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It was nearing 7:30 and I still wasn’t ready, I recently just finished bathing, I stayed in the bathroom for almost an hour. I was really nervous for our date and the warm water was the only thing that could soothe and unravel my nervousness and anxiety, but yet it wasn’t enough because I was still panicking like a headless chicken.

Damien was still busy doing whatever he is doing and I was glad that he was still not back yet; I didn’t want him to see me pacing around like I just lost a penny.

All the time I had been inside the bathroom preparing like it was my first time going on a date, well technically it is my first time granted that no boys wanted to spend some quality time with me, I mean, who would date a girl that has many baggage with her?

I wrapped a towel around me, covering my wet body. I stepped out of the bathroom and went straight to the closet and grabbed my undergarments and the bag that contains the dress that I am going to wear, there’s that giddiness again.

I placed the bag on the bed as I dried my body and my hair, as I finished I put on my undergarments before I carefully opened the bag as I delicately pulled the dress out of the bag as if it was a fragile Chinese cup. I placed it flatly on the bed as I went to the vanity to fix my make-up. I only wanted to put light make-up, not cake my face with make-up making me look like someone else, granted it will make me more beautiful but I want Damien to like the natural and real me, not the one who’s trying to hide herself in my make-up.

I added a thin coat of eyeliner and mascara, I dabbed my lips in red lipstick and some eye shadow and voila! I was done. I also fixed my hair in an elegant bun, well as elegant as I could make it, I left some strands of hair to fall freely at the sides of my head and then curled it.

I walked back to the bed and touched the dress as I smiled, never thought I am going to wear a dress again, it had been a long time since I had worn a dress.

I put the dress on as it hugged my body but the material of it was smooth making the dress comfortable, I also put on my pumps as I took a glance at the full-body length mirror. I smiled as I looked at myself, at least I was presentable enough.

I also realized that something was different about me, not only my appearance was getting better but also my life, I now smile a lot more, gone was the girl who used to rarely smile and who was afraid of getting hurt by his so called father and pack members because staring at the mirror was a new girl whose eyes are sparkling in happiness, she now smiles often, laugh and feel many positive emotions.

I smiled at myself once again before I turned around to see Damien smirking at me but I couldn’t help but notice the look of awe on his face, he was looking at me up and down as if he was drinking me, as if he was memorizing each and every detail of my face, my body and how I looked in the dress, his eyes were also darkening showing the lust and love he has for me.

Then I took in his appearance before I drooled a little, he was wearing a white button up shirt that was hidden beneath his grey blazer, he looks so handsome right now, painfully handsome for his own good, he moved closer to me and I feel as if it was getting hotter and hotter he walked closer to me until I was cornered on a wall before he pinned me there and placed his head on the nook of my neck as he inhaled deeply.

He groaned as if he was in pain before he said, “You always do look beautiful, but tonight you are gorgeous, I might have a problem with resisting myself from marking you, you just look so delectable right now” he growled lowly as I widened my eyes at him before he looked up to see me before he caressed my cheeks. I involuntary leaned to his touch and he gave me a sweet smile that made my insides melt. Why does he have to be heartbreakingly handsome?

“But I will wait, for you, I will wait a thousand of years until you are ready, ready to be my forever” he said it so casual yet he was also promising this to me.

“I am falling for you Amor, I always have a hard time telling how I truly feel but I think I already love you” he admitted to me without looking away, he loves me? But the real question was, do I reciprocate his feelings back? I mean, he makes me feel so many emotions, emotions that I haven’t been feeling for quite a while; he makes me laugh and smile. He also makes me feel jealousy; he makes me blush when he caught me checking him out, or when he compliments me or even when he says my name. (Love)

I do feel attracted to him, anyone with two eyes will be actually, not only because he resembles as a Greek God and is also handsome but because of his personality, he is caring, loving, understanding just like he is now and I could go on and on with the list, that’s how perfect he truly is. Maybe I do love him and I was just scared of saying it to him, but I don’t want him to get hurt because I was a coward.

“It’s okay if you don’t say it back, it might be hard on you because I suddenly just said this, but just like I said, I will wait for you” he smiled at me, how could he be so hot and understanding at the same time? Goddess, this man will be the beginning and end of me.

“Now, come one Amor, we still have a date to attend to” he chuckled that made me chuckle with him before he wrapped his arm around my waist as he pulled me closer to him. We walked to an unfamiliar place as Damien both guided us; the path was filled with so many blooming flowers that let out a gasp of surprise. (Love)

Damien chuckled at my awestruck face before he pulled out a rose from his back as he gave it to me; I blushed and mumbled a ‘Thank you’ as I pushed the flower closer to my face as I took a sniff out of its scent.

