Conquering the Alpha (BxB) - Werewolf Story

Chapter 52: Little Things

I am torn.

On one side, I am happily committed to Jayden and happy to be by his side.

On the other hand, there is the boy who achieved something no one thought was possible, just to be with me. That was a phenomenal, humongous achievement in itself. I could never have seen that coming, not in a million years.

But if Skylar managed to accomplish this, it can only mean one thing.

He is really invested in us being in a relationship, whatever that could mean for us. I just know that Skylar wouldn't have been able to achieve this unless his mother did not apply some serious pressure on her mate, and that could only come to pass if he was dead serious about me.

It's just... Here is the thing. When Skylar announced that he would no longer seek any other prospect after his father denied me, I believed him. It's not as if he was grandstanding. He wasn't just saying that, I felt every word he enunciated to be true.

I know Skylar is a fuckboy. That is not in question here. Even before he decided to make me his prospect, I heard about his adventures back in Texas from Seth and was even witness to him having sex inside the locker room two months ago.

He behaved so far as expected for a boy who is not only rich and handsome but deadly charming. He has a way of looking at you, and you instantly fall for his spell. It's like a snake before the attack, by the time you realize it's too late you are already under its deadly 'tightening hug'.

But the problem for me is that he is not doing this to get into my pants.

I would've been able to tell if he was after sex, but he isn't. Not when we were in bed together in my room in Boulder. He doesn't strike me as a boy who is doing something on a dare or anything like that. I think we are way past that, I know for a fact that his feelings for me are genuine. I know it in my heart.

Who the hell buys flowers for a guy you cannot even be in a relationship with?

Come on! Why did he have to go and be so sweet to me, even when he had absolutely nothing to gain from it? Yes, he was shooting his mouth about Shawn earlier that day, but that was not enough justification for him to spend half an hour inside the transportation van to go to town, buy me a bouquet of beautiful red roses, and return in time for lunch.

Does any of these sound like it's coming from a boy who cannot prospect me?

Here is the tea, ladies and gentlemen, men are dogs. The only reason why they would buy someone flowers is to either apologize for something or do some sort of courtship. Married men can do that on special occasions and stuff like that, but no man is going to buy flowers for a person he can never have.

Do you see my predicament?

He is not behaving like a hormonal teenager who wants me to blow him or something. There are far easier targets for him in this academy if he was after a quick release. Hell, there was a Gamma girl throwing herself on him just this 'Harvest Ball'. One quick word with her and the two of them would be in bed together by the end of the night.

But again, he did nothing with her or anybody else. He seems smitten by me. As in if he cannot have me, then he didn't want anybody else. Him. Skylar 'fuckboy' Stronghold. The same guy who had sex with two different girls in these two months we have been here - though he doesn't brag about bed activities with his friends, I know he and Victoria had been intimate. I've heard the whispers. It's a boarding school, nothing can get past these gossipy students.

I do not care or judge him for what he did with them. At that point, they thought they would be prospected to each other. I understand how these things go. But the point I must emphasize is that he was done with everybody else. For me.