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Warren
Another message left on read with no reply. My jaw tensed as I started to pace. How was I going to get through to this woman when she wouldn’t even give me a chance to speak?
If she just told me what I was doing wrong, then maybe I could accept her rejection.
My hand went to my chest, and I rubbed the ache that was forming there at the mere thought of being rejected. My omega hated me, and I had no idea why.
Without her, I knew there’d never be anyone else. That grapefruit and champagne scent was etched into my brain. Her green eyes and sweet laughter haunted my dreams like she was a siren.
A low growl escaped me before I realized it. The alpha inside of me unsettled at the thought of our mate—the one who wouldn’t give us the time of day.
My phone rang. For a moment, hope bloomed in my chest before being squashed completely as Felix’s name scrolled across the screen.
“What?” my word was an angry bark, and I could almost picture him flinching on the other side. I quickly softened it, apologizing before the damage could get worse. “I’m so sorry.”
“Is it her again?” he questioned. His voice was the quiet calm that I’d grown used to. Felix and I had been brothers and best friends for a long time before he moved away on me. “Are you getting ready to head to work?”
Work… yet another rejection.
I'd gotten fired a few days ago because I couldn’t stop checking my phone and focus on the job. Everything in me was focused on the omega that wouldn’t even talk to me. I was hurt. There was no denying that. Hurt was the base feeling at all of this, but there was also worry—wondering what happened to her to make her push everyone away, especially someone that sheknewwas her mate.
“No job anymore,” I admitted, sitting down with a huff, rubbing my hand over my temple. A headache was starting to form, but then again, one had been aching at the back of my skull for days now.
“Are you serious?” he gasped. “What the hell, Warren?”
“My life is falling apart, Felix,” I said with a heavy sigh.
“Come stay with me. Maybe Lockwood is exactly what you need. The flower shop could use some extra hands on deck for a bit. I was planning to hire someone anyway. I can’t say the pay is amazing, but it’ll be something for now.”
My chest ached at his offer. I’d always been laughed at for being an emotional alpha. I wasn’t hard and crazy like some of them were, and here I was getting sappy over my best friend.
Then again, Felix was never just a friend. He was family. In fact, he was my only family for a long time. When his family took me in, it was the first time I really saw what a family should be.
Then he’d moved away.
I hated it, but he saw the storefront that they were selling and fell in love and moved. He always wanted me to come but knew I was too stubborn.
At one point in our lives, we thought we’d be a pack, but he was under the impression that it wasn’t possible. He needed an alpha and I wasn’t his, we couldn’t make it work. More than one alpha happened, but not often enough to be reassuring.
I was planning to prove him wrong when Tori ran away from me. Now maybe I needed to take a few breaths, get my wits, and try again in a few weeks.
“Alright.”
“What, really?” he gasped. Clearly, he didn’t believe me. Then again, I’d been more than a little difficult in the last few weeks.
He’d received more than one phone call of me freaking out over this. In my defense, I was being rejected by the one person in the world who was supposed to be mine. That would take down anyone’s ego a few notches.
It was a blow I wasn’t expecting either.
“Our lease is up in the apartment anyway. You may as well come join me,” he hurried before I could change my mind. “It’s got one more month left, right? Do you need me to cover that rent?”
“No, I paid up last month,” I admitted.
“See, fate at work again,” he said excitedly.
“You’re such a romantic,” I laughed, the sound strained even to my ears.
