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“Dez?” he questioned.
“Um. Dezmond… he’s my mate… It’s… complicated” I said biting down harder on my lip. He nodded. understandingly.
“Dezmond Collins?” he questioned with a raised bushy eyebrow, I stared at him for a minute, before nodding slowly, I couldn’t breathe.
“So you were Collins‘ mate” he said aloud, it wasn’t a question just a statement. It was getting harder to breathe; 1 could feel my nose burning but I forced myself not to cry. I was pathetic. I nodded again slowly. I stared at him from across the small living room, hugging my knees to my chest trying to hold myself together. He looked in deep thought, his eyes on the ground finally they flicked up to me and softened.
He jerked his head at me, motioning for me to come to him, he held his big arms out like he wanted a hug. I slowly got up and went over and sat next to him and he pulled me into him and wrapped his arms around me. The second I felt his arm wrap around me, and I felt safe and like someone actually cared, it was like a bubble in my chest popped and I started crying.
I clutched onto the front of his hoodie and he stayed quiet. He didn’t ask me anymore questions, and eventually all the crying made me exhausted and I drifted off.
I woke up sometime around the next morning and checked the clock, it was around 3:45 in the morning. My nose was stopped up and my eyes were sore. I slowly felt my way around and then got out of bed, my foot caught on something and I dropped to the floor hitting my shoulder painfully as all my weight fell on it. I let out a small cry and the thing I tripped over moved. My heart stopped in my chest and suddenly I heard a small groan, I stopped breathing. The lamp next to my bed came on and Eric was sitting there in the floor his back against my dresser, rubbing his eyes squinting at me.
“What are you doing?” he asked sleepily.
“What am I doing? What the hell are you doing?” I asked harshly.
“Sleeping.” He replied back his voice just as irritated, I rolled my eyes and got up and went to the bathroom and washed my face then returned to bed turning the lamp out stepping over Eric’s giant figure taking up my whole entire floor. I fixed my blankets and went back to sleep.
I woke up to pain.
Complete agony.
I opened my eyes, my fingers flying to the sensitive skin where I bared the mark of my mate. It was burning and throbbing. I let out a small whimper, feeling wetness on my fingers. It hurt so bad, it was
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worse than before. I knew it was because Dez and I were mated now and it was worse because we weren’t touching again, like in the beginning of our relationship. If you could call it a relationship.
1 bit down on my lip, it hurt so much. It sting and burned and throbbed, It was the worst pain I had ever felt. I panted a little as 1 felt tears sting my eyes. I sniffed, getting up going to the bathroom stepping over Eric again. I looked at it in the mirror and saw it was actually bleeding. I got a washcloth and ran cold water over it and rested it over it hoping the cold would help. It didn’t help at all and the pain just seemed to get worse. I wiped tears and tried to be quiet, it felt like a knife twisting my neck.
I could vaguely hear Erle moving around after what seemed like the longest time of my life, he came into the bathroom questionably.
“Kendal?” he said quietly his eyes falling to me on the floor.
“What’s wrong?” he asked his eyes going to the wash cloth now stained red pressed against my neck.
“It’s because I haven’t been around Dez in a long time” I told him my voice cracking a little, I sniffed a little, his eyes looked heartbroken, he sat down almost hesitantly.
“Did he tell you that?” he asked me quietly brushed hair out of my face that was plastered to my clammy skin, I nodded.
“This happened before in the beginning…” I said giving him a forced watery smile. His eyes looked at me with pity.
“Kendal… I’ve seen this before, this doesn’t happen when mates are apart it happens when one of the mates is being unfaithful.” He told me, I wrapped my head around it.
“What?” I whispered softly.
“As a rogue, I’ve seen this. I’ve seen awful things like this used as prison techniques…. Kendal, he’s with another woman right now.” He told me looking at me like a lost puppy but I could see underlying anger burning in his eyes.
“What” I repeated in disbelief. I couldn’t wrap my head around this. Dez was cheating on me? He was with another woman? Right this second. In the beginning, Dez had been cheating on me? Before he had even given me a chance? I sat there for the longest time. I was upset. I thought Dez loved me. In the beginning it might be a little understandable. He didn’t know me, and I was basically forced to be with him because I ran away.
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