Chapter 75

Eleanor:

“What do you want us to eat tonight?” Killian asked, wrapping an arm around my waist as he pulled me to his chest. 

I had to admit, I was more than a little hungry, and I didn’t know whether it was our heated nights, the long day at the beach, or my wolf gaining her power and burning more than I consumed. Either way, I wanted nothing more than to devoir everything that could be offered to me.

“As long as it is food, at this point, I am not going to be picky.” I said, and Killian laughed.

“For a shy mate, this sentence was a surprise. But it proves to me that I did a good job exhausting you,” he said, and I laughed. He crossed the exhausting phase and chose to hit the phase where my body wanted nothing other than food, a warm shower, and a bed to cuddle under. Killian’s arms wrapped around me would be a plus, but I knew that even Killian could tell that I wanted nothing about being sexually intimate tonight. I just wanted to lay in his arms for a few hours.

“Well, I have a mate who has done his best to drain me out of all the power that I could have obtained and a wolf who seems all the more excited about burning off more energy than I ever remembered her doing before.” I said, and Killian laughed. Truth be told, something that not even Killian knew about, was that when I first shifted, it was on the very same night that Elton took me by force. My wolf refused to submit to him, and looking back at it now, I knew that he tried doing everything that he could to break her.

I was forced to be locked, unlike the other wolves, for months when it came to me shifting. I would often shift to sit in a room unlike the other wolves who were roaming around, even if under control, as they pleased.

“Well, if anything, I have to admit that I am happy that she is finding herself at home by my side.” He said, and I smiled and laid my head on his chest as he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me in for the hug that I was giving him.

I didn’t only feel at home by his side, it was a feeling that told me that it was all meant to be. And though I couldn’t voice out an explanation, I knew that Killian felt the same way. 

“She is happy by your side,” I said, and Killian’s eyes softened as they met mine. I stood on my toes and kissed his cheek, and he smiled. Though the kiss was innocent, I knew that it meant a lot to him, and that was something that amazed me.

To say the least, I knew that I wasn’t experienced compared to those that he knew and met before, and I knew that most of what I did, I learned with him. With Elton, I was forced to ONLY submit, and would only react or move according to his word.

With Killian, I was free to explore, try, and even choose what I wanted to do. If I wasn't comfortable, he didn’t force me into it, and that was one thing that I loved about him.

Killian purred, letting me know that the feeling was mutual by both him and his wolf, and I couldn’t help the small smile that formed on my lips. He pecked my lips before pulling away to pull me to the bedroom. My body was cold, I had to admit that, and though I could tell that Killian was nowhere near being cold, goosebumps rose over my skin as a chill ran down my spine.

“Do you want me to order Chinese food? Something different from what Liana cooks and I am not going to tell you to make something for me because I know that you neither have the energy for it, nor do we have the ingredients just yet.” He said, and I raised an eyebrow. The last thing that I heard was the fact that a ‘chef’ was calling his boss, Killian, to talk to him about something.

“What about your staff?” I asked, and he smiled, nodding as knew that I was choosing to listen to what he said about me not doing anything. It was something that he didn’t know, but I would rather feel like I am doing something, even if it was helping in the kitchen while Killian was at work or tending to whatever he had to do.

“They have to be tested, one of the things that we are going to have is a tasting session.” He said, and I raised an amused eyebrow. I knew that testing was for alcohol or coffee. As for food tasting, it happened when a big reception or wedding was occurring. 

“Tasting?” I asked, and Killian smiled as he wrapped his arm around my waist. The two of us walked around the chalet that he had built for me, and though I couldn’t really call it a chalet, it was more of a hotel, I know to be more than thankful. 

“Yes, I want to try out their food with you as I trust your opinion and I want to know who to hire and whether or not the others were worth giving a chance to the other restaurants to try. The last thing that I was going to do was hire someone who was not qualified. 

“You are going to trust my opinion when tasting?” I asked, and he smiled before kissing my temple, letting his lips linger there for a few seconds before pulling away to look me in the eye.

“I would trust you with my life, Eleanor.” He said, making my eyes widen as my heart raced. I couldn’t help but find myself growing giddy over the way that he talked to me, and though I couldn’t understand them much, their tones tend to say a lot about them. “Tasting is only a first step when it comes to ‘trust’.”

“What is the last step?” I asked, and his eyes softened before he pulled his gun out of his holster.

 “Knowing that you can use it and yet, never doing so,” he said, looking me in the eye as he extended the gun to me. “That is the last step…”