Kasun's Kisses [ShadowPack #1]
Chapter 9: The Truth

Marina was tossing and turning before she was feeling the softness underneath her. She tried to open her eyes before the sunshine was coming inside the room, burning her eyes before she was shielding them from her face.

She was back in her room when she clearly knows that she was on the ground before. What was happening when she was unconscious? She knows that someone was coming at her, naked as they were born, before a face was coming into her mind.

Caleb!

He has been walking naked toward her before she passed out. She felt the stiffness of her bones as she was trying to get up from the bed. It was happening to face before the covers were coming off to her laps.

Then, she shrieked.

"What? What happened? What's going on?" Caleb burst into the room before Marina was gripping the cover in her hands and shoved it up to her chin. She was looking at him as he was wearing the apron that grandpa used to and was holding a spatula.

"What are you doing here?" Marina spat before Caleb was turning his golden orbs to her. Then, he sighed relief.

"Thank goodness," he said before Marina was glaring at him.

"Thank goodness? What was that supposed to mean? And why am I naked and you're looking like you're at home?" she asked him before Caleb was looking down at himself. He chuckled before he left the room.

Anger was rising inside her head before she felt someone was walking toward her room again. she never felt this before like her senses were intensified. She was looking around the room and suddenly, the color was much better. What was happening to me?

She asked herself before Caleb returned without the spatula and the apron—shame, that would have been spectacle—before she smelt the perfect omelet and sausages. Her stomach growled before Caleb was setting it down on the bed. He took a seat as well.

"Someone's hungry. I hope this is enough," he said with his carefree manner. She blushed before Marina was holding the cover under her armpit before reaching out for a sausage.

"Shut up," she mumbled before her hand was snatched by Caleb. The heat was running up underneath her skin before she was locking her eyes with his golden orbs. They were flaring.

"How are you feeling?" he asked her slowly before he was intertwining their hands. Marina let him before she was clearing her throat.

"Thirsty, hungry. Any time you want to let me eat, please do let me know," she said before Caleb smirked and released her hand. She took a sausage before she was eating it with pleasure. Such heaven, she moaned before she was closing her eyes.

"Don't make that sound," Caleb growled before she opened her eyes and looked at him. Caleb was intense before she was biting into the sausage again. Marina furrowed her eyebrows.

"Do what?" she asked innocently and before Caleb could answer it, a knock downstairs interrupted them.

"Eat up. I will see who is it," he said before he left her to finish the breakfast. You don't have to tell me twice, Marina mused before she was pigging it out with the orange juice and omelet as well as the sausages. She moaned before she heard there was some voice downstairs.

"I will let her get ready," Caleb said before she heard that his footsteps were coming at her. Marina's heart skipped a beat before a voice was purring inside her head.

'Mine,'

Marina must hit her head hard for she was listening to voices now. What was wrong with her?

'Nothing. You just unlock your true potential and this time, it will be rewarded. No more old geezer to shout at us and blame us to be so weak,' it said before Marina frowned.

'Old geezer? You mean grandpa?'

'The one and only torturer of our lives. Now we're free of him and look where it brought us. Directly to our mate,' it purred again before the smell of pines and mint were hitting my nose, making me dizzy slightly.

Caleb entered the room as he looked at her with the food's gone and the water was empty. He grimaced before he went to her side. Marina was looking at his handsome face, forgetting that she was naked underneath before she wanted to lean into his warmth.

"You're hungry but I have to let Sebastian check you up. Don't worry, he's a friend and," Caleb looked at the cover and suddenly, Marina blushed at the thought of her naked in front of him, "you need to put some clothes on even though I prefer you without it. I just don't want to kill my friend for seeing my mate naked," Caleb said before he took the tray of food and then proceeded to put some clothes on me.

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"Look over here, please," Sebastian, who was known as the best doctor by Caleb, was testing the reflexes in her eyes. She was wearing one of the shirts that were loose enough for Marina did not have any bra on.

Caleb stood by the walls with someone in close proximity to the woman that was saved by her last night.

Was it last night or has she been passed out for a couple of days? Marina did not have an answer to that, apparently.

