Chapter Seventy Eight

Chapter Seventy Eight

There’s a knock on the door, and I’m awoken from a very peaceful slumber.

It was Axel.

“Why are you here so early?” I questioned

“It’s actually very late, close to midnight, and you’ve slept long enough,” he says, letting himself in.

That’s when I noticed something different about him; it was his dressing. Don’t get me wrong, Axel was always good–looking and in the right dress, but a white well–fitting dress shirt paired with dark grey chinos was unlike him.

“Uhmm, was the occasion?”

“Is a surprise?” he says.

“I don’t like surprises.‘

“Trust me, this one you will like,” he says, deliberately imitating Thane.

“I trust you, so this must be good,” I say, heading towards the door.

“Where are you going?”

“You said you have a surprise for me?” I questioned, giving him a pointed look.

“Not dressed like that; you look good, but maybe a bit more effort.”

“You’ve never been bothered about my dressing.”

“You will thank me later for this,” he says, and I huff.

but the emerald green is better.” Axel said, and I nodded, picking out the dress. I was bad at

I need to be this glamoured for

but this is appreciated,” he says, and again he gives no

dress, and Axel turried his attention to the wall,

I’ve got nothing to hide,” I said, despite the

creepy, and

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respond, but I did mind; even if he had seen it all, I still felt self–conscious. Slowly Axel turned to me,

look?” I asked him, and his eyes trailed down my body

he says. “I think you are

heart skips a

good looking too,” I complimented, trying to act all calm, but inside… inside I wasn’t very calm; I just

me to straighten my hair and apply the slightest makeup–I never really believed I needed that. I slipped on a pair of

know about this surprise?”

of our room. The trip down the stairs was the hardest, and I was grateful that there were fewer people present. It was late, so we were most likely to see

and nice, beautif the moon shone brightly above us, and the moon was full too; maybe that had been why the night felt

Axel stopped.

“What?”

easy for you to move any faster,” he explains, and with that, he swept me off my feet and

are we going into the woods in the middle of

harm you?” he

but this

help but feel the slight sting; the woods never felt like ‘home‘ to me, and maybe because I was just like… humans,

in the woods?” I asked, brushing off the hurt.

few more minutes, and you would have

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