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    “I don’t know what to tell you Alpha, I haven’t heard anything from the drivers she was cordial to…”


    Dillion stood in my office, trying to help me figure out what I had done wrong to make her this upset.


    My gaze kept drifting outside, would she even being over this weekend? She texted me she


    had half a mind to sk ip. Suddenly in the distance, I saw a silver Porsche drive up to the gate. I


    knew that Porsche because I made sure to give her a unique car. Barely exining myself to Dillion


    I ran out to be in time to greet her. I don’t know why she was 30 minutes earlier than expected.


    When I feared she wouldn’te at all I didn’t care. She was here so I could talk to her, find out


    what I did wrong, and make up for it again. Allst weekend had done, all our texting had done was


    prove to me that A was the best mate I could ever wish for. It had made me sure no chosen mate


    could evere close to her. So I rushed outside to be in time to greet her. I wanted to make sure I


    was the one who would walk her to the castle.


    Finally, she gets out of the car and she looks so beautiful. In just simple jeans and a brightly colored


    knit sweater. I noticed she often wears knit sweaters as opposed to hoodies and I wondered why


    that was. Maybe I should ask her about it. That would be another time though because she is still


    mad. She didn’te over for me she did not want to disappoint my parents. My family but she isn’t


    sleeping in my bedroom. The room I made up for her. She would not be sleeping in my bed. The


    bed which bedding I changed to match hers, including a bunch of throw pillows like she had on


    hers. And there is no room for me toe to terms with it before my parents arrive. Obvious of


    what is happening. On instinct, I put my hand on her lower back to guide her to my parents.


    Instantly I grow rigid, what if she does not want me to? My parents are so proud of me and afterst


    weekend they


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    praised me for being such a good mate. Will A tell them the truth about how I am the worst mate


    there is? Hell, I told them we spent the night in a guestroom. They will surely question what’s going


    on if she suddenly wants to spend the night in one of the guest rooms. Or worse the guest home


    meaning she would not even sleep close to me.


    “Wow Griffin, did not brag you are truly beautiful” Mom squeals before I can get a word in, and I feel


    myself grow even tenser when A answers her.


    “Thank you Misses Taylor that means a loting from someone as stunning as you. Even if I have


    learned that Griffin here likes to overdo things” She smiles back at my mother.


    Something I did was overdoing it, and I don’t know what it is. She seemed fine about me giving her


    the bookshelves. And when I told her I would make sure she could travel to me she agreed too.


    There was no way I could let her drive a beat-down car. After all, I still hoped she would one day be


    the queen. There is a certain status thates with being royalty. She was smart enough to


    understand that. I was sure she was. For now, I couldn’t do anything but watch her smile andugh


    with my parents. Just as I predicted I saw them fall in love with her instantly. Only I had expected to


    feel nothing but pride. Not this, looking on from the sidelines to see my mate like my parents more


    than she seems to like me. Honestly, I never felt jealous. I’ve stayed single for all of my life to meet


    my fated mate. I’ve seen people get jealous of their friends, co-workers of random wolves they met


    who seemed to have something they didn’t. Never had I felt like that, I envied wolves who had their


    fated mate. It was something I longed for too but I was never jealous I never wish it was me instead


    of them. All I had hoped was it would be me like them.


    Now even my Mother touching A makes me feel jealous, I wanted to push everyone away. Go to


    my chambers and cocoon with her there protect her from everyone and anyone. I know it is


    because she hasn’t


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    epted me as her mate yet. Until she does this terrible jealousy will re up every time someone


    interacts with her. So that is going to be fun when we are attending a party tomorrow. I followed my


    parents and A inside the castle, not getting a word in. There is this anger building up inside of me


    I don’t want her to ice me out. She needs to just talk to me and tell me if she doesn’t like something


    I have done. I am getting sick and tired of the fact that I have topete with some dips hit who


    didn’t realize what she is worth. Ccontent ? exclusive by N?/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.


    “Griff put a lot of effort into making his room suitable to have you over. He told us you spend the


    night together in your grandparents’ guestroom. So we figured there would be no issues with you


    sleeping in his room tonight?” Dad tells A followed by the suggestion I show her my room.


    He wants us to have a bit of privacy so A can settle in before we go have dinner. It is without a


    doubt a sweet suggestion. Little does he know she does not want to spend time with me alone. That


    she ns on sleeping in a guestroom regardless of what we didst week. All because she is still


    unable to let go of her past. We say goodbye to my parents and head to my wing of the castle. She


    doesn’t say a word still icing me out like she is someone entirely different from the cute girl who was


    joking with my parents mere seconds ago.


    “I hope you have guest rooms in your wing, that way your parents don’t need to know I won’t be


    sleeping with you” She scoffs at me the second the door closes.


    And I cannot handle it anymore, the constant fear of rejection. Sure I have messed up but we are


    just getting to know each other. How can she expect me to know/everything to do everything right


    from the second we’ve met each other? I am still trying though, so I ask her what it is I did wrong.


    Swallowing done “this time” because it is unnecessary and will only upset her more.


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    “You bought me a freaking car Griffin and not any car a custom- designed Porsche. Delivered within


    a week. Do you really think you can just buy me like that?? She shouts at me.


    That is it she feels like I am buying her. I knew it, she won’t ept any of the kind or sweet things I


    am trying to do for her. Trying to second guess my motive with everything. And being rejected by


    your mate, who even used to be your best friend at some point must be traumatizing I get that. But I


    have lost a mate too, I grew up thinking I would never be able to find my fated mate. Yet here I am


    more than willing to make it work. When she is sabotaging us and herself with every step.


    “Oh get over it A I want to treat you to something nice. I lost a mate to you know. Yet you don’t


    see me making life harder on you because of the trauma it brought me” As soon as the words leave


    my l*ps I know I made a mistake.


    A rejects before I have the time to backtrack, she doesn’t say a word. She starts to undress and I


    don’t know what to do or what to say to her now. This doesn’t make any sense she is crying as she


    carefully folds every piece of clothing she has taken off. All I want to do now is gather her up in my


    arms and make it all feel better. But how can I if I do not know what is hurting her? She looks at her


    dressed in just her underwear.


    “When you lost your mate, you got a dainty little mark, Griffin, because your mate was forced to


    leave you behind before she even knew you. My mate chose to walk away from me and these are


    the marks that are left behind because of it” She tells me oddly calm before turning around.


    And what I see makes my stomach drop.


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