I needed to get away from her before I gave in to my desires.
Before she could say anything else, I was already walking away.
I couldn’t keep doing this. If I let Eden come onto me every single time she saw me, I would grow weak. Eventually, I wouldn’t be able to keep my hands of her.
I hung my head as I tried to think of some way to get her to stop trying to find out the truth about us. At least not until I had things properly sorted out.
“Alpha!”
My eyes focused on the figure in front of me. I found Clara making her way towards me; my body already became alert with the worried look on her face.
“What are you doing here?”
She didn’t stop walking until she was a few inches away from me. “I just wanted to make sure that everything went well today. You didn’t let me come with you to meet the Blackners and I just wanted to find out if they agreed to help you.”
I sighed. “They did but at a very costly price.” I didn’t want any reminders of our horrible trip; I still had a guilty feeling inside of me knowing that I was the one responsible for Lucas being trapped in a loveless marriage.
I felt Eden behind of me and immediately every part of my body awakened and begged to be near her. I stifled a g***n as her scent consumed me and made it difficult for me to concentrate on anything else but my growing need for her.
no!
My determination to protect Eden was far greater than my need for her.
I clenched my jaw and tried to focus on the woman in front of me.
And then it hit me.
What better way to make Eden feel like I wasn’t interested than to have someone else in my life?
“I need a favor from you.” I told Clara, still very aware of Eden only a few feet away from us.
“Whatever you want, just name it.” She said. “I’m happy to help in whatever I can.”
I dropped my voice so low that only she could hear me. “I need you to pretend that you’re in a relationship with me.”
***EDEn***
I paused, my earlier intention was to follow James and demand an answer from him. However, I hadn’t expected to see him talking to another woman. Her blue eyes fell on me and there was this look in them that I didn’t like one bit.
Who was this woman?
They were too far away for me to hear their conversation. Whatever James had said to her, both surprised and thrilled her. She didn’t hide her happiness as she linked her arms with his.
I watched in horror as they both walked away from me. I wasn’t sure what to do from here, my body was in a state of shock and everything felt weird and painful all over my body.
for the next few seconds that went by, I had to teach myself how to breathe again. I told myself that I should look away but couldn’t bring myself to do so. This was the last thing that I was expecting to see. At first, I’d thought that it was bad that James was clearly avoiding me but this was so much worse.
Lucas walked in the same time along with Austin. They both looked confused as they watched their brother leave. Judging by their expressions, this clearly wasn’t something anyone was used to seeing around here.
Was he not always seen with this woman?
“Who is that woman he’s with?” I asked before I could stop myself. for some reason, whenever it concerned James, my mouth had no filter whatsoever.
Lucas looked as though he was choking at my question. He glanced at me and his gaze softened, did he somehow know how much it hurt me to see James with another woman?
I didn’t think that was possible.
“She’s really no one that important when compared to you…”
“Lucas.” Austin growled in a warning tone.
“What?” He asked Austin before turning back to me.
“You’ll hear my name a lot around here.” He informed me. “I’m their favorite, you see.”
I smiled at his words despite the pain in my heart. Still, I noticed something different about Lucas tonight, just like earlier. Something had him uneasy and I think it also affected everyone else in the family.
“Eden, why don’t you go back to your room? Your sisters are waiting there for you.” Austin informed me. “We’ll go have a talk with James.”
I followed his gaze to see that James and that woman had already disappeared. I had no idea where they were going and it shouldn’t concern me but yet I couldn’t stop the horrible feeling in my chest.
After reminding myself that I wasn’t alone and that both brothers were still waiting on me to leave, I gave a quick nod to Austin and made my way back up the stairs. Just like he’d said, both Isabella and Lucy were waiting in my room for me.
“We have exciting news for you!” Lucy announced as soon as her eyes fell on me. “Isabella and I have agreed that things have been pretty rough recently and none of us are having any fun. So we thought that it might be nice if all of us go out to a club and have a good time.”
I tried to be excited, I really did. But I couldn’t bring myself to be happy about this when I remembered nothing about this life I was living in. There was also the fact that the one man I felt a connection with, felt it important to stay away from me.
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