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Acela POV

I open my eyes feeling suffocated and warm as I try to move the heavy warm hand off me.

Wait.. heavy warm hand? Wait that is not a blanket.. and I don't have a roommate.

My eyes bulge from my head as I pray these aren't the hands of a certain Prince. I hear breathing on my neck and his naked chiseled chest against my back. Okay. So we fell asleep during the movie last night, no big deal, totally happens to me a lot actually.

Panic time.

What do I do what do I do?

"Morning mate." A husky deep voice says in the darkness.

"M-morning." I squeak out trying to move out of his grasp.

He laughs huskily and moves his arm from holding me and I turn to look at him. He looks like a Calvin Klein model when he wakes up and I probably look like a bird's nest with eye bags.

Damn, I just realized he missed his party yesterday and slept with me. People definitely noticed him leave with me and not return. Oh my god, his parents must've noticed his absence too and Mason DEFINITELY saw us dance and possibly leave together. What if people already know?

A touch on my shoulder startled me to see Caelan is looking at me worried. "What are you thinking about? I can never tell." He asks.

I stand up and turn the tv off then start to pace nervously as he sits on the bed and watches me amused. "Acela, sit down." He groans as he readjusts the pillow.

I stop pacing and look at him nervously. "You need to leave, you ditched your party and slept here."

He raises a brow as he leans on his hand. "So?"

So? I stand there gaping at how carefree he is acting. "This is bad, I could lose my job, oh god." I say rubbing my forehead.

"You're not just 'some girl' Acela, you're my mate, nobody is firing you.. if anything we are family now." He says with a shrug as he gets out of bed, his muscles flexing with every movement.. and his bed hair.. oh wow.

NO pay attention Acela!

I blush hard and turn around. "We agreed to keep it a secret for now." I say quietly.

I hear him put his pants back on from the sound of his belt, he chuckles huskily. "I can't control gossip but if it matters so much to you.. " he hums. "You could tell people that I forced you to spend time with me, it's the truth."

I turn to look at him to see he is smirking. How is he enjoying this? "Aren't you worried? Your mate is human.. and works for you." I say baffled.

He turns serious now as he looks at me menacingly. "Acela I will only say this once." He says slowly as he walks closer to me until he is in front of my face looking down at me.

"I don't give a shit about what people think, I love that you are human and you're independent, the more you believe me the less you will care about what other people think about you, about us." He says softly as he puts a strand of hair behind my ear.

Closing my eyes I know he is right, his touch tells me that much but it's all happening too fast, I'm only human. "What about your parents?" I ask quietly.

He furrows his brows. "Acela, they already know."

I move back from him. "What?"

He sighs and steps closer, grabbing hold of my hand and looking at me with his beautiful green eyes. "In the dining hall at breakfast yesterday. Your reaction gave it away.. but also how tense you were around me, which hurt a little by the way." He says with a soft smile.

I pale. Oh my god, they know. Just from that, they know. How is that possible? Oh god. Nooooo.

"Acela I don't understand why you want to keep this secret but my family already loves that it's you as my mate." He says looking at me with awe.

My heartbeat speeds up as I try to calm my racing thoughts. They know and they already accept me. Is that why they were so nice to me? Because they knew?

"B-but my job." I say completely at loss, not knowing what else to say.

He puts his strong bare arms around me gently as he strokes my long hair and kissing me on the side of my head, causing butterflies to swirl in my stomach and my heart to do a flip. "We will talk about that later, today we will get to know each other, okay?" He says huskily in my ear.

My phone alarm starts and I totally forgot it's Monday and I have work. "I can't, I have to work today." I say moving away from him as I turn my phone alarm off from the nightstand.

He comes behind me and wraps his large warm muscly arms around me from behind as he buries his head in my neck. "Not anymore, you are mine today."

What.the.hell..??

"Let's get dressed, I want to take you somewhere." Caelan says as he moves and picks up his shirt. I watch as he winks at me as he buttons up his shirt, causing a blush from me.

How is he so handsome and so damn convincing? And why the hell am I listening to him! Ugh!

"Should I dress you?" He asks with mischief swirling in his eyes.

My blush deepens. "No thank you." I groan out embarrassed as I move to my wardrobe and look for something to wear.

A knock at the door makes me stop and look at Caelan with panic. He grins and shrugs as he goes to answer the door.

"W-wa- what are you doing!" I whisper yell as he opens the door.

I hide as I hear him talk to someone, I'm too embarrassed to look who it is knowing full well that I will just sink into a puddle of nothingness, it's going to be hard to get used to this but straight away??? I don't know how to handle this yet.

"Thanks." I hear him say as he closes the door. I see him come inside the room holding a fresh pair of clean clothing for himself as he begins to get undressed again. Clearly, he didn't want to do whatever he had planned wearing a suit.

WAIT why is he getting naked. I turn around shyly feeling my face get hot, I hear him chuckle from behind me. "You can look if you want, I don't mind." He says amused as I shake my head with my back to him. He just laughs and continues to get dressed.

"Um, are you decent? I need to dress." Hinting towards the bathroom.

"I am, you can turn around now mate." He says with humor in his voice.

Turning around he is wearing dark washed fitted jeans and a black belt and a pair of dark grey socks. But damn he looks amazing, he has a really nice body and I am definitelynot as confident as he is.. but if I looked like him I would show it off too.

My stomach drops at the thought of him being naked in front of other girls and I feel depressed and sick at the thought. Why did I think about that..

I walk past him as he winks at me as his arms flex as he begins to put a plain t-shirt over his head. I close the bathroom door and begin to dress from what I picked. A woolly jumper and a pair of plain blue jeans, nothing fancy or super extravagant. I probably will look plain next to him.

Damn stop thinking like this, stop putting yourself down Acela. It's okay..

I brush then tie my long hair up in a ponytail then brush my teeth and wash my face. I open the door to see he is standing there waiting, he is holding his own toothbrush in his hands while smiling handsomely at me.