5

“Tell me more about yourself.” Gabriel said as they continued walking through the trails that led to what looked like the main castle. she could see the turrets through the trees and knew that they were getting closer to the area there would still be quite a bit of a huge hike to get there.

“there really isn't that much to tell.” Desiree said as she looked at him and then continued to look back down at the ground varian everything in her life had pretty much been a huge lie up until that point. She didn't actually know anything about herself because of it.

“Tell me about the pack that you were with?” he then said as he was just trying to get any type of information from her. It seemed that she wanted to close off and he could actually understand that he might not get through to her today or even next week. What is this girl  happened to go through with something that was extremely traumatic.

“I wasn't really allowed to be a part of the pack. Anyway I think my mother I mean the woman who was taking care of me tell them that I was a half breed. I was never allowed to be a part of anything that the pack did. They kept me as far away from them as possible. when we went to school they only made fun of me and I never really got to learn anything about being who I was.” Desiree said as she continued to look down at the ground knowing that that probably sounded pathetic to him. Every bit of her life up until that point seems pathetic right now. She could have been living here on this beautiful island the entire time but instead she had been taken away and treated like she was dirt.

“al. I'm sorry I really didn't understand that things were like that for you.” Kimmel said continue to touch her back. She stopped for a moment and looked at him.

“where are you taking me?” she asked for the first time since they had left the boat she looked at him in the eyes and could see everything that was there within them.

“I was taking you home.” he said as they looked at her it was his home and not hers. though it should have been hers all along.

“I don't want to go there.” she said she looked at him and she shook her head.

“and then where do you wanna go?” yes as he looked at her know they had to give her enough space that she would be able to learn to trust him. “wherever it is I will work on this between us. Do you know of any place here that you wish to stay?”

“no I don't. But I know that if I go to your castle and I'll have to face your parents and I'll have to pretend to be something I'm actually not. I don't think I can do that right now. I actually just want to figure things out in my own time and not be considered what you consider me to be. I understand that we're supposedly mates but that doesn't change the fact that I don't know you. I don't even know who I am at this point. Everything that I have lived has been a complete lie. I'm not a half buried supposedly I'm a Princess. Can you just explain to me how my parents died and that the woman who raised me who I thought was my mother isn't my mother she's actually a maid that your mother gave me two to get me off the island. This is a lot for me to deal with and I'm not exactly sure I know I can do it and process everything the way that I should if I'm right there with the people who gave me away.” start to feel the tears building up in her eyes knowing that she was going to have some kind of breakdown.

As he looked at her standing in front of him a foot smaller than he was he could see that she was very close to having that kind of major breakdown that he had heard of. He understood exactly what she was feeling no not by personal experience but by the way that she was describing it. There were quite a few things that he had a lot of questions about as well and the only people that could actually answer them were his parents. In a way he wanted to make sure that his parents were telling the ultimate truth and what had happened with the 30 year war that had taken place.

Damn it didn't actually seem like it could have happened at all because of the simple fact that why did they only target some of the families and not all of them. He had grown up knowing most of the royal families even though they weren't technically royal they were just rulers of their own clans. His family was supposed to be the most dominant of all of them and then as he looked at this young woman in front of him he knew that she came from the second dominant. The families have been intertwining and marrying within each other knowing that their mates were right there in front of them because of how their families were. It only grew strength and it didn't grow anything that was weak. He didn't think that her tears made her any weaker than they would. Instead he thought that they made her stronger because she was able to understand her own feelings.

But the war never made any sense because it only seemed to go after the weaker clans. Not the ones that were the strongest. They went after her family but not his period to him that made no sense. They both had a lot of things scratch that they needed to have answered but they needed them to be answered together. By finding her he thought that maybe he would be able to figure everything out that somehow she might have known something. Instead he just found a very confused young woman who he was instantly attracted to. It was the way of being amazed he thought but there was something else that was there under the surface.