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2025-04-20 04:51:27Ethan
After what I saw in the showers, my chest felt tight with an anger I had no right to feel. I should’ve walked away sooner, should’ve known better than to linger, but the image of Rosemary with someone else, so free, so wild, kept replaying in my mind. She doesn’t know; I reminded myself. She doesn’t feel the bond yet, doesn’t even realize what she means to me, and yet, the jealousy twisted in my gut, hot and irrational.
She’s my mate. Mine.
I couldn’t get the thought out of my head, even though it was unfair, even though it wasn’t my place to be angry. She didn’t know. How could she? She hadn’t even sensed her wolf yet, and I slept with Amber recently. I had no claim on her. Even so, my wolf growled in frustration, clawing at the edges of my control. I felt like I was on the verge of breaking something, anything, just to release the tension.
I was heading up the stairs to the fifth floor, determined to cool off in my room, when a hand suddenly grabbed my shoulder. I froze, the familiar scent of roses and something spicy, uniquely her, filling my senses. I turned, and there she was - standing in front of me, her eyes wide and full of something I couldn’t quite place. Guilt? Fear? I wasn’t sure.
“I’m sorry,” Rosemary said quietly, her voice trembling slightly. “I didn’t mean to disrespect you. You’ve been nothing but kind to me, and I…”
“You don’t need to apologize for your actions,” I interrupted, trying to keep my voice steady. “We’re adults, and you have every right to do as you please. It just… caught me off guard.”
She nodded, her gaze dropping for a moment before she looked back at me, her eyes glassy with unshed tears. “I know. It’s because I was with a woman. I’m… I’m bisexual, if that wasn’t obvious.” She let out a shaky laugh that didn’t quite reach her eyes. “But it doesn’t matter. I still feel like I disrespected you, acting like that during my first week in your home. It was rude, and I’m sorry.”
Hearing her admit her attraction to women didn’t make me feel any less conflicted. If anything, it only deepened my confusion. But at the same time, there was relief. The moon goddess doesn’t make mistakes. If she chose Rosemary for me, it meant she was attracted to men, at least on some level. Maybe she hadn’t felt the bond yet. But it was there, waiting to awaken in her, just like her wolf.
I searched her face, and for a moment, all I could see was how tired she looked, how fragile. She was on the verge of breaking, and I couldn’t blame her. If everything she’d experienced this past week had happened to me, I’d want to scream. But beneath that fragility, there was strength. Her fiery red hair framed her face in loose curls, one stray lock falling into her eyes. Without thinking, I reached out, gently tucking the curl behind her ear. My fingers brushed her skin, and I could feel her hold her breath at the contact.
The tension between us hung in the air, thick and heavy, and for a second, I thought about closing the distance between us. About pulling her into my arms and telling her everything - that she was mine, that we were meant for each other. But I couldn’t. She wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready.
Instead, I stepped back, my heart pounding, and turned away. “I can’t do this right now,” I muttered under my breath, the words more for myself than for her.
I walked to my room, closing the door a little too fast and a little too hard, the sound echoing in the silence behind me. I leaned against the door, trying to calm the storm inside me. My fists clenched and unclenched, and my wolf paced restlessly, snarling at the distance I had forced between us.
You did the right thing, I told myself, but the ache in my chest didn’t go away. And as I stood there, alone in the quiet of my room, I realized that giving Rosemary time wasn’t just for her - it was for me too.
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