Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

The double doors that were made of heavy word store no chance in front of her when she pushed them open with both her hands and had a little five foot 4 body. 

Khiel, who was coming out of one of the rooms where Xavier was changing, had a raging expression over his face before it turned and he bowed his head in front of Adaline. 

"Luna," he greeted, "the king—"

"Shut up!" She snapped at him before moving into the room that he had existed from. 

"Xavier!" Adaline shrieked, "you are killing people!" 

He raised one eyebrow before unbuttoning the shirts of the button that he was previously buttoning and appearing naked above his waist in front of her. 

"Am I killing you?" The bastard even went ahead and flexed his biceps in front of her. 

Adaline stared at the muscle office right arm that was visible to her before she blinked away repeatedly and swallowed the drool as she discreetly checked for it. 

"No, I am not." Adaline snapped before she moved closer to him. "What\'s the deal with the queen\'s guard?" 

"Luna\'s guard," he corrected, "have you been talking to Ashlynn?" 

She tutted, "why do you expect me to rat anyone out?" 

"Because that would save you from me." He flicked her nose. "Who told you about it?"

"Does it matter who told me about it when I already know?" She rebuked. "Can you not give them another chance? If you can\'t, fine! Atleast give them the chance to find something else to do. You are going to kill them!" 

He sighed before reaching over to the shirt and started buttoning it. "They knew what they were getting into when they signed up for the job. Society will view them as failures because they failed to protect the queen." 

"So death would be better for them?" 

Xavier chuckled, "there is a different sense of loyalty when it comes to us. The beasts would not be able to handle the failure of feeling the alpha and that would result in their demise."

Why would someone choose to be loyal when it would kill them? 

But she was also in the same situation. Maybe it was not about loyalty but the protective Instinct inside someone Because as a human even Adeline felt the need to protect her loved ones. 

She felt his stare on him. Having him stare at her I was nothing new but this time it was different. 

His eyes went up and down as if trying to figure something out in particular.

With how he looked at her, Adeline felt like he was trying to read into her by the looks of it, with the proud glint in his eyes, he might have figured it out. 

"It\'s not about, is it?" He called her out gently, coming close to her slowly before stopping right in front of her. "It\'s about something else and you are trying to cover that up by asking me about your Luna\'s guard." 

Adeline blinked twice in shock before shaking her head but that time had been enough for him to sniff the change in her scent. 

"Fine," Xavier relented. "Those incompetent men are going to have the One Last chance At protecting you. Now I held up my end of the bargain," he tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear, "now tell me what is bothering you." 

"Ho..how did you know?" She wondered out loud. His touch on her was distracting enough to let go of the fact that he were supposed to hide it and not reveal immediately. 

He chuckled, "just a hunch." He winked. After what she had to tell him, that smile was going to go away. 

She nodded, before sobering up and remembering that she still had to think of proceeding with this without him having to descend his rage down on her about it. 

"So.." she nodded her head before taking his fingers and playing with them, "do you know there was a witch in the palace—"

"Where?" His growl was barely surprised and the hand that was carressing her hair, slid it down to her name as he held her still. 

"Umm," Adaline held up a finger, "just so you know—"

"Where," he seethed, glaring at her, "did you see her?" For the first time, he frightened her. 

She had seen Xavier glare at many people but it had never been directed towards her. His eyes might be cold, impassive or even narrowed but when you\'re filled with anger they never glared at her. 

"At the temple."

"At the—" his roar stopped mid way and he stepped away. Turning away from her he breathed heavily, "you have known this for the past two days and you never told me about it?" 

She was not going to tell him this today either but never mind. 

"You met with the witch right after she escaped the palace?" He whispered with his bright eyes twinkling as the yellow in them started to seep out. "How much of an idiot are you going to be?" 

What? 

Adeline blinked back the tears that came to her eyes when she heard him. Stupid, he called her stupid. 

"Khiel!" Xavier shouted at the top of his voice and within seconds, the man in appeared in front of their door. 

"Assemble everyone in the meeting— in the war room. We need to discuss," his eyes went to her tearful ones, "we need to discuss a fucking load of shit." 

Her eyes bind over the insult and before she knew it, Xavier walked past her and out of the rooms. The sound of the door closing harshly made her jump and that made a tear fall on her cheek. 

Adaline pursued her lips out a little, pouting on purpose to keep the trembling on way because the tears slipped out without any remorse. 

"My queen," Lark softly acknowledged his presence in front of her, "we are required to wait outside the war room."