Chapter 19 his unexpected proposal
Amelia’s P.O.V.
I knew that I messed up badly, and I needed to fix this, but the problem was that I was still dealing with my messed-up mind.
I didn’t know how the king and his people reacted after seeing my reaction to his touch, and I had no desire to know about that.
Good thing was that Arthur didn’t let the doctor examine me completely, saving so many of my secrets.
I was not in a state to handle the meeting and explained our plans to the king, but I needed a favor from him, and that’s why I requested him to stay with me.
Alone.
“Do you mind if I sit down near your feet?” he asked me, and I gripped the sheet on my stomach tightly.
“I promise that I won’t touch you by any means.” He added calmly. I hesitated, but he was the king, and what kind of woman can’t he have if he wanted to?
He still didn’t have any mate beside him. People said that his fated mate had died ages ago, and he refused to take a chosen mate despite the pressure of the council.
And I am just a rogue with so many psychological traumas.
“It will not be appropriate for you to sit near my feet, my king.” I replied to him in a low voice.
I had crossed my legs in Indian style. So, he would still be in close proximity with me.
I sucked in a breath when he sat down at a distance from my legs.
“Why are you afraid of me?” he asked me calmly. I guess we didn’t need this conversation because after the meeting, whether he approved our group as a pack or not, we won’t meet again or so frequently.
“It’s not about you, my king. It…. It’s about the whole male population.” I answered truthfully.
“What if you find your second chance mate?” he asked me suddenly, taking me off guard.
My heart skipped a beat and my lips trembled, making me purse my lips into a thin line.
“You are still in your early twenties, Amelia. It may be a possibility that you will find your second chance mate someday in the future.” He continued in a low voice.
I felt a slight dip on the mattress on the other side of my legs.
“Too bad that none of us will be able to recognize each other because I am scentless now and can’t even smell so many scents.” I replied to him, making my reply as a joke, but my lips quivered.
The silence fell between us, which was suffocating, but I welcomed it. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
The temperature around me dropped a little, indicating that he was angry, but I didn’t need his sympathy.
This was my reality and I had learned to live with this.
“Who was your mate, Amelia?” he asked me in a low and cold tone. I smiled bitterly but didn’t answer him.
Because it didn’t matter. He would never punish him for what he did to me.
“I requested your time to make a request, my king.” I said to him calmly and slowly opened my eyes.
I still didn’t look at him. I didn’t need to do that.
“What is it?” he asked me in the same tone.
“Can you stop looking in my past? You will never find a thing about me anywhere in this world.” I requested, explaining why I wanted him to stop.
He took a sharp breath, making me hold my breath.
“You know.” He mumbled and I breathed out the held breath.
“Yeah.” I sighed and took a deep breath in the end.
“He made sure not to leave any traces of mine anywhere. I…. I didn’t belong to his pack. That was my third pack. I didn’t know much about two other packs from where I was brought to the last one, but I was told that I was rescued from traffickers.”
I didn’t know why I told him, but I felt this urge to tell him.
To open some old wounds in front of him.
“You went through a lot.” He mumbled again, and I laughed bitterly this time.
“And yet I am alive.” I joked in a bitter tone.
I heard a low angry growl coming from him, but it didn’t scare me.
“I have a proposal for you, Amelia.” He said to me and I slowly looked at him questioningly.
He didn’t continue immediately but took a deep breath, putting more weight on his hand resting on the bed on the other side of my leg.
“I am sure that you know about me being unmated till now with no girlfriend, a mistress, or a chosen mate.”
I straightened my spine; an alarm went off in my head immediately.
“I am almost 35 and have never found my mate. It seems that the goddess forgot to pair me with someone or I have done grave sins in the past life that she decided to let me live mateless in this life.” It sounded like a joke, but it didn’t even make me smile.
“I lost my interest in women a few years ago, but I can’t tell you the reason.” He added and now it piqued my interest."The alarm was still ringing in my head, but I ignored it.
“So, I want you to be my girlfriend.”
“What?” I yelled so loud in panic, and my body trembled so hard that I lost my balance and was about to fall from the bed, but he suddenly supported my body with his palm and pushed me back to the bed.
Before I could even process, he removed his hand. Everything happened in just two or three seconds, barely enough for me to register his touch.
“D… don’t scare me, my king. This joke is very cruel.” I stuttered a little, breathing heavily in panic.
“Calm down, first.” He asked, but how could I?
“You are panicking again, Amelia, and I don’t want you to touch me against your will.” He was stern and worried in his tone.
I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths, trying to stay calm, but now bombs were exploding in my head.
It took me a few minutes to calm down, and I was glad that he gave me that much time.
“You know my story, my king. I am far more broken than you can think, my king. You need someone with a proper status and powers in her hand beside you.”
“I need someone who doesn’t see me as a ladder to escalate her social status, Amelia.” He interrupted me, speaking in a stern voice.
I shut my mouth because I had no retort to this statement.
“We met twice, and you are not dumb to feel my interest in you. Yet, you only talked about your people and what they need, not doing anything to impress me.”
“Your protectiveness towards your people is something that I can’t find in the she-wolves lined up outside my palace. I investigated you and I know your growths and downfalls very well.”