When they touch me (Shelagh Milano) novel Chapter 111

Chapter 111
Artemisia

“This is amazing,” I gush as I turn myself in front of my mirror.

The skirt of my long gown dances over the floor as I halt, and flows back into place smoothingly. “It’s like brand new! Thank you, Alberta!”

Alberta laughs as she stands up to pick at the dress to adjust it.

“It looks so beautiful on you that it would have broken my heart not to fix it for you to wear it to the ball.”

“Oh, she is right. You look marvellous,” Lisa says as she enters the room with three cups of coffee. She hands Alberta one before she puts down our two cups on a small table and lets herself slump into one of the armchairs sitting in my walk-in wardrobe.

Since she learned about the monstrosity that was in me, and had to puke out, she made it her job to watch over me.

I felt happy about her caring so much for me but Corvina’s words kept playing in my mind, leaving a sour taste of her being this overprotective.

Be wary about who you let close to you.

Shaking myself, I force my smile back up as I thank her for the compliment and Alberta sips at her coffee happily.

I know that Corvina has gone through all my spices, and none of them contained something dangerous. I even took a small sample to test it in the labs without anyone noticing but they all came back clean.

But still, something was bugging me, and I had promised Fynn to be extra careful.

Thinking of Fynn, my smile grows.

‘Oh, he will struggle to not devour you right on the dance floor in front of all the other people,’ Cassy snickers, making me giggle.

‘You are exaggerating!’ I say to my wolf while blushing, earning a pair of curious looks.

I have been getting those looks quite often the last few days and I honestly am as amazed as they are.

My wolf has been amazingly funny and sassy these last few days. While she was gushing over our mates, beaming every time one of them was near, or commenting on everything that I was doing, but always in a nice and genuinely interested way, I was trying not to react too awkwardly to her new, or better, real personality.

She was doing her best to reestablish our bond, and I was doing my best not to be mean to her. And even if I was naturally sceptical every time she would say something, I managed to hold myself back to actually make our bond slowly mend again.

“You look stunning.”

We turn around in unison, looking at Logan who just stepped into my walk-in wardrobe.

“Thank you,” I say, crossing my hands.

“Could you leave us alone?” he asks, not losing his smile as he keeps his eyes on me.

Alberta and Lisa stand up and with a small curtsy they scurry out of the room, leaving us alone.

I hate the fact that I have a bad feeling every time I’m left alone with him, and I decided long ago that I should talk it out with him, but it never seems to be the right time or place.

‘Oh, hello, gorgeous,’ Cassy purrs, and I can practically see her roll onto her back before my inner eye.

Logan’s smile brightens as he watches me shake my head with a giggle. “Your wolf?”

“Yeah, sorry. She is being a bit distracting lately,” I say apologetically as I sit down on one of the lovechairs.

He walks over to stand right next to me as he chuckles. “I guess she is as happy to have you back as you are.”

“Is Ethan happy as well?” I ask, trying to push away my bad feeling.

His eyes light up as he sits down on the footstool in front of my chair. “More than happy. He keeps jumping around and is very distracting as well.”

“This is cute.” I laugh as he takes my legs to put them over his lap as he scoots closer.

“Do you think we could talk? I would like to get this elephant out of the room before the ball. As we have something special in mind for you, I would hate to make it awkard.”

It’s not the first time I got a hint about something that is going to happen at the ball from them and my curiosity is killing me, but I have to keep my cool. I nod, relaxing under his touch, “If it’s because of your bite…”