Why Can't It Be Mine Novels & Stories

Not really. Only that I can’t undo it. And maybe… I don’t want to. Even if the price is losing him.

I can't accept the fact that I am helpless. Shit!

Because she won’t get it. Because tonight? Tonight belongs to me.

But I can’t stop myself. I take another step forward, my eyes blazing, my heart pounding in my chest. “You want to know why I’m here? You want to know why I’m with him? It’s because he’s mine . And I’m not going anywhere. Not for any of you. Not for any of your opinions. So if you’ve got something to say, then say it. But I’m not backing down. We’re not backing down. ” The words hang in the air, and for a moment, there’s silence.

She’d be mine and mine alone. I knew it was sick. Obsessive. But I couldn’t stop it. I raked my hand through my hair, growling in frustration. Why couldn’t she be my mate?

I traced it with my fingers, touching the flowers, embedded in the fabric. My heart ached when reality reminded me that I had no one to put this on for. I was too damn mad at Adrian and I had no idea what he should do to make me go back to him. Matt’s grinning face popped into my mind, but I shook my head to chase him away. He was crazy attractive, but for all I knew, he might even have a wife.

Not what I planned. But mine. Real. Messy. Whole. Finally, impossibly mine.

Easy peasy, right? But why can't I shake off the feeling that a line has been crossed?

"Must be nice though. Two Alphas fighting over you." I open my mouth to correct her, to lay out exactly how untrue that framing is, how none of this was something I asked for or wanted, how being rejected in front of two hundred people doesn't magically become romantic just because someone else happened to notice. The words are right there, ready to spill out in careful, reasonable detail. I stop myself. Barely. "I need to get to the clinic," I say instead, and walk away before I can undo my own restraint.

My name, raw, like it hurt to hold. "You know why?" I stopped in front of him, close, closer than I'd been allowed the whole flight, and tipped my chin up to that cold face that only ever warmed for me. "Because you can't own the thing that chooses you. That's the one asset you never get to acquire, King. You can collect everything else, you're the best in the world at it, but not this. This only ever gets given. And I'm standing in your tower with the door shut behind me by my own hand and no debt in my grip and a fund in my name I'm never going to touch, telling you-"