She jerked but to her amazement and surprise he did not take his hand where she had thought he would.
Rather he touched her shoulder and seemed to brush something off.
Everyone turned to look at her.
She mumbled a quick apology at her clumsy self.
"Why are you agitated?" He asked in a mocking tone. "What did you think I was going to do to you?"
Jasmine swallowed hard knowing quite well that he was mocking her.
"Nothing." She said straightening herself up.
She felt like an absolute fool.
"Can I leave now?" She asked him. "Please?"
He gave her a grin. "Of course."
And then she walked away from the dinner hall with her heart in her mouth.
Once she had escaped she was able to take in a very deep breath and then just as she was about to leave she felt a presence behind her.
She jumped and pulled out the dagger that Erik had given her but a hand quickly caught her hand and pulled it away.
She looked up and saw Xaden.
She breathed in relief that it was him at least.
Better him than anyone else.
"You have become feisty." He said with a frown. "Are you pulling out daggers now with the slightest opportunity you get?"
She sighed and pulled her hand away.
She bent down to pick the dagger that had fallen to the ground.
"I like to protect myself." She stated Mather of fact.
"I see." He said with a brow raised up.
Even though she genuinely doubted that he was seeing anything at all.
"I need to reprimand Erik for giving you a dagger without my permission. Because now you’re cutting anyone with it." He accused.
And then she remembered his cut.
She felt an inkling of guilt remembering last night.
"I am sorry about that." She said. "How is your cut?"
"Gone." He said. "I healed."
She nodded absent mindlessly.
"Jasmine what do you want?" He asked.
That took her off board and completely aback.
"What do you mean what do I want?" She asked lost.
"I mean what do you want . Do you want to stay here? Do you want to leave? Or do you want to come with me back to my pack". He asked.
She was surprised that he was even considering her opinion.
That he was asking her about something like this.
He must have seen how surprised she was and then he quickly said.
"It was Erik who demanded that I ask you whether you wished to come along with us or stay here." He asked.
She swallowed.
She had made that decision a long time ago from when Urma had told her to run.
But then she would have been on the run.
Probably been a wanted woman with a heavy bounty on her head.
But this was different.
This time he was giving her her own free will.
"If you stay with me. You will be my possession. You will be a servant and still a slave. But I have bought you. But you will serve me. You will let no other man see or touch you the way I do." He said.
The way he said it terrified her and drove her to heights that she had never believed she would experience.
"I need you to understand that." He said.
And then he did something striking.
He put his thumb on her bottom lip and drawed at it and she felt a sensation in between at it.
She was thrilled at it and appalled at how he had such a hold on her.
And then he gently grabbed her neck and pulled her up to him.
He last time that he had grabbed her neck in such a way, he had thrust his hard and massive cock into her deepest parts and she cried for more.
At the moment her body was exposing her.
Her nipples were had and there was a rush of adrenaline through her demanding his touch.
And then moment that he pulled her up against him, she felt how hard and ready he was for her.
He gently pushed her up against the wall and ground himself up against her.
"Feel that?" He asked hoarsely but dangerously in her ear. "That is what you do to me."
"People could see us." She said.
That was the wildest part of it all.
It was broad day light and they were only in the hallway.
Anyone could pass by and see them.
The dinner hall was a few paces away.
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