“Yeah, well. Don’t get used to it.”
“I Won’t, Bitch. I won’t.”
“You are far more than you allow yourself to be, Natalia.” Hannes’s arms pulled me into his chest again, and he kissed me.
“You are going the wrong way,”Star complained as I snuck through the castle, trying to find my way back to my room.“Also, you told everyone that you were just going to the bathroom and left them all in the dining room. Goddess only knows what they are thinking.”
“Would you shut it?”I snapped.“Hannes’s mother wanted to see me after lunch, and I’m not exactly the cozying-up-to-the-mother type, so I’m going back to my room.”
“Your room is not this way, Bitch. You already met her. This won’t be so bad.”
“Exactly. When I met her, she accused me of stealing her son, trying to kill him, and wanting to take her husband too—I mean, he’s hella hot, but still. That would definitely get too weird, so no, I don’t plan to take King Willtoo. I already have three men that drive me crazy. I don’t need another one.”
“She was just being an overprotective she-wolf. She apologized and was very nice to us after that.”
Ugh. I hated it when she was right.
“Besides, this hallway is only taking us away from the bedrooms.”
“How do you know?” I argued.
“I can smell it, you Ninnyhammer. I’m a Wolf Shifter.”
Right.
“Ninnyhammer? Is that supposed to be an insult?”
“You are not the only one who learned something from those books… Now turn around, will you? Before we get even more lost in this place.”
Grunting, I turned around, only to smack into the chest of a very amused shifter prince.
“Looking for my mother’s room, I suppose?”
Hannes’s eyebrow rose defiantly, and I had half a mind to jump him right here in the middle of the hall.
“Of course!” I gave him my sexiest smile. “She wanted to see me so I thought I might just be able to find it myself. You know, with Star’s wolf senses and all, but she failed.”
“I swear to the Goddess?—”
“Shut up.”
His lips quivered into a sigh, but he took my hand in his, guiding me down the way we came.
It suddenly occurred to me that this was the first time Hannes and I held hands like this, and my heart started doing the weirdest thing.
“Aww, you are so cute, getting all nervous and shit.”
“I’m not nervous. I just want to jump his bones. I’m horny, that’s it.”
Hannes’s laughter escaped his chest, robust and free, echoing through the large hallway. “You remember I can hear you both, right?”
Right. “So, when are you getting the hell out of my head?”
He didn’t answer.
“It’s our pack bond, Bitch! Leave it alone.”
I sighed, ignoring Star while we headed through a different hallway once we reached the main staircase.
