Chapter 17

Crystal POV

How dare he kiss a lady in my presence? If he wants to have her, he can have her for all I care. I’m here for the money,y so this shouldn’t be a problem for me, but I feel hurt and can’t explain why the scent of her lip gloss pissed me off and stopped me from kissing him. 

“Calm your nerves down. He might be honest with you.” Allen, my wolf, spoke to me, but I felt very nervous and uneasy. Like the air around us was cho, king, and I needed to breathe.

“What’s wrong with you, Crystal? Your hands are shaking.” I watched him try to reach for my hand as he cared about me. 

If he cares about me, he’d have considered how I’d feel knowing that he kissed another lady. The same lady we danced to spite, he doesn’t know how I feel right now. 

“Don’t touch me.” I flared up, attracting the attention of the guard sitting beside the driver. 

“Keep your eyes on the road and don’t say a word,” Kieran warned him. 

“Your hands are shaking, and that means a lot. Are you scared of anything?”

“Why would I be scared! I asked you not to touch me.” He watched me snap with a sad look on my face. 

“If this is about Valeria, I suggest you put an end to this charade.” He was using a dominant voice with me. 

“You call it a charade, but you never thought of how I’d feel when you kissed another lad,y and he was there with you.”

“Can you tell this lady exactly what you saw?” He rubbed the guard’s right shoulder. 

“They were discussing the reason why we…”

“Get straight to the point and answer the fucking question.” I had gotten Kieran pissed, and he was trying too hard to explain it to me so I wouldn't be angry, and in that light, I felt very happy. 

“She kissed him,m and not the other way around. That was my handkerchief, and the lady in question doesn’t even know how to handle her makeover, much less on her lips.”

“And you didn’t think to clean it off completely?” I rolled my eyes and pushed his hand away, tossing his phone back to him. 

“You don’t have to be angry right now. I want you to understand that I’d do nothing other than make you happy and let you enjoy the contract fully.” He tried to hold my hand, but I refused, trying to see how far he’d go to get my forgiveness. 

“Well, the rules are meant to be followed. Don’t make me look like…”

“Keep it down. Don’t say much, I think we should head to one of my hotels and spend the night there. I don’t want to go back to the house. Would you go with me?” He suggested, holding his phone.

If I agree to do this, that means I’m cheap, and I succumb to everything he says. He was about to book the reservation when I stopped him. 

“I don’t want to go into a hotel with you because the reporters would give wrong meanings to the act.”

“To what act?”

“I don’t want to go into a hotel with you at this time of night. Take me home where I know I’m safe.”

“Do you think my father would protect you if a war broke out in our pack at this time of the night?”

“You’re not safe without m., I’m your bodyguard, your husband, your best friend, and even your brother. Do you understand that?”

“Yet you went ahead to let another woman kiss you.” I hissed and turned to the window. He never said a word. 

I knew he was watching me to see if I’d turn my head back and lock eyes with him, but I remained in that position until we drove through the gates of the castle. 

He wanted to open the door for me, but by the time he got out, I pushed the door open and got out myself. 

“Are we good?”

“Yes, we are. You were not fast enough, ugh, so I decided to help myself.”

“You decided to help yourself. This is all because of a kiss, one that I didn’t even initiate.” He let out a sigh of regret, watching him leave with a heavy heart. 

He went down to the other SUV to meet his fat thenther, and that allowed me to leave the scene and head into the house. I went straight to his bedroom and pulled off the dress that made him tighten the buckles of my slipper. 

“Let me help you.” I heard his voice behind me as I battled with the hooks of my bra. 

“You’re always here.” I let out, turning to look at my husband. The bra slid off my hands and fell to the floor. 

“I’ll always be here because I don’t have anywhere to go. This is home.” He replied and planted a soft kiss on my forehead.

“Let me go see my father and discuss some issues.” He wanted to leave, but I wanted to be close to him. 

“Do you want me to come along?” I wouldn’t mind coming with him if he agrees to it. I can sit beside him while he speaks to his father.

How would I stay in this big room all alone and fall asleep? It’s impossible. 

“Would you go see my father naked? Put on a robe or something.” He chuckled as he started unbuttoning his shirt. 

“Let me help you.” I approached him, not minding the fact that I was naked, so o I could return the favor. 

I unbuttoned his shirt and got a kiss on my lips as a thank you from Kieran. He held my hand and led me out of the room. I followed him to his father’s room, but the moment I stepped in, it wasn’t a room; it was a small space that had maps scattered around the table. 

“What is she doing here?”

“It’s nothing you should be worried about, Father. That room is quite bi*,i* and i* can’t stay in there alone, she can contribute to the growth and development of the pack, too. She’s a member, remember?” He vouched for me before his father, his Beta, and the Gamma of the pack.

“So I’d like to see if a woman can bring solutions to these issues.” His father mentioned as he placed a map on the other maps. I wondered what problem the pack was facing at that time that needed the use of a map to describe it. 

I hope I’ll be able to prove them wrong.