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“Man, why would you do that?” Jacob cut in; eyebrows raised.
“Yeah! Everyone can see she’s your mate,” Bruno added.
I looked at my brothers and wiped a hand through my hair. Sometimes I wished I was an only child. “You know why I did it.”
“Actually, I don’t,” Luc said.
“Yeah, why don’t you explain it to us, because we all know if another man ever touched Becca you would tear him apart. If that’s not mate worthy then I don’t know what is,” Bruno said.
A flash of jealousy surged through me, and I launched myself at Bruno. I collided with him headfirst, and we both went rolling on the half-built living room floor, me punching wherever I could get a hit in. “Don’t you ever talk about another man with Becca!”
Multiple hands grabbed me and pulled me back.
Bruno laughed on the ground, blood trickling down his face. “You are such a fool.”
Someone turned me around, and I saw Luc’s face right in front of mine. “I’ll share a little something with you seeing how I’m with my mate now.”
“And what would that be?” I seethed.
“You either claim Becca as your own or you’re done for. And I don’t mean you live in self-pity as a bachelor for the rest of your life. I mean your wolf will wither, and you will die a painful death of loneliness knowing you willingly let your mate get away.”
“You’re being over dramatic. Did you know this when you refused to be with Jill?”
“No—”
“So why are you telling me? It might not be true!”
“Because it is true! Miti told me after we found Jill. She said thank goodness me and Jill’s separation was short-lived. I came around eventually to the fact she is my mate. But if I had waited years”—he gave me a pointed look—“and deprived my wolf of her, over time my powers would have waned. If I formally cut her off and had no more contact with her, I would grow old, yes, but my wolf would also stop responding until, eventually, I would not be able to shift anymore. I would turn human and die a painful death knowing I let my wolf wither away because I let my mate get away.”
“You’re telling lies,” I growled.
“Miti never lies, and you know it.”
We stared at each other for a bit, Jacob and Bruno looking on.
I growled, frustration taking hold of every fiber of my being. “Let’s say I can claim her then.”
“You can!”
I held up my hand. “Don’t push me,” I seethed. “Let’s say I can claim her but she doesn’t want me. Becca has great potential; she’s amazing at her work. She’ll soon see I don’t fit into her life plans and that I’ve already held her back too much.”
Luc’s look of pity was the last thing I wanted to see, so I turned away and walked to our parents’ house. Just because he had found a mate didn’t mean he knew everything. And Miti didn’t know everything either. I stomped hard on the steps to my parents’ house.I don’t need my grandmother meddling in my love life.
Brandon
Sitting on Luc’s sofa,I chugged cup after cup of hot tea, relishing the burning sensation pouring down my throat. It mirrored the burn in my heart.I broke her? Denying Becca a relationship had broken her?
The news had cut me to the quick. There was one thing I wanted most for Becca and that was to keep her safe. Again, I had failed, and not because someone else got to her, but becauseI’dhurt her. The message had pushed me down into a deep abyss, one I didn’t know I would ever be able to come out of.
It’d been a few days since Becca had broken up with me, and the irony was we weren’t even dating! I slammed my hand into the coffee table, leaving a dent.Crap, Luc isn’t going to like that.I had made such a scene these last two days at the job site, and now that Luc knew Becca had broken up with me, he didn’t think it wise that I stayed by myself. He’d dragged me to his place and planted me on his sofa, and this was where I had stayed for the last twenty-four hours.
Work didn’t even matter to me anymore. I had tried calling, had driven to her place to talk to her in person, had even stopped by the office to find her, but she had disappeared. Right out of my life. The only evidence that she hadn’t been a dream I’d made up was a text message I’d received from her, reiterating that she wanted to be left alone. I really was crap at taking care of the women I loved the most.
My fingers dug into my scalp, trying to tear out the hurt, but it just kept burying deeper. For a change, my wolf was smug. Mad, but smug. He wouldn’t let me change, and that was a new one. I had never heard of a wolf who couldn’t change whenever they wanted to. It reminded me of Luc’s story, but I wasn’t old yet, and the whole thing about me perishing because I didn’t claim her was bogus. Just another story to scare me into doing what was wrong. It just added to the frustration.
“Feeling sorry for yourself?” Luc said, slamming the door shut as he entered the apartment.
“You wouldn’t understand.”
