Mated To The King’s Gamma By Jessica Hall

Abbie POV

I watched as he left. He really left. He walked out, and I glanced back at the bed nervously before looking back at the door. I hear him knock on Liam’s door down the hall and I move toward ours when I hear Liam’s voice.

“What’s up, brother?” I just managed to hear him say. I crack the door open just a little to listen. I knew it was coming but I thought I had more time, that maybe it wouldn’t hurt so much when it did. Yet hearing Gannon’s following words crushed me.

“I can’t do this with her anymore; I can’t. She is impossible. She-” he doesn’t finish, just sighs.

“Come on, let’s get a drink,” Liam says, wandering off with him. I shut the door, tears burning my eyes at what he said. Did he mean he didn’t want me? Did he finally realize I wasn’t enough for him, that couldn’t be what he needed?

My thoughts festered, racing through my head as I waited for him to return yet after an hour realized he wasn’t going to. Panic started to grow and writhed through me as I tried to calm my. racing heart and thoughts. Not wanting to wake Tyson, I slipped into the bathroom and sat on the floor. He was leaving me. He was going to leave me because, just like Sia, I was hurting him. I was no good for him, he deserved better. They all did!

him. I loved him, yet couldn’t do what was expected of me. I didn’t want to see the disappointment on his face

I stared at the tub. Maybe if I bathed, I would feel better, not so dirty, maybe could wash

their touch, remove what they did to me

vile and gross and now he saw that and nothing! did would fix it, he would leave

did, just as my actions hurt Tandi that day and ruined her life. Just as I ruined Azalea’s because she suffered so much for

I was seeing that with startling clarity, and that guilt was killing me, rotting me from the

could fix everything. Everything would be fixed if I weren’t here Gannon would move on and find someone who could love him

So with that, I ran the razor down both arms. I didn’t feel it, I thought it would

Still, I healed, tears burned my eyes when I couldn’t even do that right.

to set him free of me, and I know he would never give me up, even if that meant killing himself. I owed them all this, owed them