We continued to walk as I continued to admire the flowers before Damien led us to an elegant gazebo in the middle of the garden, it was a marbled gazebo and its pillars were decorated in stone vines that were colored in gold, Damien let go of me as he grabbed my hand as he led us to it.

There was a bouquet of red roses on the table, he gave it to me and I couldn’t contain the blush that crept onto my face as I mumbled a ‘Thanks’ once again.

There was a vase on the middle of the table that held a single red rose, candles were also placed in their elegant stands, I looked at the dish in front of us and I was more than shocked.

“Did you do all of this?” I asked Damien as soon as we started eating, still amazed that he had put quite an effort for our date.

“Well, I had some help, besides this was my mother’s garden as I was told, she used to take care of all these flowers before she died” he said, his voice lower than usual and a frown was set on his face.

“I am sorry Damien” I said as I gave him a small smile as I grabbed his hand and rubbed circles on it with my thumb.

“Its fine” he waved it off but I could still see some dejection on his face.

“How did she um…”

“Died? She dies while giving birth to me”

“Oh” I said, not sure of a better reply.

“What about you? What had happened to you before all of this happened to your life?” he asks as he stood up and took my hand as he led us to a bench where we could see the beautiful Castle.

I bit my lower lip, debating whether to tell him or not, I mean he is my mate and I already told Lily my whole story, well most of it anyways, it’s a touchy subject for me and I don’t want him to look at me in some other way like I have predicted.

‘Just tell him, you talked about it to Lily with no problem, what is the difference with him? Is it because he makes you sexually frustrated with his hotness or-’

‘Shut up! He is a male! You know how I get emotional when it comes to that gender and I don’t want him to start pitying me, I hate seeing him giving me the pity look, and I am still afraid of men after what Mason and my ‘father’ had done to me’

‘Yes, I know that you are scared, but he is your mate, he will love you unconditionally, maybe he can help you, I mean he had helped you get rid of your nightmares’ she’s right about that though.

“Fine, I’ll tell you but then afterwards you will tell your whole life, for fair. I mean we are mates, we should know everything about each other” I offered him before he tensed up and let out a frustrated sigh but then agreed.

“Okay, now tell me your life” he says as he focused solely on me, making me squirm in his gaze.

“Well, when I was a child the Alpha of our pack, Alpha Cain has taken care of me since I could remember together with his mate, I have always thought that they were my parents and I couldn’t be more wrong, they took care of me, gave me everything that I needed, of course being the gullible child I was. I really did thought I was theirs, but everything went down when we were attacked and that led to the Luna getting killed, they killed many of the pack members and injured many. Ever since that day Alpha Cain started to… abuse me, later then some of the pack members would follow him-” he tensed up as I swallowed the lump in my throat, I could feel his wolf on the edge and he was having a hard time controlling himself from shifting.

“My ‘father’ would lock me up in a cell and sometimes they would not feed me for a week, then afterwards they would bring me to a cell full of torture weapons, they would beat me up until I was unconscious, I still have those horrid images plastered in my mind” I said as I shivered, I couldn’t get the image of me being locked up in a cell out of my head.

“I am going to fucking kill them” he vowed but I pretended to not hear him as I continued with my story.

“There was this one time when I woke up and I was going to the kitchen when I overheard my ‘father’ talking to someone about some girl, and that she was turning 18 and that she would find her mate” I said as I gave him a small smile, indicating that they were talking about how ‘I’ was going to find who my mate is.

“And that is when they said that she was a royal and that if she finds out who her mate is, her mate would kill them all”

“In which his handsome mate will” he added and I giggled before I continued.

“They also talked about the necklace that belonged to the girl and I was beyond curious so I went to find it, after a series of investigations about the girl they are talking about I came to the conclusion that I was the only girl whose birthday was tomorrow on that day, I found the necklace but I was caught by the man Alpha Cain was talking to, I managed to get away from him, I found a letter in the necklace and that is when I came to know about Annabelle. Then I heard them talking again and how they were plotting to kill me so I escaped and I had to live as a rogue for a year and every so often we would change location and my wolf suggested we would go to the abandoned Castle and so we did, and that is where your guards and Beta found me and you know the next, that’s my story” I let out a deep exhale before I looked at Damien and he looks like he was about to kill. He was about to say something but I beat him to it.

“Your turn” I said to him, smiling widely.