Three

"Fine, but I need to eat first." He didn't respond and I continued to make my breakfast.

Should I be a polite person and offer him some food? Hell no, this idiot bit me.

I walked into the living and sat down, Jacob followed me in and looked around the room distastefully.

None of us said a single word, so how did I decided to break the silence? By eating my food. Wow, I did not realise how loudly I ate my food, why does it sound so loud?

"Stop." Jacob muttered. I raised my eyebrows and he continued. "Stop eating like that."

I narrowed my eyes at him but continued. I was hungry! He let out an exasperated sigh as if he was dealing with a child and sat down opposite me.

"Last night was a mistake, it never should have happened." Jacob said his voice low and serious.

"Yeah, I agree. It was a huge mistake." I chipped in.

"Stop talking, I am not finished," he retorted.

I gritted my teeth and took a deep breath in. I hated this man.

"I will try to rectify the mess you created an-"

"I created?" I interrupted again, setting my bowl of Coco Pops on the coffee table. "You bit me, not the other way round."

"You seduced me, I wo-"

Wait, what?! I seduced him?

"I seduced you?" I whispered as I tried to control my anger.

"I am glad you are finally taking responsibility for your actions." he said.

Oh lord, give me strength.

"I didn't seduce you." I screamed at him as I stood up. "You came with us last night for no reason, you didn't have to do. I didn't want you there and I'm pretty sure Jane didn't either but you still came anyway. Then after everyone left, you came back, you asked me to dance. You bit me, you did this! I never should have taken you up on that offer and I never should have slept with you, that was my fault but the rest is you! We're in this situation because of you!"

"Are you done?" Jacob questioned, looking bored.

"Yes, I'm done. I'm done with this stupid conversation!" I sent him a glare before I stormed off.

Well I tried to, Jacob stood up and pushed me back onto the sofa. I looked up at him as he loomed over me.

"I am not done. Do not try to leave again, you will leave when I tell you to."

"Screw you, you wanker. I don't need to listen to you." I got up from the sofa with the intent to leave his presence.

Within a second, he flipped me over so my face was pressing down on the sofa, my hands behind my back in a tight grip. I struggled to get away from him but he was too strong.

With one hand still holding my hands, he crouched down so he was at my level. With a surprisingly gentle touch, he moved my damp hair away from my face so I could see him.

"Shh, stop struggling." He whispered as he stroked my hair. He leaned in so he was only aninch away from my face. "You are going to be a good little girl and listen to what I say."

I looked at him as if he was crazy.

"Let me go or I'll scream my head off. My neighbour likes me, she'll call for help." I threatened helplessly.

Jacob chuckled and brushed his thumb across my lips. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I bit him, hard. Instead of getting pissed off Jacob laughed louder before releasing me.

"Perhaps this will not be so bad after all." he scoffed.

"Don't do that again!" I told him as I sat up and moved away from him. "You have issues, you need to get some help."

Jacob sat back down on the other sofa. "I have a proposal for you."

"I don't care." I snapped at him. "Just get out of my house."

"It is either that or I kill you, your choice." Jacob told me with a shrug.

Never mind, I do care.

"What is it?" I hesitantly asked.

"I shall find out if we can fix that thing." He said as he pointed at my neck. "If we cannot, then I will let you live your life for 80 years and then I will kill you.

I opened my mouth to talk but he raised his hand to shush me. "You are no longer a human anymore, your body will start to change soon. You will become immortal and can live on forever. I do not want you to live on forever, I do not want to have a mate. So I will allow you to live your life for another eighty years- more longer than your average human life and then I will kill you and I shall be free of the mate bond."

I stared at him as I tried to process what he was saying. I wasn't human anymore? I am immortal?

I knew this would happen as it happened to Jane but for some reason I completely forgot about it. What would happen to my parents and family? I couldn't be around them if I was going to become immortal and not age. How much time do I have with them before I had leave? What would I say to them?

"What about my family?" I whispered, thinking about how my parents would feel if I just disappeared one day. "How will I explain this to them?"

"Your family will be dead in eighty years time, it does not matter."

I swallowed the lump in my throat. "What about now though? I can't be around them if I'm not going to age."

"That really is none of my business."

Right, because you don't give a shit about anyone but yourself.

"Fine, I agree to your stupid deal. Can you leave now?"

He raised his finger up. "One more thing. We will not act as mates, we will live separate lives."

I didn't respond and he got the hint, standing up to leave. "I will send someone over to fix your door."

I gave him a quick glance before looking away. I heard him leave and didn't move from my seat as I sat there trying to process everything.

I messed up big time, there was no way around this. Even though Jacob said he would try to fix our situation, I knew it wouldn't be possible, if it was he would have done it already. Instead we're linked to each other until one of us dies- if one of us dies.

I guess I should be grateful he hasn't killed me yet, I know he must be thinking about it and for him that is the easiest and quickest option. For now, I had to stay away from him and figure out what I was going to do about my family.

I felt my heart clench at the thought of leaving my parents and never seeing them again. I know people have a lot of issues with their parents or they don't get along but I loved my parents and we've never had any problems- other than me messing around in secondary school and getting detentions. I have a good healthy relationship with them both and they gave me everything they could, how could I just leave them?

Anyways, it's okay, I still have some time before that happened. I could make this work somehow, I had to.

***

True to his word, Jacob sent someone over to fix the door. Thankfully, my landlord didn't notice that the door is completely different to the one he installed.

I spent the day sitting in front of the telly and feeling sorry for myself. I couldn't believe what had happened, what we did last night and the devasting consequences of our actions. It was bad enough that I had sex with Jacob but to be mated to him?

Why didn't I stop him? I could barely remember the night clearly but from what I could remember, I encouraged him, not that he needed much encouragement. I was such a dumb bitch when I was horny. I had to stop being so pessimistic and think about the positives, which seemed to elude me at this moment.

The sound of my phone vibrating pulled me out of my thoughts, I looked down to see my phone a message from Emma asking if I would still be joining her and Hannah tonight. I thought about cancelling but decided I couldn't keep moping about this situation. It can't be undone and all I could do now is continue as normal as I could. Plus, I hadn't seen them in a couple of months and it would be nice to catch up.

I met Emma and Hannah three years ago during freshers week, they were on my Business course and we got along so well. Emma and Hannah ended up getting a flat together during the second year of university and I would have joined them if I wasn't already living with Jane.

Now that we've got our undergraduate degree, Emma and Hannah were doing an 18-months postgraduate degree while I tried to figure out what I was going to do with my life. I didn't want to go back to university and do another course so that meant I needed to find a job, but even with a degree the options weren't that great.

Sending Emma a reply that I would meet her in Sainsbury, I peeled myself off the sofa and slowly got ready. My outfit from the morning was fine but I did need to brush my hair and put some make up, no need to scare random members of the public.

Once I was done and satisfied with how I looked, I grabbed my car keys and bag and headed out the door, stopping when I almost tripped over something.

My gaze fell down to the medium sized black box in front of my foot.