Soul Mates

Broken

*Logan's POV*

I woke from my first shift at 4 in the morning, curled up next to Mia's bed, completely naked. Luckily, nobody saw me as I sneaked into Diego's room and put on some clothes I keep in his closet. I jumped out of Diego's second story window and landed perfectly on my feet. One of the many perks of being 18.

I decided to head to my mom's house, since it's the closest to Mia and I was tired. There I found my mom passed out drunk on the couch. I felt sorry for her and covered her with a blanket. Once in my bed, I reached out to Raegor. 'Not cool, Raegor. What if Mia woke up to find a gigantic wolf in her room?'

I saw Raegor in my mind looking dejected and hurt. His next words tore me apart. 'Mia is not our mate.' I couldn't breathe, the pain in my heart was worse than the pain I felt shifting. I didn't even know that I had been hoping against hope that by some miracle Mia would be my true mate.

The rest of the day I walked around but I wasn't really all there. I moved my things out of my mom's house, but I didn't feel any excitement about my new place. A place I had worked so hard to be able to afford. It meant nothing. 'Mia is not our mate.' kept repeating over and over in my head. She's not mine, my uncle was right. A human can't be a wolf's true mate.

After the move, the elite decided to throw a party for me. Was it still my birthday? Damn day just had no end. I agreed to the party, who cares anyway? My housemate is a member from a neighboring pack and he won't mind a party.

I walk through the motions. At some point Cindy drags me to my room and starts kissing me. I don't reject her, even though she's not my true mate either. I want to drown my sorrows in her. I try to forget the feel of Mia's skin with Cindy's skin. We're almost completely naked when Brian barges in. "Dude, I just saw Carolina walking all alone. I think she was crying."

I'm out of the bed and into my car in two minutes. 'Raegor, we need to fix this. I asked her for time but now we know that time won't change anything. She is not our mate.' He looks down, 'Not ours.' he repeats. She needs to move on. It's unfair to keep her waiting for something that'll never happen.

I finally found her two miles from the apartment. "Get in!", I say slowing the car to match her pace, she walks faster. I get out of the car and easily catch up to her in no time. "Why did you leave?"

I touch her arm and she loses it. "Don't touch me! Don't you fucking touch me!", she screams in my face. I take a step back, hands up in surrender. "What did I do now?" "I can't. I just can't, Logan". At this point we're at the green, in front of city hall, and she sits on one of the benches. "You asked me for time. You asked me to wait for you." She says to me, her eyes full of tears. Guilt envelops me and Raegor says 'Comfort. Protect.'

Stupid Raegor! If it were up to him, we'd stay with Mia until our mate came along.
"We haven't talked about that, but I wasn't myself that night, Mia." She laughs then, an almost hysterical laughter that leaves me feeling empty. "Do you know, Logan? Do you know how I feel about you?", tears run down her face as she asks me.

I can't let her say it. I won't be able to stop myself if I hear her say that she loves me. I have to stop this, now! "Mia, don't. Don't say it. You are my everything and if you say it then it will get between us because even though I love you, I'm not IN love with you."

I can see on her face the exact moment her heart breaks. My heart breaks as well and Raegor howls in my head.

*Carolina's POV*

There it is, the plain truth, Logan is not in love with me. My heart breaks into a million pieces and I feel like I can't breathe. He's crying now as well. Why's he crying? He just broke my heart and he's sitting there crying like he's the one in pain. "Go back to your party, Logan." I say and the words sound cold and empty. I feel empty inside. "Mia...", he starts. "My name is Carolina. Good night, Logan.", I get up and run the rest of the way home.