MIRO

Right from school, Theon had always been the odd one out and when he gets intense about something, others tend to leave. him alone which is why the moment he claimed Ryn, the others dispersed and walked away.

Then it was just us, standing amidst others but yet, it felt like we were the only ones in the room. I looked into my brother’s eyes and I could see the strain in them. The struggle between hate and recognition. I could tell that by just standing so still, he was fighting demons, and yet he had the calmest expression.

“Where’s your…girl?” I mindlinked him.

“In the bathroom.”

I nodded. “Are we good or am I going to get another beat down?

Theon sipped his drink. “I am me but not myself at the same time. Just don’t say things against Chelsea and I won’t get triggered.”

I nodded in understanding, and we both turned to look at the party. All around us, women of different sizes, color and ages, oogled at us, standing in groups and gushing to themselves as they gossiped amidst each other.

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This always happened everywhere we went and usually by now, I’d be flattered by their attention and scanning for whom to take home tonight but looking at them all, none of them excited me.

They all seemed like a blur of color with only one woman catching my focus.

Ryn.

When I found Ryn watching us across the hall, my heart skipped a beat. There was something in her gaze looked too much like desire, and I wondered.

Does Ryn feel what I feel too? Or am I just deluding myself?

a hunger that

Her eyes slid to my brother and the desire in her eyes turned sorrowful. I glanced at Theon and found him watching her too. Looking away, I smiled bitterly to myself.

how to pick women

do that?” I asked, after a while

“Do what?”

you claim Ryn

blinked, then he sighed. “I am trying to

I asked, cautiously.

furrowed in a way that showed that even he didn’t have

watch those guys prey on Ryn. We lived that life in high school and

champagne from a passing waiter. “It’s not our fault those girls threw themselves at us.” I replied, feeling

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it happen in real time with Ryn made me realize how much of a

to get miffed.

know we didn’t, but we used them and passed

up with you?

know, but I’ve been thinking lately, maybe the Goddess is punishing us for the things we did back then and the

what I’m hearing. “We didn’t

haven’t you found your mate?”

anything wrong”

felt like a curveball – the kind that

met your mate.” He said in a tired way. “Instead, your wolf keeps forming connections with random girls, giving you hope only to have it snatched away when they find their true mates. Doesn’t that sound familiar to what we did

the room. Someone said something that

I have ever made her

worst way possible.” Theon continued, “and ever since then, even though I have not been able to deeply connect with another woman, I..”

though I had nothing to do with Chelsea, I now understood what it meant to have hope in someone and have it taken away from you, even though hurting

is one of those

note of sadness seeped into his eyes. “I don’t know. I don’t

her. “What makes

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