AMELIA’S P.O.V

All the maids were gathered in the kitchen within minutes. I tried to tell Kaden that it wasn’t a big deal but he wasn’t having it. He was furious and I had a feeling that it had less to do with the food and more to do with the fact that he was already pissed. The maids were quaking in their shoes as they stared at the empty dishes that Kaden had lined up on the counter.


“I need an answer,” his voice was deceptively soft. If you didn’t know him, you would think that he was of right mind but one look in his eyes would show you that Kaden was at his wits end. “Last time I checked, food doesn’t just up and disappear. Someone took it. The quicker I get answers, the quicker everyone else can leave.”

No one dared to speak and I think that pissed him off even more because he slammed his hand against the counter. Even I jumped from the sound. I had never seen Kaden lose his cool like this. I could feel the pleading eyes of the maids on me begging me to calm him down but I couldn’t bring my feet to move.

“Maybe they don’t know what happened,” I whispered to Kaden. “It’s possible that none of them touched it.”


Kaden turned to me with narrowed eyes. “Let’s assume you’re right. Someone took it, was it someone else? How did the person get in and out of the house without anyone noticing? Did they leave the door open?”

“Alpha,” a soft voice cut through and we turned to see a young girl of about twenty. “No one came in. The only person I saw was your mother and she is always here when we clean. I didn’t think much of it.”


My brows scrunched. Why would Kaden’s mother be here? As if summoned, the front door opened and I heard the clicking of heels on the tiles. Kaden’s mother appeared in the doorway of the kitchen and she took in the scene in front of her. There was confusion swirling in her eyes.

“Why are they here?” she asked. “Did they steal something?”

“No,” I was the only one who could answer.

Her eyes moved from the maids to the dishes on the table and she frowned. “Why are these still here? I put them back in the oven so that someone would clean them. Don’t you know how to do your job?” she turned to Kaden. “I think you pay them too much.”

The awareness settled on everyone at the same time and I resisted the urge to groan. Of course she was the one who ate it. Kaden ran his hands down his face in frustration before waving off the maids. They rushed out immediately they were dismissed and his mother’s confusion grew even worse.

“You were the one who ate the food?”

She nodded. “Of course, I saw it in the oven and I was so touched by your decision to get me food. I was starved. I wanted to thank you over the phone but I figured it would be a better choice to do it in person. You have to tell me where you bought it from because that was the best I have tasted in a while.”

“Why would you think it was for you?” he asked.

“I texted you to say I was coming over. You always have something set out for me.”

Kaden looked like he was about to blow a fuse and she couldn’t even see it. She kept talking about everything she liked about it so I decided to jump in before things got worse.

“It wasn’t bought for you,” I cut her off and she turned to me with scrunched brows. “I made it for Kaden this morning. We didn’t know you were coming. No one got your text.”

She frowned. “What are you talking about? I remember very clearly that I,” she trailed off as her cheeks heated pink. “The message didn’t go through.”

To say she was embarrassed would be an understatement. Kaden pinched the bridge of his nose in exasperation and I knew it was taking everything in him not to lash out at his mother. A part of me was touched that he cared that much about something so simple while another part of me didn’t want to be the cause of any more tension between the two of them.

“I apologize, Kaden,” she whispered with her head bent. “I had no idea that it was for you or that she made it.”

“Don’t apologize to me, apologize to her,” he gestured in my direction. “It was her energy and time that was used.”

His mother glanced over at me and I honestly didn’t expect her to apologize so when she mumbled a sorry under her breath I was stunned. All I could do was nod with my eyes wide and my mouth open. She stood there for another awkward second before grabbing her bag and walking out of the house. Neither of us moved until we heard the door click shut alerting us to her absence.

“Fuck,” Kaden muttered under his breath as soon as she was gone. “I’m sorry about her. I’ll ask her to turn in her extra key. I know you spent so much time preparing this. I should have told her off or something.”

“It’s fine,” I assured him because it truly was. From his reaction alone, it was obvious that I mattered to him and that was all I could ask for from him. “It was just food, I can always make some later. For now, maybe we could order in or something?”

“Of course,” he leaned down to place a soft kiss on my lips. “You should go upstairs and get changed. I’ll handle the order.”

I did exactly that. I needed a long shower after what happened and by the time I got out, I could smell the greasy pizza. I didn’t bother getting overly dressed and settled for cotton shorts and one of his oversized shirts with my hair tied up into a messy bun at the top of my head. Kaden was putting paper plates on the coffee table in the living room when I arrived. My stomach grumbled from the smell alone and he laughed.

He pulled me into him and we sat there in silence focusing strictly on the movie playing in front of us. At first, we were just sitting beside each other but that didn’t seem to be enough for Kaden because the next thing I knew, he had grabbed my legs and thrown them over his. His fingers ran up and down my skin softly and I felt myself growing wetter. The worst part of it all was that he didn’t seem to realize what he was doing to me. To him, he was just holding me, but I felt like my skin was on fire.

I squirmed in my seat and he turned to me with concern in his brows. “Are you alright?” I hummed. “Do you need something, baby?”

It took me a second to realize that he knew exactly what he was doing and he was having fun with it. His hands trailed down to my ankle where he kneaded my skin softly. I had to bite down on my bottom lip to prevent a moan from escaping. His eyes tracked my every move from the rise and fall of my chest to my fluttering eyelids.

“No, I’m good,” I managed out and he hummed.

“How disappointing, I would have loved to help.”

He kept up his ministrations on my feet and calves and I was a soaking mess by the time the movie was over and our food was gone. As quickly as he started, he stood to his feet and I was left feeling cold. He tried to act unaffected but I noticed the bulge in his pants. I smiled to myself when I realized that he wanted me just as much as I wanted him.

“I’m going to clear the table,” he said aloud leaving me alone in the living room and I knew I had about five minutes to come up with a way to get him back.

As soon as he disappeared, I dashed up the stairs and began rummaging through my closet until I found the bag. A while ago, Clara had gone shopping and she came back with a bright pink bag. When I looked into it, I flushed pink because I never thought there would be a moment where I- in my right mind- would use it and here I was. To be fair, I wasn’t exactly in my right mind, I was consumed by my need for him.

I locked the door to the room and slowly stripped out of my boring pajamas and into the hot pink lingerie. It was barely a scrap of fabric covering my body but it made me look sexy. It accentuated my breasts and was completely see through so you could make out the outline of my nipples and the high thong with a bow on it had me looking like a present ready to be unwrapped. I took my hair out of the bun and muttered a small thanks to the goddess for giving me naturally curly hair.

I fluffed it up to give that casually sexy look and I swabbed my lips in the blood red lipstick that I knew Kaden liked. My heart pounded with every move that I made. I wasn’t usually this bold or brazen and I was terrified that he would be put off by it. I knew little to nothing about the women he had been with before me and whether they were brazen or not but Kaden was a determined man. He knew what he wanted and was never afraid to take it which was a sharp contrast to me who was riddled with anxiety and always second guessed her thoughts.

I glanced at myself in the mirror and was shocked by how different I looked. There was a cover up and I pulled it on but it did nothing to cover me. It was completely see through and my entire body was on display under it. I looked sexy and wanton. I was almost convinced that the woman in the mirror wasn’t me but someone who had taken over my body. I was about to take off the cover up when I heard the doorknob jiggle.

“Amelia, are you in there?” I heard Kaden call and I knew that my time was up. There was no going back now. “Did you lock the door?”

“I’m coming,” I called back. I stood by the door and exhaled deeply before pulling it open. “Hi, there.”