Chapter 231: Poison
Raine tightly hugged Nathan as he fell on top of her. She didn’t mind how heavy he felt, just that he had completely fallen unconscious and thus able to be left behind.
She lovingly kissed him on his head, gently stroking his hair as she murmured, "This is only temporary, so please don’t do things that would make them resort to erasing your memory." Raine hummed in hopeful suggestions, "It would be nice if you wouldn’t forget about me, so please, Nathan... Please behave while I’m gone..."
After a few more minutes of making sure her mate was not going to wake up, Raine quickly moved. Doing a quick clean-up of her freshly-sexed body, she grabbed her old clothes and hastily put them on. She then pulled on the bedside drawer and picked up the letter she wrote earlier while Nathan was at the meeting.
"I really hope you understand..."
With a sigh, Raine gently placed her note in Nathan’s hand. Sitting at the side of the bed, she then pulled the quilt up to cover more of Nathan’s exposed back from the elements. Absently, she found herself brushing away a stray strand of his hair covering his face, leaning forward as she gave him one more parting kiss on his forehead. The fallen angel couldn’t help but let her thoughts run wild as she felt her gaze remain transfixed at his handsome face.
In all honesty, she didn’t even know how or when all of this started. Somehow, Raine already felt some sort of connection with Nathan the first time she saw him, exactly during the night when his family was murdered. Piggybacking off of those feelings, her curiosity piqued even further the first time she saw him in that nightclub. Raine knew that her hunch was always right, and now she felt vindicated in the fact that she had been right all along in having suspicions that he was Nathan. She now knew why she wanted to keep him close to her no matter what. He was right... they truly had a special bond; one saying that they were destined to be with each other.
"The pains of destiny..."
Raine let out another sigh before finally gathering the courage to leave the room and opening the door. Immediately, she informed the guards outside to call for Aspen, waiting for the man to pick her up from her room and let him guide her towards Lyne’s room, where Decan and Boris were already waiting.
"Thank you for giving me this opportunity in hearing out my plan," Raine introduced as she sat on the vacant chair inside Lyne’s room. "As you’re all aware, Nathan and I are mates, and we’ve marked each other already so we have a strong bond. Because of this connection, I understand that Nathan would never let me go. I can feel his roiling emotions, not to mention how he wasn’t even telling me anything about his plans for the exchange."