Chapter 225 - 225

Adam flinched and turned around, looking at the people with furrowed eyebrows. 

"What's wrong?" Markus asked him. After he had changed his clothes he had joined his best friend for dinner at the main hall. They had a variety of steaming hot food but he didn't seem to be willing to eat. He had left Daniel at the deck, wet and cold. Maybe his behavior was actually immature. 

"I, I thought I heard of something." He said and his friend looked at him as he took a sip from his wine. 

"Could it be, the voices?" he joked and raised his eyebrows. His best friend sighed and rubbed his forehead, hoping that one day his tactless jokes would stop. 

"The voices don't sound like…Daniel. They never did." He said and he stood up. He looked around as worry began overtaking him. "Something is wrong Markus. Something is definitely wrong." He said and walked away from their table, passing through the thin spaces between he chairs, upsetting some other passengers that were trying to eat and handing out sorrys and apologies for disturbing them. 

He reached th corridor, his breath unstable as his friend tried to catch up with him. He smelled the air, confused with the mix of the sea and so many other passengers he couldn't actually pinpoint Daniel's scent. He closed his eyes, trying to think of it as a golden line. How did Daniel usually smell? He wondered and the sweet scent of lilies and honey invaded his sensitive nostrils. Markus without asking many questions he flowed him as they went down, deeper and deeper into the gigantic ship. Their footsteps echoed in the metallic floors, their breathing loud like drum and Adam stopped, frozen in front of a dead end. 

His grey eyes turned into a storm, his lips forming a thin line as his hands formed fiery fists. He was too late. He thought as he looked at his mate, lying there unprotected and hurt. Markus called out his name and he raised his head, his back supporting him as he sat on the ground. He was beaten up and exhausted, filled with bruises and cuts but the moment their eyes met Daniel instinctively smiled. 

"You heard me." He mumbled and spit a small pool of blood on the floor. "Help me up. Bloody hell they really did take all their anger out on me." He said and Markus was the one that moved. It was like they had traveled back in time. No matter his clothes, no matter his education, no matter where he stood now when Adam looked at him would always see that helpless boy with the charming smile. Back then he had saved him, right now though he was too late. He thought and his eyes watered. 

"I am sorry." The wolf cried and rubbed his face. Markus had helped Daniel up, and his mate rushed towards him, taking him in his arms and raising him up like a bride. "I am so sorry." He repeated and Daniel scoffed. 

"You were not sorry about bringing me here but you are sorry that someone else beat me up." He mocked him as Adam took him away. He wrapped his arms around his neck, his exhausted body enjoying being carried. He didn't have to use his muscles at least; he was sure that he would be in a lot of pain if he tried to. 

"I am sorry I wasn't in time. Who did this to you? I will have them killed. I will rip them to shreds and throw them into the sea for the sharks to feast on them." He growled and Daniel laughed. Adam took the exhausted wolf on his room. Markus opening the room for them and helping his friend place the beaten up boy on the bed. 

"You do have a tendency to cause trouble, don't you? Daniel dearest." Markus said as he stood at the doorframe. He wasn't planning on staying there longer. He knew he would have to patch up the beaten up man if he did and he didn't actually enjoy the sight or the smell of blood. 

"Your life would be boring if it was anyway different Markus dearest." He said with a grin as Adam placed a pillow behind his back, helping him to sit properly on the soft bed.

"You see; I do quite enjoy being bored nowadays. You can say I am maturing? Like fine wine." He said and made Daniel laugh so hard that his ribs hurt.

"You and your friend are stuck being immature together." He told him before the blond man left them alone. He said he would have someone bring them some food and for a second Daniel thought he heard his belly complain. He hadn't eaten anything. 

"How can you talk like nothing happened?" Adam said with a serious expression. He was sitting right next to Daniel, observing his every move, hearing his every word, wondering how he could look so fine. Every time something like this happened he looked fine and he wondered if it was actually his fault, if he was being a fool or misunderstanding something. 

"Because my tongue is intact, see?" he asked him and showed him his pinkish tongue. Adam sighed and stood up, pacing on the room, trying to find a way to get his nerves to calm down. 

"Who did this to you Daniel? There must have been many people? I know that you can handle one to one combat." He told him and Daniel shrugged his shoulders. He wasn't planning on telling Adam who did it. He was fully aware that he would try to kill them. "Tell me. I…I need to do something. I feel worthless. I left you up there and you now, now you got injured. It's my fault." He said as he sat down on a chair, hiding his face in his palms. 

"Your dream, your dream about the New Land. Was it true?" Daniel asked him. Adam looked at him, his eyes squeezed as he tried to understand if he was avoiding the question just so he wouldn't confess. 

"Yes, I have many plans. Many things I want to complete with you. That's why I need you. It has to be you the one who will be by my side because you are the only person who brings out the good side in me. When I look at you, I want to be better, to show you that I can help." He told him and stood up, not wanting to be away from him for a minute longer. He sat down next to him on the bed, taking his hands in his. He kissed them, his eyes glued on Daniel as his hot breath landed on them. 

"You are not lying to me aren't you?" Daniel asked him, feeling afraid that coming with him would be a mistake. 

"No, I am planning the moment we get there to build a school. I have dreamed of a compound in the woods where our people will live freely, like a whole family. They will be able to get educated and they, they will be protected by the hunters and the exorcists. No one will hurt us there, no one will hurt you." He told Daniel, his eyes lighting up with excitement. Daniel smiled, watching him like this, while he spoke of revolutionary dream he realized how much he loved him. There wasn't a more precious sight than watching your other half talk to you with a bright smile, their eyes filled with life and the hoped in them sparkling. Ada was so charming during those moments. When the true leader in him appeared. The visionary. He was born to do this. 

"I love you." Daniel told him, his cheeks turning red and Adam gasped. He flinched, confused he looked around as if he was scared that Daniel was talking to someone else. 

"You love me?" he asked and pointed at himself, making his mate chuckle. 

"Yes you, you big fool. I will spend the rest of my life with you. I will keep your insanity at bay and I will help you achieve everything you want even if we can't get married or I can't be officially your mate I am fine. I will always be by your side." He told him and caressed his cheek. "And those voices in your head, I am sure they must be tiring but when you hear my voice just find your way back to me. I love you Adam." He said and Adam nodded his head eagerly.

"I love you too. You have no idea how much I love you." He said and kissed him gently. 

After a few months the ship finally reached America and they find a new place to settle. Constructions began about the mining and Adam began to also build a school for the children. He said education was mandatory from now on, surprising the people but also seeing the hope in their eyes. His father arrived after a few years and seeing what his son had done led to a very heated fight where Markus got his scar. This time none of them wanted to back away from their believes. Richard ended up compromising knowing that he couldn't not defeat the two strongest males of his pack in his age and afraid of dying he had to find another solution. He approved the children's education only up to elementary school, after that it was forbidden. Daniel and Adam knowing his father were overwhelmed with this achievement. Things remained the same for a few years. When the gold rush died another factory spurred and Adam had to get into constant fights about working rights. The people adored him and always stood with him. Even with small steps more smiled could be seen in the pack and that to them was enough. 

Adam was closer and closer to his dream with Daniel by his side. Everything seemed to be going good for once. 

That was until the war began.