Looking at him never gets easier. What he put me through plays through my mind whenever I am in his presence and I get a twinge of anger before taking a breath and remembering I chose to forgive him.
“Hello Kimberley..” Max says to me and I just smile and nod. That is all I can do while I calm my wolf down from her anger.
“I just came here to let Max in, I’ll be in my office if you need me.” X says to me, kissing me deeply and igniting a fire inside of me.
When he pulls away, I throw him a questioning look but I knew he was just marking his territory and I can gel with that. My problem is, I was horny now and he was going to leave me like this.
He winks at me and walks out of our home. Max coughs to lighten the mood but I was far gone. Goddess!
“Can I get you anything? Water, juice or beer?” I ask.
“Water is fine.” He says and I walk to the kitchen and come back with two bottles of beer. He just smiles and grabs one.
We have to sit and wait for Adrastos to wake up because he has a schedule now and afternoon naps are crazy vital.
“While we wait, Sabrina, I’d like to get a few things off my chest.” Max says to me and I’m on the edge of my seat already.
I just nod my head to let him know be can carry on.
“You know when we were kids, I was raised to always be perfect. No faults and no mistakes. I had not one person to show me how to treat a woman and that’s no excuse believe me, I just wish my father focused more on my emotional intelligence, my emotional strength. Had my mother and I connected better as mother and son, maybe I would have turned out different but she had me and dumped me on my dad’s lap. Only visited me a handful of times to lessen her guilt I guess. I am working on a relationship with her and she would love to meet Adrastos, if that’s okay with you.” Max says, running his tatted hand through his hair.
“I am sorry for disrespecting you as my mate and as my Luna. I am sorry for allowing another woman in to our lives and putting her in between our sacred bond. I know what your innocence meant to you, you gave yourself to me and I mistreated you. I take full responsibility for that. I thought you were the weak one but in actual fact, it was I that needed to harden up. I blamed you for things way out of your control and it’s so crazy thinking about it now. Your uncle got in my head but I allowed it and fed the doubt seed he planted. I was also jealous. I mean you are incredible and I just couldn’t handle being the weaker one.” He says to me, his eyes getting all glassy on me.
This was it. The apology of the century. The one time in my life someone takes accountability for putting me through the worst.
“I put you through so much, I can’t believe you forgave me like that. I can’t begin to thank you for letting me be in Adrastos’ life even after trying to kill him. I promise I’m working on myself and bettering the relationship I have with my parents. I need to do that to be a better man and father. I know I’ve lost you, but I am also doing this for you because even when I was that evil bastard, I knew then and I know now, you are it for me. The only one and it will only ever be you. Xander is a lucky man and if you are happy then that’s all that matters.” He says to me and this time I was the one with the tears.
“Thank you for this apology. It means a lot to me and I hope one day we can be friends, for our son’s sake.” I say and he nods his head in agreement.
“So, how are things?” He asks and I chuckle.
“Well, it turns out I’m the next moon goddess.” I say and Max takes a swig of his beer.
“Yeah. We all saw your transformation. That was really insane.” He says and I laugh.
“That’s not the half of it.” I say and he raises his eyebrows.
“There’s a whole different werewolf world and in that world, I have a mate. I met him already too.” I say and Max’s eyes bulge out.
“What?” Max sputters. I giggle at his reaction.