Chapter 24 PRINCE HENDRICK

RAFAELLA

"We're not that far enough to be in an actual relationship but I assumed that we're good, right?" He asked me. His voice is laced with a slight eagerness that melts my hesitating heart.

I nodded in approval. "Yeah, sort of…" I smiled at him.

"Now, let's go to bed and get some rest." He urged and kissed me on my forehead before he dragged me into the bed. He let me lean on his arm while his other hand circled my waist. He dragged me closer to him to the point that my face glued in his chest. He smells so damned good and I began to long for it knowing exactly that this is the last night that we're going to spend with each other.

My mind wanders back to my secret passage and I truly wonder where the wolf could have gone this time. It still bothers me how that creature appears in there when I truly am sure that the passages are all too hidden to catch any creature's attention.

"Rafa, are y