Alpha Kian And His Captive Mate novel Chapter 22

~Nyla~

I literally had to push Kian out of the door before getting some decent rest. Not sure where he got this idea that the best way to protect me was by staying stuck to me all day.

Reading his thoughts isn't helping at all because they are filled with so many emotions of lust, affection, and things I don't want to know or feel. They are manipulating my vengeful intentions.

I slept almost all day after kicking him out; long naps before and after lunch to recover from the over-exhaustion. Ari was my alarm clock, and we both slept once she was fed.

After stepping out under the full moon and feeling alive for a little bit in the morning, staying in bed all day was suffocating now. I unlocked the door to step into the balcony and have some coffee before getting dressed for the stupid ceremony.

The moment I opened the door, I ran straight into the muscled back of some burly man dressed in all black. I was short by no means, but this guy made me feel like a Tyrion. He turned around to glare at me with a hardened face while I rubbed my nose.

His gaze and frown morphed into something less scary once he saw me. I heard another deep voice from behind me and jumped in my place. I was guilty as charged and feared getting taken to the dungeons at any moment. Maya does these things like breathing air and would not bat an eye while I get consumed by feelings of wrongdoing and sin.

"We are sorry. Didn't mean to scare you." The man with the deep voice and less intimidating face said.

"Who are you people?" There were four armed hunky men, standing tall and looking down at me.

They rearranged themselves to stand close to the door, two on each side.

"The Alpha has appointed us to be your bodyguards round the clock on this floor."

What the fuck?! How in the world was I ever going to accomplish my late night activities if these men watched me like hawks? The balcony I used earlier to jump off from is straight down the hallway from here.

I have a full month to come up with something to get rid of these savage-looking wolves. If I risk using magic in these buildings, Kian will get hold of me before I even walk to the balcony.

This can wait. I forgot to ask Ren for coffee and just walked over to the balcony. Facing the bright blue skies and high tide, I mulled over another issue of immediate concern... My eyes! They glow without my control sometimes. I'm sure they will do the same when they watch Kian take over the title from his dad.

Not sure why they didn't glow when they saw him for the first time. Or maybe they did, but he ignored it? I was too lost in pain over losing Wyatt, my wailing baby in his gamma's hands, and Maya almost dying because of Ryder's attack. I didn't pay attention to Kian's thoughts when he carried me to the rooftop.

I needed a pink eye to justify wearing sunglasses at twilight. I ran back to my room and opened the laptop.

'How to make your one eye look bloodshot?' I asked Google and closed the window immediately. What if Kian is monitoring my browsing history? He will look for search words like 'How to kill your mate?' or 'How to fight the fatal attraction towards a handsome devil?'

I did search for 'Ways to make your mate reject you ASAP' a few days back.

I opened an incognito window and retyped the thing about bloodshot eyes, and the search results were irrelevant. They told me how to cure pink eye. Obviously, no one would write a post about how to get conjunctivitis to justify wearing sunglasses when there's no sun.

Ren knocked on the door and showed up with some coffee and cut fruits. I eyed the grapes and wondered if this was enough to irritate my eye. I grabbed one muscat grape and squeezed the juice into my eye while looking at the mirror.

"Oh, no! Your eye. It looks terrible!"

Perfect!

"Really! Crap! Can I skip this ceremony? I must be contagious?" I ran over to the mirror, like a teenager fussing over their first pimple.

"The Alpha will be very disappointed. Unless you are very sick, he hopes you attend." She had already checked my temperature when I was coughing this morning and again during lunch.

She walked over to my closet and looked for the place where there were a dozen pairs of sunglasses.

"This will go really well with your dress and your oval face."

"Hmm... I guess this will work. Let me go shower and change into it. I don't need any help."

I wanted to make sure my eye didn't heal before leaving. More grape juice and no maids and stylists. I put the purple dress away and picked a wine red high low gown with halter neck from the closet.

I was still doing my hair in a neat bun when one of the bodyguards knocked and asked me to leave with him soon. Ren came with the wet nurse and took my baby away. Apparently, I don't have a child and was not supposed to bring Ari up in my conversations with anyone.

Ren gave me many more instructions to maintain a low profile and not catch unnecessary attention. Everyone stared at us as we walked down the stairs and stepped out into the garden. My sunglasses were attention seeking enough, but they were better than eyes glowing golden. Maybe people were just curious about their new Alpha's new whore.