19. I can never like you

ASTRID

“You are nuts thinking that I am the same girl who would fall for your tactics anymore.”

“So are you saying you fell for it seeing how angry you are? You still like me, don’t you?” He sounded so cocky.

I did like him but not anymore and if I can go back in time to correct one mistake of mine then it would be ever having to like an arrogant bastard like him.

“You wish for me to like you? I’d rather die a nun than like you.”

He chuckled. “You say that honey but you and I know that you don’t mean it. An omega like you would always want someone from my bloodline to save you. Besides the school, even in the outside world, no one is ever going to like you.”

“Why? Because that’s life. Nobody ever wants lower-ranking people like you to taint their blood but if you do well I might take you as a breeder or a mistress, what do you think?”

I hissed. “I’d rather die a nun and I mean it. You are so full of yourself that you think that I’m still stuck up on you?”

“Do you know what I regret the most in this life? That’s ever having to get involved with someone like you. I wish I had never done it. If I could change everything, I’d do so. I hate it so much that it haunts me,” I meant every word that came out of my mouth

“You wouldn’t be saying any of this if everything had worked out well for you. You are only saying this now because I refused to be with an omega like you,” he took another step closer to me

“But I changed my mind. I think I like this new you. I will give you another chance to stay close to me and that’s if you do right by me.” He curled his index finger under my chin, lifting my face to meet his eyes.

“You aren’t a bad fuck after all,” he uttered.

I have never felt so angry that I was right in front of him and I didn’t know when I lifted my arms and my palm was crashing against his face.

I gasped in shock at what I had just done because I didn’t think that I’d have the guts to do so.

He glared at me and honestly, I’d look enough, I would be six feet under the ground for what I have done.

“How dare you?” He said through his teeth.

My heart began to beat faster than normal when he spoke. What have I done? He was going to hit me and nobody was going to come to my rescue.

Damien beats girls. He doesn’t care who they are but he hits them. I didn’t want to get beaten by him and when he lifted his arms ready to hit me, I closed my eyes anticipating it.

But it never came. Slowly I opened my eyes to see him standing in front of me, his burned hands now in his pocket and no longer frowning my way.

“I would have hit you if it were before but as I said. I like you. And now that you’ve slapped me, you’ve given me more reason to want you and you don’t have a choice because if you don’t want me to get angry for the slap that I received from you then you might as well do my bidding,” he lamented.

“Then you might as well hit me because I won’t be doing anything that pleases you. I saw how it ended and I don’t want any of that,” I replied and I meant what I said.

He tittered. “The more you do this, the more I find you attractive. Do you know I love aggressive girls?”

He must be sick or he lost his mind because it doesn’t make sense that he was speaking to me this way. In the past when he started giving me attention, he didn’t do this much and he didn’t have to do much because I was a stupid naive girl and that was all it took him.

“Henceforth…” he held my wrist.

“You are now mine. You cannot refuse to be mine. It’s not allowed. I don’t care what you have with the new boy but you are mine and no one can look at you or spend time with you. You will spend lunchtime with me, I will walk you to classes, and many more and that’s the only way I won’t punish you for making me lose to the new student and for the slap.

I removed my hand from his hold. “As I said, I would rather be a nun.”

“What do you take me for? A girl you can have anytime that you want?”

“Yes. Isn’t that what you are?” He replied and I scoffed.

“And what’s where you got it all wrong. I am not that girl. I was stupid to have ever believed you and that’s why you did what you did to me but I don’t like you anymore and you don’t get to boss me or tell me what to do.”

I paused to catch my breath. “Do you know what you have made me go through? Do you know how crazy it was for me the past few weeks? How hard was it for me? Do you have any ideas? And then you come to me and tell me that you want me? You must be very delusional to think so.

“I don’t like you, Damien. I will never like you and nothing about you will ever make me give you a chance. You have already hurt me a lot of times.”

“From when you recorded us while we had sex to show the whole school to the school and the things that happened afterwards. That’s enough for me to never want you in my life.”

“Don’t think I’m scared of you. I’m not.” I looked him in the eyes. “You’ve already done the worst you could to me so there’s nothing more that you can do.”

I turned around to leave but he pulled me back towards me, pressing his lips against mine.