CHAPTER 658: 658-THE DEMANDING MATE

Helanie:

"Lord McQuoid, you still love tofu so much?" Azura said, smiling at Lord McQuoid, who had filled his plate with grilled tofu skewers. After Emmet gave me an option, he left to bring Azura for dinner.

"You remember that?" Lord McQuoid looked so amazed. She had been very talkative with him and others too. She even knew my mother, but my mother barely spoke with her.

Emmet sat in the seat next to hers, while I was right across the table from him.

"When are you two getting married?" she asked my mother, who shrugged.

"Actually, they can only date now. Because her daughter has married Lord McQuoid’s son," Emma jumped in to tell her I had ruined my mother’s happily ever after.

Azura looked shocked for a moment and then looked at me, her finger pointing at me and then back at my mother.

"She is your daughter?" she asked, looking very confused.

"Yeah, she is my daughter," my mother spoke up for the first time in the last few minutes. She looked so proud when admitting I was her daughter. She hadn’t done that before. Even Emma did a double take at my mother because she had been reminding me nonstop how I am not a good daughter to my mother.

"Yeah, sadly. I’m not saying Helanie is a bad daughter or anything. But sometimes some kids are born with too much burden," Emma muttered under her breath, and I noticed my mates straightening their backs at her.

"My daughter is the best. Even when I wasn’t with her, she grew up to be a perfect woman. The fact that she is the Alpha Queen of the North should tell you how amazing she is," my mother responded, shocking me once again.

I didn’t understand her sometimes. In the beginning, she acted like she hated me, and then slowly, over time, she changed her behavior toward me. I failed to understand her completely.

"Oh, that is amazing. I feel like I have missed a whole world," Azura let out a little laugh, but her eyes betrayed the smile on her lips. She had tears in her eyes.

"So what are you going to do now? I mean, you previously told us you had no home," Charlotte asked, making Azura look down and sigh.

"I don’t know," she replied before Lord McQuoid gave a hand gesture to Charlotte, politely telling her not to ask Azura any more questions.

The dinner went by in silence afterward, and soon everyone was off to their bedrooms. Everyone except me, Norman, and Maximus.

"That’s crazy. He is kind of forcing her to listen to him," Maximus complained to Norman, who looked extremely uncomfortable when he found out what terms Emmet had laid out.

"I will go speak with him." As soon as Norman attempted to march toward the passage, I held his hand and stopped him.

"It is not a crazy thing. I will speak with him," I said, reassuring the two that Emmet wasn’t asking for something unreasonable.

"Are you sure?" Norman didn’t look completely satisfied.

"I am sure," I said, taking a deep breath and walking towards the passage. In the next few seconds, Emmet walked out of his room with his hands in his pockets and his shirt all messy. His coat was pushed back from his hands finding their way into his pockets.

"So, you said she told you something about the X Codex," I started talking immediately, giving the impression that I wasn’t too stunned to speak with him.

"Why don’t you come ask Azura yourself?" he uttered, slightly turning to the side to leave the way to his room. I took a deep breath but shook my head.

"Why can’t you tell me?" I replied, and a smirk started to play on his lips. The issue with Emmet was that I couldn’t really scold him. Our relationship had always been one where we spoke to each other respectfully, where I always felt like his student, the one who had a crush on her teacher.

"Why, are you afraid of her?" The minute he said that, I straightened my back and began to walk past him.

"I am not afraid of anyone. I will go ask her myself," I muttered. Even though I wanted to growl at him, I didn’t. He chuckled and started following me.

"She wants to speak with you about the organization herself," he added, and my steps slowed down. That was odd. Why would she specifically want to speak with me?

He took a few steps forward and held the door open for me. With much hesitation, I had only just entered his room when I realized Azura wasn’t there. The minute I turned around, I saw Emmet locking the door behind us.

With my heart skipping a beat, I asked him, "Where is she?"

I knew something was off. He didn’t bring me here to speak with her.

"In the guest room," he said in a husky voice, taking steps toward me.

"Oh, but you said—well, then we should go speak with her there," I was trying to sound casual, but my breath was picking up in my chest as he kept walking toward me.

My back met the wall and finally, my journey ended, and so did his when he leaned down and folded one arm over my head on the wall. His other hand extended and rested on the wall next to my waist, caging me with his presence.

"What do you want to speak with her about? Ask me, I will answer your questions, Helanie," he uttered, almost like he was breathing the words out. His hand next to my waist moved and gently touched my side, making me jump.

"She is my past, Helanie. You are my present and future. It’s true that I once loved her, but I was very young. Now that you’re both in front of me, I’ve realized the Moon Goddess chose the right one for me, someone better than the one I once thought I wanted," he shocked me with his words, but I didn’t show it yet. I wanted him to make a decision, and I didn’t want to be the one to manipulate or convince him into making it.