END ROADS

CHAPTER 68: HIS MATE!

You are my fucking, mate!" he yelled
I supported myself with the nearest person. My legs could not support me anymore, they betrayed me mercilessly
."What? What did you say? You said you knew where your mate was, you said you would protect her... it can't be me!"
"Do you have the slightest idea of how pathetic I felt when you always spoke like that? Keep your mate safe, go find her and how you ignored my questions when I asked you how you would feel if you were my mate?" he stepped closer, he was dead serious ... no he looked mad, really mad. Now I remember, back at the fields where we watched the northern lights, he had said to me
...because am the only male, only vampire, only man in this world and beyond, who can get you helpless and fragile without doing anything at all ...did he say that to me because I was his mate?...what if you are my mate?... no way ... I will use your words against you this time. If there can be super heroes with magical powers, then there can also be vampires with super hero mates .... you are so confident as if you are sure I have turned into a vampire or do you know something that I don't know? ...because you are my... forget it...
"Yeah I... I detected a scent of my mate then another scent of a claimed being... Yeah something of sort like her spirit was already bound with another vampire but the body was obedient to me...
"That is a lie, I overheard your conversation with Jayden, you knew where your mate was and you were planning on claiming her. I heard you talking about choosing her over me. Stop messing with me" He chuckled pinching his brows
"I was choosing between you as a friend or you as my mate. I saw this coming, you resent me right now, right?"
what? Did I resent him? I should be celebrating, I should be rejoicing that I was his mate. But why was I sad? Why was I pissed off? Why did I want to run?
"When did you find out?" I asked quietly.
"The day we were going through the healing process, the day Adelyn hit you ... that is when I found out!"
That long? No wonder he often lied to keep me alive, no wonder he chose to keep me beside him, no wonder he injured Keith's cousin. So that is the reason he was always attracted to me and was always kind with me. That is why it was easy for him to flirt and that is the reason he was always cautious whenever we got intimate. He was always careful and overprotective. That is why he wept whenever I got sick, that is why Clark smelt a soul that belonged to someone else in me. That is why Jayden was always treating me as someone so important, that is why he let me know all his secrets. That is why he always wanted to be beside me.... wait , that dream where I met Regina. How could I be so passive with things? The answers and clues were always set before my eyes but I was so ignorant. That was I, it was what would have happened if I was in the Vines coven earlier. I would have saved Dermot. That was what would have been the story if I had come earlier and be his mate, all this would be gone?So I was his mate all along?
"Is that why you always gave an excuse whenever we summoned her to the council?" Steele asked.
"Am sure you would have done the same if it were Magdalene, don't throw daggers at me. I sought a mate for two hundred years, you wouldn't understand how that feels like. You always wanted to kill her, do you even know how it feels to watch someone trying to take your mates life and you can't do or say anything?" no one responded, his anger was poisoning the air, it felt venomous and deadly.
"You claimed me right? That was what your father was talking about"
"I couldn't resist, and you didn't resist it either. I suppressed the urge for a whole two months, I could no longer do it"
"Can I leave?" Everyone was confused, murmurs filled the room and it was so confusing, Grey stared at me, I got out of the arms of Arianna who was holding me up.
"Can I leave? Can I go back to the city and live like a normal human? Can you undo the claim? Can you set me free please? I need a break, just let me go. Now you all know am not a vampire hunter, it is my father. Do to him as you wish, just let me go!" murmurs erupted in the room again, my heart sunk. Why was I doing this? I really liked him ... scratch that, I loved him. But the fact that I was his mate was foreign. I was scared, overwhelmed and just wanted to leave. I wanted a normal life, being his mate meant I was stuck with the vampires forever. No, I needed to be free.
"Is that what you want?" he asked emotionlessly.
"Please!"
"You can leave the day after tomorrow, Arianna will help you gather your belongings. Leave none behind. As for breaking the bond, I will seek means to do so. You are free, Becky!" His words were so plain, they lacked the warmth they always had. My name sounded foreign coming from his tongue. Now I was nobody to him, he was gone. My handsome man ... was gone. he looked at me for a while, his eyes turned hollow and dark, like the first day I saw him. Filled with darkness and never ending emptiness like an abyss. His eyes lost the glow they always had, he looked at me with coldness that made my blood freeze in my veins. He hated me, he resented me! But I had no choice, did i? if I stayed, I would never leave. So I do rather leave when I have a chance. He turned around, showing me his back, my heart sunk and I felt like it was being ripped out of my chest. He took a step away, then paused. Will he beg me to stay?He didn't he walked off as if I was never there, the others followed and I was all alone in the vast room. My heart ached, I sat on the floor hugging my knees closely, I was crumbling into nothingness yet, I was determined to see the city again!