They had come to a diner. Adaline was kind of shocked by his choice of place, she had expected him to take her to a nice restaurant, cosy and comfortable but he had taken her to eat diner instead. But she chose not to complain because who knew, maybe the food was nice. It was the food that they were going to the diner for.

"Here," opening the door for her and he then followed in. Then they took a seat at the booth sitting in front of each other Being handed the menus immediately, they were asked for their order for the drinks.

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"Coke," she answered. It would be great with a burger.

"Same," he nodded.

Xavier skimmed through the menu. The prices were decent if she wanted to pay for her share she easily could. She had that much money on her.

Even though the alpha in him would never let that happen.

"So what do you want?" Xavier asked her as he closed his menu.

"Cheeseburger and fries on the side." She immediately answered. Her mouth watered at the sight of the food no maybe it was the thought of food itself that made her mouth water. She was really hungry.

He nodded and immediately conveyed the order to the waiter as soon as she came back with their drinks. As soon as the waiter was gone Xavier held onto Adeline's hand. He ran his thumb over her knuckles and basked in the warmth of touching his mate.

She was here and she was his.

That's when he realised something.

He sniffed once and then frowned. The fuck? He thought immediately. One day when he decided not to tail his mate or keep an eye out of her she had a scent on her. The scent on her was rich that meant the person had touched his mate and that too more than once.

Augustine, he knew but someone else's was there too. He had not come across it ever before.

"Hey!" Adeline whined as she waved her hand in front of him. "Don't ignore me!" She complained.

Feeling ashamed of ignoring his mate, he immediately grabbed the hand that she was waving in front of him and kissed it. "I apologize." He kissed her hand again. "I was not ignoring you, I was thinking of something and I completely spaced out." He looked sincere, she noticed and at least he was honest.

"That's okay," she immediately forgave him. "Don't space out on me though. What if I ate your food?" She warned.

So cute!! He wanted to grab those round cheeks and eat them!

He glared at her with a playful expression on her face. "Don't you dare look at my food?" He warned back equally playfully. "I am the worst tickle monster you have ever seen."

She giggled loudly but immediately sobered up when the food came to their table. She licked her lips and rubbed her hands, liking excitedly at her cheeseburger.

"Wow," she praised. It looked so good. Or was it her hungry mind making her thinking so.

"I know. They make good food." He complimented as well. "They make everything fresh as much as they can. So the patty is made fresh and so are the fries. They must have it cut already but they fried it now when you ordered. No refrying."

Adeline nodded as she drank her coke. "How do know all of this?"

He sipped his drink. "I have heard it all from Ashlynn. She likes to work these part-time jobs saying that it keeps her busy and makes more friends for her too."

"Oh," she took a bite of her burger and then immediately moaned out loudly immediately, apologizing after. Knowing that the table next to her hear it, unknowing to the fact that they all had. "This is so good." She whispered to him with her mouth full.

He chuckled. Her mouth was still partially full as she took another bite. He knew that it was not as tasty as she portrayed but the fact that she was hungry made her do it. He was right in taking her to the diner. His mate was hungry and he loved having her fed. Maybe, she would look cute if she was chubby, chubby cheeks and chubby butt-cheeks.

His beast growled at his thoughts and Xavier immediately apologized. The control of his beast was on the verge of snapping and here he was ready to have sex dreams.

But what would sex with her be like? Would she like it hot and sexy? Like rough and dirty? Or maybe soft and lovely.

What would she like?

He would go for any. It would be awesome to have her with him in his bed, in his sheets. He could imagine the scenario. Shuddering, he shook out of it. What was wrong with him?

He had not slept with anyone given his mate was out there and he had never felt the need to relieve himself by masturbating but here he was. Her voice was enough to drive him over the edge and burst.

He finally understood the term blue balls.

And they hurt like hell.

He could not wait for the day when she would wear his mark with a proud smile. Flaunting it to everybody, it was her mate's mark.

He would protect her, provide for her and feed her. Maybe extra, after all, he did want his penguin to be chubby.

But still..rough or sweet?

To be blatantly honest, he did want to be with her in any form given but rough would be sexier.

He immediately shook those thoughts off of his mind. What the hell was he thinking about? He could not believe that he was thinking about that in front of her. There was a lot of time for that and given the person was a human, maybe a long, long time.

He shook his head and again and his hand reached on his fries as he continued its lookout.

Nothing.

He could touch his plate directly and not may of the food. 'Where did it go?' he immediately looked down at his plate and frowned.

He looked at his mate ...who licked her lips.