The Alpha's Breeder ✔️ COMPLETE

Twenty Two : Zanthos' True Mate

The stifling atmosphere had immediately changed with this woman's appearance. Her warm kind smile and friendly aura brightened Zanthos' dark attitude.

"Don't mind this boy. He's just a big ol' tease." She turned to me with a really warm smile. 

Oh yeah.

I know that Zanthos is just a 'tease'. 

She sent a sharp warning glance to Zanthos before her gaze roamed over the contours of my face, eyes shimmering with astonishment at what she saw.

"I knew you were beautiful beneath all of that makeup but I didn't expect you to be this gorgeous!" She exclaimed.

I really didn't know what to reply to her comment other than, "Thank you."

Who doesn't like compliments?

Although all these compliments are making me kind of embarrassed.

"Pardon my rudeness, sweetheart. I never introduced myself the other night. I am Adaleide, Eros' and Zanthos' grandmother. Everyone calls me granny Ada." She reached out and hugged me to her in a warm bear hug that I tried to return.

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Emi," I reply when she finally released me from her arms.

She definitely reminded me of my grandmother with the fragrance of delicious food always surrounding her.

Just hugging her made me feel homesick, thinking about my own family that I haven't seen in a long time.

"We won't keep you from the tour, sweetheart. Come on, Zanthos, I need you to help me stir while I make some cookies," Ada said with a knowing glance at the tall male, who didn't look like he was willing to go bake cookies with her. 

I'm not too sure I really want to eat those cookies that Zanthos helped make.

Because he had a rather dark look on his face at the idea of baking cookies with his grandmother. I was slightly scared that he might put something in them.

What if I got diarrhea from it? That sounds gross, but Zanthos is too suspicious for me to believe otherwise.

"Zanthos makes the best cookies, Emi," Ada explained.

My cheek twitched.

"Yes, Emi. You'll have to try some of my cookies. They're better than Eros'," Zanthos replied with this really creepy curve of his thin lips that gave me the heebie-jeebies. He acted as if cookies meant something else instead of just being a regular cookie. 

Him and his gross innuendo.

I shrugged my shoulders and waved them off with a stiff smile on my lips.

Granny Ada caught Zanthos' forearm and proceeded to drag him off with her, like how she had shoved and dragged me around. This old woman was really more stronger than what her frail body let on. I was fooled in the beginning and was reminded of the fact that you shouldn't judge a person by their outer appearance. 

Look where that got me.

Before they finally disappeared from sight, Zanthos had turned his head around and gave me this slightly wide grin, as if to say that this wasn't the last I will see of him. 

Creepy.

I'm sure that if I see him coming, I am going to go the opposite way.

No doubt about it.

"Are you scared of Zanthos?" I asked when Rora led us down another set of hallways. Her shoulders had stiffened at my question and her wide smile seemed to wilt for a split second.