Chapter 17

I fix my gaze in him through my masks, trying hard to suppress the tension that's rising across my chest. Oh! How I wish he wouldn't know I'm the one. Mates have this special connection they feel with each other, I tried my best to suppress that emotional bond in my heart to prevent Aiden from knowing.

"I feel this deep connection with you, I feel you're worth more than my mate." I force out a gasp as he says this. I thought I heard that he doesn't have a mate? I smirk right inside me. Look how he's distracting himself right before me here. I shake my head in fury. Aiden's eyes changes from tense to weak and apologetic, he just remembered what he told me earlier, about not having a mate.

"So you have a mate? You told me you don't."

"I…I never meant it but what's the issue if I pay you what I intended paying to you."

"It's not all about the money but the interest." I force my voice into a teary one. "You love me right, I like you, I love you, I want to be with you but it seems yo