I could not sleep all night. I tossed and turned and at the crack of dawn, I had eye bags the size of lemons dropping from my eyelids.
There was no time to waste for me, I needed to get to Pandora and stop her from leaving with Rolan. The jealousy I felt was so great that I could feel it gnawing at me from my insides.
“Are you ready?” I asked the three guards I was stepping out with.
“Yes boss” they chorused.
By the time we drove to Pandora’s house, she was standing outside with her parents and her best friend. I got out of my car as soon as it came to a halt and rushed to where Pandora was standing.
When our eyes met, my heart did a flip and my wolf howled in happiness.
I tried to control my emotions, but as soon as Pandora’s scent hit my nose, I immediately gathered her into my arms. I felt the most peaceful and realized just how much power the mate has in their partner’s life.
My being with Pandora soothed feelings that were raging inside me and threatening to burst.
“Excuse me. That is my woman” I heard a voice interrupt my bliss.
“She is not your woman, Rolan. Go back to your pack and get yourself a mate, this one is my Luna.” I retorted angrily.
“Get your hands off me, Derrick!” Pandora shouted and pushed me off her roughly. I staggered back and managed to steady myself on my feet.
“What do you want from her, Derrick? You rejected her publicly yesterday, you brought her to public ridicule. You even had the guts to come to her house to hammer on your rejection right in front of her parents. She is definitely not yours, Derrick. I will personally see to that.” Kiara, Pandora’s best friend, threatened me.
I realized how much of an asshole I had been to Pandora, and I would completely understand if she decides not to have me anymore.
“Pandora Is mine. I can’t let her go like that. Give me another chance, Pandora, please.” I cried out, unable to hold the wolf that was raging inside me because of how close Pandora was.
“Derrick, I belong to someone else now,” Pandora said calmly, she no longer had the look in her eyes like she was obsessed with me. My heart broke and my ego was bruised.
“I think you should leave,” Rolan said to me, and without thinking twice I lunged at him.
I tried to throw him on the floor, so I could square up and punch harder, but he proved to be a skilled fighter.
Barely five minutes into our fight, we both looked like we were crushed by a trailer. I turned to look at Pandora and saw the disapproving look on her father’s face.
Before I could turn back to concentrate on the fight, Rolan’s punch connected with my jaw and sent me crashing to the ground quickly.
“Both of you, Stop!” I heard Pandora scream.
“I will not have any more of this foolery. You rejected me yesterday and called me small. You did not feel like I deserved to be your mate just yesterday, today you came to my house and fought with my man because your pride and ego are bruised?” Pandora addressed me.
“You must be a joker.” She finished and hissed.
“Pandora, it was a mistake, and I was blind,” I begged weakly, not knowing how to defend my previous actions.
“Some mistake it must have been because you somehow mistook your way home for mine and came to my doorstep to make sure that I understood that you had rejected me. I hold no feelings in my heart for you anymore. Rolan, here, is my second chance mate, and I am not going to mess it up just because your ego is hurt” she finished, every word coming out of her mouth slicing my heart like a double-edged sword.
“Pandora” I managed to say weakly.
“I, Pandora Miller, reject Derrick Brown as my mate.” She said and turned her back to me.
“Rolan, get me out of here.” She ordered and kissed her parents goodbye.
My guards helped me up, and I slapped their hands away immediately I was steady on my feet.
I didn’t understand the pain that Pandora went through until she repeated the same words I said to her.
My world suddenly didn’t make sense anymore and I became numb. I could feel my wolf stomping and howling all over.
I watched as she got into Rolan’s car, and they zoomed off, leaving behind a trail of smoke that reminded me of how the love of my life disappeared from my life because of my pride and stupidity.
“Derrick, I hope you understand what it means to be treated like trash now. The good thing is, you taught yourself the lesson. No one had to help you. You used your hands to destroy something that the moon goddess prepared for you. Pandora had a crush on you for a long time.” Kiara said to me disdainfully before following Pandora’s parents back into their house.
I stood there for a long while, lost and without direction. The only thing that kept sounding in my head was to go after Rolan and Pandora and force her to go with me while I detach every body part from the other of Rolan.
I was getting consumed by the thoughts when I cautioned myself and decided to hatch a better plan to get Pandora back.
“Take me home, boys,” I ordered, upset that my guards had seen me getting punched like a bag of socks.
I swore silently to get Pandora back, no matter what it would cost me.
The drive home was short as my mind was drifting back to the two lovebirds. I laid on my bed for hours waiting for sleep to come and when it finally did, it was plagued with nightmares.
A gory image of me kissing Pandora and suddenly, my face changing to that of Rolan’s plagued my sleep.