Small Talk

Liliana Roslyn's POV.

Smell of the the sea from behind the penthouse invades into my awakening consciousness. My eyes open to reveal a new change in the once rubbished room.

The once messy floor is squeaky clean with the furnitures replaced and well-placed back to their supposed position. The mirrors have been changed too and the walls have been repainted and refix but not perfectly refixed.

The holes are still showing and the work of imperfection is showing boldly off the repairment as I view it but anyways, it's very different from how it was yesterday.

Steadily, I make my move to sit halfway up but in the meanwhile, I felt a hand help me. My gaze meet with a concerned face, blessed with an intoxicating cerulean eyes and an alluring features.

Lucas smiles down at me as I rest my head against the headboard of the king sized bed. My hands rest on my laps that are arched up a little.

"How do you feel?" Ask, Lucas as he takes his own seat next to me, on the other side of the bed. His hands support him the most with his sitting position.

Did Adrian tell Lucas about the feeding session and the enticing kiss? Maybe that's why Lucas' asking?

Anyways, I brush it off and smile back at Lucas, saying. "I'm good."

Lucas eyed me playfully in a way that guaranteed that Adrian had told Lucas...perhaps everything or part of everything. I hope he tells him part.

The vivid event I had experienced with Adrian still plays in my brain. The way his tongue rhymes seductively with mine in an erotic hum. His lips, licking mine intoxicatingly and spreading more heat throughout my body. His hands, firming their hold on my waist like their existence depends on it. It's blissful just thinking about it.

It's like I can still feel all of his touch on me. Its the most erotica moment of my life in which I'd give allowance. With all the things, I've seen benders done to humans made me build a wall of security, mentally but king Adrian breaks it. I share part of my most intimate moment with him.

"Hmm." Sings, Lucas, nodding his head with a grin. "Surely, you look great." He teases, probably reading my head again.

I roll my eyes at him with easiness as I swat his palm that's near me on the bed.

"Stop reading me every time." I say and groan a bit as I roll off the bed. "Human girls like me needs break from your superpowers."

He smiles at my response and allows me to go into the bathroom.

***

After a while, I come out of the bathroom after fully dressing- a casual gown dress that's coloured in plain red with a black ribbon at the waist and a black band at the end of the sleeves that stops around my elbows. Then, I put on a white sandal that made with red bands at the top, designed in a X shape.

My hands smooth the dress as I finally move towards Lucas. He chuckles and stands from the side table and walks to my side. His hands then stretch forth while he teases further.

"Since you're hornily fine." My smiles fades and my cheeks instantly burn crimson. How dare he say that? "How about we take a walk?" He adds and I take his hands after I give him the eye.

Lucas directs me outside the door and we start to pass a hallway. We walk in silence for minutes and it doesn't seem awkward at all.

Within those minutes, I notice that Lucas' hand has tightened on mine but there's something laid on my mind about this action of his.

Lucas is different in an indistinguishable way. I mean, I don't feel any erotica emotions for him even with his handsomeness. He's different in way that I take him as my mentor and a guardian.

The urge of feeling arouse when with Lucas is absolutely zero.

As we pass the doors, I notice that there's no bender guards anywhere and that's a relieve somehow.

"Have you read the chapter, The path of benders when mated?" Lucas ask all of a sudden and I turn to meet his short glance.

"Yes. I have." I reply and Lucas nods.

"The second chance mate?" He ask further and I wrack my brain to remember that kind of chapter. Nope, I don't think I've read it but...wait...I remember reading something about a second chance mate in one of the pages.

Lucas doesn't wait for my response when he ask again. "The relevance of the moon?"

"Whoo.. .whoo...whoo..." I raise my hand steadily to calm him. "That's loaded and I don't think I've read any of those you've mentioned except The path of benders when mated."

Lucas smile at me and say. "You've read them. You just didn't know. Since the book seems clumsy." Oh, he knows so too. "you must have made a mistake by reading all those chapters yet thinking you only read one. I mean, you must have categorize them all as one which is; The path of benders when mated."

I nod my head at him and smile, mentally smacking myself. "Do you understand them?" Ask, Lucas.

