Chapter 267

I rinse off the final plate and hand it to him, not waiting for a reply. My chest feels tight. I walk away, back to the bedroom with heavy steps and heavier thoughts. The towel I'd left folded earlier was still on the bed. I grab it, intending to take a shower, to wash away the swirling storm inside my head.

I am nearly at the bathroom door when I hear his footsteps behind me. Then he is in front of me, cutting off my path.

"Move," I say without looking at him.

I can't even begin to look at him, not when my emotions are still raw and I feel like crying my eyes out. Not when I want to lash out and strike at him.

He doesn't.

"Alec, I'm serious."

"So am I."

My fingers curl into fists. "If you don't move willingly, I'll make you move, and you won't like it when I do."

"Do what you need to do, Sadie," he says quietly, "but I'm not moving until you let me explain."

I move to push past him, but he catches me-gently-and pulls me against him, wrapping his arms around me from behind. Caging me.

"Do you know why I never brought Lola here?" he asks softly near my ear.

Is he serious right now?

didn't get the chance. Calvin ruined your perfect little plan

had this place built the moment I found out she was my supposed mate.

What the actual fuck?

still. "But that was months before everything went to

But every time I thought about bringing her here, something stopped me. I thought maybe

in his arms, my

feel

He nodded. "Not once."

have comforted me, yet it

yet you continued parading

should have been

instead he

have

have been mine, but instead he was too wrapped up in Lola toeven realize that she wasn't his true mate. That pisses me off so

was desperate, Sadie. I was losing hope for my pack. I felt the mate sparks with her so I clung to that, ignoring every other

your partner did something so

That is what

quiet, just seething in my

I didn't even

It

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