Should he question her about it? He couldn’t help but think about her past relationships and the fact that she could be in one currently haunted his soul. How had he not considered that? He had to be sure about that while pursuing his mate. If she was in one then she was going to be loyal to her boyfriend.

He kept staring at her, trying to gain courage and ask her the dreaded question. Xavier was not afraid of asking her a question, it was the answer to the very question that he feared to hear. His heart was beating so fast and he wanted nothing more but to get it over with but some part of him wanted it to remain unknown so that if she had a boyfriend, he could develop her feelings for him in her heart and then maybe, she could break up with him.

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A teeny tiny hope lit its flame inside him.

Adeline could feel his stare for the longest time but she chose not to comment on it. However, the intensity of his stare increased per minute and she couldn’t keep quiet about it any longer.

Turning to him she raised an eyebrow and said, “What’s wrong?” He was behaving pretty weirdly.

Shocked by her sudden turn and question, he opened his mouth and closed it shut a few times. “W—What?” He stupidly questioned.

Adeline sighed and in an exaggerated tone asked again, “Why were you staring at me?”

“Oh, I ..” He looked forward and thought of something to say. “I was thinking about the topic.”

“Topic for what?”

“To talk about. A topic to talk about was what I was thinking about.” He repeatedly explained.

“Okay, so what did you decide on?” She asked ready to hear about the topic he had thought about after staring at her.

“Decide on what?” He asked.

“Oh my god, where is your mind?!” She harshly whispered to him. “Didn’t you say that you wanted to talk about something and you were thinking of a topic to talk on?”

“Oh, yeah, I did.” He admitted, rubbing his neck. “Here’s the thing, how did you find the town?”

“Wha—It was nice.” She changed her words. This was better than before. “I honestly can’t say much because it’s just been days and not even a week.”

“True true,” he agreed. Not topic to talk on.

“But I noticed a few things and one of them was that everyone is in a pair. Like always a boy and a girl together. People walk in pairs almost all of the time. “

If any of the couples nearby heard them, which they did, they chose not to look back at her and carried on. For Adeline, no one had heard anything except for Xavier since she had whispered it to him.

“Not always a girl and boy together.” He defended. “It can be a girl and a girl or a boy and a boy.”

“Not want I meant.” She said. “It like everyone is in love.”

“Everybody is in love.”

“No, it just doesn’t happen to everyone. People break each other’s hearts.” Adeline for some unknown reason got extremely defensive. “It’s going to be heartbreaking when the other person starts to love someone else.”

“Why do you think so?” Xavier softly asked her. Her opinions were coming from experience or something important.

“Because we all are young, Xavier. We can’t decide what we want at fifteen or eighteen. So decide the person we want to settle with is right.”

“True. ” He agreed. “But we take relationships seriously. Our values are different and if not completely sure, we never enter any relationships.”

“How would you ever be completely sure?”

“You just are.” He vaguely answered.

“Anyway,” he began talking again. “Do you have one?”

“One, what?”

“A boyfriend?” It pained him to say that word. “The one you could walk in a pair with.”

“No.” She answered straight away. “My priority has been studied until now.”

“Oh.” His heart calmed down. Hell, she had answered him straight away and he couldn’t process the fact that she could be his and just his alone. He knew that she smelled a virgin and her heartbeat told him that she was not lying to him about it.

“So I have a chance?” He teased. The tension and nervousness had been released and he relaxed. Giving her a panty-dropping smirk he was sure to make her blush.

“S—stop. No, you don’t.” She immediately denied it. “No one has a chance with me. My career is more important.”

“It is, girl and I am not coming in between but I can stay on the side.” He smiled again making her frown. His smile with a twinkle in his eye was bad. “Or sideways.”

“Shut up!” She yelled at him, making him laugh. She covered her ears and made sure that she couldn’t hear a word that he said.

“Hey, hey,” he pulled her hands down.

“Are you going to watch what you say?” She asked, threatening to pull her arms back and cover her ears.

“Yes, I will.” He smiled as she lowered them.

“Anyway, when can I meet your family?”