“She is really hot.” Cali agreed wincing.
“Of course, she had to be hot.”
“They always are,” Cali nodded.
“I bet she has a great personality too,” I muttered into my glass.
“She did seem nice,”
“Maybe she farts really loudly or something?” I looked at Cali.
“Wouldn’t negate how hot she is,”
“You’re right, hot and nice,” I shook my head.
“The worst kinds of people.”
“Wait,” I turned to her, “Did you even meet her?”
“Briefly,”
“Where?”
She shrugged, swirling the ice around her glass, “On the elevator,”
“Do you just hang out on the elevator? I Swear.” I rolled my eyes.
“All my best work is done there,” She winked at me.
(Rachel)
I needed an explanation, I thought that I deserved one at the very least. I came back home only to find out that Caspien was mated. He didn’t have the decency to even text me about it.
I didn’t know what I felt-annoyed, angry, hurt? A bit of it all.
I didn’t think he would find his mate, he has been looking for a decade and has been to most packs in the area, and beyond. I thought that he wouldn’t find his, like I never found mine, it was the thing that bonded us.
I don’t think I loved him, how can you love someone without really knowing them? But I did love being with him. The Alpha that didn’t open up to anyone, I felt that I knew him when we were intimate, and I felt special because of that.
It has been years and as far as I knew I was the only person he was consistently hooking up with. I had to admit it did make me feel good, being invited to his private quarters, knowing he would be there every time I came home. I could pretend that he was waiting
for me. We weren’t fated, but I was as close to him as he let anyone get, and although he told me he was waiting for his mate to take a Luna, a small part of me hoped that he wouldn’t find her so that I could stay with him.
Jealously, that was it. Jealous that not only someone else was fated to that powerful gorgeous man, but at what they had. I wanted it, not even with him, but with my own mate.
I wanted my own damn mate and why didn’t I find him yet? I was the only one of my friends who wasn’t mated, and even in Europe, I had visited packs for events, on the pretense of fun, but I was looking for my mate.
Still nothing.
I walked to his private elevator, I wanted to have this conversation now. I took a shaky breath and pressed my finger to the scanner, hoping it would still work, but at least no one was around to see my embarrassment. The scan was approved, didn’t even bother to take them off then. The elevator took a while to get there, and I was having second guesses with each passing second.
“Oh,” Caspien’s mom stepped out of the elevator looking me over, “Hi Rachel, I didn’t know you were back.” She gave me a small smile.
“Luna,” I nodded my head, “I just got in actually, I wanted to speak to Caspien, er Alpha Dracos if he was around.”
“I think he is, now might not be the best time-“
“I just need five minutes.” Grace looked at me sympathetically, I almost couldn’t stomach that.
“You know he found his mate,”
“I do,” I nodded once.
“Okay then,” She motioned me back into the elevator, following me.
“I don’t want to keep you from anything.”
“I was just heading to the library.” She pressed the button and stepped back standing next to me.
“Oh, at this hour?” I tried to cut the tension.
“Our grandson is a blessed wolf.” She smiled genuinely now and her eyes misted over in pride or adoration, or something that twisted my stomach further.
“Wow,” I tried to return the smile but my heart dipped. How long have they been mated if they already had a pup? From what I heard she only showed up here a month or so ago.
“It’s been a day,” She looked at me and her sympathetic smile was back.
“I can imagine,” We stood in silence before the doors finally opened to his office floor.
“You know where to go,” She held open the door, “I’ll send him down, I think his office is open.”
“Thank you, Luna.” I turned away not wanting to see the pity anymore. I didn’t think about the fact that everyone would pity me now, I couldn’t handle that.
–
Every minute felt like an eternity waiting in his office until the door opened behind me. I sat up a bit in my seat and he crossed the room standing behind his desk. My breath hitched at his familiar features: the fitted gray suit, the impossibly black hair, and the perfectly trimmed beard. I hated how I was reacting to him, and he didn’t belong to me anymore, he never did. “Rachel,” He said, his voice devoid of emotion.
“Why didn’t you tell me the happy news?” I stood up, taking a step towards his desk.
“About what?” He raised an eyebrow.
“You found your mate,” I responded matching his dry tone.
“Yes, I did.”
“And I heard about it from others.”
“You did?”
“Of course I did, you’re not keeping her a secret are you?” I scoffed.
“No,” He frowned, “Of course not, but the situation has been interesting, unconventional as far as werewolves go.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?” I moved around the desk, f.orcing him to face me. I tried to study his passive face but I could never read him. We were together for years, and he didn’t think to tell me? “I found my mate, everything changed-“
“Don’t give me that b.ullshit,” I almost shouted. I knew the mate blindness, that nothing mattered besides them the moment you scented them, laid eyes on them. I didn’t want to hear it from him. “Rachel,” His voice lowered, I swear if he was about to pity me, him of all people, “I didn’t-“
The door burst open, and a beautiful girl walked into the room. She was striking in a natural way and I swallowed, this must be her. Of course, his mate would be someone so stunning. Long back hair that fell in natural waves I could never quite get perfect, no matter how hard I tried-green eyes that were a shade I had never seen in this world scanned my face as she bit on a full pink lip.
“I’m so sorry for interrupting.” I looked back up at Caspien but his eyes were fully focused on his mate.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.