Had he always smelt this good?
Have my fingers always itched to touch his skin this badly?“I…” He said, his voice almost a husky whisper as his feet slowly began to move again. When he’d finally reached the table, I could barely keep myself from standing, wrapping my arms around him and kissing him. I did it anyway and his arms wrapped around my waist, that sweet scent engulfing her as I shivered into his touch, melting into his kiss…everything and everyone had become forgotten and for the first time in her life, I felt like I was home.“I was right!” I whispered against his lips breathlessly when we’d finally pulled away from each other, the heat in his eyes setting my skin ablaze…in his eyes also was an emotion that I couldn’t identify but it unsettled me.“You are my mate,” I was overjoyed as I looked up at his handsome face.“Yes…I…” Luke’s brows furrowed as he let go of my waist hurriedly like I’d burned him and then began avoiding my eyes.“Why do you look so unhappy?” That feeling of dread began creeping in again, “Isn’t this what we wanted?” my voice shook as I took a step back, the reluctant expression on his face made the dread finally consume me. I could barely keep my emotions at bay seeing that look on his face, that same loathing look that I got from everyone who recognized my omega scent.“Maybe you should sit first, I--,”He sounded so cold, so distant! And he didn’t even have the gall to look me in the eyes.“No, not until you tell me what’s going on, Luke!” I said firmly, “This is what we've both wanted for the past five years, is it not? To be each other’s mates? To get married…to start a family—”“—wait!” Luke scoffed and interrupted my words, “Those were your plans, your dreams…not mine,” He said with narrowed eyes. The dark expression on his face was unlike anything I’d ever seen, what hurt the most was the fact that I could tell he was being serious.Just then the doors jingled again and a group of four walked in, I recognized them as Luke's college friends, he knew I hated having them around. Most especially his friend Felicia who always threw jabs at me because she was an Alpha's daughter.They all looked at us and when they noticed we were in a heated conversation, they actually had the courtesy to take another table and leave us to it.Luke noticed them as well and looked like he was eager to join them.He put his hands in his pockets, looked down at the now cold coffee and cakes, and then back up at me“Listen, I only went along with all that talk because you have a pretty face…and a nice body and in bed—”“—Luke!” I gasped in outrage, a tear slipping down her cheek as I looked at the man I’d spent five years loving, I realized that I had no fucking clue who he was at that moment.When I heard whoops from his friends, snickers, and snide remarks.“Did she really think she and Luke would end up together?” I heard Felicia say in a ‘low' voice that we could all hear.“A dirty omega like her?” Felicia added with a scoff, looking at me with eyes filled with disdain.That broke me even further.“Look, I have someone I love,” Luke said and just when I thought he couldn’t cause me more pain, he did it yet again. I felt the unmistakable pang of anger growing in my chest.“Someone you love?!” I reached out instinctively and held his hands, “Luke we're fucking mates! We've been together for five years! And now you have someone you love?!”He gritted his teeth, grabbed my hands, and pulled me off him rather harshly, making me stumble back a few steps until my back hit the wall hard and I had the air knocked out of me.“Go, Luke!” I heard his friends cheer, neither of them caring about the fact he had just hurt me. Both physically and emotionally. They were all laughing, it was funny to them.“Don’t make a scene,” Luke snarled.“I’m the beta of the Cliffs pack, you expect me to marry you? An omega? A low life with no dream or ambition?” He rolled his eyes and scoffed, “I’m surprised you still have that stupid notion stuck in your head that I would ever want to be your mate, much less marry you, I,”The look of disgust on his face was real. I could feel the stares of everyone in the shop, I could hear the snickers and sighs of pity…it all felt like a dream.“Don’t do this to me Luke…you know I love you and you love me…”“I have only let you entertain that thought because I pity you and you’re not half bad in bed Andrea, but…the thought of having you as my mate, I don’t fucking want that, it disgusts me just thinking about it!”I knew what was coming next, I inhaled deeply and tears fell down my face freely like a waterfall.“How could you say these words to me, Luke?” I sobbed I didn’t want to show them my tears, but I was too overwhelmed.“You should let us go a few rounds with her as well!”“Yes, Luke, don’t be a party pooper!” I heard his friends say, their tones filled with amusement as they feasted their eyes on my embarrassment and enjoyed it.“Felicia is the only woman for me, there is no room for an omega in my future,” Luke walked up to me, grabbed my arm, and held it so tightly that I could hear my bones snapping.“Andrea Wilson, I hereby reject you as my mate,”How much more pain could I take? From my family? From my life? From the man I loved? He looked at me like I was trash to be discarded. At that moment I felt like something that should’ve been discarded long ago.How much more does the moon goddess want me to endure?I swayed, feeling the terrible pain spread through my chest and bile rising from my throat as the weight of Luke's words hit me.“Luke Vincenzo, I accept your rejection.”“That fucking bastard!” Enzo, my best friend, cursed with a growl as he heard my words. I was on my bed, my face buried in the strawberry scented pillows that had been a birthday gift from my best friend Enzo. My elegant bun had come loose and my hair had splayed over the pillows. Enzo sat by my bedside, no doubt seething from what I had just told him even though I couldn’t see his face. He had come over the second I had called him, I was a sobbing mess and I could barely string together a proper sentence. “That bastard rejected you?” Enzo seethed, “In public?!” He added through gritted teeth. I wished I could hold back my tears but the more it kept replaying in my head, the wetter my pillows got and my shoulders trembled from my sobs. The second I had accepted Luke's rejection, I had left the pastry shop and didn’t turn back…still feeling like I was in a dream, hoping that I would wake up at any given moment but deep down I knew I wa wrong and I’d wasted five whole years of my li
