Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

406-The Petty Stuff

"Lazio!" I pronounced his name after gulping a little. It was clear from the look on his face that he wasn't too happy. Something had deeply disturbed him, as evidenced by the slight raise of his brow and the tightening of his lips.

"Good morning," I said, trying to sound playful and normal.

"Maynard was here?" he asked, ignoring my greetings and briskly approaching me.

"He was." I didn't lie. He stood beside me for a few empty seconds before he scoffed at me.

"Why? Why did you indulge in a conversation with him?" he asked me, assuming it very correctly. I could tell he was not going to understand whatever I had to say. Something in him has changed, or maybe it was always there, but I was too occupied with saving my mates and the world to acknowledge it.

"He came here to talk to me. We talked, and now he is gone. I am not a child who would turn away from the problems because Daddy doesn't want her to speak to anyone without his permission." I had enough of his attitude. I turned to him after dropping the butter knife in the sink and groaned, muttering the words to him.

It surprised him to see him standing up for me again.

He stayed still for a moment before he grasped my arm and started dragging me to our bedroom.

we have guests over; have some decency." I complained, trying to free my arm, but his fingers were wrapped too firmly around my

into the room and locked the bedroom behind us. It didn't just stop there. He then pushed me in front of the mirror and stood behind me. His hands grabbed my arms from behind to

at yourself! Now use the same tone from before and see how ridiculous you look when being rude to your alpha mate," he muttered, shaking my

so much, Lazio!" I raised my voice, but it resulted

fullest in that academy," he yelled, pushing me into the mirror and setting me free. I instantly turned around to him and

my eyes staring at him

You need to accept and admit when you are wrong. I didn't want you to ruin their relationship, did

freak you are." The moment I raised my voice louder than him, he clenched his fists and raised them. My reflexes worked

was

he repeated, "Enya! I would never hit you," he finally raised his face and for the first time in two years, I saw any

to hit me," I mumbled

I stopped." He took a step closer to me, but my reflexes made me step back from him in a

an abusive alpha just like my father?"

that I realized arguing with him was a lost cause. This wasn't the Lazio I met in that academy's room. I lost that Lazio long ago. It was just sad that he still has the same