Chapter 18: CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

"Adam. Why is my being a vampire a reason here?" She asked him. She sniffed to draw back in the tears that were threatening to fall.

Adam looked at Sarah and he saw Sarah's emotions that she was trying to keep at bay still reflecting from her glassy eyes. He could tell that the words he had spoken to her had hurt her and her feelings but he doesn't have any other choice. If he wanted to protect her from even bigger hurt, then he would have let her bear this little hurt now. It was better he helped her curb her emotions and whatever the mating bond had made her feel for him now before it got out of hand.

His hand went over to her again and held a few strands together as he had done earlier. He brought the hair strands to his nose and smelled them, noticing somewhere at the back of his mind that she had used his hair shampoo to wash the hair. When he realized what he was doing, he dropped the hair immediately and looked into her eyes just in time to see the hope in her eyes when he had held her hair died down instantly.

It wasn't that he didn't care about her. If anything, he cared too much about her. But his pack would never accept her as his mate since she was a vampire. Not just any vampire, but one of the oldest vampires alive. By that time, she would be immensely in love with him to the extent that she might never be able to cope with the harsh words his pack would throw at her. Even if he commanded his pack that she was the one he wanted, he knew that his mother and his sister would stomp their foot down in disagreement.

He wanted to protect her from all that. He wanted to keep her safe from his family at all cost and that meant even putting her away from himself. It would mean that she has to stay away from him until he could figure out a way for them both to stay together as a couple. Not that he couldn't let her continue her stay with him but one of his family could just come to the house unannounced and that would make them question him about her. He was sure that those questions would be one he wouldn't be able to understand.

Even more than the threat of his family hanging over their heads, Adam wasn't sure that he could control himself if she continued staying with him. Even if he was able to control himself, he wasn't sure he would be able to control his wolf. It was even getting harder to silence the voice of his wolf in his head. Every time he was with her, his wolf kept reminding him of their need to mark her as theirs. Sometimes, even his wolf tried to force himself out without Adam's approval. It was getting hard and hard to stop the big animal in him.

No, there were too many factors involved in her stay with him. A stay he knew would end in disaster if he didn't stop it. She would have to go, he would make sure of it. He doesn't mind if he had to get her a whole house and furnish it to make her comfortable, but he couldn't afford to let his family find her and let them ridicule her. To do that, he would help to keep her secure and make sure she never lacks anything for the rest of her life.

"I'll get you an apartment of your own that you would be staying in from now on," Adam announced to her after he had decided in his heart.

"But, I don't want to go," Sarah huffed at him. Like she thought earlier if he had said all that when they had only just met, then she wouldn't have minded even for a single second. But now, she had grown fond of him and she didn't want to stay away.

"If it's because of the gadgets that you are seeing here, I'll help you fix everything up at the new house," Adam told her.

All his thoughts could reflect upon was the fact that she had never minded leaving him since they started living together a few weeks back. All she had even done during those times was try to leave him at any slight opportunity she had gotten. Although she had stayed put for about a week now, Adam wasn't going to be deceived by her. No matter what thought was even raised about, Adam was not going to change his mind over the decision he had made concerning her.

"What do you think of me? Do you think I was here just because of those strange things?" Sarah asked in a furious tone.

She was very angry with Adam that morning for all the nonsense he was sprouting. First, he had suddenly announced to her that they were mates without asking her if she wanted to know that piece of news. Then, he had also told her that they couldn't be together because of who she was without giving her a trial to prove that her identity would not get in their way. Now, he was announcing to her that she needed to leave his house.

Her eyes flashed fire at the man in front of her who had claimed to be her mate when she realized that he was throwing her out of his house without much contrived. How dare he try to throw her out of the house when she hadn't asked to be brought over there in the first place? Why does he think that he could plan and map out her life for her without even her permission? Because that was the way all his reactions had seemed to her ever since she had met him.

"But, I don't want to leave you."

Adam's heart did a flip-flop when he heard Sarah say that she didn't want to leave him and he almost gave in to her wish to stay. But he knew that he had to be firm about it since he wasn't doing it for himself but for her good.

"No, you can't stay," he told her in a firm voice.

Sarah looked at Adam and saw that his mind was made up. Well, if that was what he wanted, he would give him his wish and leave. But she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of gloating that he had been the one who helped her out even though he was the one that threw her out in the first place. So, instead of accepting his help of getting her an apartment, she would leave on her own and not look back at him a single bit.

Once she was out of the door also, she would make sure that she did not contact him in any way at all. She would torture him and make sure that he was never able to find out where she was even ignoring her comb the whole of Cyprus nation. She scoffed slightly as her brain reminded her that he might not be worried about her at all once she was out of the door. Not to think of the fact that she wasn't even sure if he cared enough to try and see if she was doing okay on her own after she left him. Still, she was leaving his house no matter how sad she felt.

"Is that what you want? For me to leave?" she asked him, stepping on whatever thin ice was left.

"Yes, that would be the best," Adam confirmed with a nod of his head as he spoke.

Without a single word, Sarah went stood up and went into her room. There, she packed what little things she could before she reappeared in the living room. She met Adam still seated at the same position she had left him. His eyes furrowed in a frown and he sighed very loudly to himself. Sandra saw that he was lost in thought and didn't realize that she was back, she cleared her throat to get his attention and he looked up.

"Where are you going?" Adam asked after he took in the little bag she held in her left hand.

"Leaving. As you wish," Sarah spat out.

"I said that I would get you a place to stay," he told her, standing up to go to her.

"Well, I don't want you to do that for me," she said, her voice rising a little.

Adam wanted to scream at her for the stubborn trait she was portraying. He knew that she was supposedly being adamant because of how he had told her that wanted her to leave. While he wanted to stop her, he knew that going so would give her another misconception and she wouldn't want to leave in the future if he told her to. Adam knew that the only thing he could do in this situation was to let her go without acting as he cared about her at all.

"Fine, if that is what you wanted," Adam told her.

Before Sarah could say any other thing, Adam walked away from the living room, leaving Sarah alone with her thoughts.