Chapter 20
“I’m sorry, Lola. I was just excited. I was in my mate’s arms, I ignored what was in front of us at the moment”, she answered me apologetically.
“Lola, child, what’s your relationship with Grayson?” Rose asked me and I felt my heart rate going up again.
“He is the future Alpha of my former pack and my former mate”, I answered her truthfully and heard a sharp intake of breath from Rose and Jayden.
“Former mate? You mean you had another mate before Adrian?” Rose asked me and I nodded weakly feeling tears stream down my face again.
“Did he treat you badly? Is that why you ran away from the pack?” Jayden asked me and I shook my head negatively.
“He rejected me because I wasn’t good enough and picked someone he wanted “, I told her the partial truth. I could not dive into the details because I did not want to recount bad memories.
“He rejected you and that was why you ran from the pack?” She asked again and I nodded my head. I couldn’t tell her that whole truth, I did not want to be looked down upon.
The whole room went silent and I looked up to see Jayden’s eyes glazed over, he was probably mindlinking Adrian. Rose kept running her hands through her hair in distress and looked to be holding in her tears.
“Adrian wants you at the pack house, Lola”, Jayden said to me and I felt my hands trembling again.
“Oh, oh, okay. I’d go there now”, I replied in a shaky voice and made to stand up to leave.
Jayden stood up too and I looked over to him in confusion. “I am going to take you there, except you don’t want me to?”, He said and I assured him I could go on my own.
Rose gave me a hug before she saw me off to the entrance of the house. I gave her a watery smile as I left and waved at her once I was some distance away from the house.
As I walked to the pack house, my thoughts raced a thousand miles per hour. What if Adrian already made up his mind to give me back to Grayson? It’s not like he liked me to start with in the first place.
I could not even cry as I walked towards the pack house, I was numb and tired. I wanted to just crawl into my bed at Adrian’s house and sleep. I even thought I was in a dream until I slapped myself to confirm.
I met Lyla as I made my way into the pack house. “Hey, bestie. How’s Rose treating you?” She said animatedly as she skipped towards me.
“Hi, Lyla”, I replied back meekly and her face showed she wasn’t okay with how I responded to her.
“Just ‘hi Lyla’? Is that how to……..”, she was about to reply to me when Nathan showed up with a stoic face.
“You’re here, Lola. Follow me, Adrian is waiting for you”, he said to me, completely ignoring Lyla. Lyla was about to open her mouth to talk when I gave her a pleading look to drop the matter.
I followed behind Nathan quietly and Adrian’s scent washed over me as we stood in front of the door. Nathan opened the door and I entered after him.
My eyes found Adrian first and he looked to be very angry, which made me shiver with fear. I hoped that anger was not directed at me.
I made the mistake of looking around the room and found Grayson’s dark beaded eyes that made my skin crawl with the look he was giving me.
This bastard truly found me, was my thought as my body shook uncontrollably. And it wasn’t in a good way.