this time, without waiting for a response, the door opened. I turned round to glare at her, but she wasn't standing there. I gasped in shock, jumping from the bed and darting over to the other side of the room, my heart beating wildly in my chest.
Prince Henry
I saw the fear in his eyes as he stood on the other side of the room and we watched each other for a moment until his mother came through behind me, smiling excitedly.
"Look Caleb! Look who came to get you!"
Caleb looked at me, puzzled.
"Get me?"
"Yes." I said, still focusing my attention on him. "When you didn't show up at work this morning, I came to see if you were okay."
"You're so down to earth!" His mother chimed from my side. "Don't you think so, Caleb? He cares about every employee. He came all this way to check on you ."
I looked at her and nodded then turned back to Caleb.
"I can't believe you came here..." He whispered and I noticed he was holding onto the back of the chair so tight that his knuckles had turned white.
"I had to see you..." I replied, taking a step closer and judging his reaction.
"Don't be so frightened. Are you okay?" his mother asked him and he nodded slowly at first before standing taller and braver.
"Yes, I am, Mom can you give us a moment?"
"Oh right, sure." She rested a hand on my shoulder before leaving and I closed the door behind her, waiting to hear the sound of her footsteps on the stairs before I spoke, but Caleb beat me to it.
"Henry! You can't just turn up at my house like this!" he hissed, still in a slight whisper.
"I had to see you, apologize, clear things up. I just couldn't leave it like that."
"But..."
"Don't be afraid of me." I said quickly, interrupting him. "What you saw, what happened was under control. It's..."
"Under control?"
He walked towards me and for the first time, I noticed he was wearing nothing but underwear and seeing the bulge at the front sent a jolt of pleasure through me. He saw me looking and picked up his clothes to cover it before continuing.
"When I saw you the other day on the floor, you were changing, right?"
"Right."
"How was that under control? If I'd have been any slower or any later at your side, I could have been..."
He trailed off.
"Forget that," he said shaking his head, "the real question should be, what the hell are you anyway?"
I nodded. He had every right to be angry and annoyed and finding out that the person you were starting to fall for wasn't entirely human had to be scary and uncharted territory.
"I don't expect you to understand." I said quietly in case there were other ears listening. "There are things going on here that the world don't know about and things that are way out of my control."
"Is that the big royal secret?" he asked.
I nodded, scared the reveal would come back to bite me, literally.
I took another step towards him and thankfully, he didn't flinch.
"That night when we were outside talking, I've never met anyone like you before. I could have stayed talking to you like that forever."
I remembered our kiss and the electricity I'd felt as our lips brushed together.
"Don't make me leave here without letting you know how I feel." I whispered.
I saw the expression on his face change and I knew he felt the same. He had to.
"What do you want from me?" He asked, his voice wavering slightly.
I thought about it, thought about the sacrifice I was going to make when I told my family that I wasn't going to marry a Winchester and that the Bear Rulers line would end with me. I took a second to imagine myself telling them. Was it realistic? Was I brave enough to do it and tell Caleb that I wanted to explore whatever it was that we were trying to start?
I walked up to him and slid my hand through to the back of his neck, feeling his soft skin with my fingers. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Why are you doing this to me?" he asked without looking at me and I pulled his head towards mine, pressing our lips together.
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