CHAPTER 197: SHE IS HIS

Their soaked bodies moved with aching friction. Not quite there, but too far gone to stop.

The kiss turned messy.

Wet.

Teeth clashing.

Tongues tangling.

Ella whimpered as his hips pressed against hers in slow, desperate rolls. It wasn’t enough. But it was everything.

Adrian groaned into her mouth like her very taste wrecked him. "You drive me insane," he muttered against her lips, voice low and raw.

He held her close to himself, his palms grazing over her curves almost greedily.

Ella could only hold on, nails raking down his back, the ache between her legs growing maddening as his hardened length ground against her, separated only by soaked fabric and tension sharp enough to cut air.

Water rippled violently, matching the storm inside them.

His movements were wild now, hungry and driven. He was not just seeking pleasure but claiming her, over and over again.

Ella cried out as their bodies moved in rhythm, slippery skin and drenched clothes tangling together in a mess of wet heat and burning obsession.

When they both trembled, Ella mumbled something incoherently. He fisted her hair firmly and pulled her in for a deep kiss.

She trembled harder. Release hit in waves, making her toes curl. As she inched closer to him, he buried his face in her neck, groaning her name like a prayer.

And still... he didn’t let her go.

Didn’t move.

Didn’t speak.

But when he lifted his head, his intent was clearly reflected in his eyes.

Adrian was keen on annihilating the mere thought of any man that existed in her past and he will ruin her for any man in the future.

"You are mine," Those words dropped from his mouth like a dangerous promise.

Ella did not have strength to retort, nor the energy to tease him any more.

At the slightest hint of his touch, her body swayed, falling into his arms. "Wait... I can’t..." she whispered when he moved to get up.

She couldn’t get up. Hell, she could not even feel her legs.

"The water’s cold," she murmured. "You go ahead. I’ll dress and come..."

She trailed off as Adrian lifted her without a word and stepped out of the bathtub.

He placed her down on the bathroom counter. Ella shivered at the contact of cold air. But a bathrobe was draped around her.

Adrian leaned down and pressed kiss over her collarbone, inching down slightly to kiss slightly above her cleavage, before leaning his face into her neck, "Are you done with work here?"

Ella’s trembling body gradually calmed under his ministrations and her toes curled. She nodded in a daze, "Tomorrow. My flight is around 6 am. I need to attend the classes..."

She had barely managed to save her spot in university. With her attendance, she couldn’t afford any further days off.

Adrian pulled back and tilted his head, pressing a soft kiss on her chin. Ella’s lips parted when he leaned towards her lips.

Her eyes fluttered close, but after a long time, there was no movement from the man. When she opened her eyes, Adrian was looking at her with a hint of amusement.

Ella pouted and turned her face away, a hint of red creeping up her neck.

Adrian inhaled a deep breath before he put on a bathrobe and discarded his soaked pants. Next, he pulled the hair dryer and with great patience, he began drying her hair.

Ella realized that unlike the last time when he had done it in her dorms, he did it like an expert hairdresser now. Truly perfect, huh...

She just sat idly, letting him do what he wanted. After a few minutes, she said, "You can just switch on the heat mode and it will dry up faster."

Adrian did not pause, "It’s bad."

Just because it is a little damaging, was he going to dry her hair with cool shots for half an hour now?

And that is what he exactly did.

Half an hour later, both of them changed their clothes before Adrian carried Ella to the bed.

Ella was already half asleep when Adrian returned and lifted her into his arms.

But the moment he placed her on the bed, she drowsily opened her eyes and looked around.

A hand covered her eyes and her vision turned dark, "Sleep."

Ella grabbed Adrian’s wrist, "I have to post on social media. I haven’t done it in days..."

When Adrian removed his hand from her, she found him looking at her with a hint of helplessness, "Is it... important?"

Ella nodded as she grabbed her phone from her back, "Of course. In the future, I want to do business, be rich. How would I do that if nobody knows me? I don’t have the King Family to back me up..."

"You have me."

Ella paused, and looked up at the man. Seeing that he did not seem to be joking in the slightest, she fell speechless.

If Adrian’s words were heard by any of the members of the King Family, then the word would spread that he was a fatuous ruler, easily tempted by the beauty.

And with such a reputation, won’t they discard Adrian from his position of the heir? As things stood now, Adrian seemed to hold a lot of power.

But Ella knew how things transpired in her previous life. Adrian’s and Kade’s relationship was strained.

And if her dreams were anything to go by, then most of the control of King Empires fell in Kade’s clutches when Adrian fell into a coma.

Thinking of that, Ella looked at Adrian solemnly, "You can’t say such things lightly, Baby."

Adrian had just walked to the other side of the bed with his phone and a file in his hand when he heard her say that.

He sat on the bed and turned to her, "Why?"

"I am just afraid you will ruin your reputation like this. In the future, in front of others, you can just pretend that you don’t care much about me..."

"But I do. I care a lot about you."

Ella froze. Stopped. And then felt her face explode.

Ah! Ah! Ahh!

How could he say such things with a straight face?

Forget it, I will explain it to him some other day.

With that thought, Ella cleared her throat and shifted her focus to her phone.

Adrian, on the other hand, watched her getting flustered and helpless as a hint of a smile curved on his lips.

Ella went through the selfies that she had clicked in Westra City. After choosing a few, she posted them on her account.

’Ding’

Adrian’s phone buzzed.

Ella looked at instinctively.

In the next moment, both Adrian and Ella froze.

"@theonlysuninhersky is you?" Ella wasn’t mistaken with the user ID that she saw in the notification.

When she looked at Adrian, her eyes were wide with disbelief, "The one who was replying to all those comments... it was you?"

Adrian’s lips thinned.

Adrian, a man of few words, who visibly hated humans and was secretly a picky princess, made a social media account? And responded to all those hate comments so savagely? He actually wasted his ’million dollar breath’ on strangers?

Ella could not believe that. Hence, she waited for him to declare that he had someone else to do it.

But even after a long time, Adrian did not utter another word, "It was you?!"

A pause.

"Pfft..." Ella burst out in laughter.

When he looked over, she reached out to poke his face, "That’s... pfff... that’s so adorable..."

She trailed off when he pushed aside the document in his hand and pinned her to the bed, "Is it now?"

Ella gasped for breath as she reached out to wipe the tears from the corner of her eyes.

Adrian met her gaze. Suddenly, her face zoomed in his view and he felt a softness on his lips.

His heart skipped a beat as she kissed his lips and fell back on the pillow, "Thank you."

Thank you for being there for me when I had never expected anyone to.

The next morning, Ella missed the alarm and comfortably overslept in Adrian’s arms.

It was only when the other side of the bed turned cold did she open her eyes to realize that it was past 6 am and she had missed her flight.

"Oh no! Oh no! What do I do no?!" Ella tugged at her hair.