the bookworm's alpha

chapter seven

                        "We went bowling, papa," I replied, walking into the house, closing the door behind me.

"Really?" my father hummed.

"Yes, really," I said.

He started laughing.

"What's so funny?" I asked.

"I'm sorry, it's just that I didn't really take him as someone who likes to bowl." My father smiled.

"I didn't either." I sighed. "He keeps on surprising me."

"And is that a good thing?" my father wondered.

"I can read his emotions like a book, but everything after that is a mystery." I murmured.

"Ah, I see." My father breathed out. "You should get going to bed. You still have school tomorrow."

"Alright." I nodded. "Good night papa."

"Good night, Rei." My father smiled.

               I groaned quietly in annoyance, rubbing my temples with my fingers in a circular motion.

"Is everything alright, Rei?" Luciano inquired, looking at me worriedly.

"Just a headache, it will be gone in a few hours, don't worry," I reassured.

"It's my job as your mate to worry about you and your well-being." He frowned.

"It will be gone in a few hours, don't worry," I repeated.

"I wonder..." Luciano mumbled.

"What?" I asked.

He didn't reply.

"Luciano," I started to say in a warning voice.

Luciano grabbed my wrists gently, separating them from my head, and softly pressed his lips against mine.

I let out a small noise of shock and froze up.

"Did that help?" he whispered, his lips parting from mine a few moments after they had made contact but his head remaining close to my head.

"How did you...?" I breathed out, my headache's gone.

"I took your mind off of the pain in your head." He smirked. "When I kissed you, your attention focused on that instead of the pain."

"Oh..." I mumbled, my face starting to feel warm.

                   "Luciano," his sister said, coming up to where Luciano and I were. "Father keeps on pestering me to convince you to let him meet her... It's getting annoying."

It's lunchtime and Luciano took my book again.

"I'm sorry, sister," Luciano replied, still keeping my book out of my reach.

"He really wants to meet her." She sighed. "And it looks like she wants her book back."

"Awe, sis, you're no fun." Luciano pouted when she took my book out of his hand and handed it back to me.

"Thank you." I smiled.

"I suggest you keep it out of his reach." She giggled. "He's like a little puppy."

"Right." I nodded.

"I'm Lilly, by the way, I don't think I introduced myself when we first met." She said.

"Rei," I replied.

"No fair, you tell her your name when I had to figure it out myself," Luciano whined.

"You technically didn't figure it out yourself, you learned my name when my father was greeting me the first day I was here." I huffed. "And who said life was fair in the first place?"