While running, Kaira and I felt a sharp pain in our hearts, and I did not need to guess what was happening.
Leo and I were tied together through our claim, so I will feel the pain if he touches anyone intimately.
I had seen women with cheating spouses experience this; I had counselled them as their Luna. Who will counsel me through this and help me survive this? I had no family. I and no true friend. Leo was my only true friend. How will I deal?
“Damn you, Leo, Damn you!” I cried while Kaira howled at the crescent moon in the sky.
Why did fate have to deal us such a shitty card?
I ran deep into the woods and cried. I stayed there a while before heading home.
I entered our home naked, and Leo was on the couch with a drink in his hand; he looked at me and knew I knew.
“Tamia,” He said, and I shook my head in anger.
“How could you, Leo? You promised. You said if it ever happens, you will reject her. You said I was enough. You promised me,” I said.
That was why I trained so hard as a warrior and fought by his side. If his wolf is weakened, I will balance his strength.
He was silent. There was nothing he could say to defend himself.
I left him in the living room and went to take a hot shower.
I sat under it for over an hour until the water went cold before going to bed.
I tossed and turned all through the night. I did not know what to do.
Rejection wasn’t an option. We were tied together. I could not just walk away from everything I spent time, blood, sweat and tears to build for five years.
We are at the top in our region because of our effort together.
How could I walk away from that? Even if I decided to start over again, no pack would take me in if I left him. I was doomed. I had no choice but to make this work, but how could I when he wasn’t even trying?
“Tamia,” Leo said and lay next to me in bed.
” I am sorry, Tamia. I really am, but I will need time to decide,” he said. His words cut me so deep that I would have stabbed him if I could. I would have buried a silver knife in his heart.
“Time?” I said, sitting up. “How dare you to ask me for time, Leo? You promised. You claimed me. What the fuck do you want me to do. You know I can’t leave, I can’t join another pack, and no one would want to be with a wolf that has already been claimed and mated. What about me, Leo? What about my life, my love, and my happiness? Where does that leave me? Where?” I yelled at him, on the verge of tears.
He sat up and tried to hold me, but I moved away from him. I was angry and disgusted. I was mad.
“Please give me time; you are my wife and Luna. Nothing would change it, not even a fated mate. Please, I just need time. I just have to know what to do. The pull is strong. I wanted to risk the pain and reject her, Tamia, but I wanted her more. I can’t explain it to you, and I do not expect you to understand but please, Tamia, give me time,” He pleaded.
“And what should I do when you are fucking her?” I asked him with anger and contempt in my voice.
“I won’t touch her,” he said, and I laughed painfully.
“But you did. You did. You touched her tonight, and I felt every bit of it.” I said, and he was quiet. I did not need a fortune teller to know how this would go. I was definitely at the losing end.
POV of Leo
Tamia was my life, my love. There was nothing that I wouldn’t do for her. I loved her with all my heart. When I promised to mate with her, I meant it.
She was perfect for me. She was beautiful inside and out and had the strength a luna should possess. I loved her qualities too. I could not let her slip away.
I had had a crush on her for a while, and when the opportunity to court her presented itself, I took it and never looked back.
We had been married for five years. I loved her immensely.
My love was so strong that I believed it would be easy to reject my fated mate if I ever found her. She promised to do the same.
I never knew that I would cowardly break that promise.
Tamia did not want to go to Casper’s dinner party. I should have listened and cancelled, but I went, which was the beginning of my downfall.
Her scent caught me off guard and drew me to her like a magnet.
Mint and apples, sweet and delicious.
I was enthralled by her, and she did the same. I turned towards her, and she was all that existed.
I felt my love and affection for Tamia disappear immediately. I fought to hold on to it, but the pull of the bond was so strong.
“Mate,” She linked me, and I responded.
Amanda was her name, and she was my doom.
I had to touch her and see her. So she asked us to talk on the balcony. I reluctantly went.
The moment I got there, I was trapped. I wanted to reject her, but my mouth couldn’t form the word; my wolf, Black, could not do it. We wanted her, all of her, and to keep her.
“Good evening, Alpha Leo,” she said, and I swallowed.
She did her homework. I was surprised at her, and instead of maintaining a stoic face, I smiled warmly, and she fell into my embrace.
“Mate,” I heard myself saying the words effortlessly, and everything else faded away.
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