Chapter Thirty One
Chapter Thirty One
“We can both have him.” Isabella says, her eyes pinned to the ground.
“So you want us to…” I couldn’t even say the word.
“Yes.” She answered simply.
“That won’t work.”
“It will; it did before. I’ve been busy these past few days. I know about you and Axel. Your relationship with him never came between what you had with Thane, did it?” I couldn’t give an answer to that. “Riley, if Thane felt nothing for me, I would be gone by now, but I was his mate, and so there’s a part of him that would always have those feelings for me. I’ve been gone for long, so the mate bond between us has weakened, but it’s only a matter of time. When that time comes we don’t have to make him choose.”
“I don’t want that Isabella.” I said to her, even if I knew that she spoke the truth, or at least partially the truth. Thane might have feelings for her, and why he would never admit it to me, I knew that letting go of one’s first love and mate couldn’t be that so easy.
“But then that would only be you being selfish; he did let you have Axel, and maybe it’s time you did the same. I am not forcing you into making any decision, but I do like you a lot. I feel like we have a lot in common, and I want us to be friends, but that wouldn’t work with jealousy in the way. Thane will fall in love with me again, but I don’t want to have you as an enemy when that happens.”
She walked away, leaving me to think about what she had just said. I couldn’t do it; I loved him too much, and maybe I was selfish, but I wouldn’t share him, not with Isabella, not with anyone.
The garden didn’t feel very calming anymore, so I returned back to my room; on the way I bumped into Daisy.
“Hey,” I said to her.
“I’m glad I met you. Your child is doing better; in a few days time, you could come see him.”
“Really?” I asked, surprised.
“Yes, he is one strong child.”
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The excitement I felt clouded my mind, and the conversation I had with Isabella suddenly didn’t feel very important.
“Thank you.” I said to her,
“By the way, have you seen Daemon?” she asked, and only then did I notice the plaster on her neck.
Daemon was already in the room by the time I walked in; he stood by the balcony, staring into the distance. I went straight to him.
“Daisy wants to see you.” I said to him,
“She’s not the one I came to see,” he said, his gaze never meeting mine.
“She is a good person; you have no right to treat her like that.”
“Why? Because you told me to?”
“Yes, because I told you to.”
“And what makes you think that what you say matters? Who I fuck is my business, Riley; stay out of it.”
I was stunned by his words.
“If you aren’t interested in her, break it off.”
“Daisy is far gone; she’ll only cry her eyes out and keep begging. I can’t deal with that.”
“I saw her neck Daemon; it doesn’t take a genius to know what you’ve been up to; you are better than this.”
He turned to me, dark blue eyes on me. “And what if I am not better than that? What if I don’t want to change?”
“There’s a better way to live…”
“There is no,” he cut me off, “better way to leave.”
