Chapter 16

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I barely slept in the past two days.The pair of pretty brown orbs were too deeply engraved in my head.No matter how much I tried to shrug it off, those eyes kept running back in my mind.

And the words that he had said in the woods.They were non-stop repeating in my head.

"Don't like Lance or any other men" I could still hear his deep voice crystal clear, too real as if he is whispering it in my ears every second.

His voice was mixture of roughness and vulnerability yet at the same time it flickered an emotion so strong in me that I was left in a maze and couldn't even ask him 'why' or 'what'

What was his actual implication with those words?

Why would he want me to not like Lance or any other men?

My heart slowed a beat at the first possibility that came in my mind but I have been pushing it back in the depth of darkness in my head.I am not yet prepared to even think of it.

Are we mates?

A strong shiver ran through an entire length of my body.Although I was tucked in