Chapter 5 The Girl In The Portrait

**Brynlee's POV***

I woke up with a start, feeling a blush slowly creep up my face and burn my cheeks slightly from embarrassment.

A few minutes ago, I could see myself crying, whimpering, and writhing under Mr Caden's huge sweat slicked frame.

His fingers had glided across my skin, lighting a wildfire across the surface of my skin, numbing me, soothing my soul, but lighting me with a special kind of flame all together.

I had closed my eyes, reveling in the wolf sensations coursing through my veins and winced slightly when a drop of his sweat had dropped into my eyes, burning my eyelids.

His warm mouth had circled around my breast, sucking, licking, gnawing until I was dissolved in a pool of dripping wetness.

I had cried out in a combination of both pleasure and pain when he began thrusting into my quivering body slowly, precisely until all I could do was whimper and writhe, moan and claw at his back until he drove me into ecstasy.

He had released his muck onto my naked torso, and I had smiled wantonly when the thick warm liquid splashed against my body, filling me with some kind of very odd satisfaction...

I brought my fingers down slowly between my thighs and sighed in confusion when I felt a wetness down there.

Was it a dream? Was it real? I really do not know.

I shook my head vigorously in a bid to shake out the vivid scenes from the wet dream I was previously having of Mr Caden, and sighed dejectedly when instead they chose to replay repeatedly in my head.

It shook me to the core, igniting a special warmth in the depth of my soul, and somehow, in a deep twisted part of my soul I knew I wanted it.

Needed to have him with me. To experience that which I had only experienced in my dreams.

At the same time, I felt weird though because it had never happened; I had never thought of or even imagined having wet dreams of someone, not to mention craving it in reality.

He was already doing something to me, something I wasn't sure of but something I wanted altogether.

I quickly shrugged off thoughts of him though, blaming the hormones and the stupid mate bond we shared for my unruly behavior.

Going through the few clothes in the closet close to the ginormous bathroom, I decided to settle for a loose fitting flowery dress because the clothes there weren't my size, and then decided to go around the whole house.

I needed to channel my energy into something, needed to try to talk to Mr Caden into either letting me go or providing me with a job, for I knew that staying here, locked up in this room would make me go insane.

My mental health was already dwindling, I didn't need something else to worsen it, else I'd be screaming down this entire mansion...

...and I am not joking...

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I was waltzing through the photo gallery in awe, seemingly unaware of my surroundings when I suddenly bumped into a thing, or a person, either way it felt like a thick wall made out of burnt brick.

"I'm sorry, so so sorry!" I apologized quickly, but then stopped to look up at the person I had bumped into, only for me to come in contact with the bluest eyes I have ever seen.

I gasped, involuntarily missing a step.

"Hi." He said with a grin, showing off the perfect slice of dimple gracing the left side of his face, "you should watch where you're going." He said with a frown.

I wasn't sure if it was his subtle chastise or the frown on his lovely features that suddenly snapped me out of my reverie, but I immediately found myself cursing at myself for being such a wimp.

"I'm sorry," I said again, looking away.

"I am Adler by the way, what's your name?" He asked suddenly, making my heart skip a beat. I suddenly felt self conscious, I wanted to run back to the room screaming, then apply a very nice make up to my face before returning to him.

"I am Brynlee, Brynlee Levine." I answered slowly, while I desperately tried to avoid his mesmerizing blue eyes at the same time.

"Nice to meet you Brynlee." He said quietly, stretching his hands towards me. I immediately took the cue, and placed my hands in his for a handshake.

To my utter dismay, I didn't feel the sparks I felt from Mr Caden yesterday. In fact, Adler's hands simply felt like a piece of freshly baked bread against my hands. I sighed.

Not good!

"The pleasure's all mine." I lied through gritted teeth, knowing fully well that I didn't feel any pleasure from meeting him, aside from the initial wanton thoughts that had fleeted through my mind earlier.

I tried pulling my hands out of his hold but then I noticed he was holding me still. I tried again and again, but he still didn't bulge.

"Would you let me go now please?" I whispered slowly, staring into his deep blue eyes; and when he still didn't bulge, I added; "I just asked you to let go of me Sire, don't push me."

At my request, he simply let his hand drop, but then winked at me with a smile on his face.

Like for real, The motherfucker winked at me!

"Fucking pervert." I mumbled slowly under my breath, but not too lowly that he wouldn't hear.

"I heard that." He replied, making me gasp in feigned surprise.

"Of course, I know you heard that, I was actually expecting you to." I replied sarcastically, but instead of getting angry like I expected, he winked again at me.

"Do you have Blepharospasm syndrome?" I asked in irritation, quickly becoming flustered from his incessant winking.

"Ble what?" He asked.

"Blepharospasm, it's a winking disorder." I said quickly, ignoring the weird way he was staring at me.

"Ohh..." he drawled, chuckling.

From the corner of my eye, I noticed a dark figure standing in the distance, almost at the extreme end of the long corridor.

I squinted my eyes in its direction only to notice that it was the infamous Mr Caden, my abductor.

He had this brooding expression on his handsome face, a kind of intense anger that I wasn't sure was directed at me but surprised me all the same.

I was about to question it when I noticed Adler take a step closer to me, to whisper something into my ear;

"Do not mind my elder brother, he's always like that, ever grumpy. Moreover he's a jealous being." He said softly, and I almost moaned when his hot breath fanned my cheek and earlobe, making my cheek torn a bright shade of red.

But wait, what?

"Elder brother?" I turned to ask him in surprise, looking up at the smug grin on Adler's face; to my surprise, he nodded.

I immediately felt disgusted at myself. Disgusted by the fact that I had just imagined some weird fantasies with my mate's younger brother.

Eww!

"Gotta leave you two now, before world war three breaks out right here." Adler whispered, but before I could form a reasonable reply to his statement, he strutted off without looking back.

I sighed, but this time in frustration.

I began walking slowly towards Caden, I didn't know what it was I wanted to do when I got to where he was, but I knew I needed to speak to him.

I was a few steps away from where he stood when suddenly a beautiful lady, a supermodel-like lady, waltzed towards him to place sloppy kisses on his lips, making smacking sounds as she did.

I froze, feeling a sudden swell of anger course through my veins. I wanted to smack her across the face, yell at her for kissing my mate.

As soon as the thoughts crossed my mind, she slowly turned to look in my direction, and then suddenly froze too when she saw me.

"The girl in the portrait..." she whispered, pointing at me, as if in shock.

Her reaction shocked me, even her demeanor too, but what shocked me the most was her statement.

I didn't know if they had all decided to mistake me for someone else, but at the same time I couldn't shake out the weirdness and the anger I suddenly felt toward her.

As much as I wanted to know what was up with the young girl that everyone was talking about, I also wanted this sultry looking lady away from Caden.

I didn't care who she was, she was trespassing on a property that was obviously mine...