chapter 25

“I am listening” he taunted after I pulled him to our bedroom, I am in so much trouble. I stole from him, I absolutely did I stole the guy’s secrets now he was going to lock me with his demon wolves after killing me.

“Uh Xavier, why don’t we just cuddle,” I said scratching my head, anything to get me out of explaining myself, I do not think I have a good explanation for reading his diary, except that I was extremely bored to my brain

“We can do that after you tell me why you were reading my journal, what if there was a secret in there I didn’t want you to find out about?”

“I am sorry it won’t happen again do not lock me up with the wolves I beg of you please please” You know what the annoying part about this, Xavier didn’t seem like he was about me reading his journal rather he seemed amused and pleased with the way I was literally on my knees begging him to let me off with a warning

“I might need convincing,” he said smiling deviously. WHAT KIND OF CONVINCING

“Convincing?”

“Convincing, tell you what I will help you by not making any of this sexual, you are going to tell me what you have learned from my journal from the beginning of June 1854 till December 1854”

“How do you...” I asked but he cut me off, answering my question before I even got it out.

“Do you even realize how many times I heard you insulting me in your head” I blushed, I tend to forget that he could do that “So are you meeting my dogs today or you are going to teach me what you have learned”

“I will try, for how many minutes exactly”

“MINUTES, honey we are talking about hours”

“Your life is not that interesting” I rolled my eyes at him, he thought I was going to spend hours talking about his life, please I can talk about other stuff, like his sexy body, sure like that

“Then make it interesting, English project I am going to teach you to become a writer, speaking of writing yours is shit”

“Thank you” I rolled my eyes and he laughed

“Go on princess spice up my life”

“Could we make this sexual”

“Not today, we are going with creative or dangerous”

“Can I use your journal”

“And risk you seeing the juicy secrets I have, not a chance”

“Xavier please” I pouted

“What, that doesn’t work on me, Winter you are about to be a queen and you can’t even give a speech in front of me, I am sure it is not because you are afraid of me because I am certain that is not the reason”

“You act like you are my father” I grumbled under my breath

“That is because I am old enough to be your father’s father’s father’s father’s sugar daddy’s father’s father’s neighbor’s father”

“Yeah? Don’t say that aloud it is kind of weird for me” He laughed “In 1854 you were sixteen years old and you trained for your father for the first time, if my guessing is correct you had already started training for war when you were about a hundred and four”

“A hundred and four, that is way too young when I was two hundred years old” I gave him a prudent look

“When I was ten years, old,” He said

“Ten isn’t that too young as well”

“Never too young to be a warrior, go on”

“You have a sister named Catalina” I asked

“No, I never mentioned Catalina, my sister’s name is Camari” he corrected

“Camari got it, you said that she was not beaten up when she was younger like you were beaten up”

“I was not beaten up as a child Winter, I was just trained in the harshest way”

“Would you see yourself as a harsh king”

“Most definitely” he nodded

“You don’t seem ruthless”

“That’s because it is you” for a reason I was quite unable to understand, my heart and stomach did a whole gymnastics routine inside my body when he said that, and it wasn’t a synchronized one my heart and stomach kept hitting each other and I experienced what I believed was known as butterflies in the belly. Something I experienced only when Alec smiled at me or touched me in the slightest way

“You may continue”

“You said something about a dagger” I was already ankle-deep into this story and interrogation time Xavier had forced me into, I said things about what I read and asked him questions, it was getting fun unless, of course, I had to stand because it would make me lose focus in the goal, which was to learn public speaking

For a moment, Xavier remained unmoved after I said dagger. Like he was shocked, he surely did not know his diary the way he thought he did

“Are you alright”

“I hadn’t realized you had gotten so far in my journal, that is enough for today. We can see your father now” he stood up from the bed and walked out of the room. I was suspicious, he was hiding something about that dagger and I was going to read it to find out what it was, I took a long glance at his bedside drawer then proceeded to follow him.

He led me down the stairs down the halls to the door or the second to the last room.

“Mind you, if you misbehave I will send him back” He opened the door, he pulled something out of his pocket and unlocked the door pushing it in slowly, I wanted to push Xavier out of the way and enter to dee my father but he looked back at me and gave me the look that said I should not

My father was sitting with his head in his palms, he looked thinner than he was when I last saw him, “Did you starve my father?”

“What do you think”

“I huffed out a breath angrily and walked closer to him, he didn’t notice anyone in the room which was really strange. When I used to sneak into his room when I was younger to take glimpses at my mother’s pictures, he would always wake up and catch me in the act

“Daddy?”