บททั้งหมดของ The Wrong Mate, The Right Alpha: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

Aiden’s POV As I went back up the staircase to the room, I found Talia seated cross legged on the bed, still naked, still flushed with the afterglow of what she thought was making love. I didn’t even look at her. “You need to go.” She blinked, an act of both confusion and surprise. “What the fuck did you say?” She asked. “I just need….” I grabbed my jeans and stepped into them. “I need some time tonight. Alone. We’ve been spending quite a lot of time together and you know with Mara on edge right now.” Her brow furrowed, confused and slow to catch on. “Wait…. So you’re kicking me out? After we just had sex? That’s mighty rich of you, Aiden. And because of your ex wife?” “Come on, Talia. It’s not even like that.” She stood, wrapping the blanket around her delicate body. “Then what exactly is it like? Please enlighten me.” I didn’t answer. “You’re divorced, you are supposed to be separated if not because you feel you owe her something. You’re not the only man that

Mara’s POV Finding my way to the safe house wasn’t as easy as I thought. I had to take the bus down there, walking would have taken longer. I didn’t know how many people could be stuck at the bus station around ten in the morning. I finally got down from the bus and made my way closer to the outskirts. It was a completely different part of town from where I lived with Aiden. The safe house was an old but beautiful and portable bungalow tucked into a little corner piece near the road leading to a river and some small town bridge. The place was quiet and I found out why it was a safe house, the area smelled completely neutral. All I could smell was the river. No one had really lived in this area in years, it seemed like the whole area was paid for by older residents and now they had nowhere else to go and civilization had travelled far away from there. But it all felt safe at the end of the day. And that’s all that mattered. I took out my notebook and ran my eyes through my first

Damon’s POV After I dropped Mara off at the safe house, she left in a hurry. She was quick to find her way to the bus station. I didn’t get off my bike. Didn’t turn off the ignition. Didn't move. The bike still hummed under me, and my hands remained on the handlebars, the faint heat of her still lingering on my body as she held me tightly on the ride back. I could still smell her… clean sweat, sun bathed skin, I was sure I had some of her sweat on my jacket. Under it all, there was that hidden pull. The call of my fated mate. Kai growled low in my mind. “She felt it too this time.” “No,” I told him silently. “She just flinched. That wasn’t a sign of the bond.” “No, she responded.” His voice was louder now, as though it wasn’t loud enough before. “She may not know what it is yet, but her body feels it. It knows.” I closed my eyes. There were rules. The right thing to do and then there was Mara. And when it came to her, I didn’t think I could follow the rules. Not when she

Damon’s POV I didn’t say another word after the warning I had just given Marius. The air was thick with finality, I didn’t threaten him. I just wanted him to know that he had said enough. But Marius didn’t leave, he didn’t shrink back. He just stood where he was, his spine straight in his stance like a man who had fought too many battles that cowering over this was never going to happen. I acknowledged that he was still my Beta. Still the one I trusted the most and still the only one that was allowed to challenge me even though most times he overstepped with that privilege. Possibly because of the age difference, he felt the need to take up a father figure as well. His voice broke the silence gently. “Alpha Damon… I didn’t mean to strike a nerve.” I looked at him from the corner of my eye. “I should’ve known better than to mention your father in this conversation…” Marius trailed off, then reset his tone, more grounded this time. “It was beneath the moment, you have done your

Mara’s POVThere was no meeting with Damon today because he had told me yesterday that they had some business to attend to. They being He and Marius. Then this morning, I received the email notification from the bank. He had not called me via the mind link or anything. I usually didn’t reach out first out of respect and also because Kira was always saying wild stuff and I didn’t want him to look at me like some sex starved cougar. And I still didn’t know how much access he had into my mind with the mind link. The city lights were blurry as I looked outside through the scratched up glass windows of the bus, the lights flickered like stars in the late evening foggy weather. I sat in the third row from the back of the bus, leaning my head against the cold glass, as I watched the city’s storefronts and sidewalks slip past in my silence. My body ached, a tight feeling of exhaustion wrapped around my spine, it was sharp and unforgiving, a signature feeling that was now a part of my exi