Rupert's POV
"Brother, you have a girl. Is she your girlfriend?" I scoffed, who will want to make me, her boyfriend
"You are hurt." She places her hand around her mouth, is she going to cry like now?
"Who did this to you?" I turned my face from her.
"You should leave, I am fine."
"But you are hurt." Campbell's voice came up, as they placed me on the bed, I thought that the silly girl had disappeared only for her to appear with a bowl and water and with a towel in her hand.
"What are you doing?"
"I want to clean you."
"Don't touch me, Mason can do it." Although I don't want anyone to clean it, I know this stubborn girl will not agree to leave if I didn't take Mason's name.
"It doesn't matter, he can treat you, I am only here to clean the wound, now take off the remainder of your clothes." I turned my gaze from her.
The next minute she grabbed my shirt.
"Hey, what are you doing?" I held her wrist, trying to stop her.
"Taking off your wears."
"I told you to leave." I try to suppress my pain, as my words came out with clenched teeth
"Stop being stubborn, I need to take off your clothes and give you a clean, how can I leave when you are hurting, who will take care of you?"
"Mason is here and stop acting like my mate."
"Of course, I am your maid." I rolled my eyes, this stupid girl, I said mate, she said my maid.
"What did you even do? Did you get into a fight?" Now my gaze is more on her, I watch her, suddenly her tears drop.
"Are you crying for me?"
"Stop it, I am not crying." She wipes her tears, I found myself chuckling, raising my eyes to touch her cheeks and show her tears. Fine, I am crying, if you get hurt who will care for me, if you don't value your life then you should value mine.
"Hm! Is my life tied to yours?"
"Yes, from now, you are not allowed to hurt yourself because you own me a duty of care."
"But..." she presses the towel hard on my shoulder. "Ouch!" I howl in pain, and she smirked. "What was that for?"
"To shut you up." Then again, I chuckled, then my eyes meet Campbell that is looking suspiciously at us, and Mason wasn't even trying to stop her from wiping me, he was grinning, I cleared my throat.
"Ahem! Mason, you should take over and, you should rest thanks." I pulled the towel from her, throwing it to Mason.
"Uh!"
"Wipe me, is that not the reason you are here?"
"Sure!!!" Mason grabbed it and start taking care of me.
"Ungrateful old man."
"I am not an old man, I am nineteen." I found myself correcting her impression of me.
"Whatever, come on, let's go, I bet he also wants you to leave." She said dragging my kid brother's hand, I found myself clenching my fist.
"Do you want to get into another fight?" Mason asked, moving my eyes from Iris and Campbell.
"Will you keep quiet, who am I going to fight with, that little child?"
"But they look good together."
"Shut up, he is just fifteen and I guess she is more than fifteen since she already has her wolf."
"Fine, why did you even fight with that idiot of a boy?" My brain pushed those words that idiot said to me, it's her, it wasn't the fact that he slept with my mate that made me attack him but the fact that he refer to...
"Mason!!!"
"Yes!!!" He turned his gaze to me, dropping the towel in his hand.
"Apart from me and you, who else knows that there is a girl in my castle?"
"Oh! Ariana"
"Fuck, why did you tell her?"
"Can you stop, she is not going to hurt..."
"I am not saying that, I need to find out, how Russel find out that I have a girl here."
"Does it matter, he can't do anything about the girl and you have nothing to worry about, I am sure, she is not going to find him attractive."
"What is my business if she found him attractive?" I scoffed, it's painful to think that she too might find him attractive, Russel is handsome and every she-wolf dream, stupid, I just went mute, allowing Mason to take care of my wound, even though I know that, I could heal that on my own. I found myself dizzying away, but yet again, I could hear laughter coming from the living room, it was a sweet sound, I don't think I have heard anyone's laughter sound so nice in my ear for the past two years
I decided to see what is going on. I pulled my door, and make my way silently to the living room, Mason and Campbell are still there, and Iris is laughing at the story of Campbell, I wondered what Campbell is saying that Is making her Laugh like that, she is beautiful. It was a sight to behold, her smile gave me joy and yet again, I felt something in my chest what is that? When I try to feel it, it's no longer there.
"So did she agree to be your girlfriend?" Iris questions as she chews her fruit, I wondered how she gets the fruits she is chewing.
"No, she said I am a baby and that she doesn't do babies."
"Oh, so sad, don't worry, you will find a special girl that will love you even if she is older than you and you should wait for your mate."
"Yes, I thought of it, I am going to wait for my mate, I am sure, my mate wouldn't say no to me. What about you, have you met your mate?"
I noticed that Iris's face go sour, as soon as Campbell take the word mate, I wondered the reason, she no longer feel comfortable, she was all happy and all of a sudden, her face saddens, although I found out that she is the daughter of the alpha of Goldfang pack, I didn't bother to find out if she already met her mate.
"Don't you think it's getting late, you should bring him home."
My voice stops their sweet conversation.
"Iris, I go on now, if you get lonely and you need someone to talk with..."
She will be busy and she is not here to make friends.
"Okay, I will see you around, I could come..."
"Don't come back, I don't want your father to scold me if anything happens to you."
"Okay, I see you at the tournament next week." Campbell bow as his words ended, Mason tapped my shoulder and bid farewell to Iris, and they Walked out of the door. Iris's eyes didn't leave me.
"What now are you staring at?"
"I am not staring at anything, grumpy old man."
"Stop calling me old man." Why did I find it irritating when she refer to me as an old man, I am not old, I am fucking nineteen and how old is she?
"Why not asked her?" Vernon invades my mind.
It's not my business, I turned to go back to my room.
"Aren't you going to eat?" My gaze was more on her, and she turned very fast, as she hurry to her room, I smiled at her actions, it was crazy, that I am finding her acting funny, she is stubborn but scared of me.
At exactly five, the next morning, I get off my bed and struggle into the bathroom, normal, I used to go for training by four, so I could be done before those annoying soldiers of my brother and he arrives, but since I am not going alone, I guess I should wait a bit, she must be tired, so I decided to wait till five, at exactly 5 am, I make my way to her room, I tap on her room door, I thought of pulling the knob but then I remembered the last time, I did that, she was mad at me.
"Who is there?"
"Get off the bed."
"Why?"
"Time for your training."
"Training? What training?"