Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

Chapter 272 - A Little Game - I

Adeline groaned as she bent down and sat on the cold snow. Once again by using the portal she felt shaken inside her body. It felt like every order had jumbled up and ended up being entangled together. 

"Portals take time to get used to." Xavier offered an explanation for her condition as he bent down to pat her back slowly. 

Adeline groaned loudly. She felt the familiar feeling of vomit coming up throat. "Not if one does not want to travel anytime soon." Or ever. 

Xavier chuckled at her reply and sat down right next to her before taking her in his arms. Both of them sat on the snow and Adaline acted as if it was not freezing her back side. 

Yup, she was completely fine. 

"Normal now?" He kissed her forehead with a tender expression on his face. 

She nodded. Having his kisses to herself felt awesome. 

Adaline was leaning her side to his chest as she looked around herself. They had breached the familiar mountains covered with snow in the north of the realm. There was just something about this place that she would love, always. 

"Adeline?" 

She looked up at him with a smile. 

"I have something to talk about," he did not return her smile, making her slightly more attentive than before. 

She licked her lip in nervousness before asking, "What is it?" 

He did not wait nor did he try to beat around the bush. "I promised you that I will not try to hide anything from you which is why I am going to be honest about your promise to your friend, James." 

Adeline frowned. "What about it?" 

He sighed. "Whenever mates are found in your world and they are brought into ours, we make sure that no one can find you. The absolute way to make sure of that is to stage your death." 

Adeline's eyes burned and she felt the tears build up. "What?" She whispered in complete shock, still processing his words before it finally came back to her. "What is that supposed to mean? If you kill me I would never be able to go back. No one would be able to go back to their world." 

"This becomes your world." He stressed on the words. 

Adeline shook her head and raised her finger pointedly, "no, they have two worlds then and they have two families in both the worlds. You cannot expect someone to leave their family, parents or siblings to join yours." 

Xavier smiled, "I am glad you advocate for them but that was exactly what we did ages ago. We did let the human mates have contact with their families back on earth but that did not work in your favour. Do you know how many times we have a narrow escape?" He scoffed and shook his head. "Not only did humans sleep and give information to their families at times when the shifter went back to pick up, they often had scientists and people waiting for them for their arrest." 

Adeline's eyes widened for a second. "What?" 

He nodded. "People did fall in love with each other. They were meant to fall in love with each other and when they did go back to their world no one accepted them which is why the shifters were at a risk and the humans did not know what to do so we collectively agreed on not growing back." He kissed her forehead. "I know you would love to go back whenever given the chance but they are just one thing that holds us back. That world can be dangerous for you because there are many hunters living there." 

Adeline had heard about the hunters from her uncle. Hunters were generally hunting specific kinds and killing them if not torturing them for fun. There were witch hunters and there were shifted hunters. Most importantly most of the hunters lived on earth because it was difficult for them to kill anyone living here when the whole realm was filled with shifters. 

"Hunters try to kill mates on earth?" 

Xavier nodded. "If you kill the other half of the soul, the other half remaining of it goes crazy and a crazy wolf has to be put down." 

Adeline hissed. That was bad. She could never imagine one of her family members being killed for their own good. 

"Let's go back?" He held out his hand for her and she took it. Sitting in the snow was not as pleasing as one made it to be. Perhaps next time she would like to have some furniture. 

Unlike last time they were not working together to find something or reach somewhere. They walked around lazily enjoying the scenery and enjoying each other's presence without talking. 

He leaned to her side and kissed her forehead making her close her eyes and relish the feeling. She smiled back at him. 

Sometimes silence is golden and it was better without the realisation of it. For Adaline, if she could enjoy someone's presence in silence it meant that she was enjoying the person. 

This was better. It felt better. 

This time she had no problem walking because she was walking to be with him. Soon they saw the familiar cabins and just as they reached the one belonging to them Xavier opened the door for her and they walked in. 

First things first Xavier tended to the fire and Adeline took off her clothes. The two jackets that she wore along with tons of sweaters, along with the two pairs of socks and shoes. Once all of them were off of her, Adeline found herself to be breathing better. 

She walked to the couches and just as she was about to send down something shiny caught her eye and she leaned over the table to find the pendant, similar to the one her mother wore, on the table. 

"Oh," she smiled and picked it up. This was nice.. She had almost forgotten about this piece of jewelry as she now knew it would be staple.