"Treating me like his piggy bank delivery girl."
["What is he asking for?"]
"Food," I side glared them. "Like all of you," sigh. "Come on. Let's get over with this," I summoned two other black cards and handed one to River and one to Yumi. "Be moderate, don't go over board. I'll trust you with these, so, go around and buy what you want. Go together or with your respective teams. I'll go buy everything father asked me to."
Felix growled, "Why Yumi and not me?"
"And why River?" Rio gasped offended.
I arched my eyebrows, "Felix, you are a dragon. I am not dumb to put a unlimited black card on your hand. Yumi has self control when it come to handling money, she's the best at it from all the girls," I turned to Rio. "I have a feeling River has the best self control out of you, and he's Oli's little brother, he has the upper hand."
"I'm offended," both Felix and Rio scoffed.
"Thank you, Hel!" Yumi and River exclaimed condescendingly.
"Don't make me regret. When I'm done, I'll text you two, then we can meet again," I turned to Oliver. "You come with me."
"I wouldn't stay behind even if you wanted me to." {"I won't leave you alone in this enormous market. People might try to flirt with you, and I do not want that to happen."}
Do whatever you want to.
{"There are lots of things I want to do."}
I rolled my eyes. "I'll text you two the password."
"Better do it in a way that will disappear when they read." {"Or the others might see it and take advantage of the opportunity."}
You do it then. I don't have the patience to change the settings.
{"What's the password?"}
542057777.
{"Your birthday, age, and lucky numbers?"}
Easy, right?
{"What if I take advantage?"}
I trust you, idiot. And you aren't the type.
{"I would definitely take advantage of you."}
Not with money.
{"No. Not with money. But I definitely would if you let me."}
Send them the text with the password, Oliver-Sean. Don't be horny.
{"You make that kind of hard,"} he grinned, picking up his phone.
"Sis, you're the best," Shiryu grinned.
"Just, go. And seraphim, buy food to Jack!"
She nodded, "I will."
Interlocking our hands, Oliver opened a portal to a pizza tent and we crossed it. Then, I began to get everything father asked me.
✵ 𖣔 ✵
After he teleported me to the main hall of the Castle where father was waiting for the food and we gave it to him, Oli took my hand and threw us into a portal for his tower, making us fall straight into his bed.
"Oliver!" I gasped. "The kids-"
"The kids, are not kids. They are bathing themselves in your money right now, and probably happy that you are not there to make them behave," he chuckled, catching me by my waist and rolling with me until I was on top of him. "I'm sorry for pissing you off early."
As if. "You are not sorry."
"No, but I wanted to say so to get you to drop your weapons. And I'm not talking about the daggers on your waist," his hands grabbed my thighs and made me straddle him, then he brought them up to my arse. "I want you solely for me, Hel. It's annoying to see your attention wavering to all those idiots instead of me."
Silly brat. "Jealous again?"
"Yes," he pouted. "You have a needy mate, remember that."
Caressing his soft hair, I nuzzled his nose on mine, "I feel you."
"I feel you too, babe," he whispered, hugging my torso and pressing me on him. "I'm scared of what is going on inside your blank mind. I pray that you are just doing this because your big pride is hurt by the fact that you were wrong, and not that you are relaying the worse. But the fact that there is a way to break the bond is really throwing me to the edge."
"My mind is chaotic," I whispered. "I'm following an advice."
He pressed his lips together, pressing his forehead on mine softly, "What advice? Who gave it to you?"
"Mia. She told me that it would be better to wait for the tournament to end, and we have our final match. For me to freeze time between the after match and the ball and tell you everything. She's a Goddess, she knows better, so I'm doing that."
Oli growled, "Master is really ruthless. So brutal to me."
"I confess I'm also a bit overwhelmed by everything I'm keeping to myself, babe. But I'll tell you everything tomorrow. Good or not. I'm just waiting for the final match," sigh. "I hope you won't hate me."
"Because of your decision or because you hid it from me?" His tone sounded anxious and I could feel his unsureness in me.
"Did you bring me here to talk, Oliver-Sean?"
"I brought you here because you promise you would let me eat what Shay and Russell made for me," he brushed his lips on mine and unclipped my corset with his hands, then threw it aside with my katana. "So, freeze time, while I ravage myself on you, my love." As our heartbeats soared up to the skies, I did as he said, letting him have his way with me.
✵ 𖣔 ✵
Panic Attacks in Paradise by Ashnikko was playing on his phone as he braided my hair again while I was re-doing my make-up, sitting up over the island in front of his wardrobe, that has my things, with my legs crossed together. "I love you, you know that, right?"
I felt my cheeks burn, "I mean, how could you not?"
{"Not loving you was impossible."} "These remarks of yours are getting snarkier, aren't they?" He made me look at him and I bit my bottom lip not to laugh. "If I'm the spoiled brat, you the petty naughty lad."
"Bloody damn straight," I purred, adding the dark red matte lipstick back to my lips. "I like the song, it's not my favorite of her though. I love Slumber Party and Daisy better, but I can kind of relate with the lyrics."
He chuckled, "Dumbarse, that's why I put it on. Very sarcastic. But yes, I think out of the three, the lyrics of Daisy suits you the best."
I winked, "Sarcastic is my invisible compound name."
"Wilhelmina-Sarcastic Rosalind Miralanthor?" Oli frowned.
"Sounds like me, doesn't it?" I arched a naughty eyebrow.
But when I thought he was going to counter my words, he didn't. Oli leaned closer to me and looked into my eyes, his eyes turquoise, and with so much love in them that took my breath away. "I love your eyes," he whispered, "they are the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen."
"I love yours too," I whispered back. "Both. Ruby and turquoise."
As he nuzzled his nose on mine, I felt living away, but I held it to myself, held it together, closing my eyes and it got hard to breath, and when he began to pull away, I put down the blush pencil and pulled him in again, pressing my lips on his. He leaned into me again, hands on the island, at both my sides, kissing me back.
"Oli…"
"Yes, beautiful," he whispered as we put enough space between us to let us look at each other in the eyes.
I think I began to love how he calls me. "There's something that's been worrying me since the first day in the secret office, when all of that happened and Belladonna sucked me into the mirror."
{"At last you do. You used to hate it."} "What is it, beautiful?"
Your insistence got it's perks. "While I was… panicking, before she swallowed me into the mirror and to my grandparents and the Grand Dukes and Duchesses message, Belladonna told me something. About me, and about you too."
{"I hope those perks of my insistent go further than that."} "What did she told you? Why didn't you tell me?"
I licked my lips, holding onto him, "She said our souls are broken."
{"What?"} "Broken?"
A nod, "Belladonna said my soul was full of cracks, and when I got in denial, as it always happens given my stubbornness, and the fact that I didn't want to believe what she was telling me, she told me my mate's soul was also broken, but not as much as mine was. I think she called me broken more than three times, but I… I still don't understand what it means."