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How dare he suggest that what he has gone through is the same as being by your childhood friend and
finding out that it was not friendship between you but him pitying you seeing you as unfit to be anything
other than an omega. How can he suggest that the mark he bears is as bad as the scares that litter my
body? Scars I have from the abuse that was ignited by my rejection? It has been ages since I showed
anyone my naked body. I didn’t stop to think about it before I did. No, I just did it, Griffin brought back
the old A. A girl that was not beaten down so many times she lost the energy to get back up and
fight again.
That was the one thing people didn’t even know. Not even now that they knew of the abuse. Getting
rejected like that, getting mocked by most of my old pack. Getting beaten and attacked to the point my
body could not keep up with its healing anymore. It broke me and it broke more than just my body and
skin. If only a handful of people love and appreciate you. When the one person who is supposed to
love you more than anything in the world. If the one person who has been created to love you by the
MoonGoddess herself can’t bring himself to do it. All because of my physical appearance, and myck
of elegance as he called it. If the pack that is supposed to love and protect you as a familyughs.
behind your back. Then how are you supposed to believe you are truly worthy of loving at all? Let alone
by the Crown Prince.
It made me stop fighting, fighting to find love again or be with my mate. Or fight back against not only
the abuse but the whispers and rumors too. Hiding my body had never been about me being ashamed
of it or my
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scars. It had always been about hiding what was happening to me so that people could not ask me to
fight it. It had been so that I didn’t have to fight to keep the few opinions about me that mattered the
same. And I didn’t know what to feel about the fact that with Griffin I was ready to fight again. Fighting
meant I stood to lose something. With not a lot left to lose that was a scary thought. I expected him to
say something, to go all Alpha on me and want to go after the people who hurt me.
“Oh Darling, I am so sorry I should have never said that please forgive me” he pleaded with me.
His scent enveloped me as he hugged me from behind. On instinct my body went stiff, rigid even. It has
been too long since someone touched me, without ill intend. Within second I could no longer deny the
comfort his scent brought me. I leaned into his embrace, all my anger suddenly forgotten. He kissed
the top of my head again, causing me to sigh. Just as I was about to turn around when there was knock
at the door. Griffin
stepped back like I was on fire. He must be ashamed to be seen with me, werewolves aren’t usually
shy about naked bodies. Not there own but certainly not that of others not even their mates. Seeing
Griffin hide my body from the servant at his door hurt me. This admission of shame was like a stab
through the heart. All the forgotten anger came back fiercer
than it had before.
“Sorry, but we need to get ready my parents are waiting on is, can we talk after dinner?” He atleast has
the decency to look guilty, voice low.
Nodding at him I walk of to my overnight bag, I don’t think there was a
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lot we could talk about. It got increasingly clear that the gap between what we wanted and what we
could give eachother was to big. Still his parents were nice people, excited to get to know me. They
were the whole reason I decided toe over anyway. So I got the nice dress I had brought. Ironically,
it was the little ck dress I had bought to bring to the ball. The one Grandma told me not to wear. She
said it was pretty but more for a funeral and not as much a ball too meer your mate. At this point I was
ready to skip the party tomorrow and just go home after dinner. By Greyhound bus, the fact is was
going to cost me a lot of. money I couldn’t really miss annoyed me even further. Griffin eyed me putting
my dirty clothes back in my bag but he doesn’t say anything about it. He only changes his shirt
changing into a ck one. For a second I wonder if he did this to match my dress. And if so if this was”
because he wanted to match with me because he wanted to show we
sorta belonged together. Or if it just was to make a point of us being a good couple to his parents.
Regardless of the ugly mess between us right
now.
Not that I could me him for thetter. After all that was the same exact reason that made me ce
my hand in the arm Griffin offered me Every one looking at us walking to the diningroom,
no arms intertwined. They would perceive us as the perfect couple. Even if we didn’t speak, from the
outside looking in it would seem like afortable silence. One of these couples that did not need
words tomunicate. He pulled my chair back, still behaving like the true gentleman even when we
entered the dining room. His parents who had also changed clothes beamed up at us. For me I just
was happy to see nobody was dressed up. King Rodrick still wore jeans but paired with a dress shirt
like Griffin. Queen Isabe wore a pencil skirt but with a simple dress on top of it.
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But it was the gift King Rodrick gave me, to emphasize is apology and wee into the family. It was a
signed first edition of pride en prejudice any first edition would be an extremely wee gift. This was
a book I actually loved. One I had a copy of in my own collection. Making it even better.
“Thank you so much this is the most thoughtful gift I have gotten in ages. And I actually love pride and
prejudice” I could not help but beam at the King and Queen.
“Well this has been in the family for ages. Griffin told me you were an avid reader. He figured it was one
of your favorites since your own copy was a little worn down” Queen Isabe told me.
Knowing Griffin noticed little things about me like this confused me more. How could he be so able to
notice the smallest things about me and drawing correct conclusions from it. Only to give me a gift that
was so far from what I would have wanted from him. He never was honest about how he was going to
make sure I could travel to him. And part of me wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. But the
other part, the bigger, strenger and louder part told me not to believe him. To protect. myself at all
costs. For now I decided to just focus on this dinner. On just getting to know his parents. Besides
seeing how he would interact with his family says a lot about him too. Maybe that will help me make up
my mind about him.
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Dinner had only confused me more. Mostly because he showed the guy I
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had got to know duringst weekend. Sweet, patient and funny the guy that I couldn’t stop thinking
about no matter how much it scared me. That guy was not the same guy who bought me a Porsche
just to try and buy me love. All while being so ashamed about the state of my body that he hid me even
from his servants. Now after a delicious meal prepared by his dad just like he promised. We were
walking to his wing of the castle to have a conversation about our future when I didn’t think either.
of us knew what it was we needed to do..
“A I should not have said what I said. But I feel like I am fighting the damage another wolf did to you.
And I can’t anymore” Griffin was the first to speak and I never expected him to break my heart.
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