Chapter 101 - IT IS, MILADY..

With Eva's little help, Emma managed to arrange her books and clothes in order, which had been strewn around earlier.

They were picking up her make up kit contents which were lying down idly on the floor, when Derek and Maya stepped into their room. They were back, finally, after more than two hours.

"Any luck on who did this?" She asked with a blank face, not wanting them to know that she had regained a bit of her memory pack. Since they had chosen to not trust her, and lie to her; she had promised to do the same. Two can play the game. She had thought then.

"Not really. Must have been some robber or thief." Maya replied, looking around the room, and seeing the improvement in its order.

"Oh, okay." Emma said. "Am I still safe here?" She asked, wanting to act normally like a person whose house had just been burglarized; she didn't want them go catch on, on her aloofness or perhaps the fact that she doesn't really trust their words again.

There was no way she was leaving her house. She was staying whether they replied her question in affirmative or not.

"Yeah, I think so. I can be staying with you for few nights, you know, for company, if that's okay with you." Maya replied with a smile.

"That will be wonderful. Thank you." Emma stated, happy at least that Maya would be staying here for sometime with her. Although she didn't trust them, she didn't want to be alone after such an event happened in her house either. The intruder might come back again.

"Can I stay too?" Eva asked, blinking her eyelashes at Emma, in a bid to plead with her.

"Well..." Emma stuttered, thinking of what to tell her. She didn't know if Melvina would be okay with it.

"You can, if mother allows it." Derek said, saving her from giving a reply.

"Not a problem!" Eva shouted, her face all smiles, causing them to burst out in gleeful smiles.

"Alright then. That is settled." Maya muttered, picking up a book on the shelf.

"You can stay over at our place for tonight though, if you are not comfortable here." Derek said, causing Maya to smile into the book she was skimming through. Her cousin was really love-stricken. It's the mate bond though. She thought.

"No, it's alright. I've inconvenienced you guys these past few days. I don't want to add to that again. I'm okay staying with Maya, and perhaps Eva, for tonight." Emma stated in a nutshell, with a smile.

"Okay then." Derek replied, with a shrug. He trusted his cousin to take care of his mate.

"But still..." Emma mentioned, causing Derek to stare at her keenly, eager to know what she had to say.

"You guys would have to help me clean up the place. It's your job. Isn't it?" She queried, teasing him,which caused him to laugh a bit. He was happy that she wasn't really rattled, like her counterparts would have been, about the incidence that had happened in her house. She would have been a strong wolf. He thought.

"It is, milady." He said, bowing a bit like a knight pledging his love for a maiden. An act which caused Emma to blush inspite of her distrust for him, and Maya to fake a cough, and keep the book she had been skimming through, back into the shelf. She walked up to Eva who had found the display between Emma and Derek interesting, held her by the hands and took her out of the room; all the while laughing and cussing in her mind at the duo in the room, who were about to go all romantic on themselves, even before her little cousin.

Emma smiled, while blushing crazily when she watched Maya stroll out of the room with a recluctant Eva.

"Must you have replied like that?" She asked, walking up to the wall, and reclining on it.

"Yes. Is there anything wrong in addressing my baby like that?" Derek asked, stepping closer to her, igniting a certain heat she had come to love and crave for.

"Little Eva was here." Emma cited, trying to sound stern, but failing miserably; as a huge smile coated her lips.

"Well, I didn't do anything wrong, babe. If I had perhaps kissed you in front of her, then you might have had a claim to scold me." Derek defended, circling her tiny waist with his hands.

"Derek..." Emma called, as the heat rose up from her belly, coating her cheeks with blushes, and making her windy.

"Mmmh" Derek hummed, already dropping a short soft kiss on her neck.

"We have company." Emma said, wanting to stop, but still reluctant to do so.

"...in the sitting room." Derek included, trailing kisses round her neck.

"I have to clean up the house. You have to help too." Emma stated, wanting to prevent a kiss from happening. She didn't want to be embarrassed if someone walked in on them.

"They are already on it." Derek replied, dropping a kiss on her lips, his forehead resting on hers. He was actually referring to his beta and his gamma, who he had told immediately they had entered back into her place, to help clean up and tidy the place. It was their other work after all.

"Oh, okay." Emma muttered, biting her deep pink lips as she thought of another excuse to give, an action which tore the last shred of Derek's control on his emotions.

He sharply put one of his hands, the right one on the back of her head while the other, the left hand trailed fastly down to her butt, holding it firm and pulling her closer to him, as he meshed their lips together, their tongues falling in love with each other.

He stopped suddenly, when she shouted in pain, breaking away from the kiss sharply, as she held her head in her hands, her face contorted in pain.

"Baby, what is it?" He asked, hugging her to himself, aware that the others had rushed into the room, because of her scream.