Obsession: the Lycan king's Human Mate

Chapter 319 - On His Knee - II

She frowned. 

What was happening? 

It was then when her eyes went around and she looked at her entire room. 

There were petals strewn across the floor and candles lit in every corner of the room giving it a soft golden glow. 

In the middle of it all, Xavier stood on a bent knee. 

"Xavier?" She whispered slightly confused and not wanting to give into her suspensions and assumptions so early. "What is happening?" 

He smiled but it went away just as quickly. "Come closer, Adeline." 

And she did. 

She did as told by him. 

Adeline felt herself to be in a complete trance and cannot help but look away from his eyes. Those beautiful, beautiful eyes. 

"What is happening?" She repeated again as she stepped onto the rose petals and more into the middle of her room. 

Are the suspicions in her mind true? Was it really happening?

He nodded at her beckoning her closer and just when she was two steps away from him, he stopped. 

"Adeline," he took her name softly as if it was just meant for the two of them. 

"A lot has gone down in between us," he gulped, "I have hurt you more than I ever could have imagined myself doing. That has cost you a lot of time of your life.."

He was talking about her depression. 

He swallowed quickly, "I loved you the first time I saw you. It was the mate bond then, but I quickly realized that the bond was only working one way which is why I have to get to know you in the way you would do." 

"And?" She whispered on the verge of breaking down.

He smiled as his eyes glossed over. "I fell for you so fucking hard." He whispered to her, shaking his head. "All those moments I spent with you, the one where I cooked for you, the one we cooked shit together," he chuckled and so did she. 

Whenever they cooked the food together it always turned out to be inedible. 

"The one who spends time bringing your favorite flowers from the shop that my mother owned, and loving the way you would get on the smallest of things." 

She smiled through her tears. 

"I understand what happened in between us would break many but at the end of the day we were always together," he spoke quicker than usual, "you protected me… and that was something I never expected you to do."

"I have to protect you," she sniffed, "you needed protection and I have to protect you." 

That was the first time she had never seen him vulnerable and God be damned if she would not protect Xavier. 

"I know," he replied, "and I will forever be grateful to you. Now that I think about it, I could not be more blessed to receive you as my mate because I know that you will not think twice before protecting me, Adeline." 

A cute smile Grace her face before he added, "my little Penguin ready to protect me with all sorts of weapons her little hands can carry."

The smile went as quickly as it had appeared. 

"Really?" She grumbled. "I can also leave just as quickly if you want to see."

"No, no," he laughed slightly as he held her hands so that she wouldn't be able to go. 

After a second of the bright smile that was on his face Xavier schooled his expressions into a calm and collected look. 

"What I want to say is I love you and I do not just love you because of the fact that I have to be with you because of the bond. I love you because of who you are." 

"I love your kindness, I love your naivety, I love the genuineness that you carry with yourself, your confidence, your looks. I love everything about you adelyn. And the thing I love the most about you is your courage."

He kissed her hands, both of them. "For a person who is barely 5'3, you are the bravest person I have ever seen." 

Of course she had been the bravest person. No matter how hard hard things hit her, fAdeline had always managed to bounce back.

How much he had pushed her away, he truly wondered how she had managed to find out about his true feelings and the thing that made him even more was how she was able to help him in getting rid of it. 

"I am 5'4." She cleared her throat and muttered under her breath just said he would take notice. 

He patted her knees urging her to get up as she was kneeling down with him. His hand went behind him and he pulled out a small box. 

"You are someone I want to spend my life with," he held out the small box in between them as he remained on his one knee, "no matter how much I think of my future you are always by my side and there is no future of me without you. 

I love you, Adeline. I love you as my girlfriend and I want to love you as my wife. So," his hand opened the small box to reveal a ring, would you give me the honor of having you as my wife?" 

Her lips wobbled and she could barely control it. A cry slipped out and she nodded her head yes. 

Xavier smiled, "It must sound shitty to you but I can't explain how much I love you and why." 

Her hands covered his and he bent down to place a kiss on them. "I love you, Penguin." 

Adeline was full-blown crying at this point. "I don't have a nickname for you, but I also love you!" She cried and her words were barely corrigible but he got each and every one of them. 

He took the flying out of the box and held out his hand, asking her to provide it with her own.

Once Adeline's trembling hand was secured by his own, he slipped the ring into her finger. The sapphire twinkled on her skin. 

"It.." she sniffed as she stared at the stone, "it's..the.."

He kissed her knuckles, "it's sapphire.. The same your father gave in engagement to your mother."