While we are laying in our beds, I speak out to ask, “Bree, do you think that your brother is going to reject me? I am worried as he is my second chance mate, and I am scared that he won’t want me. Our mates are supposed to be our Goddess gave and perfect for us, but Calvin wasn’t perfect for me, he may have told me when I accepted his rejection, that he wanted me, to accept me, and was talked into rejecting me by his group. What if the same thing happens with Asher? He had almost a month and a half to accept me, find me, claim me, and he didn’t. That is what I am most scared of, being 18 and not even graduated from high school, and being rejected twice. Who would want me? I say to her in the dark.
“Jade, my brother should be grateful to have you. You are the nicest person I know. You are my best friend and I know Dixon loves you too. I would love for you to be in our family officially. Asher has been struggling lately, Mason was right he had changed since he went to Alpha Training. He used to be the best older brother that anyone could ask for, but the stress to excel got to him, He wants to be the best at everything, and it just isn’t possible to best the best at everything when there are 50 other Alphas there, that are used to being the best too. I think he started drinking to soothe himself, and the girls, for the same thing. That him being as attractive as he is, the human girls are all over him whenever he goes out. He should have waited, he should have made better choices, but he didn’t. I think he will want you, and I think you need to make him work for it.” Bree says.
We lay there in the dark lost in our thoughts and then I hear Bree speak again “Dad just reached out to me in mind link, we have great news. Apparently, Asher does want you. He was so upset at seeing you hurt by Ashley kissing him that he made her pack up and drove her back to Stone Moon tonight. He will be coming back in the morning and wants to try to meet with you to talk. Dad and mom also want you to play hard to get. They said Asher has it BAD and has done a complete turn-around. They said that they heard him leave our apartment after tossing and turning and he had to go to your room to be able to sleep. He had tried to mindlink me earlier tonight, but I ignored him because I was mad at him. Asher asked mom and dad to reach out to see how you were doing, I told them “Ok considering everything”. Asher reached out to Dixon, Brax, and Mason too, but they all ignored him as I did. Dad said that he would mindlink them to tell them that Asher is coming back in the morning and that he wants to speak to you, and me and Dixon, and then Brax and Mason, then the rest of the group. He isn’t aware that Tyler and Tate are your brothers yet. Asher was mad because he saw Tate kiss you on the top of your head when we left the Sandbar. He is supposed to be back here by 9 am, so I guess we need to decide when and if we want to talk to him tomorrow.” She finishes.
I say to Bree “I will think about what I want to do, I am going to talk to Tyler in the morning. See what our parents said to do or get their opinions. I don’t want to let him think that he can just leave me for almost a month and a half, like he is scraping something off his shoe, knowing that we are bound by the Goddess. To know he just blew it off so he could keep screwing around and doing what he wanted to do, and he would get around to me when he wanted to. That is hurtful. That is heartbreaking. That is insulting to me. He didn’t want me when I was fat, but I am the SAME person now than I was then, the packaging just looks better now than it did. If he truly wanted me, his mate, he would have come back when he knew I would be there. I came back early that Sunday because it was the one that Eric and his group followed me down to Sedona on my first trip. My brothers followed me back, so I had to come in early as they had to drive back to Sedona that night. He could have come any of that week. Or any of the weeks thereafter. The Alpha training is only a 30-minute drive away in Tempe. He isn’t in California, or Nevada, he is literally here and didn’t care enough about me, or the bond to come and meet me. That is what hurts me to my core. That is what gets me the most, he knew, and he blew me off like I wasn’t important. Then he sees me, and he is like, hey I am willing to date you. It makes me want to cry. I wanted him just by smelling his scent, sight unseen, I wanted him, because he is my mate. But he doesn’t think the same way about me, and it hurts me to my very core. I know Ivory still wants him, very much, but that is because his wolf Aries isn’t a complete ass. Aries wants us because he loves us, and Asher didn’t because he was more concerned with my appearance than my soul.”
I turn over and get comfortable “Goodnight Bree. I am not trying to be ugly. I really am trying hard to not be. But with all that I have had to put up with, how I have been treated like crap. That the people who raised me only did it to be in charge of the 2 million dollars, they never loved me, only recently have I found people who love me, you guys, and that is it, I can count you all on both hands. Maybe all that hurt has risen to the surface now and I am fighting to keep it contained. I feel like my anger at Asher is like a volcano about to blow up. That NOW that he has deemed me important or valuable to him, I should just fall all over myself to just accept him, and I am sorry, I really don’t know that I can.
“That freaking bastard, I am going to kill him when I get my hands on him,” Mason thinks to himself. Thinking back on what Jade had told them a half-hour ago.
We had all gone out to dinner after we left the marina and then came home and got our showers. We knew Jade had been upset when we left the Sandbar, but we all mistakenly thought that it was due to her old pack and the fight that had broken out on the beach. We were wrong. I had seen Asher slow dancing with Ashley when we left the Sandbar, and he had seen all three of us looking at them as they were dancing on their boat, and then he allowed that slut to kiss him in front Jade.
We were sitting around the fire pit because Jade said she would feel more comfortable talking to us in the dark, so we built the fire for warmth, as we waited for her to tell us what she had been holding in. She is so strong, and she looked so sad when she finally started speaking. She had us all in tears by the end because we could feel her pain.
“So, I found my second chance mate today” Jade begins speaking in a low tone.
“Who is it?” Tyler asks carefully and we all wait on her answer.
“It’s Asher” Jade replies.
“Asher my brother?” Dixon asks.
“Yes, unfortunately,” Jade answers.
“Shit,” Bree says.
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