Prince Caelan

12. Rumor

Acela POV

I shift uncomfortable trying to get free from this super warm blanket but it won't budge. I can't breathe it's so warm and I'm getting irritated because now I have to wake up and I don't want to.

Blinking my eyes open to adjusting to the sun coming through my curtains, the things thing I see is arms.. big tan strong arms wrapped around my waist in a hug, and then it all comes rushing back to me.

Caelan slept over last night and is sleeping in my bed.

I suddenly feel scared to move in case I wake him up, I slowly go and grab hold of my phone on the bedside table and I see it's only 6 AM, ugh why the hell am I awake this early? The screech from outside makes me groan as the beasts in the sky let everyone know they're awake as they begin to get louder. The Vale has gargoyles, they are the new pigeons in this realm and I'm still not used to the sound of them every morning, but I'm slowly getting there.

I try to get out of Caelan's hold but he is holding onto me so tightly it's making it impossible to break free, and why is he so warm? I really need to pee and he's got a bear grip on me.

"Caelan." I whisper quietly to him. "Caelan I got to pee." I say embarrassingly. 

I feel him shift behind me as his arms loosen their hold on me, he moans deeply in my neck and my legs clench at the sound as he causes sparks from his touch. "Morning love." He says in a deep raspy voice as he stirs awake and I feel him move away from me to stretch.

Freedom!

I get up from the bed and tiptoe to the bathroom, trying not to pee myself. I hear his husky laugh as I close the door without looking back at him then lock the door.

I finish up and brush my teeth and wet my face as I open the door to see Caelan is sitting up, he notices me and smirks and my stomach flips at how crazy attractive he is. He's shirtless and only wearing boxers... it took me so long to fall asleep last night, I could feel his big... third hand.. it got so hard to not think about it.

I'm definitely not ready to face that yet, nope.

"Your phone rang while you were in there." He says as I frown. I walk over to my phone and see I have a lot of missed called and texts from multiple people.

"That's odd." I mumble out as I sit on the edge of the bed.

Caelan comes closer. "What's odd?" He breathes out against my face as he rests his chin on my shoulder, looking down at my phone.

Something has happened and Mason is pissed. I haven't seen this many text messages from him ever, he thinks phones are pointless but only uses them for his human friends and me, which I find very sweet. I open the first message I see.

5 Minutes ago.

Mason: Do not come to work! and turn on the TV.

"That is indeed odd." Caelan says amused as I frown and grab my remote to turn the TV on.

Instantly as the TV turns on I see my and Caelan's face plastered on TV with giant letters saying;

"Rumor has it: Prince Caelan found his mate, true or false?"

Two TV presenters begin to talk. "Well Boren, I think we will be seeing a lot more of the mysterious human girl our Prince has been spotted with not once.. but twice! Palace officials have not yet released a statement about these claims but we did get a comment from Princess Lisla, the Prince's sister.