"So?" I asked, pressing my head to his chest and focusing on my inner feelings, and figuring out a very interesting fact: as soon as Markus touched me, my shield recoiled from me and covered his body from head to toes as well. And it didn't even take me the slightest afford, so it really can prove we share a unique bond and when he's close to me, I don't need to force myself to protect him. However, I know what for he's trying to teach me how to control my shield, so I will be able to protect not only him but others around me as well when it's needed.
"Let's go," he said without any further explanations, and went outside the training room, going alongside a somewhat dark corridor. I closed my eyes again and relaxed, giving him all the power in the current situation. Well, yeah, I do deserve a treat because I did my best at this training.
I opened my eyes only when my body was put to something warm and very comfortable, and I saw it was an armchair on the balcony of his bedroom. It was midday and the sun was shining brightly, warming up my cold pale skin. I looked at Markus. He stood on the dark side of the balcony and pressed something on his watch.
"You'll have a tasty dinner now, then you will get your treat. Food will help your body to recover."
"Thanks. That's right, what I need for now!"
Markus nodded and turned around, went to the bedroom, and started looking for something on his night table. I turned my head away from him and looked around. His mansion was very beautiful, and I felt like a Princess in a fairy tale. Those beautiful landscapes visible from the balcony, the beautiful garden on the outside of the mansion, and the very old but still rich and luxurious mansion were only added colors to my fairy tale. The only problem was I didn't want that fairy tale to end.
That thought brought sadness back to my side, and my mood was spoiled. I don't know how to start that conversation with Markus because I can't predict his reaction. I don't know about his intentions and desires, as well as I don't know what he feels to me. He's very mysterious, however he's good at making girls fall in love with him. I definitely felt under his charm at the same time I saw him in the nightclub. I was ready to go with him to the end of the world, and I'm still ready. Moreover, think I'll be ready to do that forever no matter what.
"Here it's your breakfast and dinner… All at once…" Markus put a tray full of food on the small table in front of me, attracting my attention, then sat in front of me and took a sip of coffee, "Do you have something to ask me?"
"Do you want me to eat all this food?" I rolled my eyes at the tray full of different food like pancakes with honey, cheese soup with bread crisp, and sandwiches with goat cheese and green onion, "Markus do you want me to get fat?!"
"Don't even try to complain," he said with his cold velvet voice, "Either way, I'll feed you all this food to the last bread crisp."
"Fine!" I said abruptly, took a spoon, and started eating slowly a cheese soup, enjoying its delicious taste. Actually, cheese soup is one of my beloved ones, so I really enjoyed eating it. I was looking at Markus from time to time, noticing he was closely looking at me as if I was going to throw that food away when he'll turn his look away from me.
Only when I finished eating pancakes, I did notice Markus taking his eyes away from me and looking at his watch, pressing something at it again. I decided to play dumb, so I took the glass of coffee from the table and started drinking it slowly, looking at the garden instead of Markus. He coughed to attract my attention, but I haven't reacted.
"What's wrong?" he asked, sincerely not understanding anything or just playing he didn't, so I will say it aloud instead of him. I put a cup of coffee on the table and stood up.
"Thanks for the breakfast and dinner. I'll be in my room if you need me…" I answered his question way differently than he expected and even managed to make a few steps to his bedroom when my hand was immediately caught, pulled back, and I fell to his knees. "Again?"
He pressed me towards his body and whispered in my ear.
"What if I need you with me forever?" his voice was caressing my ear, making me melt, but I was too angry to just fell into his charm like this. I tried to free myself the same way I tried to free myself in the car on our first day together, and I was immediately stopped. My hands were caught and pressed to my knees. For the first time with him, I felt his real power, however, I didn't feel any pain. "What exactly do you want to hear?"
"Nothing," I continued, playing dumb, and turned my face away from him. He moved his left hand from my hand to my face, taking my chin with his cold fingers and turning to him.
"Say it" he insisted, looking in my blue eyes with his onyx. His eyes were so magnificent and so deep I drowned in their darkness and gave up. I somehow pushed him away from me, probably my dhampir power was woken up finally, then I stood up and turned to him still sitting in the chair.
"You don't really know what's going on, or you just decided to play dumb too? Don't you really know what I wanted to ask, but was afraid because I can't predict your reaction? Don't understand me wrong, I like everything going on around me recently, but it would be much better if I understood your point too?! Why are you protecting me, saving me when I was kidnapped, and provoking me to show my feelings to you in front of others without showing yours?!" I suddenly blew up like a balloon, and when I finally shut my mouth, I felt very sorry for blowing up like that on him, so I turned around and closed my face with my hands, trying to not cry like a dummy girl.
Suddenly, I heard movement behind my back, then his cold hand wrapped my waist, while his other one started stroking my hair. I closed my eyes and relaxed, trying to calm down and give him some time to think. I shouldn't be so hard on him without knowing his past.
"You know..." he started, then stopped, while his hand was still stroking my hair. I turned around to catch him being in deep thoughts. I can hardly imagine what he has inside his head, and it makes my heart go on a race. After a few long minutes, his onyx eyes moved back to me, and he caught my chin with his cold fingers. His thumb started stroking my cheek, "If I could, my cheeks would turn pink while I was gathering all the feelings inside my head..."
My cheeks definitely turned pink when he said that, and my heart started beating faster. He leaned down and put his head at my chest, listening to my heartbeat. I blushed harder.
"Markus?"
"I was never asked to bare my heart and soul to anyone before..." he suddenly said, and we heard his phone vibrating in his left pocket, but he didn't pay attention to it, following the structure of confessing his feelings to me, he built in his head, "I definitely... never had such feeling before..."
"You were never in love with someone?" I arched an eyebrow, then regretted my words. His face turned from thoughtful to cold in a second, but then his face became peaceful again.
"Never." I felt my cheeks burning red because of his words. He moved his head from my chin to my cheeks, absorbing my blush to his cold fingers. "Moreover, I'm sure I will never feel that to anyone except you..."
Suddenly, something even colder than his fingers touched my cheeks, so I jerked to see the ring on his middle finger with a big onyx square stone. The ring itself was silver, with a dragon on both sides down from the stone. I even notice some words on those dragons. It attracted my attention more than even his gun tattoo did.
"I..." he started, but his words were interrupted by a loud vibration in his pocket. We finally turned back to reality, understanding it was vibrating all the time we were talking and thinking, so it might be really something urgent. I took his hand and squeezed it, and shortly kissed his cold fingers, giving him a hint his words were enough for me to understand what he feels to me. We can talk about everything else later.
He kissed my lips back, then took out his phone from his pocket, and turn on the call.
"Yes..."