Chapter 9: THEIR SMALL SECRETS
Lucy is looking at him with confusion and unknown happiness inside her because of what he said. She thought he didn't want her, and now from the sentence he said, she knew that her mate has no idea to leave her. Devlin slapped his forehead for blurting out his plan. He didn't look at her knowing that he can't able to answer the questions her eyes are asking, so he just asked her to go to her room and sleep as it was already late.
She nodded her head and went to her room with small happiness inside her. She never felt this relief before. She had no one to share her feelings with or what she went through but now telling a small part about her to him relaxed her to thousand times. She trusts him with the lives of her family and she knew that he will take care of them. She slept peacefully thinking about him.
'Mom, please don't go'...
'Sweetie, listen to me, your father and I need to go, sweetie. They are in the hands of death, we need to save them...
'No, others will save them, please don't go'...
'Sweetie, you shouldn't think like this. We need to do our work wholeheartedly. Do you want others to talk bad about your mom and dad, no right? No matter what, we shouldn't let the innocent suffer. We are going, Sweetie'
Lucy woke up the jerk because of the nightmare. This is not new to her. She is having this same nightmare for more than 9 years, since her parents' death. Those words are the last words her mom spoke to her. She still remembers that day, the day, when her mom and dad left to save them.
She promised herself to not let any innocent suffer because of her mom's last words. She shook her thoughts away and tried to sleep but sleep is far away from her eyes. She got down from the bed with the thought of going to her mate. She came outside her room and she went to his room which is present left in her room.
She saw that the room door is open, so she went inside to check on him but he is not inside. She also loves the interiors of his room, the pure black interior with white lights. She saw some pictures of him hanging on the wall and the side table. She smiled seeing the dimples on his face while he was laughing with Connor and Cara at the beach. Only one photo is with them and the others are his single photos but all are casual looks. She loved those photos a lot. She sat on his bed and looked at all the photos for some time then came outside his room and went to the second floor to check in the study room but he is not there also. With confusion, she came outside the study room and bumped into someone.
No, not someone, it's her mate. She looked at him and tried to open her mouth to ask something but that's when she saw it, the blood. The blood is all over his face and hands like it splashed on him. She knew that it is not his blood. Her eyes started to tear up seeing all the blood. She ran from there leaving him in shock and fear. He didn't expect her here at this time and he is afraid of not knowing what she'll do when she come to know about his secrets. But, he knew having her around in this house and hiding his identity is dangerous. So, he decided to tell her one of his secrets.
He went to his room and freshened up his mind by thinking about her reaction. But, somewhere in his heart, he knew that his mate will understand him. On the other hand, his wolf is yelling at him for going in front of her like that.
'Stupid, do you have any sense? Why are you standing in the shower like this? Go and talk to her. Make her understand what you're doing. At least let her know that I'm not in those things with you. I'm pure'. His wolf said making Devlin want to smack his wolf.
'Are you my wolf? You are inside me but telling me that you're not on this with me' Devlin said while gritting his teeth at his wolf and his wolf got silent.
He knew that his wolf won't interfere in that matter but his wolf surely helped him or will help him if something happened to Devlin. Devlin decided to tell about that matter to Lucy tomorrow as of now he knows that she needs to sleep. He also went to sleep but he didn't get to sleep because there is still a lot of work bending for him.
On the other hand, Lucy slept while crying and she didn't get that nightmare again. She was not angry with Devlin before, she just doesn't want to see him like that. Don't want to see how she saw her parents all the time. She wants to tell everything to Devlin and just go under his protection but then she knew that it's not that easy when that group is still behind her. She knew Devlin is a powerful Alpha but she also knew that a single Alpha can't able to fight against that group.
The next morning, she woke up smelling a hot coffee near her. She woke up and sat on the bed half asleep. She opened her eyes fully and immediately jumped away from him and sat on the other side of the bed seeing Devlin sitting near her on the bed. Devlin was shocked to see her jump.
"Were you a frog in a before life?" He asked in amusement because of that jump.
"Don't you have any manners? You shouldn't get inside a girl's room like this, that too when she is sleeping" She spat correcting her dress.
"Ms. Lucy, if it's not manners, what about you, sitting on my bed and seeing my photos when I'm not even inside my room?" He said then again slapped his forehead seeing the changes in expression on her face. He remembered her about yesterday night.
"I'm sorry. Don't cry. I didn't know you were afraid of blood" He said making her look at him with a smirk.
"Yeah, Mr. Mate, I'm afraid of blood and that's why I killed more than 10 people to protect my family". She said making his eyes go wide.
"What?" Devlin exclaimed because of this newfound information.
"What...What? Trust me I killed more than 10 people and yesterday when I saw you like that, I just remembered some people and...I don't want anything to happen to you like what happened to them" She said and Devlin smiled knowing that his mate cares for him.
'I thought my mate is innocent' Devlin smirked, hearing his wolf crying inside him.
"I also killed more people than you to protect what's mine" Devlin whispered and Lucy looked at him with a question mark.
"Who are you?" She asked him as this was something that she wants to know when she saw that video she showed yesterday.
"Hmm...No one big but a ruthless mafia don of the whole US," He said and Lucy wolf started to jump up and down as she loves mafia don's very much, the effect of late-night mafia novels.
"You don't kill innocent?" She asked, no in fact she stated that because of the trust she has in him.
"No, I don't and I'll never. It's a promise. You can trust me" He said making her smile slightly.
"My wolf is happy knowing that you're a good mafia wolf don" She stated and Devlin laughed.
"My wolf is crying knowing that you're not innocent like he thought," He said through the laugh and they both spent some time in her room while having a coffee that he prepared for them.