to reply as well. But I could tell that he hated everything about this conversation. 

"Sure, but don't pull any of that witch stuff like you did earlier. I don't want you to use your gifts here." I replied, which seemed to be the right answer because it made her happy. 

"That's fine, where am I sleeping?" She asked and I pointed at the beanbag at the corner of the room, which wouldn't be that comfortable, but that wasn't my problem. 

She seemed pleased with it though, as she ripped the cover off me and took up a pillow as well. I narrowed my eyes at what she did but did not comment on it. After a while, I was able to fall asleep with no problems. 

It was in the morning when I woke up, my eyes became wide when I realized that she was curled up next to me after I told her to sleep on the beanbag. Deciding to leave it alone, I got up and made my way towards the bathroom as I got ready and left. 

"Anything I should do for today?" I asked King Alastair after I was told that he wanted to talk to me. 

"Yes, take your mate out somewhere I don't care. It's Sunday now, and a wonderful day, I can see. Make sure she's happy enough." If only he knew I ran my big mouth last night and she might hate me more even now. 

But, I didn't reply. I left his room and made my way towards mine so that I could wake her up and tell her the good news. 

Where am I going to take her though? I guess I could ask her and see. I wasn't focusing and that caused me to almost bump into Ceal, a centaur who often visited the king on days like today. 

"Watch it, wolf," Ceal said, trying to be intimidating, but I only

rolled my eyes, which had him laughing. Could this day get any worse?