Chapter 83


    Chapter 83


    Dimitri:


    | woke up to my phone buzzing, taking me off guard.


    | rubbed the sleep from my eyes as | sat up, and | couldn''t help but frown when I saw it ringing, it was an unknown number. |


    sighed and answered, knowing that avoiding it wasn’t going to be leading to anywhere that was good anyway.


    Normally, unknown numbers were secure lines, and if someone was using it, then. it was someone that we would have been


    associated with.


    | put on my boxers before getting out of bed, careful not to wake Aurora before. putting the phone in my ear, knowing that


    whoever it was waited for a few seconds.


    “You have three seconds to speak before | hang up.” | said, walking out toward the balcony as not to catch Aurora’s attention.


    Thest thing that | wanted was for her to worry at an hour like this one, especially not after our long night.


    “You really did secure the area enough for me not toe to the gathering.” It was Charlotte. My chest ached, and | frowned


    before taking a deep breath. “What do you want, Charlotte?” | asked, showing my annoyance to her. She stayed quiet for a few


    seconds, and | knew for fact that she wasn’t alone in this. The woman wouldn''t have dared called me by herself, that was


    something that | knew very well about her.


    “| used to call you whenever | wanted, but then again, you did not go ahead. looking for the woman that you wanted nothing to


    do with, did you?” She asked, her tone sarcastic. “I am curious about what you told the elders though, or of they ask us, what


    should we tell them. You know, being your ally, we were supposed to be in the introduction of the little one.”


    “What is it that you want, Charlotte? Enough of your games, and | do not have it in me to listen to your bullshit right now.” | said,


    and sheughed. Herugher was that | knew, it was one that meant that she had something in mind, and something told me


    that it wasn’t one that | was going to like.


    “As long as you want to know what | want, Dimitri; then | am going to be very blunt about it. | am not going toe out being the


    loser in this. You gave me a promise, and | am not going to lose everything that | had with you because you are having a fling


    with the woman that you hated.” She said, her tone cold. “She is my chosen mate, and if | chose to be with her, then it is not


    something that concerns you, Charlotte.” | said, and she scoffed. | looked back inside, my eyes catching sight of Aurora who was


    peacefully asleep on our bed, her heartbeat and breathing calm, letting me know that she didn’t wake up. My stomach churned,


    and something inside me told me that Charlotte wasn’t going to let things go by easily, and that was not something that | wanted


    to deal with right now.


    “You did not want her, and as far as | can remember, you promised me that touching her was not going to be an option. Say that


    you did it the first time out of duty, | let it slide, but it does not mean that | am going to let things go when you chose to tell me that


    | belonged to you. My apologies, but | lost everything for your love, and | was willing to give it up.” She said, and |ughed,


    shaking my head.


    “You lost them because you wanted to. As far as | can remember, | never forced you to do anything. It was you who epted


    that you would give up your titles...” “To be with you,” she said, stopping me.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g


    “To have the power that came with being with me.” | said, correcting her phrase. “Now, | am going to ask, ONEst fucking time,


    why did you call me, Charlotte? What is it that you want? And I do not want you ying games.”


    “| want us to talk...”


    “You ran away, and | have nothing to talk to with a woman who came to my house to run away...


    “| had no choice, he would have killed you if | didn’t.” She said, making me frown in confusion. “I''ll exin everything, but it can’t


    be done over the phone.” “What are you talking about?” | asked.


    “I''ming, father.” | heard her call, and | took a deep breath. “Meet me in our garden tomorrow evening, where we had our first


    date; I''ll exin everything there.”


    | went to answer, but she was quick to hang up, taking me off guard. | red at the phone for a few seconds, tapping the railing


    before | turned to go back inside to my mate. |id by her side, taking a deep breath as | tried thinking straight, and | couldn''t


    help but find myself getting lost in thoughts as | put my phone on the dresser beside me.


    | looked down at her, watching as she slept peacefully, and running my finger over her lower back, | couldn’t help but shake my


    head before leaning down to k*ss her shoulder gently.


    She was still asleep in my arms, and | couldn''t help the small smile that formed on my I*ps when | saw that she trusted me


    yesterday to tell me what happened. The pain that she was in was one that | didn’t like, but | understood that | couldn’t me her


    for it. Her finding out that she was in front of her father this entire time and yet, the man didn’t have the audacity toe and tell


    her who he was wasn’t something that | understood. But | knew not to talk about it right now.


    | knew for fact that elders having children was not allowed, and that was one thing that exined the probable reason why he


    was choosing to hide her. But if that was the case, | was curious about who her mother was.


    “Dimitri? Did Angelina wake up?” Aurora asked, frowning in confusion. She sat up, and | shook my head at her, putting both my


    hand on her shoulders as |


    pushed her down toy gently. Her eyes were fixed on mine and | shoo my head


    in assurance.


    “She is still asleep. | woke up because | have a few things to go and get ready for with Ivan. You know, with his weddinging


    up and with our gathering, we had a few things piled up.” | said, assuring her. Thest thing that | needed right now was for her


    to be worried about anything, and the fact that | knew that she wasn’t going to like this was not one that | was going to deny. But I


    also knew that | had to find a way to deal with this.


    “Can''t it be der in the afternoon?” She asked, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. “It was a long night as it was, and | am


    guessing a little rest is needed, no?” | looked at her and smiled before getting up from bed. | picked up my phone from the


    dresser to text Ivan for when he woke up to see the message.


    -We need to go to my and her garden tomorrow. She called...


    “Alright, | texted him the time. Better now?” | asked, and she smiled and nodded before leaning in to k*ss me. | smiled into the


    k*ss, the guilt that | felt was one that | didn’t expect, but | knew for fact that she wouldn''t ept me telling her that | was going to


    meet up with Charlotte. However, the meeting was to put her in ce, that was something that | was going to make sure of.


    “Come on, let''s get some sleep. You need to rest if you have a load of work to tend


    {eos