Chapter 3
-LANA-
This wasn’t happening.
I simply wasn’t possible.
There had to be some kind of mistake. Apollo couldn’t be my mate. He was my step–brother! The same step–brother that slept around with multiple women in a single week. 1 simply could not accept this
ere screaming and shouting for joy
Someone must have messed with the water. Yet everyone else seemed to be contented with their mates. Some were while others were crying in the arms of their new mates.
1 was possibly the only one in shock and not in the good way. I wanted someone to pinch me and wake me up from this nightmare,
There had to be some other explanation. Did Apollo pull some kind of prank on me?
Why was he not saying anything? I knew that he couldn’t possibly be accepting this right now
“Congratulations!” I hear the host shout. “So many of you have found your mates tonight. You are the lucky few to be blessed by the water. The rest of you, do not worry. This is not the end of the world. Remember, you can still find your mate on the outside, it may just be harder. And if you don’t find your mate within the next five years, you are welcome to revisit the river and test your luck once more! Havenville and it’s mystic river is always excited to have as many of you here as possible. You are always welcome.”
I don’t understand
How is Apollo my mate? How?
A new thought enters my mind and it makes me look at him in a different light.
He’d turned eighteen a lot sooner than me, which meant that he should have known all this time that I was his mate. However, he has never acter like I was his, not once. Since I’ve never dated a single man to this day, he didn’t really have a reason to fight for me. But that didnt explain. everything. He should have shown more emotions all this time, even now, the expression on his face was cold and distant.
Maybe there was a chance he didn’t recognize me.
Sometimes, despite what everyone believed, a werewolf couldn’t always recognize its mate. I have heard of stories where mates didn’t recognize each other until the river helped them. That was the reason a few couples even showed up here, hoping the water would help bind them together.
However, Apollo’s expression tells me that was not the case.
He did know
He knew all along.
He did know that I was his mate this entire time but chose not to act on it.
How could he have kept something like this from me?
Why did he wait for this exact moment for me to find out!
“You knew,” I whisper. “You knew all this time and didn’t thank to sell me, not once”
He hadn’t only kept it from me, but he continued to sleep around with multiple women under the same roof that I was in. For two whole years. Apollo was aware that I was his mate and he still slept around with any woman that showed him attention
Does this mean he planned in rejecting met Was he waiting until I was eighteen to reject me? Since it was now after midnight. I was officially eighteen years old
“How does she be the lucky one to end up with him?” 1 hear a girl whisper in annoyance
“know.” Another one agrees. She is hideous to look at and nothing compared to his looks”
drcourse, there were hundreds of jealous women around us. I hadn’t even realized there were so many of them interested in him until now. L could feel the envious glares coming my way.
This just might be their lucky night. Apollo looked like he planned on rejecting ine. I’m sure that afterward, he would go straight to them. My heart but at just the thought of him leaving me to sleep with multiple momen
He kicked around us and noticed the attention we were both getting.
Without any warning, he grabs my arm and pulls me away from everyone’s view Now that the water had confirmed we were mates, my body
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responded to his hand on my arm, it felt like little shockwaves all over my body.
I am breathing hard when he shoves me into the carpark. Before he has a chance to say anything to me, our mother and his dad. They are both waiting to hear what we have to say.
ur parents are already in front of us my
“Well” my mother says as she wiggles her eyebrows before me. “Did you g
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Our mu? Tell me. What is he like?
Can she not tell that the only person I’m standing here with is Apollo!
“Son?” his father asks. “Did y
I you find someone!”
Did he find someone! That question kept repeating in my head.
Me
He found me. But he’s known it was me for a long time. Apollo was twenty he has been with my family since he was seventeen, We have been step- siblings for a total of three years. He has known it was me since two years ago on his birthday. Come to think of it, he did act extremely strange on lus eighteenth birthday. He’d locked himself in his room for a few hours, and when he finally left it, he passed me straight and went out with a few of his friends, I didn’t see him again until tro weeks later. He used the excuse that he had stayed with his mother. However, I remember his father demanding the truth, claiming that he had spoken to his ex–wife and found out he was lying.
got to find out where he went for those two weeks.
We never E
Now, I understood what had happened. He didn’t want to accept me as his mate.
“No,” Apollo answers him. “I did not find anyone. Like I said before. I do not have a mate, and 1 do not wish to find one for myself. I am happy being single. I do not want to secile with one person.”
My heart breaks at his words. I finally knew who my mate was, and he openly expressed that he did not want me. He was not speaking the words directly at me, but I could tell he wanted me to hear. He didn’t even have the decency to reject me to my face.
“And what about you, Lana?” My mother asks me with a sweet smile.
Could she not tell how devastated I was right now?
“No, mother.” I whisper. “I did not find anyone.”
