The Unwanted Bride Of Atticus Fawn

Chapter 285

~CARTER~

“Can I ask you something?” I ask Alaric as I pass the ball to him.

He quirks a brow, “since when do you ask questions during a game?”

My jaw clenches, “I’ve just had something on my mind.”

I’ve had f*****g plenty on my mind, but I wasn’t about to tell him that. My brothers enjoyed teasing me over the most minor things.

“Shoot.” He tells me.

“You know that lucky for us; we aren’t blessed with mates like other wolves. But what does it mean when you kiss someone and feel an instant connection? And all you can think about is kissing her again.”

Apollo spits the water he’d just been drinking out of his mouth after hearing my question. I knew to them this was just a huge joke. They wouldn’t take me seriously.

I should have just kept my original plan to shut my mouth completely.

since I kissed Scarlett, I couldn’t get that kiss out of my

lost count a long time ago, but none of those kisses compared to that one kiss with her. It was strange to me and

aren’t allowed to have mates, then what

I’ll fall for a girl. My brothers often said I would die alone, and

like I was doing it because I was searching

werewolves who found their mates and knew what it was like to feel complete. We didn’t have

tried to convince myself that we had it easier. We didn’t have the greatest weakness known to a werewolf. Other times, like

felt like I was fighting a battle that

parents are probably the only two of our entire family to be in love with each other. And still, their connection wasn’t that of mates. The truth remained that my mother’s mate was still out somewhere, and if he came into her life now, we have no idea what would happen next. We know that the mate bond is hard

don’t want to think about that. I would like to believe that my parents would stay together

ask that?” Alaric asks me, concerned. My older brother was always like this; he got serious quickly whenever he sensed that any of

you would know what

every game; my entire family always came to support me. But today, they were all busy, and I loved reminding them that

being such a pussy.”

team later

tell us,” Alaric tells me. “What happened at the game that’s making

feel all eyes on me. I’d managed to spark

from that tradition where he has to kiss a girl at the end of the game.” Apollo points out. “Did one of