Not Mine but His Mate (Completed)

*Chapter 43: Yes 🐾*

~Hazel's POV~

He stared at me and I stared at him. Across the room from one another and all we did was just.....stare. We hadn't said a word to each other since we both woke up. He eyed me as if he was piecing together the puzzle of me. Little did he know, I couldn't even piece together myself right now.

His stare was intense and direct. I made sure to match his gaze. He was going to know that he wasn't the only one in control today. Not after the s**t I've just gone through. Exhausted wasn't the word to describe how I felt and heavens knows I wanted to sleep for one-hundred centuries. However I couldn't - Leo and I had unfinished business.

I exhaled deeply.
Here we go.

"Why me?"

His eyebrows furrowed as he narrowed his eyes as if he wasn't expecting that question, "What?"

Yeah, he wasn't.

"Surely you've met a woman that fought back in your cage. Why imprint on me?"

He scoffed and rolled his eyes, "F**king unbelievable."

"What is?!"

He shook his head, "When you've lived as long as I have, then you can come and ask me some s**t like that."

"That's not fair and you know it."

"Cry me a f**king ocean about what is and isn't fair," as he crossed his muscular arms together.

"You know I don't come from this wor-" I stopped myself.  The thoughts of my mother and grandmother flashed in my mind. I mean, technically I did come from this world - in many ways.

I looked back at Leo who was now eyeing me closely. I guess my pause was too long, "You know things are different from me than you, Leo."

"Nah. I don't think you understand. When you've lived as long as I have, you learn a lot of things and people like you, Hazel, only come around one in a lifetime. Trust me."

What did he mean by that?
Had he met someone like me before? In another timeline?

I wanted to dive deeper into that, but I knew I wouldn't get far with Leo.

"Leo-Leo I don't want any bad blood with any of us - especially between you and Dom-"

"There will never be any bad blood between you and I, Hazel-"

"What about you and Dom, then? Y'all are best friends.....brothers-

"I'm not f**king sharing," he interrupted.

I narrowed my eyes.
Excuse me?

"I never said anything about sharing, Leo-"

"Good, because I'm not f**king doing it."

I stared at him in silence for a moment. We needed to have this conversation. And I felt that now would be better than any. If fact, it would be best.

"I'm not sorry that I did it," he confessed.

I looked down at my hands, "I know."

"I just regret not doing it sooner."

I shook my head, trying my best to hold back tears, "I'm just a girl from Detroit, Leo. There's nothing that special about me that's worth the brotherhood you and Dom have. Y'all need each other. Y'all are stronger together than apart and you both know that. Everyone knows that!"