Hey. Here is another chapter of Love the Way You Lie. In this chapter we will delve a little into what happened after Adora left the dinner last chapter. I hope everyone enjoys.

After Adora left there was unearthly silence in the dinning hall of the Dreadfort. No one spoke. No one knew what to say. What did one say after a soon to be bride ran out of the room after hearing about her betrothal. Roose was the first to break the silence.

"She will come around," he said looking Edmure Tully in the eyes. "You will make sure of it. Or something very bad will happen to your home of Riverrun. I promise you that."

"Is that a threat, Ser?" Edmure spat across the table at his new in law. "I don't know how many of your lord Bannerman take well to threats upon their home and family. But I can assure you that I, Ser, am not one of them."

Ramsay could see the ire rising in his father's face. Nothing good would follow this. After all look what happened to the poor widow Hornwood after facing his father's ire. She had been given to Ramsay like some property and Ramsay not wanting her had left her to die.

"Perhaps you judge, poor Adora's, reaction wrongly father," he spoke up. It was rare that he didn't wish to see someone in pain. But he just couldn't bear to think what his father could and would do to Adora Tully when angered. "She just found out she is to be a wife after loosing a large part of her family. Can you tell me you would not be overwhelmed as well?"

Roose met Ramsay's eyes and once again the room was plunged into silence. Ramsay wouldn't look away from his father. He knew if he looked away now that his father would have won. He was definitely not going to let Roose Bolton win this time.

"Perhaps you are right my son," was Roose's simple answer. He turned back to Edmure Tully leaving Ramsay, the ladies, and Reek to converse among themselves.

"Perhaps someone should go after Lady Adora," suggested Lady Walda picking up a lemon cake from a tray that had been brought before the announcement. "Make sure that she is unharmed."

Ramsay nodded. "You are lady Mother," he said with a smile. "Reek go after the lady Adora, if you will. Make sure that no harm comes to her."

Ramsay watched as Reek shambled out the door after Adora. He prayed the fool wouldn't mess up keeping his future wife safe. He did after all mess up pushing in a simple chair after all.

"Need I remind you who has the power at this table, Lord Edmure," his father's voice cut through Ramsay's thoughts.

Ramsay looked up to see both his father and Edmure Tully glaring at each other from across the table. He could almost hit himself upside the head for not paying attention to their conversation. Then he'd know why the two had ended up like that.

"Lord Ramsay," said Rosalyn turning to look towards him, "you must be excited about your upcoming wedding to my sweet sister-in-law?"

"Oh yes, Lady Tully," he replied with a smile. And if he was being honest with himself he much preferred Adora Tully to Lady Hornwood or the girl Jeyne Poole they were going to parade around as Arya Stark. Adora presented him more of a challenge. He like a good challenge. "Adora will make a wonderful Lady of the Dreadfort once I inherit it from my father."

"Once you marry the girl you should teach the proper way to handle one's emotions during a meal," Roose suggested to him. "What if this had been someone outside of her family? Like Tywin Lannister or one of his family. She would have made a laughing-stock out of our family. Would you like that Ramsay?"

"It was just one little outburst," shouted Ramsay.

"Perhaps you should go check on your betrothed then," suggested Roose. "But tell that I am ill-pleased with the way she has acted. If she acts thus again she will regret it. Tell her that Bolton's don't warn people twice."

Ramsay eyed Roose warily. He knew if he wasn't Roose's only son heir he'd be long dead by now. If Domeric hadn't died. But he had. So Ramsay had to put up with the expectations Roose put upon his shoulders. How could he make Adora aware that now she was to share these expectations with him? He got up from his space at the table slowly turning to both Lady Tully and his step mother.

"I bid you good evening ladies," he told them kissing both ladies hand gently. "I must find Adora. And I also have much to think about."

"Good evening, Lord Ramsay," said both ladies.

As he walked out the doors he could feel eyes boring into the back of his head. He turned his head ever so slightly to find Edmure Tully watching him leave. Upon being caught Edmure pretending like he was conversing with Ladies Walda and Rosalyn.

It didn't take him long to find where Adora had gone to. He knew that the Tully's prayed to the seven but Adora would want to throw him off the scent. So he expected that she would go to her brother-in-law Ned's gods as well. Or at least the godswoods. He wasn't very surprised to find her upon her knees under the weirwood tree with Reek putting a hand upon her shoulder.

"Why is this happening to us Theon?" Adora's voice floated across the space between him and the tree.

He approached slowly as he heard his pet protest his old name. He couldn't help but smile at this. Perhaps he would make sure that Adora remembered who Theon was now. There was no Theon. The sooner she got that through her head the better.

"Don't worry Reek you are not to be punished for Lady Adora's slip," he told his scared looking pet. Seeing the prone figure relax a little he couldn't help but add. "Just make sure to make sure you do not slip into thinking you are Theon."

"I won't milord," was Reek's answer. Reek was such a good pet once Theon went away.

Ramsay looked over at Adora who looked defiantly up at him. Roose would hate this defiant streak in his house but Ramsay found it quite refreshing. "Reek please escort Adora back to her rooms," he told his pet staring at the girl in between the two of them. "Father is most displeased with her reaction to our good news at dinner"

"Right away milord," Reek answered helping Adora stand and leading her past Ramsay.

Ramsay as gently as he could took hold of her arm as she walked past him. "You will make sure we don't have another scene like tonight again," he told her in scolding manner. "I don't warn twice. And my father doesn't warn at all. You are lucky I was the one who came and not him."

"Yes, my lord," she answered averting her eyes from his. "It will not happen again."

He could tell she didn't mean it. He'd just have to make sure she didn't pull another stunt like that in front of his father. He sighed as he watched Reek led her off into the night. He looked up at the weirwood tree. If what the Stark's believed was true that tree could see into the heart of a man. He wasn't as bad as people thought him to be. Not in his own mind at least. Maybe he'd take Adora back here sometime soon and she'd be able to see that for herself.

"Why do the gods plague me with such insolence?" came Roose's voice from behind Ramsay. "Were you not to make sure the girl was safe? And yet you let her go off with Reek. What were you thinking Ramsay?"

"I was thinking that I need time to think," Ramsay said turning his upturned face away from the weirwoods red-eyed stare. "Reek will do no harm to Adora I can assure you that." He turned back to weirwood again.

"Since when did you start believing in the old gods Ramsay?"

"Since you don't," was the reply he made as turned on his heel and stalked away from Roose. He knew he'd pay for that comment with a leaching or worse. Right now though he just didn't really care.

There you have ladies and gentlemen another chapter. I hope you all enjoyed the story so far.