Ruka's arm was around my waist as he looked at my cousin, George. He had staked his claim kissing me and exposing the mark on my shoulder, which was given the previous day. He looked calm and collected, not bothered how my cousin was going to react he turned his gaze on me.

My cousin on the other hand, stood there staring at my neck with his hands clenched. Eric and George were both adopted by my aunt, Eric who was a half vampire while George was a half witch. He could perform only small magic. I didn't know what to make out of the situation, I found Ruka's little jeolusy cute as it was rare to see the trait in him and felt like smiling to it. George was my cousin, blood or not, and hurting someone deliberately on their face wasn't my thing to do but I wasn't sure if what Ruka just did now was wrong. Maybe it was necessary to send the message to him.

"Uncle Chris!" George yelled suddenly and my eyes went wide. He was calling my dad to show him the mark on my neck?

I turned my head towards Ruka in panic but he gave me a reassuring smile. He bent down to give me a kiss on my nose that resulted in George calling out for my dad more loudly.

"What's the matter George?" my aunt came inside the room with my mom behind.

"You guys told he wouldn't do anything funny with her! Look at her shoulder, she has a bruise on it. Staying at the castle is not right as he's hurting her and drinking her blood!" he loudly said pointing out my shoulder to them. Drinking blood what? I wanted to laugh at that, "Where's uncle Chris?" he asked.

"He's gone out with your dad to buy cigars," my aunt replied and continued, "And it's between Ruka and Eve, honey. He's her mate and I can say he's taking very good care of her. Right, Eve dear?" she asked me. By now Sebastian and the others had come to see what the shouting was all about.

"Yeah," I nodded my head in agreement.

"But-" he protested to only be interrupted by my mom.

"Now now, George. You have nothing to worry about Eve. They are planning to marry once she's done with her studies. Honey, is that a love bite?" she asked me abruptly and I felt my face heat up instantly.

I didn't like discussing what Ruka and I did with anyone maybe a little with my best friends but no one else.

"It is," Ruka replied coolly with a little hint of smile in his tone and heard my mom, aunt and Andria awe at it. George seemed to be fuming and hurt as he left the room. I heard the main door bang loudly which meant my cousin had left the house.

"Don't worry, he'll be alright," Eric said noticing the worry on my face, "He's going through some teenage phase."

"God, I wonder how your kids will look like," my aunt hushed.

"I know right, I can't wait to see little Eve and Ruka running around," my mom agreed looking afar with a teenage struck smile, "I should start finding the names!" she decided.

"I have already thought of few," I heard Andria say. We weren't even married yet and they were already thinking about baby names.

"I want to pick the boys name," Aiden voiced out.

"I am standing right here," I mumbled and heard Ruka chuckle.

After all the suggestion about baby's name, we sat in the living room talking, Lizzy had given me her scarf so that I could put it around my neck. When dad and my uncle were back George was still out. I took the boxes I wanted to take along with me and Eric helped me out in carrying two of them.

"How's life in the castle?" he asked as we walked towards the car.

"Good...actually quite calm and it worries me sometimes like the quietness before a hurricane," I said opening the car door to place the box in the back seat.

"Why would you say that, Evi?" he asked me tilting his head.

"I dreamt something disturbing yesterday in school. Weird thing is that I had the same dream a year ago but only this time it was more detailed," I told him as he bent a little to put the rest of the boxes inside the car.

"Did you tell it Ruka?" he asked and I shook my head. I was still yet to tell him, Eric hummed and then ruffled my hairs, "Talk to him, I doubt he wouldn't know about it."

"Yeah," I smiled and heard the voices getting louder, turning towards the main door I saw everyone coming outside, "How are you? How's work?" I asked him changing the topic.

"Work is busy busy busy. What can I say, thanks to Ruka's men we got the rogue but not in the same condition he had left the prison cell," he scrunched his nose thinking about it, "And there's a search for the people called nozame who might be working with the ones who broke into one of the school in Romania."

"I don't understand, if the stones are so important why keep it in a public place like school? Isn't it easy to steal?" I asked him.

"Hmm that's a tough one. By what I gathered the building was protected by a magical curtain, a curtain that's difficult to move and no one knew where the stone was inside. But as you know the building was brought down in Romania," he said leaning his back on the car, "The curtain had either weakened in time or the ones who broke into it are really strong."

"That means my school is in danger," I said worried. They could instead move it away by giving it to someone or destroy it. As though reading my thoughts he said,

"You cannot destroy it. Don't worry about your school building going down, the sorceress princess makes sure to keep the curtain strong every year" he started looking at my dad and Ruka talk. He then chuckled making me raise my eyebrows at him.

"What happened?"