CHAPTER 4— DON'T CRY

"You smell like her...you smell so much like her...Celeste my love."

His face drew even closer to her neck and on the soft skin, he laid a gentle kiss. "You kinda look like her too or maybe it's just that I miss her too much."

Celia's face hardened as she pushed him away, the pain in her heart unbearable. "Don't touch me when you're thinking about someone else, you want nothing to do with me, act like it."

She stomped her way towards the exit, but just before she opened up the door Xavier grabbed her. "You can't leave, I'll advise them to kill you if you go out there."

"Don't think for a second that it's Celeste you're talking to, I'm a beta, I'm not weak...I survived a war on sheer will power, I can survive anything else."

She tried pulling her hand out of his, but Xavier pulled her against his chest. "I'm sure you wouldn't be able to win a fight against Kail if he came out there for you, and furthermore, I chose you...you'll have to stay...you'll have to be Luna."

"I did not ask to be chosen, I wasn't apart of the desperate whores who were displayed in front of you like dolls."

"Then why were you here? Why did you come?"

Celia stiffened. "Beca...Because..."

"You couldn't forget me, could you?"

"It's not that..." Celia whispered, all the power that had been in her voice gone. "I just wanted to see."

"See me?"

She pulled away from his chest and looked up at him. "No...see her...see who you'd really choose if you didn't want me."

"Then doesn't that mean that you couldn't forget me, you still want me, don't you?"

"Not if you don't want me...I will not put myself through pain for nothing at all, in fact I want to leave."

"If you leave, I'll be forced to choose somebody else, somebody not you."

"I don't care."

"But I do...If I have to choose a mate then it's going to be yo—"

Celia held up her hand in defence. "Not again, I'm not going to stand and let you play me again. I'm not a fool anymore, I now know who you truly wanted and she's the same person you want now."

"Celi—"

"I want to go."

"You can't go, I told you already." He reached forward to touch her face, but Celia slapped his hand away. "Don't touch me, the mate bond will not coax me into being used by you again. You know what you do to me, right? Perhaps that's why you used me then discarded me and now you're back again? I trusted you Xavier! You told me that you'd love me forever, you said I'd be yours and you'd be mine...but I was the stupid one, shouldn't have spread my legs for a hot man I found in the forest...I was always told that I was easy."

She walked over to the door and this time she opened it before Xavier could stop her. Down the hall she walked, only stopping when Xavier grabbed her hand. "F*cking hell, Celia!"

He hauled her back into the room, ignoring Celia's disapproval and her desperate pulls to get away. "You're not going anywhere. I said I chose you, if you didn't want to be chosen, you wouldn't have showed up here, you wouldn't have stood on the side-lines flirting with my brother either and you're right...you were easy."

Celia's mouth dropped, her eyes shadowing with anger. "You piece of sh*t..." Her hand rose and aimed to slap him across the face, but then he effortlessly grabbed it, his hazel eyes appearing darker.

"It seems before you came here you neglected to find out who I really am. I'm not the Xavier you use to know, if you disrespect me, you die and it won't be different with you because you're my mate. Nobody has been audacious enough to lay a threatening hand on me and whenever I walk into a f*cking room, the people in it are suppose to shiver. Don't f*ck with me Celia, because you might end up provoking the wrong side of me."

He dropped her hand and Celia scuffed at him. "I guess this is what I get...isn't it? I should've taken a step back when you took one forward and I shouldn't have laid my head on your f*cking pillow."

"You're acting as though you were a virgin, you weren't...you said so yourself."

"And so? The tainted doesn't deserve to be loved? Because I f*cked someone who wasn't my mate, I don't deserve love?"

"That's probably the case with you."

"You're a bastard...I want absolutely nothing to do with you."

"Well that's sad, because if you even try setting a foot outside this pack house, you'll regret it. You won't be treated with such kindness, I'm putting you in the dungeon and for going against my orders, you'll be starved for a week."

"Go ahead, threaten me...your threats won't stop me from trying. Being starved for a week is better than looking at you for more than a day, now if you'd excuse me."

"I swear to god if you take a step towards that door you won't like it."

"I do what I want, I'm not like Celeste, I'm not obedient."

The last bomb in Xavier's head ticked and he grabbed her by the wrist and hauled her out of the room. "It's been three years since anybody has spoken to me in such a manner. How would you like to die? Slowly...? Quickl—"

"You won't kill me, Xavier. All of your threats are empty, I'm sure."

Xavier stopped in the middle of the hallway and turned back to glare at her. "And is that why you keep pushing me? Whether you're a rogue or not, I am your alpha king."

"And you're my f*cking mate too, Xavier!”

Her voice broke as she said those words, making them sound as pitiful as a whimpering dog.

"Celi..."

"You're my mate Xavier! You're not supposed to treat me like this..." Her eyes glossed over with tears and she turned to face away from him. "It hurts, it might not look like it...but it hurts. You need to stop...stop treating as though I'm garbage that you picked up from across the street. I'm not, Xavier...I am your mate."

For the first time in a long time, Xavier felt as the organ in his chest —the one he had refused to acknowledge— beat faster than how it usually does. The mate bond, he could now feel it, coursing through his body, tainting it with emotions. She was crying and it was all because of him.

Slowly he reached for her face, wiping the single teardrop that streamed down her cheek. "Don't cry, at least not because of me..."

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A/N// Alright so...this happened. Xavier really has changed and Celia...she doesn't even seem scared of him. But she's a beta isn't she?

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