His One and Only

The Past

"Good morning, Izzy. How are you feeling?" He said in his raspy morning voice which made tingles shoot up my spine. I frowned before clearing my throat.

"G-Great," I said without letting my voice tremble and slowly turning my head towards him.

As to not upset him, I kept my eyes on my hands and waited for him to speak.

He sighed before the chair creaked and not long after, I heard the door open.

After waiting for a couple of seconds, I lifted my eyes which fell on Ethan standing in the doorway to the room with a sly smirk on his face.

I quickly looked down again when our eyes met and heard him chuckle lightly.

My frown grew deeper and deeper the longer we stayed like that, completely still. Neither one of us spoke.

"I'll go and bring some food here since you just woke up. But, it's completely fine if you wanna come downstairs and eat with the rest of us. And I understand if yo-" he started rambling about such a small matter that I cracked a small smile.

He looked so cute, scratching his arm and neck as he kept on talking. I didn't wanna interrupt but he stopped himself and caught me staring with a smile.

I hid the smile as fast as I could and saw him staring at me with a far away look in his eyes.

"I-I'll bring the f-food here," he said as he slowly stepped back and closed the door.

I smiled at him. I really smiled at him. Ugh! So annoying.

Mom, dad, I promised to be a good girl. To be the best daughter and to not make other people suffer because of me... but I failed.

I gave trouble to my aunt, my cousins and now my mate.

I didn't really want a mate who was an ALPHA, but he was still my mate.

No! Absolutely not! He might be my mate but he had no right to force me to stay here.

'But you came here yourself, Iz,' Liz said with a 'you-didn't-know-this?' voice and I frowned.

'Well, now I wanna leave,'

'Ugh, Iz, just stay with your mate, how hard could it be?'

'It's not hard, Liz, it's just that he is an Alpha and you know what that meant for us,'

'Y-Yeah, but still...'

I finally got through to her! Wait...

''but still' what?'

Liz couldn't reply as we heard the door open. I immediately knew who it was and kept my eyes on the bed.

"Here," he placed a tray full of food in front of me and my eyes almost bulged out of their sockets.

There was every single breakfast dish on the tray and I didn't even know if I could finish it all.

"I didn't know what you liked, so I brought a little bit of everything," he said with a small, nervous laugh and I almost hugged him.

"Th-Thank y-you," I simply said and waited for him to leave but he made no move in doing so.

I raised my eyes, just enough to see his eyes focused on me and our eyes accidently met. I quickly looked down.

Would he beat me if I asked him to leave? Yeah, probably.

"I haven't eaten yet, so...I thought...maybe I could, you know, eat with...you?" He said with the smallest of voices and I forgot for a split second that he was an Alpha.