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“Aurora!” A voice called from far behind me.
I recognized the owner of that voice, but I wasn’t ready to speak with Aiden yet, so I ignored him. With long strides, I made my way straight to my first class, hoping to slip into it before Aiden could catch up with me.
“Aurora! Wait! I just want to talk to you!” He yelled, but I forced a smile and waved at him as I slipped into my class and shut the door behind me.
14
Aurora
I’d thought that running from Aiden was all the association I would have with the Crawford boys for the day, but when I stepped out of my sparring class, I found Mateo leaning on the wall opposite the door. His head was bowed such that his side bangs were covering his eyes, but his gaze was fixed on the door to my classroom.
Our gazes met as soon as I stepped out of the classroom. Before I could turn around to avoid him and mingle with the few students exiting my class, he took long strides toward me, grabbed my hand in an iron grip in front of everyone, and dragged me away.
“What the hell are you doing, Mateo? Let go of me.” I whispered along the way as he dragged me away with him, regardless of the countless eyes watching us.
Until we got to an empty classroom, he didn’t let go of my hand. He even dared to lock the door behind us to prevent me from escaping.
I was seething when he came to stand in front of me, and I couldn’t resist the urge to slap him.
After slapping him, however, I regretted it. A gasp left my lips as the force of the slap sent his face veering sharply to the side.
He turned to face me and nodded, “You can hit me if you want . . . I know I deserve it.”
I glared at him. “Hitting you doesn’t make me feel better, Mateo.”
“I know . . . I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have done what I did. Even if I wanted to make a point, I shouldn’t have done it by having sex with you in front of a camera.” He apologized.
“You think?” I asked, unable to conceal my irritation. “You seem to have a thing for using sex against others, though. So I can’t fathom why your move shocked me so much. Well, guess what? Checkmate! You won. I don’t want to be anywhere near you or Caden. Ever!”
“Aurora, it was a mistake. Can you reconsider? I saw you with that vampire guy and I was so mad and I . . . I thought you were someone planted into our territory to hurt us and . . . I almost got you kicked out of the pack and then I made that plan for the party without thinking and—”
“Wait, you almost got me kicked out of Crawford? You’re the one who told Alpha Owen about me . . .”
When he lowered his gaze to the floor guiltily, I scoffed. “Telling on me wasn’t enough. You still had to film me in my most vulnerable state? How low can you get, Mateo? First, you threatened and humiliated me in such a nasty way the first time, and then this . . . Consider things from my point of view—if you were in my shoes, could you find it in your heart to forgive me?”
He frowned, stepped closer to me, and cupped my face. “I know that what I did was unforgivable, but I need you to forgive me, Aurora. I can’t sleep, I can’t focus . . . All I remember is you crying and hugging that vampire and apologizing . . . Aurora, if I could turn back time, I wouldn’t have done—”
“If you could turn back time, you would still do the same thing. From day one, you never gave me the benefit of the doubt, Mateo.” I reminded him with a scornful smile.
He combed his fingers into his hair and pushed his side bangs back. “What did you expect me to do? I had all these uncontrollable feelings for a girl I didn’t know. Worse yet, my brothers also had the same feelings for her. Before I met you, I had never had a single night of insomnia over a girl, but because of you, I was having sleepless nights and even feeling jealous of Caden for getting you to be his girlfriend. You . . . you were too good to be true, Aurora. I’m so sorry that I refused to believe in you . . . that I kept trying to find a flaw . . . Can you give me a chance to make up for my mistakes?”
He placed his forehead on mine while holding onto my shoulders to make sure that our gazes remained locked. “Before he died, my father met a woman who made him abandon me and betray Alpha Owen and Mac Tire City, and that woman caused his death. I was afraid that you were like that woman and I would become my father. That I would betray Alpha Owen and Caden and Aiden, the three people I cared about the most. I was afraid of you, of my feelings for you. Aurora, please, please try to forgive me?”
At his words and the pain in his eyes, I turned away from him, blinking rapidly to prevent the tears welling in my eyes from falling while holding onto my resolve and shaking my head. “I’m sorry Mateo, I can’t forgive you for making a sex video of me and showing it to everyone at your birthday party to spite me. I . . . Did you ever think about how that could affect my future? I admit it. Yes, I was wrong for sleeping with Levi despite being Caden’s girlfriend. But you have to remember that I wasn’t even speaking to Caden when you found Levi in my room. So, no, an apology isn’t going to be enough. I refuse to forgive you.”
I snatched the key from him and strode toward the door.
“You refuse to forgive me even though I’m your true mate? That Levi guy is lying to you. I knew since the day I met you that you were my true mate.”
His words confirmed my guesses and my hands shook as I realized that everyone whose minds I couldn’t read could be my true mates. There was no longer any doubt that Nina and Norah had been right. I was a Fae Omega.
Without turning back to face him, I answered, “If you dared to do something so outrageous to your true mate, then I still don’t think mating with you is a good idea. Who knows what other humiliating punishments you’ll come up with when you get mad at me in the future?”
I pushed the key into the lock, opened the classroom door, and turned back to look at Mateo. “Even if I forgive the others, I won’t forgive you, Mateo.”
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Aurora
