Orion

Twenty Seven . The Return

"For starts, what a waste to say the heart could feel apart-or feel complete, baby?"

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This time when she said goodbye, Uly was there. Mo still cried when she said her goodbyes, harder, even maybe than she did the first time. She'd finally decided to just go back, but she had no clue if this was the right decision.

It'd been two weeks since he had apologized to her.

A week ago he'd asked her to come back.

A day ago she'd finally made her choice.

It'd taken her a while to come to it because Uly and Nee Nee wouldn't just make the fucking decision for her like Hoggie really wanted them to. It was a hard one to make.

Mo had tried to list out the pros and cons to help her decide whether or not she was going to return to the Aerin pack, to Orion. She'd tried using divination to figure out if this was ultimately the right choice. It hadn't worked.

Mahogany had asked her goddess to speak to her just this once to help her decide.

She didn't.

Mo had even asked Giani and Adriel what they thought. They wouldn't give any insight. Both of them saying that it didn't matter what they thought, she was the one who had to live with Orion. They were happy to hear her decision, when it came, though. Orion had told them minutes after she'd told him. Mo hadn't even had the time to dial either's number before Adriel had called her in his excitement.

Dread filled every pore, but she couldn't lie to herself and say that she wasn't looking forward to seeing her mate again. They'd made arrangements when they spoke last night, and the usually calm, damned near emotionless alpha that was her mate had a smile in his voice the whole time. He'd agreed to everything that she stated she wanted without too much of a fight.

Mahogany was so worried throughout the whole call. There was no excitement in her voice. She couldn't have faked it if she wanted to. She was tired, and she knew that he heard it when she spoke, but before they hung up, Orion had said in his low voice, "I missed you."

That one had thrown her for a loop.

He had to have known that she felt the same way, but Mo found herself so flustered after hearing him utter that phrase so... genuinely that she ended the call with a quickness, mumbling about having to get packed which is a total lie- she had hardly unpacked her things from leaving him the first time because they smelled like him, and even that could send her over the edge on her bad days.

Since she'd let it all out two weeks ago, she was no longer just sad and in her head. Now that she and Orion had spoken, it made her all the more angry that he had handled the situation how he had. She hated that on that night, he just wouldn't stop.

Mo felt she could handle a lot of things, but he'd seen how upset that she was, and he still dug into her the way that he had. They'd already been having issues when they were stuck in the house all that time. Both Mo and Orion had not behaved anywhere near ideally- she had goaded him on in his anger, he had done the same, but that night in the woods had been on almost a whole different level. They didn't trust each other- hadn't from the start of arriving on his pack territory for her, and immediately for him, but the final blowout showed her how he had been seeing her more clearly than any other situation had. Her own mate only ever seen her as having bad intentions. It was true that her intentions weren't good when she did things like take his sleep, but even so, when Orion had found her, Mahogany's intentions were only pure. She had been expecting him to come for her for months by then, waiting like some naïve child. She had been excited to meet her mate, and had only ever expected good things to come from finding him, and that just hadn't been the case. He'd seen how ready that she was to meet and go with her mate, but had been so in his head because of the moon, that he had come to kill her. Mo couldn't help but think about what her life would be like if she had just demanded to get out of his damned car that first night.