Chapter 16
Lola’s POV
No, he couldn’t have found me. I escaped him, I finally left that pack and its people behind and I won’t be dragged back there by Grayson.
I did not know when my cutlery fell out of my hands and I started hyperventilating.
The room was getting smaller, my breaths were coming out short and erratic. I felt like my lungs were being compressed and squeezed. I felt liquid run down my cheeks but I could not even wipe them away. My whole body was numb and I could not react to everything going on around me.
How did he know I was here? I masked my scent, he didn’t even know I have a wolf, nobody knows except the people of Crescent moon pack that saw me enter the pack lands in my wolf form.
I felt small, soft hands around me but that did nothing to comfort me. I started crying harder, I held my chest since it was getting difficult for me to breathe through my tears. I don’t like this feeling, I already left it behind.
“It’s okay, Lola. Calm down please“, I heard Rose’s voice, but I could not react to it even if I wanted to. My body was in shock and everything in my body seemed to not work.
Electricity spread through me and I felt a surge of peace throughout my body as larger, more callous hands held me.
“Hey, it’s okay. You’re okay, Lola“, I heard my mate’s amazing voice and I slowly calmed down. He held me as my body continued to shake
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even though I wasn’t crying as much as I was initially.
“Oh my goddess, mate is holding us. His voice is so amazing and his touch, oh his touch. I was so jealous when he said your name, I wanna hear my name too. You lucky, lucky, extremely lucky human“, Jasmine gushed in my head as my shaking subsided and I could finally breathe again.
“Jasmine!! How are you focused only on the fact that we’re being held by our mate? He doesn’t even want us, he’s probably just being nice that’s all. And Grayson is here in this pack to take us, how are you so chill right now?“I screamed at her in anger in my head and heard her whimper but I wasn’t having any of her fangirl acts at that moment.
As soon as he realized I had stopped shaking, he dropped me like my skin burnt him and I felt Rose take me into her arms, telling me how everything is fine and I’m safe.
I wanted to scream out that I wasn’t safe as long as Grayson was around. I wanted to spill everything that had happened to me to Rose but shame wouldn’t let me. The fear of being abandoned and blamed like my former pack did made me shut up and fry silently.
I sent a quick prayer to the Moon goddess. I know I had been cussing her out since I turned 18, but I was starting to feel like I belonged to this pack and I did not want to be pulled out of it again.
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Rose led me to the couch and then brought me a glass of water. Her motherly eyes never left me, she was watching me like a hawk incase I had another breakdown and that made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
“Jasmine? Girl, I’m sorry I snapped at you just before. I was scared and angry too. Scared that Grayson will take us, scared that Adrian will hand us over to him without even hearing us out. I’m still scared that might happen. I was angry at myself for finding comfort in Adrian’s arms too, he hasn’t even acknowledged us as his mate, I did not want to
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give myself false hope. You chose the wrong moment to be a fangirl. I’m really sorry, Jas“, I pleaded to her in my head, I knew I hurt her when I yelled at her earlier.
“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.
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“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.
I
Rose gave me a hug before she saw me off to the entrance of the house.
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.
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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.
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