The Selection

Chapter Eighteen

We all sat in different corners in the woman's room. With Kayla gone and Abigail and myself in a fight, I sat alone near the Queen. Abigail was sitting on a  windowsill looking out into the gray sky while Bethany sat watching tv. Katherine was reading in a chair by the door, Autumn was by the fireplace skimming through magazines. Lilliana wasn't here. I suppose the was out on a date with Cole but who knows. She usually doesn't socialize.

I haven't seen Cole since the report and it has been 5 days. Autumn was the only one who had a date with him and he left mid date because he said he had something important to check on.

Queen Eadlyn stands up and curtsies. "If you will excuse me ladies, I have to go find my son." She walks over to the door and opens it showing Cole with his fist up ready to knock on the door.

"Cole! Where were you?" She asks obviously pissed off.

"Working. I've come for Georgia. If you don't mind mother." Cole gives her a smirk and grabs my hand.

Once were out in the hall I pull my hand away. "What was that? We haven't seen you in days and you treat you mother like that, what's wrong with you?"

"Everything Georgia! My parents have been putting all of their work on me to see how I handle things as King. Not to mention that the elite's parents will be coming to the castle in a week and we're having a Christmas ball for two days straight." He runs his hands through his hair.

"Then why did you come for me?" He asks

"Oh right!" He grabs my hand leads me up a set of stairs. The third level. I watch to see if guards would stop us but they stayed exactly the same. Cole opens a dark wood door.

The walls were a deep green and the bed was made of the same dark wood as the door. The corner of the room was a mess of canvases, paint, and painting utensils.

"This is my room." He shrugs but if you really studied his expression, you could tell he was ecstatic that I was here.

"I love it." I say simply as I open his balcony.

He walks up and sighs. "So beautiful."

"I love the sunset." I smile looking at its incredible mix of colors.

"Not the sunset, you." He replies. I look into his eyes and take a step back. Cole walks even closer so that my back was pressing against the railing. He kisses me slowly and trails kisses down to my collar bone. My fingers tangle through his blonde hair and both of my legs wrap around his. He picks me up not breaking the kiss and sets me on the bed. We continue to kiss and his hands reach the zipper of my dress. They linger there as if asking if he could pull it down. I grab his hand and set it back up on my neck. My lips part and I breath out, "No."

Cole sits up and wrinkles his eyebrows. "I'm sorry Geo, I just... ugh! I'm sorry I'm relieving my stress by kissing you and I don't want to do that to you."

"What do you no longer kiss me because you want to? I'm I just a doll to you?" I ask getting mad.

"No! Geo I like you so much I can't identify the feeling. I'm just not sane right now. I've been awake for three days straight." His eyelids flutter and I set his head down gently.

He wraps his arm around me like a child would a teddy bear and pulls me down so I lay on the bed too. I fall asleep to the sound of Cole's steady breaths.

Short chapter but I hope you liked it! Merry Christmas Eve🎄🎅🏼 I have decided to continue writing in this book and not start one for the elite 😊