"Nope." I answer instantly and he quickly dart his gaze to me. Amazed by how quickly I responded. "I perfectly ununderstood most of those pages." I raise my hand gesturingly to clarify more of my irritation to the riddling words in the pages.

"I know." He says back. "You can't actually understand everything right now but you'll understand some of it later."

I frown and look at him. Why won't he explain it to me, here? "Why won't you just make me understand right here and now?" I press but Lucas only gives me that award winning smile and looks ahead.

An unknown urge makes me follow Lucas' eyes and I see the frame of Adrian by the outside hallway-like balcony on the top floor which we are.

Lucas taps my back, beckoning me to go to Adrian and then, he walks away.

I take my steps with courage as I move towards Adrian. Even after what we share yesterday's night, I still feel like there's a distance between us. I'm his emit and he's my captor. Also a bender while I'm human. We're too different.

When I'm closer to him, I call out. "Adrian."

His body seems to startle slightly before he turns to me. "Hey."

Having a feeling that the awkwardness is growing, I stand beside him and he passes me a cup of coffee from the two cups he has in his hands.

Nodding a thank you to him as my smile grows, I welcome the wondrous smell of the fresh air and how it's making my hair dance around. I tuck the strands behind my ears before Adrian says slowly.

"I'm..." He pauses, most likely trying to find the appropriate speech. "I'm so sorry...for causing you pain yesterday when all you wanted for me is to heal and be free from pain. I'm..." He shakes his head. "I'm a terrible person."

I look down at the cup and sigh. "Adrian. I didn't regret anything we did or share yesterday." I smile at him and he force one back.

Seriously, I don't give a fuck about any pain he caused me yesterday and deep down in me, I know I'll do anything for him even if it'll involve pain or whatever. Ever since I met him, have I known that he's a being I can't reject. He's like a part of me that can't be avoided.

"You know I can read your mind." He says. Why does he and Lucas always have to read my head? I wish I can have a device to stop them from reading me so easily. Like a mental password to keep them out. Even if I have a password, I'm sure they would find it.

"Yeah, I know."

"Also the part you don't give a fuck." He says and I smile but very, very deep down in me, hearing the word fuck from his mouth twirls my stomach and I smile wider. Why am I taking his words for another meaning?

"Will you stop?" I say, faking anger but he caught me, making him grin at me. He looks goddamned too beautiful. This kind of beauty should be illegal.

Adrian raises his cup towards me and I raise mine, getting what he's trying to do. We clank our cup, even though it doesn't make the exact sound and sip from our coffee. I notice it's cappuccino and I smile inwardly.

When did I become a character that smiles almost every time?

"Well, I still feel remorseful." Adrian says, out of the blue.

"You should be." He focuses his eyes on me while I look ahead. "You've done horrid things and you should feel bad about them. I think it's labelling you as a bender that's becoming soft. You're becoming a good person." I finish and he scoff.

"Thanks." He murmur and drink his coffee and I nod and do the same. "To appreciate you for helping me, I'll take you somewhere."

Somewhere? "Where?" I question.

"It's a surprise."

"Just give me a hint."

"If there's to be an hint in surprise, do you think it'll be called a surprise?" He questions back and I find myself nodding in agreement. I hate he's right and I hate myself for admitting that he's right. Ugh!

"Guess, I'm good at human language than the human, herself." He adds.

I snicker. "Oh, don't flatter yourself."

"Am I?" He tilts his head over to my side and I check those lips. What they could do to me....?

"Yes. You're." I admit.

"Hmm."

Back to the topic. "So, are we going now or what?"

"Anytime you're ready." He says and my stomach flutter at his words. He's giving me a choice. Does a captor let their prisoner make a choice? Well, this king of all benders is.

"It can't be now, then. I need to go see Rita." She must have been dying for me to come and see her. I'm sure of it.

Adrian nods and says. "Okay then. I'll see you later." He adds. Why do I feel like there's more to this conversation, both from my side and his. We actually didn't talk much about the kiss and the feed. Maybe I should just relax and see how things would turn out to be.

Adrian nods his head at me again before running off, flashily. I sigh and start to find my way to Rita after dropping the empty coffee cup on one of the tables on the inside.