I looked down at the woman on my lap with a narrowed gaze, her breathing was erratic and her cheeks were flushed. How much had she drunk? That sultry look in her eyes, the sensual smile she had on her lips as she looked at me, made me grit my teeth. The thought of other men seeing her this way didn’t appeal to me for some reason, but as I breathed in her flowery scent that mingled with the scent of tequila, my whole body hardened.She was an omega but that didn’t matter to me, she was beautiful…she was almost perfection itself!Heavy-lidded grey eyes squinted like she was trying her hardest to get a better glimpse of my face, I sucked in a deep breath as she squirmed on my lap.“Am I not comfortable enough for you?” I breathed into her ear as my fingers dug into the soft flesh of her exposed lap. Her skin was so soft I couldn’t help but lean down to kiss it. When was the last time I had such a reaction to a woman?When was the last time I so desperately wanted to bury myself deep ins
3 years later. I stared down at the papers in my hands long and hard, my bottom lip trembling, mirroring the actions of my hands that clenched the test results. “I’m really sorry about this, Andrea, we've been trying our best to keep him from going into a coma but it’s getting harder and his health is deteriorating further,” The grey haired doctor said, he looked at me with a sympathetic gaze and reached out to hold my hand in his comfortingly. I pulled away before his skin could touch mine and forced out an awkward smile as I took a step back from the doctor and loosened my hold on the papers. Last thing I wanted was anyone's pity, most especially from a man who already looked down on my because I was an omega. “What…is that the only way?” I asked cautiously, I knew the answer to my question but I couldn’t help myself. I fervently wished there would be another way, I hoped there would be another solution. “Yes,” Dr. Martin nodded, his eyes still rested on my hand that I had move
ASPEN I let out a long lengthy sigh, audible enough to garner the attention of everyone sitting at the large dining table with him. Secretly I wished I never planned this so called family dinner, but I was pressured by my mother and the goddess knows I am unable to say no to that woman. He could feel my wolf restless though, barely beneath the surface, itching to show himself and end the long and trying meeting filled with ass kissers and fake smiles. Everyone’s eyes were on me now, it was almost eerie how every single one of my uncles and nephews and nieces along with my cousins all had blue eyes, it was like being stared down by a bunch of winter spirits. It was fucking uncomfortable. “Did you have something to say, uncle?” My least favorite relative, Luke asked. I'd noticed the man had come in with a smug expression and it had stayed on his face all through dinner , he had something he was itching to tell the family and I had no doubt that just like everything else that came o
For the first time in two years, I was standing right in front of him, the both of them actually. These two men changed the course of my life three years ago and I’d sworn the day Cole was born that there would never be a reason for me to stand in this position. Begging. Pleading. I had to put my pride aside for my son but how much was it going to cost me? I feared it would be more than I could afford and more than I bargained for. A part of me began to regret saying no to Enzo when he had offered to come along for support but I had declined, not wanting to stretch him too thin after all he’d done for me in the past few months. Now I was all alone in the lion’s den with false confidence as I met those striking blue eyes of his. “He's mine?” Aspen asked again, this time with a dangerous drop in his deep voice as the look in his eyes slowly morphed into what seemed to be rage. My breath words caught up in my tightened throat and I pursed my lips, staring down at my feet, cheeks he
Going back to the hospital felt like I was embarking on a dangerous journey, my breath was caught up in my throat as I sat at the back of the taxi, my eyes closed as I tried to control my breathing, my heart pounding so fast in my chest that it hurt. The adrenaline I had walked into the Vincenzo manor with had faded away and all that was left was all the pent-up fear I managed not to show in front of him. Aspen. His presence was almost suffocating, and talking to him felt like speaking to a brick wall on fire, nothing was getting through to him and I couldn’t get any closer either. I had expected to see sympathy in his eyes, a hint of attraction. But I guess that was just selfishness on my part, hoping the man would be different from what I expected, hoping there would be a semblance of the man I had spent a night with. But. Nothing. Now I was on my way back to the hospital because Enzo had sent me a text saying he had something urgent to attend to and he had to leave Cole's sid
The past three years, away from my pack and my parents have been the best years of my life, I enrolled in a part-time college while I did some freelancing jobs that enabled me to stay home with my son on the days I had no classes, when I wasn’t available, Enzo would be there. For three years, every decision I’ve made and every action I’ve taken was to escape my past, I planned to travel overseas, to where only humans reside, where they wouldn’t take one look at me, smell an omega, and scrunch up their faces with disgust. I hoped to find a place in the woods, far from civilization where I would be able to connect to my wolf more, to finally feel that connection I’ve never felt since the day Luke rejected me—For the past three years, I’ve been like a plastic bag floating in the wind just so I can achieve every goal, my head was always down and my answers were always yes, just so I could get past it all, just so my son will have a chance at a life that I never did. Then Cole fell sick
It took Aspen one phone call and twenty minutes later to change the doctor in charge of Cole’s treatment and kick Dr. Martin out of the room. Something told me the man wouldn’t be keeping his job but I couldn’t bring myself to care much. After going into the bathroom and fixing my hair until I looked presentable again, I sat by Cole's bedside and sent a few texts to Enzo, informing him of the changes but stayed silent about how the doctor hurt me. Last thing I wanted was for another doctor to get fired because of me. Aspen had called me the mother of his child, yet, even as they came to draw his blood to check if he was compatible with Cole, he asked them to run a paternity test in the process. The new female doctor they’d put in charge seemed to be a bit shocked by his request and her gaze drifted to mine a few times. She didn’t dare say no to him, it didn’t bother me one bit either because I knew what the results were going to be. In the next few hours while we waited for the