Chapter 10: The western bedroom

Alexander POV;

By the next morning, almost twenty hours after my men moved River to the western bedroom, I started to worry about her. She was too quiet for being River. She nearly destroyed the painting of the walls the other day when she fought Robert using only her voice. I swear that I could see my dear walls getting cracked under the impact of her voice cussing at Robert. I learned that she was not a quiet person at all. I figured out she might be asleep, but 18 hours were too much, she can't be that comfortable, right? I decided to go check on her only to stop outside her door questioning whether to talk to her or not.

Atlas didn't want me to reject her. She was his mate after all, a much-needed one for that matter. After everything that was happening and my deteriorating status, I knew that I was running out of time but how do I explain a mate bond to a human? Even I didn't believe in it until two days ago.

I started questioning if I really wanted to reject her. It wasn't ju