Christy was well aware of all of this and just didn’t like it, had really shown her true colors today. She had never once interfered with Mischa’s heats before now, never stated it was a lie until right now, two years after she’d come here.
She frowned as she thought about that. Why now, all of a sudden, had she tried to intervene? Mischa’s mind took her back to Anthony coming into this room and his words; he told her he thought it was time they had an heir. Her brain seemed to race inside her mind as she wondered if he’d mentioned that to Christy; that he was going to try for an heir with her, Mischa.
If so, would that make Christy interrupt her heat on purpose? It only took her a few seconds to realize the answer was ‘yes’ that she-wolf didn’t want Anthony conceiving an heir with Mischa, she’d never be able to get rid of her.
Her getting pregnant would also likely very easily draw Anthony’s attention to her on a daily basis, likely have him wanting to sleep in bed with her, where he would feel closer to his pup, she would not only smell delectable to him and his wolf. They’d crave to be closer to her, and be way more protective over her than ever before.
That would likely also regrow their fragile bond, and Christy would have to witness him always wanting to touch her in public, be with her behind closed doors. There would be baby talk and not just with her, but he’d be excited and see no issue with bringing it up with Christy as well, something Mischa knew that she-wolf wasn’t going to like.
It only took another minute for her to realize that Christy was likely the type of she-wolf to find a way to see Mischa lose that pup she was carrying. That she-wolf couldn’t be trusted, and right now she was thankful that she was on wolfen birth control and no pup would come from her heat.
Mischa wasn’t one to harm a pregnant she-wolf, even as much as she didn’t like Christy. If that she-wolf got pregnant, she’d be carrying the pack’s heir, and Mischa wouldn’t ever harm Anthony’s heir.
She was going to stay on birth control and that was all there was to it. She would not compete with a vindictive she-wolf. That she had no doubts right this minute would harm her unborn pup if she got pregnant. She would not risk any pup of hers to that she-wolf.
Christy could give birth to an heir to this pack in the future. It didn’t matter which one of them did that, or not to Mischa anyway, as long as it was Anthony’s bloodline that was all that mattered.
Her bout of heat was over, and she got up to shower and Anthony followed her, “Why do you shower after every bout? You never used to do that,” he asked, sounding almost a bit put out. It was morning on day two now, and she’d had three bouts of heat yesterday and so three showers.
Why? She thought absently to herself as she turned the water on. She even knew why he was asking her that question. She’d once not cared to because the smell of them all riled up was nice to not only her but him.
Only now it was different to her. She’d come to realize she didn’t feel the same as she once had. He probably saw no issue with the scent lingering, maybe a part of him still liked it, even though he wasn’t really there for her inside this mate bond anymore.
He was only here she knew out of duty, that conversation they’d had yesterday that he’d not wanted to finish, where she’d wondered if she’d wake up alone at some point, had seen him realize just how much she actually thought he would get up and leave. He’d heard the pain of her words even and that was the problem, why he’d not wanted to talk anymore.
She’d spent her time between bouts reading a book or watching a movie or just napping on and off. There had been little talk go between them. He was learning right now they had nothing to talk about anymore and, yes, it was uncomfortable between bouts because his life revolved around his new and much younger Mate, and Mischa was only a passing thought to him on most days.
But she didn’t say that out loud. There was no point she’d said all she was going to say yesterday, and was trying not to fight with him, seeing as she was stuck in a room with him for the duration of her heat. Something that should bring them together and make them closer, but she felt was actually doing the opposite, and tearing them apart even more.
She felt his hands slide down her arms slowly, and she wondered if he was going to attempt to try and seduce her here in this shower, outside of her heats bout. It certainly felt like he was going to a moment later when his body was pressed up against hers.
“The bout is over, what are you doing?” she asked directly. She didn’t even think it was appropriate for him to be touching her and that spoke volumes to her, considering she was his Mate.
“Going to show you I love you, that I’m not only here because you’re in heat.” He murmured, and his lips met her neck in a soft kiss.
“Why, that is why you’re here? You don’t need to try and fool me, Anthony, I understand you’re here under the obligation of our Mate Bond, and nothing more.” She brushed his hands off her.
She heard him sigh. “I’m trying to show you I still want you.”
“But you wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t in heat in the first place, now would you. So to me, that won’t actually show me anything at all. Could be that you just don’t like the uncomfortable silence that stretches between us, between bouts where once there had never been that.”
She turned and looked at him. “That silence shows you just how much distance is actually between us, and you don’t like it. But if you’d like to finish that conversation from yesterday, we can,” she stated, and she was willing to.
She watched him just get out of the shower. “No,” he muttered. “I didn’t like where it was going.”
“Avoidance is key to you staying in the dark, is it?” She shook her head, “I think you like being blind to the goings-on of your other Mate.”
“Don’t bring her into this. I don’t want to talk about her while it’s our, your and my personal time together. There is no need of that unless you’re trying to keep the distance there between us… are you? Is that your goal in bringing her up?”
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