116 Fated together…

Ramsey

The confession hung in the air as she stared at me. I felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Almost when I thought she wasn’t going to respond, she scoffed.

“Love? You? The same man who rejected me countless times. The same Ramsey who pushed me away, who made me feel like I was nothing? Do you even know what you’re talking about?”

My face tightened. “You don’t understand,” I began but she cut me off.

“I have all the time, please enlighten me,” she demanded. “What exactly do I not understand? How you’ve treated me? How you’ve made me feel?”

My hands clenched and unclenched at my sides as I tried to stifle my emotions.

“Everything I did back then was to protect you”

She laughed, “Protect me? From what? From myself? From your own feelings? From our mate

bond?”

“From me.” I said softly. “I was scared to love my mate. I mean, I was going to settle with at woman but I never had plans to do that with my mate. I’ve seen first–hand what happens if someone loses their mate. My grandfather… he…” Itrailed off taking a deep breath.

“When my grandmother died, he tried to kill himself severally and my parents had just died a few months ago. I spent my years as a preteen looking after him, always being on the edge that one day I’ll walk in and see him lying lifeless… dead…” I swiped at the tears that gathered at the corner of my eyes. 7

“I thought if I pretended that the mate bond didn’t exist, that I would forget about you.”

protects me?” she asked. “You

act or as a result

got close to you, every moment I allowed myself to feel, I was reminded of how cruel living as a Lycan was. I’didn’t want you to suffer. If they knew about us, they would use you against me. Being a Lycan leader is a precarious

“You decided that your public image in this perfect world

heightened in the room. I reached out, almost involuntarily, my fingers nearly touching her face before I pulled

distance was the

unshed tears. “And now?” she asked. “Now that you’ve decided to love me and tell me you love me? Because you’re still a Lycan Leader, perfection is still important in this

Lyla… no one would object to us being mates,

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it. We

were at hurting me. How every time we meet you always look for a new way to

together.

can be together. If you accept this gift you’ll complete me and I you and the power

So, you love me because I mean something now right? Because although have other identities like deviant and wolfless but being a Moonsinger outweighs them right?

you make it sound that’s

you mean Ramsey she stiffed. “The day I stop being the Moontinger you’d discard me again, right? So, let’s do

what I mean I rushed on. I mean, to one

Ramsey as

her standing there crying I didn’t know what to

meant was, that no one would see reasons to hurt her. That being a Mocesinger would mean no one would whisper behind her back that she can finally walk with her

make this a habit, Ramsey because I’m going

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