Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

Adeline quietly sat in the corner. It seemed like everyone was expecting her to go to sleep soon which is why no one disturbed and everyone was talking enhanced in hushed whispers. If she was a shifter, she would have easily been able to hear every word they said but for her human ears it was a disadvantage that they were whispering. 

Adeline just sighed and looked away. If that was what they wanted, then fine. 

She ended up looking outside of the window where there was still snow on the mountains. It was like a blanket of white fur had fallen on the ground. 

She did not understand this. If it was important enough for him to get angry then why did they not talk about it? 

He did not even recall the event which meant that her opinion mattered more and they were not even discussing it! 

"Adeline?" She glanced at her side to find Xavier there. "Why are you not asleep yet? You want to go inside where the bed is ?" 

She shook her head softly. "Not sleepy." Which was a lie. Adeline was sleepy. She was fighting sleep by keeping her eyes open forcefully. 

"Hmm," Xavier hummed. "How about we go to bed because I want to talk to you about something?" 

Hearing that immediately lifted Adeline's hopes. "Reall—'

"Not that," he cut her off with the Stern look in his eyes, "there is something else, other than that, that I want to talk to you about." 

Was the demon in the Jungle not the pressing issue here? 

What else was it that could possibly take his attention? 

"Come on," he held out his hand for her to take which Adaline did. He proceeded to take her into the once again familiar room inside the plane. 

"Don't the others want to sleep?" She could not help but be concerned about the well being of her friends that were still outside in the sitting area. 

"They do," he patted the bed for her to sit on, "but we can go on for longer hours without sleep as compared to you." 

Oh. Once again the shifters were better than her petty human form. 

Once she sat on the bed and leaned against the wall with her feet crossed Xavier placed the blanket on top of her while sitting in front of her legs. 

He bit his lip for a quick second before saying, "are you sure you are alright with me marking you without your consent?" 

That was not something she was expecting as a conversation starter. She really thought that it was something important since they were overlooking the demonic Jungle thing. 

"Umm. . . To be honest, I am not okay with that." Because no one in their right mind would ever be ok to be tied down to a person when they were unconscious. 

"But since it is done there's nothing I can do about it but move past it along with you. We have been in a relationship before and it turned out perfectly well so I don't think why we can't try it now." 

He gave her a slow nod, understanding what she said. Clearing his throat a little, he began, "it is important that you understand where you stand on this matter, Adeline. Are you sure you want to hear my mark or be with me?"

Where was this coming from? Had they not moved past it already? 

"Why? What is it?" 

Xavier smiled a little. "What I did was highly illegal. It is enough for me to be put down as a federal wolf. You have to understand that if you forgive me and you are ready to put us forward for your future, you don't get to press charges but that would mean you will have to talk to your family about it and mine." 

He took her hand in his. "Even if it was concerning your health there must be some other people that I could have confronted before. Marking you is the last option for your survival but since no one was there," he gulped, "by law, I was ordered to wait."

Oh shit. Adaline stared at him with wide eyes before she let a small giggle escape her. "Wait, so I can actually have you arrested?" 

Xavuer blinked for a long second before he nodded. "Yes, but trust me it is nothing funny." 

"Yes, it is," she argued with a huge smile on her face, "I can actually get you arrested." 

Xavier's eye twitched. "I am not happy with you taking it as a joke, Adeline." 

Adeline gave him a closed mouth giggle before leaning in and kissing his lips. "Who said I was joking?" Without waiting for him to say anything, Adeline got up and walked out of the room. 

Xavier gulped. 

*****

She had fallen asleep with his help. The last thing that Adaline remembered that happened was being next to Xavier and how his presence had pulled her to sleep and now, she had woken up for the day and they were going to land in less than 2 hours. 

"Are you sure you don't want to continue sleeping? We have more than an hour." Xavier asked in his raspy voice but without opening his eyes. It was as if he was aware of her being awake. 

Adeline shook her head. Even though she had barely slept for the night she felt more awake than ever. 

"We have not talked abou—"

"I know," he cut her off again, " but we're not going to do that here." He pulled her close. "Too many ears for a sage." 

Sage? Adeline frowned. What sage?

Before long, they had landed at the airport. As Adeline took a step closer to the car outside the plane, she realised the anxiety that she felt was not normal. 

But maybe that was the problem because at the moment she could not differentiate between anxiety and Paranoia. 

What was it?

She gave a glance at Xavier and found him looking at her with a smile on his face. A smile just reserved for her. 

Adeline gave him a smile before looking back at the car. Was she just being paranoid?