"Everything looks fine. She did not have any inner injuries that can cause her to bleed internally," Sebastian said before Marina was looking at him. Like, really, looked at him for she was distracted with Caleb who was frowning. Even in a white shirt and black pants, he was stunning with that frown.

"Well, thank you then, Ultima. You may leave now," Caleb said curtly, a sign that he was pissed right now. Sebastian chuckled lowly as he was packing his stuff.

"Gladly. I see you then, Alpha," he said before he was moving out of the room. Marina turned to look at Caleb before she was aware that the woman did not move to follow Sebastian.

"Can I talk to you a minute?" the woman said before Marina was noting that she was addressing her, not Caleb. She nodded before Caleb went to whisper something to her. The woman nodded before she went to sit by her side.

Suddenly, Marina felt like she wanted to kill this woman for talking in whispers with Caleb. Wait, what?

Caleb closed the door before she was returning to look at the woman. She has a brunette, long hair, and her eyes were grey. She was slim and looked like a model. She was a bombshell, as far as Marina knows.

"I just want to thank you for saving my life 3 days ago. It has been a while since someone was saving me," the woman, Diana, Marina thought, was the name before she was smiling at her. Diana took her hand before squeezing it. She meant what she was saying right now.

"And I know that you might think that I have something with Caleb—"

"But I don't—"

"Let me finish," Diana said as she was smiling at Marina. She grimaced for she did not feel anything to Caleb. Was she?

"I know it would seem that Caleb was caring for me but do not mistake it for love. He only cares for me as a big brother would be. He's my brother's best friend, Xavier, which you will be meeting him later on," Diana said before she was smiling at her.

"Just remember this. Whatever you think of him when you replace out the truth, just now that he loves you," she said before she kissed her cheeks. Marina was stunned before Diana stood up from the bed, smiled at her, and left the room. A few seconds later, Caleb was entering the room again.

"Are you okay, Marina?" Caleb asked her before she was returning to see him.

"What?"

"You look like you have seen a ghost," he said before he was taking her hands into his. Caleb was watching her before she felt unconscious now. He sighed before Marina was clearing her throat.

"Diana told me that you have something to tell me. I hope you are willing to say it now," she said as Caleb was rubbing his neck. He squeezed her hand before he was looking at her in the eyes.

"There is one thing," he said as Marina was looking at him, eager to know what he was about to say.

"Long ago, before this island was formed, it was known as something else by the Ancient Greeks. It was an island where the special Greeks come to save their heads," he started as Marina was furrowing her eyebrows but did not say anything.

"They say that Alexander the Great was threatening to hunt the special down before he cut their throats. So, the special Greeks have to get somewhere where they can live happily and without fear.

"But of course, it was not easy for them when the humans were afraid of them. They came to the island and settled but their 'special' nature was hard to conceal. The humans would call the Great Conqueror before Alexander was coming to the island again. But it was thawed when the specials were making a treaty with the humans to replace their common grounds.

"They wanted to be living in peace and promise not to terrorize the humans. But they wanted something out of it as well for the humans wanted to get to know them as friends. And so, the treaty was drawn and known as the Folk Festival," Caleb said before Marina was looking at him.

"Are you trying to tell the history of the Folk Festival or something?" she asked before Caleb leaned into her. Marina did the same.

"I think so but there was so much more going on in the story. For example, the special Greeks were feared because they were special," he said before she scoffed.

"And what is so special about them?" she asked before Caleb reached out to caress her cheek.

"They can shift at will and while the humans are afraid of them, they wanted to be friends with them and maybe fall in love. The humans made a pact that at the end of every month, a festival was thrown to honor their friendship. It has been a tradition that whoever they saw or brought to the festival was something special to them," Caleb said as he locked his golden eyes on Marina. She sucked on a breath.

She knows what he was implying here but she wanted to hear him say it with his own lips.

"So, what that makes me to you then?" she said as she leaned in. Caleb smirked before his fingers were inside her hair.

"If you don't know by the story that I was telling you, I have to show you then," he said before he dipped his face and their lips touched as they kissed to seal the deal.