I'm not sure why but I'm suddenly scared to leave the room knowing now that someone is trying to kill me. "It's ok." Ryder says with a squeeze of my hand. "I'm going to show you a secret. Something only a handful of people has ever seen before." My head snaps towards him when he says that, just as I get a glimpse of a smile creeping on to both of my guards faces. I got to ask him why he's taking me there before he gives a shake of his head telling me not to. He drops one of my hands pulling me in close to his side as he leads me out of the room. I can feel that he's holding me close as he takes me down the stairs and when I look up at him I can see that his eyes are concentrated on my stomach as if he is waiting for me to show some pain from the injury I sustained. I'm surprised when he leads me down to the bottom floor of the castle. His grip is the only thing that's leading me straight or preventing a hazardous trip as my eyes are concentrated on the massive Olympic sized pool on my left barley listening as he tells me that's it only one of the three pools spread across the large acreage of the grounds. He stops at a set of dark heavily wooded doors that has a very stern looking guard stood in front of them. He gives me a look up and down and Ryder lets out a savage growl his hand tightening around my hand and pulling me in impossibly closer to his side. The guard quickly looks back up to Ryder and nods at him and steps to the side to open the door for us. Ryder doesn't loosen his hold as he continues past the guard and out to one of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed other than his Greek god carved muscled chest. It is a small courtyard; at least compared to the rest of the manicured gardens. The high hedges signal the edge of the jaw dropping area that is probably even bigger than my suite. There's lots of lush green tall trees in one corner that leads in to a dusting of pale green ground foliage with perfectly placed clumps of lavender. What I find most amazing about the area is the small stone bed creek broken up by some little waterfalls and the small unlit fairy lights that bind the bare tree trunks. Ryder gives a small tug of my hand as he pulls me over the stone path, past the two seated table surrounded by lanterns hidden partially amongst the flowers and over towards a double circular black wicker lounge chair that looks like it could actually be an egg. "Here." He says while I'm distracted with what's in front of me. When I look back at him he's sliding his hand around to his back. He laughs lightly at what I'm guessing is not a very pretty face as he pulls my book out of the waistband of his jeans. "Ellie told me about how she was helping you and if you want there's a tutor I can get for you." My hands move slowly as I take my book. He knows. I didn't want him to know because I didn't want to see how he would react to it. When my eyes look up to meet his I can see that his eyes are softly watching me no hint of the disgust or embarrassment that I thought I would get instead I think I see something like love. "Think about it ok." He says after a while when I don't answer him. His hand takes my elbow as he gently slides me back into the soft cushy chair. I can fell the warmth he radiates when he sits down next to me in the enclosed area. There's distance between us and I'm a little glad so that the strong emotions that are trying to force me from my spot over into his lap, my arms wrapping tightly around his neck to hold him to me hopefully won't happen. He's sitting more up right with his back against the curved back of the chair with his legs crossed over in front of him, where my head is rested on the pillow with my legs stretched out. The seat is both wide and long enough that even Ryder with his six foot plus height he could lie down anyway and still fit. When his phone begins to ring in his pocket he sighs but when I expect him to answer it he just switches it to silent and chucks it down near his feet instead of dropping it back into his pocket. "Why didn't you answer it?" I ask without thinking. He looks down at me meeting my eyes for a second before he looks down to watch my hands that are fiddling with the front page of the book. Already the cover has started to peel off a little from my nervousness from thinking about Ryder. "I blocked them out of my mind so they shouldn't be trying to contact me, especially while I'm in here." He says lowering himself down so he's at more of an eye level with me. "You blocked them out of your mind?" I ask curiously my fingers stopping there new attack of the spine as I grow that little bit more relaxed and comfortable. "All wolves have a mind-link so we can communicate telepathically. I can get in to all wolves heads without much of a push but other than that you can only talk with those in your pack." He explains with a shrug of his shoulders like this amazing thing is nothing. My curiosity is peaked with the new information and he has to remind me to take a breath when I shot out question after question. "So it's harder for them to get into your mind because you're the king but what does it feel like? Is anyone trying to get in now?" My voice rises a little in pitch as I try to contain my excitement.