After some evening snacks that Dandeline had kept in the fridge for me, I went to bed. It was an eventful day today, and I felt my energy drain from all the emotions I had spent. One hour into my sweet nap, my mobile rang. I woke up clicking my tongue and picked up the call without looking at the name.

"Good evening. What are you doing?" I heard the deep voice and my eyes did a 360-degree inside my eye socket. He sounded pretty cheerful for disturbing my peace.

I cursed myself under my breath for not looking at the name before picking it up. If I knew he was going to call, I would have never picked up the call. Maybe I should get his number blocked on my mobile. I asked with a distasteful voice, "what do you want, Fang?"

Fang sucked in a breath, as if to show me he was hurt by my words. He was not standing in front of me or I could have seen those dramatic eyes which were followed by that wicked grin of his. His voice came in a pitiful tone, "How rude I simply wanted to hear how my soulmate has been." In case this was some other person, I would have felt bad right now for being blunt with my response, but it was Fang Warchild, the most irritating man on the face of this earth.

"If you wouldn't have been bad, I wouldn't have to be rude," I said, almost raising my voice at the end.

Can this man not understand how great of a danger he has put not just me but also himself with that mark.

Fang hummed in a suggestive tone, "Mm, bad... I like the sound of that" How I wish I could stab this person. He grabbed all the nerves in my body and jumped on it like a trampoline. Fang casually continued, tell me, wife-"

"I am not your wife!" I retaliated quickly. He had just marked me, not sealed the bond to be calling me his partner.

Fang snickered on the other end, "you will soon be, little one. So pry tell-"

"I won't be your wife," my responses were quicker than he could complete his question and it received me with an irritated clicking of his tongue. I don't care what irritated him, but Fang needed to understand keeping his mouth zipped because I did not know which messenger of the castle picks up on what. More than all of it, I had to get his consent with getting rid of this mark.

"So I was asking," Fang continued, paying no heed to my denials, "what makes you disgust me so much?"

I blinked my eyes rapidly at that question. I was going to scold him about being an idiot and ask him to remove this mark from me, but the question took me by surprise. He had not asked in a joking way, and he was waiting patiently for me to answer.

"You are stupid," I threw the rock on him. He truly was an idiot, and I wanted to kill this man at any opportunity the universe presented to me to bleed him to death.

"that I am not. That would be you," Fang threw the heavy rock of insult back at me. The worst was him casually responding as if my words flew right over his head and he pompously reversed them back on me. Fang continued to explain, "considering how many times you were fooled by me. We both know who is the stupid one. "

"..." I had nothing to respond to that. His words pierced my heart because they were true.

"Where have I been bad, honey?" Fang then asked. This time, his words sounded serious, contrary to his words that simply sounded deadpanned. He drank something in a relaxed way before continuing, "Let's hear your ways of good and then decide whether I can cross over to that side of the darkness." There were so many things I wanted to say and curse Fang with, but his words were only rendering me speechless.

Had he called simply to ask what he has been doing wrong with me?

However, now that the opportunity had presented itself, I surprisingly wanted to take it. I did not want Fang doing things the right way to win me over, but I could not hold myself back when he was asking right in my face. I took in a sharp breath before rushing my words, "you do nothing but pester me again and again, take decisions on your own and you have no knowledge how to court a woman."

"do I not?" Fang asked innocently, as if he was doing everything right when it came to courting me.

My fist clenched onto the bedsheet in angry. "You don't! All you did was force me with the mark and trick me into some dangerous marriage where I am betrothed in. How am I supposed to believe you or even keep a little of trust in you when you have openly told me about your intentions of using me as a revenge toy?" I huffed for air after the entire speech I gave in one breath.

Fang sighed and this time his voice turned cold as he spoke firmly, "I think I have cleared it before. The marriage with vampires was because I wasn't aware of the princess. That would be you, being my soulmate back then, but now that I know I am willing to take all the responsibility,"

I gulped at his words. His voice came mildly at his next words, "be mine, Selene. Marry me."

My breath hitched in my lungs. How could this man sound serious as he was? Fang had been with so many women, and yet I knew from the way he asked that he had never even considered someone worthy to ask that to.

Realising I had not replied immediately and to avoid him taking my silence as a different answer, I stuttered, "L-l-look at you. Y-you really don't know how to court a woman! Huh."