Chapter 132 - His Helplessness Towards Her

Briar looked at him, noticing that he was looking at her at that very same moment.

Her cheeks turned a fiery red, and she looked the other direction instinctively. 

"The view is incredible," she said in an attempt to diffuse the awkward tension.

Now, moving on from Briar and returning to Madeline and Indiana…

Madeline had decided not to show Indiana anything and tell her instead. Her powers weren't cooperating with her.

"You have powers," Indiana said.

Madeline nodded. 

"Yeah."

Indiana repeated, "You have powers."

Staring at her with enormous eyes, she took it all in.

Madeline had powers!

"You could've woke me up to tell me," Indiana reasoned.

"I didn't want to wake you up, that'd be plain rude," Madeline reasoned, crossing her arms, "Besides, when you sleep, there's no point in trying to wake you up."

Indiana furrowed her brows, "What's that supposed to mean?!"

"I'm just trying to say that you're a deep sleeper, that's all," Madeline admitted. 

"Hmph, telling me you have powers is worth waking me up. I was just sleepy last night."

Indiana mumbled under her breath, 'To think, if I had actually stayed awake I could've known before.'

When she found out about Madeline's powers wasn't that big of a deal, so Indiana wondered why she wished she could've been the first to know. 

It was like she wanted to be privy to information everyone else didn't know. 

"Right, I'm not supposed to tell anyone," Indiana reminded herself. 

"Yeah," Madeline agreed, before she remembered something. 

Crinkling her nose, Madeline told Indiana, "Hold on, you told us you had something important to do today, no?"

Indiana nodded slowly, "I did."

"Right, then I shouldn't bother you. I'll be taking my leave now, I have someone to talk to," Madeine said, nodding subtly. 

"When you say someone to talk to, are you referring to Xavier?"

Madeline had already begun backing away from Indiana.

"Maybe," she answered, leaving that to linger in Indiana's mind before she bid Indiana goodbye, closed the door and left. 

Madeline headed towards Xavier's office. 

The wind blew fiercely, and Madeline shivered. 

When she had been let in Xavier's office, she hadn't considered how cold his office would be. 

"Are you cold?" Xavier questioned worriedly when he saw her shiver. 

Before Madeline could react and answer Xavier's offer, Xavier took his suit off, draping it over her, to her surprise.

"Thanks,"  Madeline said, a smile in her sparkling eyes. 

"No problem," Xavier said in return. 

Madeline turned away in embarrassment to hide her flushed face. 

'What's wrong with my face?!' Madeline asked herself. 

"So, are we going to talk about the elephant in the room?" Xavier inquired. 

"Right," Madeline agreed, "We should."

"You're probably going to have to learn how to use your powers properly," Xavier said to her. 

Before he could say anything else and add that it wasn't necessary or compulsory, Madeline nodded, "Yeah, that makes sense."

Xavier blinked, expecting to have needed to convince her. 

"You don't think I'm being unreasonable?" 

"Of course not. From what I've watched from movies 

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"See you next time," Briar said to Adrian, who smiled in response.

"Next time? Are you trying to insinuate something?" He asked, raising his brow.

Briar scoffed, "I'll leave you to figure that out, I'm going to go now."

Brushing her dress, she said to him, peering at him, "Thanks for an amazing time, Adrian. Truly."

"No problem, we're friends after all," Adrian said to her, observing her reaction. 

"Alright, I really have to go now," Briar said, waving goodbye to him before she dashed away. 

Adrian threw his head back and laughed before he continued looking at the waterfall. 

'She had a great time,' he whispered softly. 

He wasn't scared to admit it. It was right there. 

It was obvious. 

He didn't know how Briar felt towards him, but one thing was certain, and that was his feelings for her.

Adrian admitted it alright. 

Speaking of feelings, he was about to admit it to Briar, before he backed away. There was no way he stood a chance when it came to Briar. 

But why would he think he didn't stand a chance when Briar was a delta and he was a beta?

Well, for one, ranks weren't everything. 

There was only one person who knew about the waterfall; he hadn't even brought Xavier to the place. Only one person. Like how there was only one person who owned his heart. 

Adrian wasn't sure when he began having feelings for Briar, it wasn't something that happened at one specific moment, it was something gradual.

First, they started off bickering and having short conversations. Simple and sweet, there was nothing more to it.

However, as time progressed, he realised he treated Briar differently than everyone else. And from there onwards, it wasn't difficult for him to trace the very reason he did so. 

Adrian didn't do anything for no reason.

He hadn't meant to invite Briar for a meal. 

Adrian was hellbent on keeping his feelings for her a secret from everyone else. Maybe he'd let a few people in on the secret, but that was all. 

He wondered what Briar thought of him. 

Adrian had never gathered up the courage to ask her. All he had managed to do was walk up to her doorstep and bid her goodnight. That was all. And it took a lot of convincing himself for him as well.

He had nearly returned to his office and continued with his work had he not told himself bidding others goodnight was also alright to do between friends. Or so he had read somewhere. 

Not to mention the reason Adrian knew the symptoms of lovesickness was because he had been researching what love was like lately. It was then he had stumbled upon a book that entailed everything there was to know about love.

However, love wasn't just something he could read from a book. Love was more than that. It was pure and true.

Adrian thought it was cruel of him to have brought Briar out for a meal when he had other intentions. 

Of course, Adrian didn't have any ill intentions when he had invited her out for lunch. He never did. It was simply an afternoon with Briar, his friend. 

Well, she considered him a friend, at least. 

He balled his hand into a fist, shutting his eyes. 

What would he do about his feelings? 

Honest answer? He didn't know. Yet.

Keyword, yet.

He had many options.

He could come clean to Briar and get the feelings he had for her off his chest. 

Best case scenario, she admitted she had feelings for him too and the rest turns into history, or... She rejected him and he was left to pick up the pieces of his broken heart alone, with no one else to help him.

But one would reason, 'He has Xavier! That would count as help, Xavier's a friend of his!'

Of course, that was a given. Xavier was a dear friend, but he wasn't the person to come to when it came to anything that had to do with feelings. 

He wasn't the alpha of Eudora only. He was the alpha of denial as well. 

[Author's Note: Episode I don't even know anymore of me making up nonsensical names such as 'Alpha of denial'. What even is that...? Also, I forgot to mention. We're ranked 18th place in the New Win-Win category! Thank you so much for all your support, I love you all so much ahhh! Love you all so much, mari.]

Not to mention, Xavier was… Xavier. 

Others swooned for him and fell at his feet. His dashing looks, and his undefeated power only served to help him. Those who swooned for him weren't limited to those in Eudora alone. Other wolves who had heard of him and his incredible feats respected and bowed down at his feet too.

'Alright, alright, bowing down at his feet is an oversimplification. I'll admit that,' Adrian thought to himself. 

He sighed, asking himself what was he doing out here in the wild? 

Briar didn't see him as anything other than a friend. 

The thought of that made Adrian's heart pound erratically and pained him. 

Who wouldn't be pained when the woman they had feelings for had them in the friendzone? 

Not to mention, Briar was waiting for her one true soulmate. The perfect match for her. 

She had mentioned many, many times how she had always dreamed of meeting her match. The person that she'd spend the rest of her life with without any qualms. The person that would make her happy, and hopefully that person was the one at the other side of her red string. Briar wouldn't have minded that.

Adrian stared at his pinky. 

He hadn't felt like this in so long. It had been forever since he had last had feelings for someone. 

And that person was the reason why he was preventing himself from ruining his friendship with her. As the one thing that was worse than being rejected when it came to love and feelings…

Was watching the one you loved suffer right in front of you whilst you remained helpless.