Mine Only

DANTE ROMANO

My bloom had bloomed into the prettiest woman alive and I was completely shaken by the sight in front of me.

My lips had parted and my brain was still trying to process properly how she had become this beautiful and gorgeous.

I had seen pictures of her over the years. I had stalked every of her socials, saved and printed out every picture of hers. I had stalked any group she was involved in just to have a chance to have a glimpse of her whenever she appeared in their pictures.

On desperate nights, nights when I just couldn't handle being away from her anymore, I had snuck into this Pack and watched her from a distance but not once in six years had I seen her this clearly.

Her eyes still held the same beautiful, teasing innocence I fucking loved. Her beautiful hair was let down on her shoulders, tucked carefully behind her ears and I...

I wanted to grab her, hug her, kiss her and...

Oh hell.

"This is not six years ago, you are no longer eighteen and I am no longer sixteen. Don't call me that again" She finally spoke and my lips curled into a smile, the most genuine smile I had on my face in a while.

Oh god, she even sounded beautiful! And that fierce look in her eyes. God, I loved it. I fucking loved it.

"Don't call you what? Dumbie?" I took a step closer to her but before I could do anything or she could do anything, Hunter took her hand and Bloom took two steps away from me, towards Hunter.

My smile vanished and my gaze fell onto Hunter's hand around her wrist. I didn't like it. I didn't like the way she had approached him first or the way she looked at him.

"Okay, alright. Looks like I am not needed here" Daria mumbled, taking a step away from us all.

"Of course not" Hunter chuckled, pulling Bloom completely to his side before reaching out to hug Daria.

In that split moment, I was by Bloom's side. "We should talk" I said to her, wanting to get her away from Hunter for even just a minute.

"Talk? About what? There's nothing for us to talk about"

"There is. I have a lot for us to talk about" And I meant it.

I had a lot to talk to her about. There had been so many nights that I wanted to talk to her about so much.

"Well, sorry, I don't want to talk" She replied and Hunter was standing by her side again. He was about to say something when his phone rang. He pulled out the phone and I saw Hunter's eyes darken for a second before he quickly walked away.

My eyes followed him for a few seconds before my gaze returned to Bloom. I glanced down at her hand. She was holding her phone and in one swift movement, I took the phone from her loose grip.

"Hand back my phone" She demanded with a pout on her face that made me want to pull her cheeks.

Does she even know how much I missed playing with her cheeks and her hair?

"Come with me if you want it" I shrugged and began to make my way up the stairs.

I could hear the clack of her heels as she hurried after me.

"I have no time for these jokes, hand back my phone!"

I didn't stop and just walked up the stairs, took a turn that led into a dark corridor which had no one there.

Bloom stopped steps away from me and I tilted my head slightly to the side, waving her phone in the air.

"Give me back my damn phone!" She stormed towards me, that fierce look on her face thrilling me in a way I had missed being thrilled.

She reached to grab the phone from me but I stretched my hand further up. She made another attempt and I couldn't help it, I put a hand to her head and felt her hair.

Her body froze for a second and then she looked at me, right into my eyes and I looked into her beautiful eyes, feeling instantly lost into her eyes.

The loud music from downstairs seemed to get a lot quieter and nothing seemed to exist in my world except from her.

I could feel it, the pounding of my heart as my eyes slowly looked at her face again. My gaze fell on her beautiful lips and my lips parted slightly with a heavy breath.

"I promised I'll be back. I am. Did you miss me?" The words left my lips gently, my heart pounding with the desire to hear her tell me that she thought of me, if not every night, at least once a week, that there were times she wished I was there, that there were times she wanted to hug me and when she thought about having a man, she recalled me.

"Get your hand off me!" She slapped my hand off just like she had done the night before I left.

I smiled. She took two steps back and stretched her hand forward to me. "My phone" She demanded.

"I asked a question, Dumbie. You are supposed to answer that first"

"I have no business with your question. Just hand back my phone"

"Did you miss me?"

"Well you want to know? No. I did not miss you at all and I wish you never came back. I wish I didn't have to see you ever again"

My brows arched. Did she really hate me?

I took a step closer quickly.

"Do you hate me?" I asked and she looked away from me. "Was I so hateful towards you?" I asked. Had I really been that stupid in the way I acted towards her?

"Heavens, I hate you. Okay? I don't want to be here with you. Just hand me my phone"

I felt something sharp prick my heart in a way I absolutely did not like. I had heard my Bloom say those words to me countless times in the past but I had never taken it seriously but right now, those words were hitting me in a spot too soft.

My eyes blinked and then my jaws clenched.

"Is it true that you like Hunter? You are in love with Hunter?" I asked the next question that was plaguing my mind.

"Yes" she shrugged her shoulders and my arm dropped to my side. "I like Hunter and I hope he will be my mate. No, I know he will be my mate. If the universe still has any sense of fairness, he will be my mate" She said those cruel words like they were nothing and snatched her phone out of my hand before walking away.

And I just watched, those words repeating in my head.

'I like Hunter and I hope he will be my mate. No, I know he will be my mate'

NO.

You are wrong, Bloom. Hunter won't be your mate and you will only ever belong by my side only.

You will only be mine.

Mine Only.