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“Are you threatening me?” He growls at me, really pissed off at this point, “listen, I don’t know what your problem is but I…”
“YOU are my problem!” I snap at him, watching him flinch back, “I hate you more than I have ever hated someone in my entire life. I DESPISE you; I would be happy if you just DIED. I don’t need you around MY mate. You’re just the burden who walked through the door thinking that he owned the place.”
I can practically see the gears turning in his head as he is processing everything that I’m telling him right now. I have no problem kicking him to the curb even if that means pissing Sophia off. I know what’s best for us right now and I don’t need some ‘child’ rushing in and ruining everything that I have worked so hard for. I know she will forgive me because she loves me and I’ll make her see reason when I explain to her that this bastard is no good. He would just end up hurting her, ruining our relationship, and there would be NO turning back from there. I can see why she might be a little upset after that but I’m doing it for her sanity as well as my own. I honestly don’t think that bringing another man into our relationship would be the best thing because I know we both would end up regretting every possible second of it.
I just hope that she understands this when I explain it to her later.
“Listen, we can figure something out.” He tries to reason with me, honestly just pissing me off even more than I already was, “I have been longing to meet my fated mate and I don’t want to lose her like that. I’m sure you don’t want to lose her either if she were to find out what you did… Is that a risk you’re willing to take?”
I’m not sure what happened but something inside of me snaps. I rush across the room towards him, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt. I yank him closer, watching his eyes widen in shock when he looks at me. I’m more than just a little pissed at this point. I want to kill him. I want to rip his head off and be done with it. I want him to know what MY wrath feels like because I could promise him this, he won’t like it if I officially went off on him.
“You’re going to leave and never contact us again.” I tell him, seeing how his eyes narrow at the challenge, “because if you so much as come near her again, I will make your life a living hell. I come from a very influential family, I could have you ‘disappear’ and nobody would ever find you again. I’m sure you have people who would miss you if you did.”
I know I am risking it when I am standing here threatening him. I might be a wolf-shifter but a bear-shifter can be a formidable foe who can hold his group. I could always tell by the sheer size of him that I needed to watch my back. I didn’t want to die by his hands, especially if he decided that he wanted to turn against me and make it so he would only have Sophia to himself. I didn’t want to believe it, scared out of my wits that she would pick him over me. It’s selfish, I know, but wolves are very possessive and territorial creatures. It doesn’t help that he isn’t a wolf as well.
If he were to get her pregnant, I don’t know what kind of cubs they would end up creating. I don’t even want to imagine it. Would they be wolves or bears, or something in between? Would we risk being thrown out of our pack because we are also fated to someone who could be considered a loner? Bears are solitary creatures, that much I can say, and they don’t run around in groups like we do. They don’t like settling down and staying in one place. I have another fear that he’s going to end up breaking her heart if he decides that this life isn’t for him.
“I don’t know what is going through your head but I have no intention of just walking away.” Craig murmurs coldly, staring me down, “and you’re going to be sorely mistaken if you think I’ll do so easily.”
“I don’t care what you have to say, you just need to walk away from her.” I tell him coldly, letting him go, “don’t drag her down and away from her pack just because you’re okay with being a loner. You’ll just end up leaving and I will be stuck having to pick up the pieces.”
He’s staring at me like I had grown two heads, like I didn’t know what I was talking about. I did know exactly what I was talking about because I have met bear-shifters before. I know what they are like and I don’t trust them one bit. I would rather have her mated to a lion, at least they are loyal when it comes to their Queen. A bear… They change their minds so quickly.
I thought that I would have to fight him more about it but he walks away from me, grabbing his things on the way out. I’m quite surprised that he walked away from me so quickly, angering me a little bit because that just proved to me that he didn’t care so much about Sophia to fight for her. I’m tempted to hurt him and run after him, but I just stand there, watching him leave.
If that’s how he wants to be, fine.
We don’t need him anyways.
Chapter Six
Sophia
I was confused when I realized Craig had left sometime after I had fallen asleep. I thought that we would wake up together and I would make us breakfast, but Declan had grumbled something about Craig leaving last night after cleaning me up. It didn’t make much sense to me as to why he would just leave like that and Declan wasn’t answering me so well either. I have a feeling that he is partially the reason as to why Craig left last night but I didn’t want to believe it at all. I was baffled more than anything because I had no idea what could be going through his head right now. If he honestly thought that Craig would just up and leave, then he should have woken me up and maybe I would have been able to stop him.
I glare coldly at Declan because I do have a feeling, he is the reason why Craig left last night. I don’t have any proof, obviously, but something inside of me is screaming the fact that Declan has been avoiding my gaze. He ALWAYS does that when he has something to hide, making me purse my lips in frustration because I honestly have no idea what’s going through his head right now. It’s driving me just a little wild because I just don’t know what can be going through his head to make him like this.
I just need to ask him flat out, I think.
“Declan, do you have anything to do with why he left last night?” I ask him softly, seeing how he is avoiding my gaze once more, “just tell me the truth and I won’t get so mad at you. I can understand that things happen but you need to be honest with me about what YOU did. Okay?”
He folds his arms across his chest, being stubborn, “what does it matter? He’s the one who walked away, Sophia. You need to just realize that he isn’t as good as you thought he was and maybe it’s time to move on. He’s a bear-shifter and I doubt he would have stayed for very long anyways.”
I’m staring at him at this point because it is VERY clear to me now that he has something to do with why Craig left last night. I hate accusing somebody of something without any proof but when I stare at him, I just know it in my heart that there is no way that he just did all of this without some gain.
“You chased him away, didn’t you?” I demand to know, folding my arms across my chest, “are you kidding me? After everything I told you yesterday?”
He flinches back, his jaw clenching with frustration, “what does it matter, Sophia? You don’t need two mates to make you happy. I…”
“It’s not even that!” I’m yelling at this point, making him look at me clearly, “are you so blinded by jealousy that you don’t even notice?”
He flinches once again, pursing his lips, “I’m not jealous. I just…”
“What?” I yell at him, getting really upset at this point because I don’t know what’s going to remotely make me feel better at this point, “there’s nothing that you’re going to say to me right now that’s going to make any of this better. He might not even talk to either one of us because of what YOU did and that’s the only logical explanation that I can come up with. YOU did something to piss him off and now I’m the one who’s going to have to live with the repercussions of it. Do you not realize how messed up this is? I’m never going to forgive you if he doesn’t want to see me again.”
I know that I might be exaggerating a little bit because there’s no way I could leave Declan on the backburner like that, but I want him to think it like I would. He’s never going to learn unless I make it clear that I’m not going to put up with his childish games anymore. I know that he just wants to protect me because he loves me, but sometimes enough is enough. I can’t keep continuously doing this, especially when I’m the one who’s going to get hurt in the long run.
“I…” He tried to speak but I cut him off.
