34 Chapter 33

By the time I stopped crying and calming down, I was exhausted and decided to curl on my mother's bed and go to sleep after sending a text to Zaline to let her know I was ok.

It was daylight when I woke up to a loud banging on the front door, wiping my swollen eyes, and patting my hair down I walk downstairs "Who is it?" no one knows where I am, who could it be, and oh dang I didn't lock the door.

"It's Buford, is that you Acadia?" blowing a frustrated breath at his voice, I start to walk to the kitchen for something to drink and this headache.

"Since you found me, open the door yourself, Its unlocked" I huff.

A loud zap noise and a loud yelp from outside the door had me pause, what was that? "Acadia, that is not funny" then the noise happened again. I walk to the door and open it to his angry face, holding his hand like it was hurt.

"What's wrong with you?" he looks at me quizzically.

"What do you mean? I tried to open the door as you said and it zapped me, why did you do that?" I looked back at him with confusion as I walked outside and shut the door.

"Let me see something" I touched the door and it opened for me just fine, smirking at him, I closed it again.

"Now you try it" I gestured to him, and I put my hands up as he gave me a pointed look.

"I didn't zap you" I said. Buford goes to open the door and it zapped him again.

"What the heck is going on ugh" he says. I open the door again with no problem and tell him to come in behind me, headed back for the kitchen.

"I figured it was magic when I opened it the first time, I guess it's just for me"

His fuming face still not going away "What do you think you're doing? Running away like that with no protection, no one knowing where you were, you could've been hurt or worse!" he is pacing back and forth mumbling under his breath, then it seemed he finally looked around.

"Wait where are we exactly? I had a tracker trace you to this block, but I've never been here before" after hearing this, I tried to keep my cool, I really did, but after how he has been toward me, I can't believe he would track me like that.

"That's its Buford! Its none of your business where we are, especially after you couldn't give me the privacy enough to get away from you for one day, you had to go and track me down! The way you are hot and cold towards me frustrates the crap out of me, and I needed answers without worrying about if you love me back or not!"

I'm pacing in the kitchen now "and I am a grown woman with more skills to protect myself than you, so who do you think you are..." I'm stopped mid-sentence when a very passionate kiss touches my lips, it catches me off guard and I stumble back a bit into the counter.

We both pull back and look at each other, Buford's green eyes seeming to search my eyes for honesty, as I realized I said I loved him out loud, and dang it, I really do love him.

He pulls away from me and turns his back to me "This is not the time for this, I seem to always be apologizing, the time is never right though"

"I know I've asked you to trust me before, but I really wish you would just give me some time, I have to explain something to you, just not right now, we have other things to worry about" he turns and looks at me, and I've heard this before.

It still hurts to hear it, and with a tear welling up in my eye, I tell him "Your right, we have other things to worry about besides my feelings" he winced "Send the council here, and I also need to have this place cleaned, and my old room set up for me now, nothing else is to be touched" I said with no emotion, he wants a queen with no feelings he will get one toward him.

"Oh and I need food here as well, I will be traveling in a few days, so I don't need much. Oh and Buford.." He looks at me with a saddened expression.

"Yes, my queen" he responds.

"I don't want you to ever touch me again without my permission, and honestly unless its business, I think it's best if we don't talk anymore. Thank you for the place to stay, but this is my old house that I discovered, I will stay here for now on. You can go now" With one last pleading look, he nods and walks out with his head hanging lower than he arrived.