Once they were out of the dining hall, Xaden dragged Jasmine along.
It was nighttime, and the castle’s hallway lit dimly, giving off a beautiful silhouette.
The moonlight mainly illuminated it.
He pulled her along, and she managed to keep up with him.
"My lord, please." She begged him, but he still dragged her along, not caring what she said.
Then he heard her tiny voice say: "My Lord, forgive me, but you’re hurting me."
He stopped short, let her go, and saw that his claws had gone so deep in her arm that they bled.
She rubbed her arm.
He seemed surprised that he had done that, and then he looked like a young boy who had not intentionally caused trouble.
As if he were sorry.
"It’s okay." She whispered with a weak smile.
He had not apologized, had he?
He had never apologized in his entire life.
He blinked at her. "Why did you say that?"
She looked back at him in surprise. "My lord. You apologized. You told me you were sorry."
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She must be jesting him. There was no way that he would tell her sorry.
He had only said that as a child with his family.
And he considered that life dead.
He had never apologized. I never used the word.
Not even when Elena had raised him as his mother.
So, who was she that he would apologize to?
He jerked himself off her.
"I never said such words." He said to her, even though he mostly tried to convince himself he couldn’t have.
"But, my lord, you
"I SAID I MADE NO SUCU WORDS!" He barked as he pushed her against the wall, his presence overpowering her.
She closed her eyes, and then he felt a sudden pull towards her.
A sudden I have an have an unusual and unique hunger.
The type of hunger the day he had first lain with her, the day he had taken her virginity.
He had felt the hunger and its need to be embraced, but he had had to suppress it, regardless of his feelings.
Because of whatever possessed him, his anger and resentment must be more assertive.
That was what he had told himself.
He pushed himself away from her, then turned around to leave when Erik and another wolf named Damian came in.
"Don’t even tell me I was wrong," Xaden said.
"I was not going to say that." Erik commended.
Damian stood. He was a wolf she had seen frequently around.
He had also been among the wolves who had joined Xaden when her pack had been raided.
It was mainly Erik and Xaden who remained in the pack.
She hadn’t seen the others in a while.
She wondered where they had all been.
"My lord." Damian said. "We’ve just returned."
It was as if only then had he noticed Damian’s presence.
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