His Mate: Prince Asher

Chapter thirty one

Asher glanced at her sharply. The question was never one he had expected from her or even asked himself. Their eyes locked and he tried to see what could have prompted the question from her but all he saw were clear beautiful hazel eyes. Seconds ticked by before he answered in a whisper, "I don't know. I have never been in love, so..." he licked his lips softly, his eyes traveling to hers. "To reject your mate, you have to be feeling a bond stronger than the mating bond with someone else, otherwise, there is nothing stopping the mating bond from claiming you the first day."

"Never been in love you said," Naomi whispered.

"Never ever."

"Does that make you a virgin?" she asked, her face coloring over with her question as she chided herself in her mind.

Asher chuckled, "that word is very far from me." The look in her eyes made him laugh softly, "it stopped applying to me from my sixteenth birthday."

"So you are like a playboy?" she raised an eyebrow.

Asher smiled and shrugged, "that's one way of putting it."

"Oh," she said, feeling dejected and also cussing at herself at why she should feel like that. Obviously he has the looks to get any girl he wants, it was obvious from the way the girls at school throws themselves at him and she could imagine how beautiful she-wolves would be throwing themselves at him back home too so she is really stupid if she expects any other thing from him.

Asher watched her, he couldn't figure out what she was thinking and knowing he can't compel her to find out made him more curious about her origin. "You interest me, Naomi," he said, bringing her eyes back to him. "There is something about you I can't quite figure out yet, something I don't think you know yourself. But you interest me none the less and I just want to open you and read you to figure it out. You know about me now, I want to know about you."

"What can be so interesting about me, I am just...plain."

Asher leaned toward her, so close that their lips were almost touching and her scent attacked his nostrils. "You my dear are anything but plain."

"Do you think there is something special about me?"

"I know there is something special about you and I will figure it out." His eyes went to her lips once more and even though he was reading it from her that she won't judge him for anything he does to her at the moment, he wasn't ready to take the chance. He stood up without warning and walked towards the window. "I have to go, I'm sure my people are worried about me."

Naomi still lost at how close he was to her earlier blinked at his words, "oh shit, I have forgotten. Your father said you should come meet him once you wake up."

Asher raised an eyebrow, "my father?"

Naomi nodded, "yes. Personally, I think he is your elder brother but he said himself that he is your father and he looks too scary for me to doubt his words."

Asher chuckled at that, "well, all the more reason I have to go home then."

"Will you be coming to school tomorrow?"

"Hopefully. And by the way, don't worry about your father asking you about tonight," he added as he placed his hands on the window, ready to leap out of it.

"What did you do?"

Asher turned to her and grinned, "nothing," and then he winked and jumped out of the window.

"Wait," Naomi said and rushed to the window but he was gone for there was not even a single sight of him. She sighed, staring out the window and feeling the loss of his absence in her heart. She glanced up at the moon, the big white ball was so bright and if she didn't know better, it felt like the light was illuminating the night for her. Glancing at the pine trees that made up the forest where the moonlight fell on the tip of the trees, she couldn't help but think about the cave Asher had taken her earlier and she actually found herself longing to visit it once more. Perhaps this time in the day time so that she could see her surroundings.