90 Stay- Part 3 (2/2)

”Is that so? Hmm, well I could list many. I have to say, I didn't expect you to turn the tables around. Hypocrite as I am, I don't like anyone touching you. Or trying to.”

Heidi felt herself smile by his words. It looked like he didn't like the taste of his own medicine.

”I feel guilty and bad for Warren,” she confessed.

”Don't worry about him. Like he said- he was out of line by trying to do something he wasn't supposed to do,” was he listening to their conversation while talking to the head council? They were interrupted when Stanley knocked on the door which Nicholas had closed.

Heidi tried to pull away her hand but Nicholas had something else on his mind as his hands held hers not letting it go nor moving away from her.

”What is it, Stanley?”

”Ah, master, you asked to prepare the carriage.”

”I changed my mind,” Nicholas said kissing Heidi's neck, ”Send a letter to Wallace that the meeting will be held next week.”

”Yes, master,” she heard the footsteps fade away and at the same time, something sharp grazed over her neck.

”Shh, don't move. I won't bite you,” he chuckled, ”But I cannot deny... that the thought of sinking my fangs in your skin feels so very tempting,” he gave her neck another kiss and pulled back.

Moving around, he came to sit next to her.

”Your family must be missing you immensely,” he said with his hands back on the keys.

He knew about the letter. Of course he did. She remembered him saying how all the letters went through him here before it would be handed to her. Even though the butler had given it to her, the letter had been unopened by her, still resting on the side of her bed. It was stupid of her to think if she didn't open the letter she could believe that the letter had never come to her hands.

”Will you be leaving tomorrow?” he asked her.

”Tomorrow?”

”Yes. I saw that it was your sister Nora's birthday. You must want to go home,” Heidi began to worry again. She knew it wasn't her family but the Duke who wanted to talk to her. She feared to go back there, ”It shouldn't be much trouble after all thanks to the edict passed you can visit freely wh-”

”Please don't make me go,” she said making him stop playing the keys and he cocked his head to the side.

Nicholas noticed the anxiousness and the fear behind those hazel eyes. He didn't question her words.

”You don't have to go if you don't want to. Stay here with me instead.”