Sue
"Huh?" I blurted out, eyes widened and filled with shock as his words washed over me. That was the last thing I expected him to say to me, so I was beyond shocked.
He pursed his lips, staring away from me for a moment and my eyes trailed over his body. The shirt he had on was straining around his muscles and his jaw clenched for a moment before he focused on me again.
"You heard me. If you don't want to lose your life, don't go about telling anyone that we're mates." He repeated and the frown on my face deepened as I tentatively stepped closer to him.
"Who'd try to kill me?" I questioned and he frowned at me before glancing away again.
"That's none of your concern. Just stick to what I tell you and you'll be alright." He repeated and I felt irritation begin to grow within me.
"Why can't you just tell me who it is?" I demanded and he narrowed his eyes at me, starting to appear annoyed at me.
"Cause you don't need to know." He responded and I bristled.
"But I do need to know! It's only logical that I'd want to know if someone's about to kill me. How do you expect me to carry on living here after knowing some unknown person might try to kill me?" I demanded and Damon pinched the bridge of his nose.
"If you don't go around telling people you're our fated mates, then you literally have nothing to worry about." He snapped and I felt myself bristling again in annoyance. This man was absolutely impossible, couldn't he see why I deserve to know the person who might try to kill me? It's only logical that I want to know.
I opened my mouth to say something but he suddenly took my elbow and began to lead me back to the entrance of the wing palace the palace which I was brought to last night, and he didn't stop till he shoved me into my bedroom and stepped in after me.
I was fuming at this point but when I whirled around, he had a furious expression on.
"Why did you even get into a fight with Anna? I was only gone for a few hours and if I was any later, you might have been killed!" He exclaimed, eyes regarded me angrily and I pursed my lips, folding my arms together.
"I didn't go about looking for trouble, I literally only defended myself! Your betrothed is just a psychopath who's so obsessed with you, that's the only reason why she chose to formulate vile lies against me, for literally no reason." I hurled at him, watching as his jaw clenched again before slowly relaxing. He shoved his hands into his pockets just as his lips thinned.
"I'll speak to her." He finally announced and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes right now.
"If you don't mind me asking, then I'd like to know if you and her were both romantically involved before you ended up falling out." I questioned and his eyes narrowed down at me, dark eyes appearing even darker.
"What's it to you? Why are you asking?"
"I'd just like to know, because that would explain a lot of things." I explained but he only scoffed before looking away for a moment.
"It's none of your concern." He finally spoke and I pursed my lips, feeling confused and irritated at the same time. The only reason why I was asking that question was because it would make sense that Anna was so territorial over him, If they've once had something together, but he clearly wasn't interested in spilling.
"But I just…" I began but he narrowed his eyes at me sharply and I forced myself to drop it, letting out a long exhale.
"Fine. So, what am I supposed to be doing now?" I asked and he stared at me in confusion this time.
"Now that I have to be living here, what am I supposed to be doing everyday from now on?" I asked again and he hummed slowly.
"You can just sleep and wake up everyday without doing anything. See this as a getaway vacation." He suggested and I scoffed, folding my arms again.
"Yeah, no, that can't work, I'd only go crazy that way. I need to do something, I can't stay idle like that." I explained and he hummed again before arching a brow at me.
"Okay then. What would you like to do?"
I perked up at that question.
"I'd like to leave." I instantly responded and he rolled his eyes, lips twitching a little.
"Anything but that."
I pursed my lips, and then I shrugged a little.
"Well, I'd like to fight." I finally announced and he arched a brow at me.
"I said I'd like to fight." I repeated and he frowned at me this time.
"Why?"
I blinked in confusion. "Huh?" I echoed almost immediately.
"Why do you want to fight?" He repeated and I shrugged again.
"Well, that's because I love to." I responded but his frown deepened.
"Why though? Why do you want to do something so… masculine and uncouth? Our pack isn't like your father's where they force girls to do things like that. Here, you don't have to. You can choose to do something safe and feminine…" he ended up trailing off on noticing the dark scowl I had on. I was extremely furious right now as his words kept echoing through my head again.
"What do you mean? Are you saying girls can't love to fight except when forced to?!" I demanded and he frowned again.
He remained silent but that was answer enough.
"You're actually worse than I could ever imagine! How misogynistic! Girls can do whatever boys can if they want. Girls can love to fight even if you see it as a masculine thing. My father's pack doesn't force girls to fight, the girls willingly volunteered to fight." I explained, still extremely furious.
"That's weird." He finally stated and I bristled again, wishing I could slap him again.
"Of course it's weird to you when you and your pack is still stuck backward." I snapped and Damon let out an exasperated sound.
"Okay, fine, fine! If you want to fight, fine. It's not like you'd be good or anything. I'll introduce you to my army tomorrow. After a day, you'd want out anyway." He grumbled and I rolled my eyes.
"We'd see about that." I gritted out in return.
He turned around to leave after that but I stopped him, and he was clearly over all of this when he turned back around. Against my will, my eyes dropped on his huge biceps again.
"So… Who am I supposed to be interacting with from now on?" I demanded and he leveled a narrowed look at me once again.
"Must you interact with anyone? So that you can talk their eyes off like you've done mine in only a few minutes?" He questioned and I blushed as I pursed my lips, feeling called out.
I wasn't much of a talker. In all honesty, I didn't even use to talk much until I grew old enough to take my life into my own hands and start to reshape it in order to gain a bit of confidence. It was surprising to me on realizing that I've really talked his ears off in just a few minutes.
"You can talk to the two maids I assigned to you." He finally spoke again and I pursed my lips.
"Just them? I need more. I'd be bored out of my mind with just them because they didn't even seem like they like me much." I muttered this time, a small frown on my face.
Damon stared at me in silence as the seconds slowly turned into a minute, and then he broke the silence.
"How about we have dinner together?"
As soon as those words registered within me, I felt myself stiffening in the next moment.
"Ah… when I said I'd be bored and needed company, I wasn't referring to you because surely you don't even believe that you can be anyone's good company with your cold attitude, eh?" I blurted out before I could stop myself. I bit on my bottom lip after that, feeling like I had overstepped again, but Damon only rolled his eyes.
"Take it or leave it."
Before I could respond, he went ahead and ruined it.
"Actually, it wasn't a question. You'll have dinner with me tonight."
I felt myself starting to bristle and I vehemently refused but he ignored me and made his way towards the door, informing me that he'd be sending my newly assigned maids to come get me ready for dinner tonight.
The stupid bastard. I want to claw his eyes out so badly.