Ashely P. O. V.
I am sitting here watching that asshole walking out of the cafeteria door. I sighed. Why did he have to say that to me?
“I am sorry,” he said and kissed my forehead, and he left me with my heart beating fast, and I wanted to grab him and kiss him.
But he just let go and walked away.
I am confused. Part of me wants to run after him, and the other part of me says good to leave. I am torn about what to do.
Why do I have to feel anything but hate for him after all these years? How he would torture me and hurt me. I should just stay far away from him.
“But you can’t!” I heard Envy say inside my mind with a smug voice. She is right. I knew she was right. How could I stay away from my mate? I still can’t believe he doesn’t know it has been me the whole time. I guess he is slow with things. I do hear he doesn’t know until you have to tell him. I guess that night when we made love, and I guess he still doesn’t know it was me.
How can he not know it me! I am so fratusted because it’s not hard to know it has been me the whole fucking time!
Yeah, I know I am cussing, but I can’t help it. I am pissed off.
Now, Now, calm down. Don’t worry, he will know soon.” So I heard Envy tell me.
Just give him some time,” I heard her say.
Then I heard her giggle.
What the hell?
“Why are you giggling?” I ask her.
“Oh, sorry, it’s Zane; he came into my mind.
Huh? Who the hell is Zane? I thought. I guess she heard me.
“Duh, he is our mate’s wolf.” She said with a chuckle.
Oh, yeah, I forgot they can go back and forth now that we find our mate.
“Oh, okay, ask him if Jayson knows who his mate is?” So I told Envy to ask him.
I waited for her response.
So, I waited for about a couple of seconds when she returned with the answer he had said.
He said he knows it could be you, but in his mind, it’s the beautiful mystery girl.”
But I am the mystery girl!” I screamed inside my mind.
“We know, and Zane knows, but he is just blind right now, and he is determined he is going to find her out there,” Envy said.
“Oh, God, he can be so stupid sometimes,” I said, and I wanted to pull my hair out.
I need to hit something. That was when I thought about a new fight.
That this weekend. Saturday night. I was going to fight Friday, but my parents and I wanted to watch the football game.
Anyway, besides, I wanted to hang out with my parents.
I love hanging out with them. I had a slight smile on my face and tears in my eyes, thinking about how it would be if my mom didn’t have cancer.
Couple more weeks, and she will have her operation and be cancer-free. I pulled out my phone and called my grandparents friend, my new trainer.
Hey! I need the bags,” I told him. He knew what I meant.
I heard him speak, but I didn’t let him finish. Instead, he told me to relax and rest my fist for the Saturday night fight.
” I don’t want to hear it.” I am fine.
I will be there in twenty.”
I hung up the phone.
I grabbed my stuff and headed out the school doors.
At the Gym…
I walked inside, and I saw girls and guys in the rings fighting each other. I noticed this girl grabbed one of the guy fighters bigger than her and slammed him down in the ring.
I stared over at them, and I saw her take her foot and slam it down on his crotch.
I heard him cry out in pain, and he pushed her off him, and he was in a huddle position and holding his crotch, and he was whining and rolling on the ground.
I know I would, too, if a girl took their foot and slammed it down on my crotch. I will be rolling and whining on the ground.
Oh, that poor bastard, I thought with a laugh. I took my hand over my mouth, so he didn’t hear me let out a laugh. So, I hid it.
I stared over at the girl, I saw she was small, and I saw a firecracker not to be wrecking with, but she had nothing that I could not handle. But I see she is a werewolf with red hair.
I don’t feel threatened with her in the ring. I don’t think we are fighting.
She is not ready to fight yet. But when I saw her staring down at him with a determined look on her face. I knew she was angry at him for something. I can see this petite young girl, maybe in her early teens. She could be older.
Something snapped inside her. She looked into the guy she got on the ground, whimpering and whining, holding his crotch still.
I am going to guess she knows him probably.
“Damn it, Arabella!” I heard him say, and he was still staring up at her. Then, finally, he stops whining and rolling on the ground.
” I told you, Brady, leave me the hell alone,” She said in a warning tone. Yep, my guess is correct. She knows him.
You go, girl, don’t take his shit, I am thinking to myself.
I wanted to see what else she would do, but I had other ideas in mind. So, I need to hit some bags and kill some stream.
Hit, smack, punch,
hit, smack, punch.
So I kept punching and hitting and slapping and beating the bag.
Then, finally, I felt my body’s stress and anger falling when I hit the sack. I thought to myself, and I was about to hit the bag and not think about you know who.
Oh, fuck me, it’s too late because I heard his name.
I didn’t imagine it, or it wasn’t in my head because I heard someone say his name behind me. So, that was when I realized he was…
He is right behind me.
“Jayson, hey man,” I was wondering if you would show up.” I gasped, heard his name behind me, and looked behind him.
Oh, No, why is he here?
” Well, remember that he fights too,” Or you forgot!” I heard my inner voice say with an annoying voice.
I know that but why today of all day. That was when I saw he was talking to that Brady guy.
Well, you know the same guy that got his butt kicked by that red-headed firecracker talking and fist-pumping Jayson in the middle of the floor.
Maybe he won’t see me if I try to walk away-
“Ashely?” I heard him say my name with a confusing tone in his voice. Shit, he knows I am here. What can I do? I could turn and run out the door, and he won’t see it was me.
Or I could turn around and stand my ground and tell him. So, yes, it’s me. But then I didn’t want to look behind me because I was stuck and worried he would find out I was the fighter he followed out in the parking lot that night. When he found out I was the mystery at Emilia’s birthday party.