Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

Chapter 288 - A Call From The North - I

~Back in the North~

Adeline gripped the phone tightly as the Bell rang and she waited for someone to pick up the phone. She had waited for some time before placing the call. Yet as the ringtone continued she could not help but regret the decision of making it. 

Was even going to pick it up? Why was he taking so long? 

"Hello?" 

"Uncle Korr?" Adaline sat up slightly at the voice of her uncle. 

"Adaline?" Korr whispered.. "Darling, what are you upto? Aaj things that back there that you had to call me? If you want, I can come in the evening." 

"No, No," Adeline bit her lip. She let out a shaky sigh wandering on what to say. 

"I just wanted to talk about what happened in the recent days but I cannot tell you everything over the phone." 

"Okay," Korr drawled out carefully, "Well what is it that you want to say to me?"

Adeline carefully chose her words. " A series of events led Xavier to Mark me as the only option left for me. I would have died from hyperthermia if he did not." 

When Korr remained silent for a long time Adaline could not help but glance at the phone, taking it away from here to make sure that they were still on call. She placed it back on her ear and said, "Hello? Uncle are you there?" 

"I am." Came his curt reply. "Give me a minute." 

And she did. 

Adeline sat on The bed nervously glancing around the room wondering why he was taking such a long time to answer her. 

"Is that a big thing?" Adeline gulped. "Is it that serious?"

"Adaline," Korr began, "from what you've told me, I need to know a lot more because that would decide on what he did was right or wrong." 

So it was more serious than she had imagined. 

"I-I don't really know how to begin. ." That was a big problem because all Adeline remembered was the jumbled up problem that she did not know where to begin from. 

And about the problem of the beast that was chasing her through the Jungle it was another saying that she just could not say it out loud to her uncle because obviously why would he believe her? 

"I don't know. . . " She sighed. 

Korr did not miss a beat before replying, "Alright then how about you tell me what were the reasons told to you because of which he marked you?" 

That was something Adaline could do. 

"They said that I was on the verge of getting hyperthermia. At present I have pneumonia."

"Define the word," her uncle repeatedly, "define on the verge. What were your symptoms?" 

" Like. . Um," Adeline clicked her tongue, " I had gold feet and hands and my lips were turning blue. My body was pale and I had like. . . a very cold body?" Did any of that even make sense? 

"Huh. Alright." 

Maybe, it did. 

"I will be honest added in. The threat of a mate dying makes a shifter do anything. However I cannot justify the actions of the boy which makes it your decision to weigh the facts and decide which balance you want to go with."

Adeline closed her eyes and helplessness. She knew the facts and she was trying to find the balance that she wanted to go with but the problem was she did not know what to do or what to look for which was the reason why she had called for her uncle. 

Now her uncle suggested that it was at the end of the day her decision which brought her back to the same point that she stood on before calling him. 

And to top it all off, she had not seen the man in action. Where was he? Why had he not come and instead sent Augustus to deal with her? 

"That's the point, " she said as he scratched her head, "even Augustus told me that I could die and what Xavier did was just to save my life but I have not even seen Xavier till now. He just has not stepped into the room!" 

She felt frustrated and abandoned. 

"He is guilty then." Korr told calmly. " Don't think of him as someone who is abandoning you after placing his mark on you. The shifter inside him is feeling the guilt of marking you without your consent." 

Oh. . .she had not thought about that. At the end of the day shifters were people that could feel emotions which meant that it was true that Xavier could probably was feel the guilt inside which is why he did not show his face to her. 

"If he is guilty then why mark me in the first place? The way you put it, uncle, if he knew he was going to be guilty after words for me not being in conscious to given consent why do it in the first place?" 

Korr chuckled. "Consciousness does not matter if you might lose it permanently. What matter to him was you being alive." Korr sighed. "I don't know the king personally for me to be able to judge his character but from what I know and what you to have been through it was a decision that he did not make easily." 

I have been through a lot. Majority of her anger against that came from when she was not aware of anything. Now that she was Adeline wondered what kind of decision was she to make here because the mark bonded her forever to him. 

It was eternity and eternity was no joke. 

Another thought came to her mind to making a question everything. Her hand went to her bandaged neck and traced the outline of the cotton on the side of head where the mark was. 

"But what if all of them lied to me?" Adeline asked what was on her mind. "For all I know they could be having a plan behind my backs and lying to me about it." It would hurt her I'd they did.