Filed To Story: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel
They will talk tomorrow.
By then, he will cool off and the risk of him snapping will be significantly lowered.
But Talia didn’t show up for breakfast, and she didn’t show up for lunch either and he was back to being irritated.
What is her game? To starve herself?
Talia was either harming herself or defying him, or both, and neither of those sat well with him. With every passing minute, his impatience morphed into fury until he couldn’t take it anymore.
Dayson filled a plate with food and stormed toward the third floor.
What Dayson didn’t know was that Maya noticed how Talia was cooped up in her room, so besides bringing her food, Maya brought Talia a tablet and showed her how to go on the internet and browse. Talia spent quite some time reading news and looking at local maps to familiarize herself with the world and surroundings.
Talia shrunk when she heard someone rapidly slamming on her door.
She was sitting on the bed with a tablet in her hand, looking at the local map and figuring out nearby towns. It was nice and calm, and whoever was on the other side of that door made her anxious.
Is the house on fire? Or did Alpha Edward find out where she is and something horrible happened because of her?
The door swung open, and Talia’s eyes widened when she saw Dayson’s dark expression. Did he come to punish her because she went into the forest without permission?
“Why are you not coming down to eat?”, Dayson asked grumpily. “Do you think this is a hotel, and we should serve you?”
Talia shook her head frantically, unsure why he was asking her that. Just the other night he stood and watched as she was being accused of stealing food. It seems that he changed his mind, and she was allowed to eat again.
“Doctor told you that you are underweight. Did you forget that you need to have regular meals? Or are you starving yourself on purpose? I didn’t bring you here to have you hospitalized.”
Talia realized that Dayson was concerned about her weight. Did the kind doctor Travis call to check on her? Probably. Talia couldn’t imagine that Dayson would care about Talia’s weight. Unless he was fattening her up so that he can eat her later.
Only then Talia noticed that Dayson was holding onto a plate filled with food. Was that for her?
When she woke up last night, she found fruits and croissants, and that morning Maya brought her a nice sandwich and orange juice.
Talia was not hungry, and she didn’t want to risk seeing Cassie or Dayson again, so she decided to stay in the room and avoid trouble, yet the devil himself was at her door.
She was not sure what to think about Dayson other than he was mentally unstable.
Seeing that Dayson was looking at her grimly from the door of her room, Talia didn’t dare to provoke him.
Talia didn’t have the faintest clue what caused his current mood (or what that mood was), but she decided to play it safe, and she lowered her head.
“I apologize, Alpha Dayson.”, she said in a small voice.
‘BAM!’
Talia jolted when the door closed loudly, and she inhaled sharply at the realization that Dayson was only half a step away from her.
It took him only a second to cross the distance between them.
Dayson grabbed her chin with his index finger and thumb and forced her to lift her head and look at him.
“What did you call me?”
He was leaning above her, and his angry words splashed on her face. Talia blinked rapidly, unsure what he was getting at.
Seeing the horror in her eyes, Dayson let go of her chin and put his palm on her cheek.
“I told you to call me by my name. Dayson. Just Dayson. Say it.”
His tone was much gentler, but his gaze was unwavering.
“Dayson”, Talia said quickly, hoping that this will pacify the unstable scary Alpha.
Dayson smiled and his eyes fell on her lips.
He really wanted to kiss her.
But he knew that if he makes his move now, it will look like he is forcing himself on her.
Why can’t she have hearts in her eyes like all other women in his proximity? That would make things so much simpler.
Dayson took a step back, and then another, and another… and he placed the plate with food on the coffee table.
“Eat, Talia.”
Seeing that she didn’t move from the bed, Dayson cocked an eyebrow at her.
“Should I feed you?”
Within a second, Talia was on the sofa with the plate in her lap.
Dayson smiled victoriously and took a seat next to her.
Talia observed the plate. There were roasted potatoes, rice with finely chopped vegetables, chicken drumstick and a thigh, two thin slices of chicken breast with gravy on top, a dinner roll, and a smidge of cranberry sauce. Talia thought that this must be some feast.
Dayson propped his chin on his palm and looked at Talia with a smirk.
“If you came down for lunch, you would get to enjoy fresh salad and chocolate pudding for dessert, but you missed those.”
“This is more than enough.”, Talia responded honestly. “I don’t remember if I ever ate something like this in one sitting. Thank you.”
Dayson’s heart cracked. He remembered Talia’s appearance when he found her in the attic and he let out a long breath to calm his emotions.
Talia started eating and she was extremely uncomfortable that Dayson was watching her every move, but she didn’t dare say anything other than, “Aren’t you busy?”
Dayson nodded. “I am.”
“You can go about your business. I will finish the food.”
“My business is to wait for you to clean up that plate, and then I will take you shopping.”
Talia swallowed hard, unsure if she heard him right. “What?”
“You are refusing to go shopping with Maya, so I will take you.”
Talia paled. She rejected Maya so that she doesn’t attract attention, but if she goes with Alpha Dayson, it will be a hundred times worse.
“I don’t have any money.”, Talia said weakly and Dayson frowned.
“Did I say that you need to pay for anything?”
“There is no need for shopping. These are fine.”, Talia said weakly.
Dayson hummed ambiguously and his eyes moved over her body, from her head down to her toes. He liked what he saw, she looked good in anything, even though he would prefer her without any clothes.
Talia shrunk under his gaze. Somehow, he made her feel naked. What the hell?
“You have an appointment with the nutritionist tomorrow. It’s in the human city. Will you go in that?”, Dayson asked, and Talia glanced at the white t-shirt on her. It had a rainbow unicorn on it that said, ‘Unicorns are awesome’.
“Don’t answer that.”, Dayson said curtly. “I was not asking you to go shopping. I was informing you.”
He got his phone and started fiddling with it, and Talia understood that this conversation was over.
Dayson was back to his bossy mode. Actually, Dayson is always bossy.
But he said that she needs to eat and go shopping, and maybe after that, he will leave her alone.
…
A black armored Lexus SUV with tinted glass stopped in front of a clothing boutique in Darkbourne.
Talia fidgeted in the front passenger’s seat.
She thought that this will be easy, but now that they were here, she was reluctant to get out. There were people on the street, and some of them were already looking at the car, probably recognizing it as Dayson’s.