Countdown 15 Departing From the Alpha (Evelyn)
I Become Novel 80

Chapter 71

A few steps walking down the long hallway, he started to slow down so she also slowed down her steps, but she felt it was strange as he walked even slower after a few steps, but did not stop. He was still walking further down the hallway.

She once again slowed down her pace, following his own. She intended to walk behind so of course each time he walked slower, her steps would be even slower. But as she was still following behind looking at the floor he stopped walking unexpectedly, making her bump into his back.

She yelped as she hit her nose in his back and immediately moved back a step embarrassed. In her thoughtlessness she must have increased her pace, she flustered realized.

"Forgive me your highness." She quickly apologized, but he only sighed before speaking.

“Walk beside me. Why do you keep moving behind?"

“I am sorry. I did not mean any disrespect.” She quickly apologized again, before moving to his side.

He sighed but was not in anyway angered. He really liked that they were walking together even like. how they currently were, whether she was behind or parallel with him, it did not matter on this “egard. But behind him, he could not see her face, he could not see her. So he looked towards her

direction, and gently explained.

"How can we talk if you are behind me, I only meant you should be by my side. There is no need for apologies Celia."

She did not speak anymore, because she would've only said sorry again, so instead she slowly moved near him to his left side. Satisfied he did not say anything more and just walked again.

They walked this time side by side through the hallway until they reached a door and Salas finally stopped to open it, then beckoned her with his hand to enter before him.

She thanked him and stepped inside, but as she was expecting to see his office and Gabriel waiting.. the image in front of her eyes stunned her. She had never seen something quite like this in all her life. She was so bewildered that she did not even move forward to allow Salas to enter also.

was the middle of winter. The snow was already falling hard from the beginning of December, even when the attack happened it snowed a lot. The trees had lost their leaves and were covered in snow, there was no grass or any kind of plants and flower anywhere outside. Everywhere you looked there was only white snow and frost.

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But contrasting to the white frozen nature of the outside world, in the Royal Palace inside of a huge room with a glass ceiling and windows all around, Celia was sitting on the floor looking all around her at the beautiful multicolored flowers.

She had thought Salas would bring her to his office to discuss the information she held about the attack, but instead he had brought her to a beautiful indoor garden.

“Do you like it?” He asked as he approached her, but there was no words with which she could describe the beauty of the place, it seemed it had been made by fairies.

She could not believe she was sitting on the floor, which in fact was not a floor at all. Covered in all kind of different types of flowers, each one more beautiful than the other, and fragrant green grass which invited the feel of summer... it really couldn't be considered an indoor ground, a bed of flowers and grass best described it. There were butterflies all around on the flowers, in the small trees and in the air. Even bird songs could be heard.

She looked his way when she heard Salas's voice. He had disappeared for a bit when they entered, but she had been too charmed by the colors and the enchanting atmosphere, and just by seeing so many flowers in one place in the middle of winter. So she had not noticed he was not with her until now.

“It is beautiful, breathtakingly so!" She said with a calm and serene face, but one could see a small smile adorning the corner of her mouth and her eyes sparkling.

He smiled and crouched to her level, he did not say more and only slowly approached her hand and gently took it in his own. Seeing his actions, she did not visibly react in anyway, as she was confused of what he wanted to do.

Moreover she could not retract her hand even if she felt uncomfortable, even if his touch sent tingles through her skin. The werewolf kingdom was not a society in which the ruler was elected, the words of the king was the final law. Salas had never been a tyrant about it, he had never issued unfair or restricting laws. Quite contrary, everything he did was in the interest of his people, so all the more reason he should be respected. Though she would never have expected the aloof and unapproachable king everyone made out him to be was like this. It seemed he quite liked to touch people, he had touched her a few times now already..

She nervously and a bit unwilling let him hold her hand. But fortunately he only took it and turned her palm up and with the other hand, which he had kept behind his back until this point, covered her whole palm. Then he immediately retracted both of his arms, as Celia felt something small and soft inside her hand.