Chapter 9

Ariel.

"Hey arie?" my head snaps to the man entering my room. Arie? only Justin calls me that.

"Eden" I acknowledge moving from the window to sit on my bed.

He closes the door and walks in to sit next to me.

"Sorry about yesterday," he says and I scowl at him, I hate pity. Every time he sees me is all sorries, am sick of it.

'Am sorry your mate rejected you and you had to suffer the pain of the heat' is written all over his face. Fuck you too eden.

" That thing I told you about, we are doing it today" I go straight to the point and he sighs avoiding my gaze.

Don't you dare change your mind or am scratching your eyes out of their sockets. I scream in my head.

"Do you think it's a good idea? I mean alpha was devastated yesterday at your condition" he says scratching the back of his neck.

Is he fucking stupid? Of course, Lance was devastated because the mate bond compelled him to, not because he was concerned for me.

It's an instinct to protect your mate when they are in danger. Just th