“What the hell is this?” Sabrina asks the two men in the room.
They both look at each other, sharing a knowing glance before looking back at the woman they both so badly want.
Aiden would have the most difficulty.
His transgressions were still fresh, Sabrina has not had the time to put a band aid on them and here he was, asking her to allow him to be her love again.
Granted, there is a force keeping them together for however long they live and there is no fighting this force or breaking it.. but this is impatience on Aiden’s part.
Xander, well who can blame him for seizing the moment and claiming what he feels should be his? His love for Sabrina surpassed that of the mate bond he shared with the woman fated to him, the woman that was carefully hand picked by Sabrina herself.
Xander was also in doubt.
Doubting the timing of all this..
Sabrina was in no way ready for such a proposal but Josey insisted the time be now or never. That she felt she was losing her sister day by day and that if they did not act sooner, she would have a mental break.
Aiden’s seen it.
Her plans to end the mate bond for earthlings. Punishing them for her poor luck in mates and it was up to Aiden to change that because it would be a tragedy to change something so beautiful, something worth waiting for all your life.
“It is exactly what you think it is. We are both here for you.” Xander answers the love of his life.
Sabrina, stunned in to silence looks at Xander as she tries to find the words to say… anything…
“To be honest, this is not ideal. I can live with it but… ” Aiden throws a few words in but Sabrina cuts him short.
“You don’t get to choose how you want to live. I could keep you in a cell for a hundred years just for punishment! I’m sure you will come out a different man, years in captivity can do that to someone. Unable to shift and hunt for your food, to see people walking about and living their lives.” Sabrina says to her true mate, her eyes were the windows to her soul and it was in battle.
Xander looked on, finally understanding Josey as he heard of Sabrina’s possible plans for Aiden.
With everything she has been through, she is allowed to be angry and to seek punishment but it seems, that after every painful encounter, she becomes colder in pain.
Harsher in judgement.
“All you had to fucken do is be a good mate to me. To love me and care about me… caring about me means to care about my wellbeing, my state of mind not just my body and leaving a mark on it. I’m in turmoil! What you have put me through is enough to let me know that you could care less about my mental health, it never crossed your mind how all of this will affect me with you stuck in my life and I still have to love the man I so badly want to hate. I want to hate you, I really do but I can’t and it infuriates me that I am unable to harbor any ill feelings towards you when you do it so easily. You broke me with your words and oh godess how they complimented your actions..” Sabrina pours her heart out to Aiden.
Her pain open for all to feel and it made Xander weak. His heart unable to handle such pain coming from her little tiny frame.
In all these days, Sabrina has held on to so much. The pain was overwhelming, so much so that it brought Aiden to his knees.
They could hear the distant howls outside, the wolves that could feel Sabrina’s pain, begging her to put an end to it.
“You had one job! That job was to love me above all else, to put my heart first even before yours and you failed miserably of which I can’t understand. How can my mate put me through all of this? The one I call my true mate? Do you not feel the magnitude of the pull? Are your heartstrings not tugging at you whenever you think the worst of me? Why can’t your mind erase the hurtful words that so easily came out of you? And why did your body allow you to feel that way about your true mate?” Sabrina asks Aiden, the tears staining her cheeks.
Her eyes releasing the hurt in a waterfall of tears, her hands balled in to fists and her heart beating fast.
“As my true mate, your body should have betrayed you and your heart should not be able to venture on with this vendetta you had against me. To so easily hide it from me and play pretend? Why do you think that is? Huh? How is it possible that you could look me in the eyes day after day and love me while you conspire to make me suffer? I can’t make sense of it at all. Maybe you can help me, Xander?” Sabrina turns to her former lover, who’s eyes bulge out in surprise.
“I uhm I could not.. I really can’t comprehend it either. I understand the hurting and mourning of your family but to be so vindictive to your own partner? As her true mate that should’ve been impossible to pull off.” Xander answers, further putting Sabrina in a ball of confusion.
Aiden growls at Xander, who just shrugs. He was asked a question and he answered truthfully.
“You acted like a chosen mate, someone that chose to love me. You chose to hate me, an emotion unavailable to the fated because I can’t seem to hate you. I’m really searching for it, trying my hardest to unearth it and still, nothing. Nothing but love, my heart and soul begging me to forgive you. To show you love and my mind trying so hard to make me forget all the pain but it’s in my bones… I feel the pain in my bones Aiden, as I walk. The pain is in my voice, I can’t speak without releasing my sadness. The pain is in every molecule that sustains me as a person, as my blood flows so does the pain. Do you understand just how deeply you have cut me? And to insult me in offering up yourself to me, saying you’ll share me with Xander but you’re not even sure how you will live with it?” Sabrina says, the room temperature getting lower as the boys start to feel a mixture of her sadness and anger.
“You are supposed to be my one true fucken mate for fucks sake! You should never have allowed this idea, no matter how shitty you have treated me, this is an absurd idea and you should’ve snapped whoever’s neck that brought this to you! How dare you? How dare you make love to me over and over again, claiming me by this mark only for you to drag me in the mud. The idea of sharing me should anger you! It should throw you in to a murdering spree because I will never ever share you. Trust me when I say I’d kill the bitch you want me to share you with before you finish introducing this insane idea. I don’t care if you think it’s the only way back in to my life, you shouldn’t even be thinking that way. Yes, you fucked up. Royally but this?” Sabrina growls after her screaming fit.
“Aiden, fuck you. Honestly, right now, go fuck off and as for you, I’ll let it slide because you, well you are allowed to think like a chosen mate.” Sabrina says to Xander, storming off before the two boys could stop her.
Anthony arrives in time to drag Aiden back to his cell, giving Xander a nod before walking off with Sabrina’s true mate.
Sabrina runs off to her office, calling for new Evan. He arrives in seconds, standing by the door.
“Get me a meeting with the elders and get it now. My father and brother included.” She orders and Evan leaves to do just that.
What could possibly be so important?