The King

chapter 29

After getting ready in tense and uncomfortable silence, Lucas and I took off to head back to the castle. He had brought a change of clothes for the walk back to the castle but since I wasn't told of how I would have to stay a night in a random cabin in the middle of the woods I didn't have the same luxury. Instead of getting to wear my own clothes, I kept on Lucas' dress shirt, thankfully it was long enough or there would be more cheeks on display than I would have preferred.

"Are you ready?" He asked, snapping me out of discontent of wearing nothing but grandma panties under his big shirt.

I simply nodded and stuck my feet that were only slightly healed from the cuts that had accumulated from trying to escape from Lucas, into the heels I wore at our ceremony. I scowled mentally when I realized that not only a couple days ago I wanted nothing to do with Lucas but now here I was craving even the smallest touch.

I would have felt perplexed as to why I wanted to be touched by him if I hadn't been told, constantly, by Lucas, that we were mates. I never really appreciated the touch of a male after what my father had put me through. I would even cower from females, I had learned too early in my life that there were just people in this world who you can't trust. People I would have to build walls around because they wouldn't care what happened to you. People like that were what I was accustomed to. And now that I had met Lucas, my walls were crumbling faster than I could fix.

We walked out of the cabin and I looked inside for a quick glance as I closed the door. I saw Lucas turn the handle and jam a key in it, making sure it was locked. Lucas didn't talk to me much after he had marked me, can't say he even regarded my presence. He started walking, not caring if I followed behind him. He marched on with giant steps while I struggled to even stay three feet behind him.

We passed by trees and jutting branches, and I shoved my hands under my armpits. The chilly winter air was starting to make an appearance. I watched as Lucas kept his attention all around us, but kept his eyes focused straight ahead. I wondered how he could have this path memorized. I ached to talk to him, even if it was a dumb question like,

'Hey, Lucas! How do you know where to go, to get back to the castle?'

'I grew up here, I know this forest like the back of my hand.' I heard his voice in my head.

I stopped, abruptly.

He turned to face me after he couldn't hear the sounds of the leaves crunching under my heels. My arms dropped to the side and my eyes were wide. 'You can hear my thoughts?' I thought to myself. When he just looked back at me and I didn't hear him, I came to the conclusion that I just imagined his voice in my head. "Sorry," I told him and we started walking. "I thought I had heard something," I told him with my voice now low. He only nodded and looked forward.

"I can hear your thoughts." He said simply and walked like what he had just said wasn't anything.

I stopped again. And he turned, to face me. His visage seemed anything but content, I could tell he was getting peeved with me stopping. "Are we- whats that thing- uh.." my mind hit a blank as I tried to recall what Penny had called it. "Mind Linking!" I asked.

I saw the corners of his lips twitch before he stopped the movement in less than a second. "How do you know what that is?" He narrowed his eyes accusingly.

"Penny told me."

I saw him roll his eyes before he continued his walk and I raced to catch up to him. "At this rate, you'll learn more things from her than you will from me." He said with a tinge of annoyance in his voice.

"In her defense, she actually talks to me," I said and instantly clamped my mouth shut.

      Ohhhhhhhh my godddddd, Dawn do you ever think before you speak?!