‘Throw it.’ I linked her as she began to roll it up.
Julia laughed and nodded while Jax just stood there watching.
“What are you doing?!” I snapped, “Maddie could be here any second. Go move your clothes to one side of the walk in so mine will fit. That way, Maddie can have my whole walk-in to herself.”
Jax shook his head patiently. “You are such a pain in the arse.” He said, though his tone was affectionate.
“Yeah, yeah.” I waved and turned around to see two large chests of drawers with a small gap in between where the wall had been.
I moved them further apart to make room for Maddies one when it arrived, then proceeded to roll up my own rug that had been under my bed and left it waiting by the wall to be taken away.
After I gave the room a quick sweep, I began to move the paintings off the walls that had been hung up above each of our old beds and sat them by the rug, I’d organized new paintings to be put up that were a little more appropriate. The old ones had been a little more erotic.
By the time I’d moved around several of the plants and ordered Julia to bring in others, Mark and Sarah and several other Betas had arrived with all the furniture, and we got to work putting everything in place while Julia stocked the bathroom with products for our mate.
“Which bedspread would you like, your majesty?” Sarah asked as she was making up the bed.
“I like this one.” Jax pointed to a white cotton one, but I shook my head.
“No.” I argued gently from the other side of the room where I’d been changing out the chairs by my fireplace in the corner of the room, “Maddie likes blue. Use the dark blue one.”
“How do you know she likes blue?” Jax asked as he walked over to me and helped me move one of the stone statues near the fireplace.
“She was wearing a blue dress this evening.” I pointed out, “Seriously, you never notice anything.”
“I was more focused on the girl in the dress, not the dress itself.” He countered and rolled his eyes, “And besides, just because she was wearing blue, it doesn’t mean that’s her favorite color.”
“You’re hopeless.” I sighed patiently, “She was attending a royal ball. You don’t just wear any old thing. She would have picked her favorite.”
“Whatever,” Jax shrugged, “We’ll just ask her and find out for sure.”
“I bet you five morning meetings that I’m right.”
Jax frowned at me, “Do you mean the next five meetings, and then we go back to alternating or do you mean the loser does the next 10, our own and then the other person’s?”
“The next five and then we go back to alternating.”
Jax smirked and held out his hand, “You’re on.”
I shook my brother’s hand and then went back to organizing everything.
Jax and I hated our morning meetings with our father. Neither of us was in my old closet wiping everything down.
The room had completely transformed from two single bachelor pads to one huge welcoming room.
Our new huge wooden bed with an elegant carving of the woods on the headboard was pushed up against the wall in the center of the room, surrounded by a white canopy that could be let down to wrap around the bed for privacy.
Next to the bed, we’d put our bedside tables, and beside them were the doors to the bathroom.
Opposite the bed were our three chests of drawers, though Maddie was empty and had nothing on top, unlike mine and Jax’s which was lined with various objects and pictures, I made a mental note to get some pictures with our girl to put there.
I had made sure the room had been filled with as many blue flowers as I could get my hands on in the small amount of time we had and all the new paintings had been hung up.
On each side of the room on the left and right of the chest of drawers, were the bedroom doors and next to them were fireplaces, each tucked into a corner and surrounded by comfortable chairs sitting on top of rugs that matched the ones now under the bed.
I looked around the room, analyzing everything while Jax straightened up some paintings.
“Do you think she’ll like it?”
“I hope so,” He smiled and turned to me, “It was a b*tch moving everything.”
“Hilarious,” I rolled my eyes, “Do you?”
“KODA!”
Sh*t, I froze mid sentence before turning around to see Blakely walking into the bedroom and looking around in confusion.
The second Jaxson had linked me about a surprise, I’d forgotten to pick her up for the Ball and then after meeting Madelyn, Blake had completely gone from my mind.
Blake was wearing a pretty pink low cut dress that fell to her feet and her brown hair had been pulled up into an elegant bun, but even as attractive as she was, she no longer held the slightest interest for me.
“Where have you been?!” She shouted and Nik started to growl. He’d never liked her much to begin with. “I have been waiting for you for over an hour and then Heather said you’d found your mate. Is that true?”
Jax sighed and glared at me, ‘You better end this sh*t now!’ He warned me through the link. ‘Before Madelyn gets here, I won’t have your id*ot girlfriend jeopardize our relationship with our mate!’
‘I’m going to, shut up!’
Look, Blake,” I said awkwardly and ran my fingers through my hair, “It’s true, Jax and I found our mate this evening and..”
“And what?!” She interrupted me, “You think I’m just going to let you break up with me?”
“It’s the way things are, Blake.” I snapped, “You knew from the very beginning that if either of us found our mate, things between us would be over!”
“Well, I don’t accept that!” She shouted, “You can’t just throw me aside after three years because you found your mate. What about everything we meant to each other? That doesn’t just vanish!”
“Actually it does,” I told her and I felt a wave of guilt for hurting her, “I’m sorry, but it’s all gone, I look at you now, and I can subjectively say you’re attractive, but I don’t have the slightest desire to be with you at all, I don’t want to hurt you, but you have to understand, Maddie is my entire world now, what we had is over, you will understand one day when you find your mate, these feelings you have for me will mean nothing to you.”
“So I mean nothing to you!” She shouted with tears in her eyes, “You don’t mean that. I know you don’t.”
Blake closed the gap between us and wound her arms around my neck, pulling me closer, but I grabbed her wrists.
“I love you, Koda.” She said sadly, but I unwound her arms and gently pushed her back, “And I know you love me.”
“I do not love you,” I told her, “I never have, I enjoyed being with you, and you were an amazing friend, but it was never loved for me, and if you truly think about it, you’ll realize it wasn’t that way for you either.”
“You’re lying!” She screamed and pulled her wrists from my grip.
“I’m not, I’m sorry, but it’s over.” I told her, “Now, please go before Maddie gets here. I don’t want her first night here to be ruined by you.”
“Oh yes, I’d hate for Maddie to be upset!” She snarled, saying the word Maddie with disdain and hatred, “I wonder what your precious Maddie would say if she knew you scr*wed me this morning!”
Jax growled in warning, but I held up my hand to silence my brother.
“Blake, that’s enough.” I warned, “You are not a child. You know how things are with our kind. When you meet your mate, they are the only one you want. Go home and stay the hell away from my mate until you grow up and come to terms with us being over.”
“It isn’t over!” She shouted and stomped her foot on the ground. “You have lost your mind. You can’t seriously be choosing her over me, I come from a line of powerful Betas, Heather told me, Maddie-” She said her name in disgust again. “Was just a maid, and she was actually mated to her Alpha’s son, Scott, but not even he wanted her!”
Jax growled again, only this time he stepped forward and Blake cowered.
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