The 5-Time Rejected Gamma And The Lycan King Chapter 48

Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion, and she looked at the plain T-shirt and loose sweat pants she was wearing before meeting his affectionate gaze again. He was still smiling. She then said, “You really need to sleep, Xandar. You’re probably hallucinating already.”

Before he could say anything further, she walked to the bed and threw the covers over and motioned him to climb into bed, “C’mon.”

He obliged with a smile. He climbed into her bed and set his body a little further to the other end of the bed. Lucianne found it odd but she didn’t say anything. When she was about to put the covers over him, he leaned over and grabbed her hands to stop her.

“Can you stay by my side on the bed with me?” He asked as he stroked her hands.

“But…” she pointed to the stool and asked, “Didn’t you sit there while I slept?”

“I didn’t want to make you feel uncomfortable while you slept, and I didn’t want to scare you when you woke up to find me on the bed with you.” He then pouted, “But I feel more comfortable having you on the bed with me. Please?”

She was surprised to hear what just came out of her mate's mouth so she could merely nod. Xandar smiled radiantly as he positioned her pillow to lean against the headrest, and Lucianne sat there before covering Xandar's body and her own legs with the covers. He was still gazing at her so she asked, “Better?”

“Yes, thank you.” He pecked a kiss on her forearm which was right next to him.

“Good. Sleep before the hallucinations get worse.”

“Why didn’t you believe me when I said you’re adorable, baby?”

Lucianne sighed, “Xandar, you need to sleep. Let’s keep the questions for after you wake up.”

“It’s just this one question, I promise.”

She looked uneasy as she averted her gaze from him, “All I did was agree to stay with you while you slept and that I’ll get a book. I don’t see how that’s adorable.”

He kissed her forearm again as he explained, “You are a lot of things, Lucianne. What you are at a given moment depends on what you’re doing. You’re fierce, strong, noble, courageous, beautiful, and a whole list of other things, one of them being adorable. When you said that the way you did, you were being adorable.” He took her hand and kissed her fingers, “You can’t see it but I can.”

She blinked and digested his words before she said softly, “Sleep now, my King. Let’s see if you can make sense of your own words after you wake up.” She stroked Xandar’s hair and his animal purred in bliss.

He was definitely not hallucinating. She just didn’t see herself as how he saw her. She didn’t see how the way she did certain things made her look so innocently cute. That cluelessness of hers, in itself, was another adorable thing about her. He didn’t want to argue with her any further, knowing that she would just dismiss his compliments and affection for her as him being sleep deprived.

Xandar leaned closer to her and his arms went around her thighs, hugging them tightly. Lucianne gasped at his action but made no move to move away. His eyelids dropped and he kissed the side of her thigh on her pants once before he snuggled as near to it as possible.

When Lucianne’s hand left his hair, he groaned in frustration at the loss. With his eyes still closed, his hand reached to look for Lucianne’s hand before placing it back on the back of his head. Satisfied that her fingers were now buried in his hair, he smiled as he drifted off. Lucianne smiled and was chuckling internally. ‘He’s acting like a child.’, She thought to herself as she continued stroking his hair again.

Xandar fell asleep with ease and woke up four hours later. His arm was still around her thighs. Lucianne’s thumb was still stroking his hair slowly and lovingly. His animal had never felt happier. It even wanted to pretend to be asleep for a little while longer to enjoy their mate’s comforting touch. As much as the human part of him craved her touch, he wanted to see her even more.

Xandar opened his eyes and tried not to make a sound as he looked up at Lucianne, who was holding her book in one hand. She was already halfway through it. He peeked at the cover and realised that it was a book on the neuroscience behind wolf-behavior. Her hand left his hair when she wanted to flip the page. His animal whimpered but, externally, Xandar remained silent. After flipping the page, she continued stroking his thick, brown locks, and he was brought back to bliss. He kept his eyelids low to enjoy the moment.

After a few minutes, Lucianne spoke while she was still reading, “It’s amazing how you don’t have to use the washroom after sleeping for four hours. How do you even hold the pee in?”

His eyes shot wide open and he looked up at her, “You knew I was awake this whole time?”

Still reading, she said, “Of course. Breathing patterns are different when one’s asleep or awake.”

He chuckled and hugged her thighs even tighter as he thought about how she had already caught him even before he knew he was caught. He wondered if he had read some neuroscience book behind Lycan behavior before this.

“So, do you really have no need to pee?” She asked, still in disbelief.

Xandar groaned and snuggled into her thighs as he complained, “Can’t you just let me hold you a little longer. The toilet break can wait.”

She looked up from her book and said sternly, “If you pee in my bed, Xandar, I’m requesting for a room change.”