Semua Bab Now He Sees Me: Too Late To Love Me, Alpha: Bab 31 - Bab 37

BELLY I closed my eyes and tried to picture the worst of my situation. Tried not to imagine the man I had always loved was in front of me, and that he looked and smelled so good.Fortunately, the threatening ache subsided and I could breathe again. But something told me the full force might be coming for me soon. Gods, I hated going into heat. It was always too excruciating.Returning my attention to the field, Kage had shot his arrow and hit his target. His men regarded him with so much reverence.One of them took his place on the target stand, no doubt wanting to try. One look at the position of his arm and I knew he was doing a poor job."An enemy would take you in the chest before you even released yours; at best, you might manage to shoot his hat." The words left me before I could stop them.All eyes turned on me, surprise flashing through their faces.Kage looked the most surprised of them all."Miss Isabelle." He put his hands behind his back. A hint of amusement played in

BELLYI stared at her in disbelief.Excitement and worry warred in my chest; excitement because my daughter liked me enough to want to live with me, and worry because why wouldn't she want to stay here where she had been her whole life?I crouched again."This is your home, honey. Don't you like it?"Her eyes lowered to the ground as she shook her head no.Oh, gods."Can you tell me why?"She hesitated, then let it out. Her voice dripped with sadness."I've never been happy. Mummy doesn't like me. She always does things that favor her own daughter. She could hurt my feelings to make her happy."A knife-like pain stabbed me in the chest."She's Eloise's mum. I've always wanted to have my own Mummy. Someone who will play with me and get me the things I love. Daddy loves me, but he's always very busy. He doesn't see the way Mummy treats me."My head grew dizzy at once, a tremor running through my body.No. It couldn't be.A question rested at the tip of my tongue, but I was too scare

BELLYAs the sun rose, so did my shame.I woke up feeling disgusted with myself, for wanting a man who didn't want me. Even though I couldn't blame myself as it was my body desiring these things, I still wished I hadn't been so unlucky to be plagued with the mate heat.I took a bath and prepared my mind to be positive. Today was going to be remarkable. It was the day I got to make Annalise feel the pain of losing a child.Before leaving the house, I had to join the family for breakfast.Breakfast was going so well until Valentin asked a question that nearly made me choke on my wine."You're twenty-four, Isabelle. Have you had any suitors yet?"Thank the Moon I had enough composure not to spit out my wine, otherwise I would have coughed it all out on the table.Nate noticed and sniggered from his seat.Valentin, however, maintained a serious face, waiting for an answer.Well, according to what Donna told me, my sister hadn't been big on relationships. She'd been more focused on per