All Chapters of Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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

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

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

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.

EmericThings were good the way they were. And I don’t even know where it all went wrong. Cecilia just spiraled out of control and decided to cut me off out of nowhere. She just up and left me with no notice. Left without teaching anyone how to do what she did, how to run things around here. It wasn’t right, the way she just abandoned me. And usually, when something’s not right, I make it right.I’m going to get my girl back. At this point, it’s just a question of how long she’ll hold out. I am getting tired of waiting, though. I didn’t do anything to deserve this in the first place, and it really has gone on quite long enough.I was surprised to hear her say she thought about me marrying her. That came out of nowhere, and it took all my restraint to keep from reminding her who I am and how absurd she sounded.I hardly knew how to respond when she said that. But I’ve decided I will not let her use that, or anything else, to try to scare me away. If Cecilia thinks she is in control