Chapter 8: Afraid Of Him

*Amelia*

"Hey, take your filthy hands off my man," I growled angrily at her, not realizing how loud my voice was, and with that, the whole hall went mute immediately as everyone turned their attention towards me…

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Seeing how everyone was looking at me like someone who had grown horns, the reality of what I had just done dawned on me.

I had just announced to everyone that Dr. Alex Darlington was my man even without realizing it.

Dr. Alex Darlington, on the other hand, was busy grinning ear to ear like a father who was proud of something his child had just done.

Unable to withstand the gaze of the onlookers, I immediately rushed out of the hall and started heading to the exit without even looking back.

With everything that had happened lately, it was already clear to me that the day wasn't going to get any better; instead, it was going to get worse and worse, and the only way to prevent something bad from happening again was by doing what I should have done earlier, which was heading back home.

As I was making my way to the exit, I suddenly felt someone grab my hand from behind, pulling me back, and at the same time, my head collided with the hard chest of Dr. Alex Darlington, whom I recognized immediately because of his familiar scent.

Before I could even react, he claimed my lips in a passionate kiss that made me go limp in his arms.

Knowing the kind of person I was, I would have surely kicked him or pushed him away for kissing me without my consent, but in this case I couldn't; instead, I found myself deepening the kiss as I wanted more of it.

When we finally disengaged from the kiss, I couldn't even afford to look him in the eyes due to how embarrassed I was.

Just some hours ago, I was the one asking him to reject me, but now here I was allowing him to kiss me.

Taking hold of my chin, he lifted my head up so that I could look him directly in the eyes.

"It seems like you never get tired of running, little mate. For how long do I have to keep chasing after you? I think it's better you let me know now so that I will start training in advance," he said to me with a warm and charming smile.

"Well, if you hadn't allowed someone else to be flirting with you despite knowing that you have found your mate, then I don't think that there would have been a need for you to chase after me," I said to him with a deep frown, and with that he smiled before pinching my nose.

"You don't know how cute you look when you are acting jealous, my little mate. To begin with, she wasn't flirting with me; we were just having a student-professor discussion, and the lady in question, she's a werewolf and also one of my closest students; that's why it seemed as if she was flirting with me. But since I have found my mate, and a jealous one for that matter, I will start maintaining social distance with all my female students, including the one you saw me discussing with. I hope that's okay with you." He asked me with a warm smile.

"Well, you don't need to do that; after all, I haven't agreed to accept you as my mate," I said to him with a pouted lip, and with that he smiled before pinching my nose once again.

"You haven't yet agreed to become my mate and yet get jealous when you see a lady discussing with me; are you sure that you aren't jealous?" He asked me with furrowed brows.

"No, I'm not," I said to him, and with that he nodded while smiling.

"Well, if you say so, no problem; after all, I have never seen a lady admit that she's jealous, so I don't expect you to be the first," he said to me, and immediately I rolled my eyes at him.

"So what do you say we go back to the party?" He asked me, and immediately I shook my head negatively, knowing that I couldn't afford to go back to the party hall once again, not after humiliating myself before everyone.

"No, I want to go back home," I said to him, causing him to furrow his brow at me.

"Are you sure?" He asked me, and I nodded in reply.

"Okay then, I will walk you to the garage then," he said to me as he held my hand while leading me to the garage.

*Moonstone Pack *

It was a hot afternoon in Moonstone Pack. Adrian could be seen sitting in the backseat of his car that was being driven by his beta, Jake, and right beside him was Mara, who was now his mate, and from the view of things, it was as if she wasn't even paying attention to whatever Adrian was saying.

It wasn't long before Adrian himself noticed that she wasn't paying attention to him, and with that he sighed heavily before tapping her on the shoulder, jolting her back to reality.

"Hey, babe, are you even listening to what I'm saying?" Adrian asked her with an inquisitive look.

"Yes, of course, I'm listening to you," she said to Adrian with a fake smile.

"Really, so what was the last thing that I said?" Adrian asked her with an inquisitive tone, and with that, she lowered her head, not knowing what to say.

"I'm sorry, babe, I was thinking about something else; that's why I wasn't paying attention," she said to Adrian with an apologetic tone.

"Tell me, is it still about Derek?" Adrian asked her, and with that she nodded in reply.

"Come on, I thought I told you to stop worrying about him, it's been five years for crying out loud," Adrian said to her as he took hold of his hand.

"I know babe, but what about if he tries to attack me at the ball, mind you that I had escaped back then without his consent, and even if he doesn't do that, he can try to say something bad about me to you," Mara said to Adrian who scoffed at her.

"It seems like you have forgotten who you are, Mara. You are not only my mate but also the Luna of Moonstone Pack, and attacking you will be the same as attacking Moonstone Pack, and I'm sure that Derek is very well aware of that, so he won't dare go as far as attacking you after learning that you are my mate, and I, on the other hand, am not going to pay attention to any rubbish he's going to say about you," Adrian said to Mara with a reassuring tone.

"Thank you so much for trusting me as always; I really appreciate it," Mara said to Adrian as she hugged him tightly.

"Don't mention it, my love," Adrian said to her as he hugged her back.

To be continued....