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Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 11.1: Good Company
CeciliaOf course I put on my big girl pants and bailed him.What is unrequited love? A great sacrifice of yourself. You would be happy and ecstatic for days with just a look or a waving finger from him. You know very well that no matter what you do, he will never love you and he doesn't owe you anything. I willingly gave him the power to hurt me. I had it coming.So I didn’t go meet him at the hotel for whatever he planned.I go home instead, where I pour myself a large glass of wine and put my phone on Do Not Disturb mode so I can’t be tempted to pick up if he calls again. Then I open up the pictures on my phone and navigate to an album where I’ve collected a few photos of Emeric.There aren’t many. I don’t actually have a single picture of the two of us together. The other photos in the album I’ve taken in secret over the years. I go through and delete them all, one at a time. I’m left feeling lonely when they’re gone. My love failed, as my mother told me, "Finding someone you l
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 11.2: Everybody Wins
Cecilia“Miss Thornhill,” the lithe blonde says as the trio enters the barn, casting long shadows in their wake. "What an unexpected pleasure.” Victoria smiles at me, and if I didn’t know any better, I’d think she actually looked happy to see me. Until she showed me her true colours, I didn't hate her that much; she was one of those sweethearts who grew up with everything she wanted, treated people kindly, and probably never took public transportation in her life. As it turns out, even the nicest girl can get ugly in love.I do know better now. I know she’s just a good actor.I avoid looking Emeric in the eye for as long as possible. When I finally do, I find a staggering intensity in his gaze. But he doesn’t greet me. He doesn’t say a word.We've all known each other for so many years to know that no action is the best reaction.Dalton rushes forward as I get up from the couch. Victoria tugs on Emeric’s arm, and he lets her pull him over to the bar.“It’s really you,” Dalton says,
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 12.1: Go Our Separate Ways
Cecilia“What’s your problem, Cecilia?” Emeric glares down at me like I’m a child. Like I’m being a brat over something that’s a non-issue. I hate his tone. I hate the look in his eyes.It’s like he didn’t hear a word I actually said.I want to yell at him. I want to cry. I also want to just fucking walk away. I’m so tired of all this.But Emeric Garvalle, it’s becoming quite clear, will simply not take no for an answer.He is a werewolf billionaire with noble lineage, good background, good career, never take no for an answer. I I am a hybrid who needs to work 24/7 to earn a living. How could I ask for someone who had whatever he wanted to love or understand me? I take a deep breath. And then another.Emeric tries to close the distance between us and I twist away, winding up with my back against the door of my cabin. I wish I could say something that would hurt him. I wish I could make my mouth form the words: I just don’t love you anymore.But that would be a lie. Even now, when
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 12.2: So Be It
CeciliaCinderella only exists in fairy tales.Everyone knew that Emeric Gravalle didn't have an official partner, only a secretary who bothered him madly for years.And privately, Emeric's friends of comparable stature laughed at me for years about how Emeric's former companions received expensive gifts and unlimited credit cards. I also had to remember the preferences of his female companions and make arrangements.I'm the lowest of the low, the one who offers to do it. I've been taking care of him for years, and from the day I first lay in his bed seven years ago, I thought I was special. It turns out I am not.It's no use fooling myself, nothing can fool me into thinking I'm not completely pathetic right now.“You really wanted to be together?” he asks, still with that critical expression on his face, as if I am a project report waiting to be evaluated.No matter how excited I had just been, how much I held back, how restrained I was, I was irrational in his eyes.Obviously not l
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 13.1: Luxuries
Cecilia Emeric’s words keep drifting back into my mind. “Move in with me if you must.” In that huffy, irritated tone of voice.I still start shaking with anger every time I think about it, even though it’s been two days since it happened.I kicked Emeric out of the cabin after he stormed inside behind me. And then I avoided him and his friends for the rest of the trip. Back home now, I’m wandering my apartment aimlessly and replaying the whole thing in my mind for probably the millionth time. Next thing I know, I’m in the kitchen, pouring myself a big glass of cabernet. I pause, though, when the glass is about half full. Because I’ve just realized that I don’t actually want to drink it. I dump the glass out in the sink. And then the rest of the bottle, too. I really don’t need to get drunk again and make another ill-advised phone call to my mother. And I don’t need to develop another bad habit to replace Emeric, either.I need to find a way to deal with this whole thing properly a
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 13.2: Restraint
CeciliaThe top floor is Emeric's separate office area, with everything you need for a living apartment. This sprawling, beautiful office has been like a second home to me for the better part of a decade. It does feel different now. Now that I’ve been gone a few weeks.It feels foreign. It feels like I shouldn’t be here.“Anna, get us two coffees.” Emeric clicks an ink pen closed and tosses it down onto a mess of paperwork on his desk.“Right away, sir.” Anna turns on her heel and hurries out of the office.“Have a seat.” Emeric gestures to the client chair opposite him.I don’t want to sit, though. I shake my head slowly and remain where I am.His dark eyes narrow just a little.“Blocked my number?” He gives me a hard, blank look, reclining in his big leather chair. I just shrug. His question was rhetorical. He knows I blocked him. Emeric outright glares at me now. “Listen, what day are you moving in?” he says. “Call my driver if you have a lot of stuff to bring over. You have hi
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 14: It's Over
Cecilia He just wants to control me. I can see now what’s happening. Emeric’s probably not even aware of it himself, but I know him. I have studied him for years and can read him like a book.Emeric is a control freak, and I used to let him control me. Now, he hates that he can no longer do whatever he wants with me.…and he wants to break me back into submission. I take another deep breath before I answer. “Setting aside the facts that your sister would never approve of me living with you, and that you don’t even seem to like the idea of living with me—can we just talk about us for a minute first, Emeric?” Emeric half groans, half growls. He looks down at his watch. “You want to keep talking? Fine. You have ten minutes.” What I really want is to leave this place immediately. But I guess I have more work to do, to find a way to get through to Emeric and appease him enough that he won’t retaliate against my current employer.Holding eye contact with him is intense and exhausting.
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 15.1 : Not Everyone Can Do What Cecilia Does
AnnaI always knew there was something going on between the two of them, but this?!What the hell is this game they’re playing? Clearly, there’s more to Mr. Garvalle’s relationship with Cecilia than his gossipy sister has told me. Clearly Serena didn’t have all the facts, herself. The tension between my boss and his former secretary is impossible to ignore as I move through the scene awkwardly, doing my best to act professional and not like I’m internally screaming at the revelation unfolding right in front of me. I watch Cecilia leave the office and turn my back to her. I don’t want to catch her eye again.Mr. Garvalle is frowning at a file, but it doesn’t really look like he’s actually reading. “Mr. Garvalle?” I ask timidly. “Your driver is still waiting at—” “Driver?” He looks up at me, distracted. “Oh. Just tell him to go.” “Alright.” “Where did Cecilia used to send my clothes to be cleaned?” Nervous, I offer the boss a polite smile. I don’t think he’ll like it when I tell
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