Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight
ISABELLA’S POV
I had spent my days wondering if I made the wrong choice.
Everything had changed the moment I saw him for the first time; his image had been etched into my mind. I couldn’t stop thinking about him, and slowly I was falling in love with my very own imaginations of him.
I wanted to see him one more time, and yet I knew I couldn’t.
The sun was high in the sky when I returned to the place I called home. I walked in, and only then did I realize I wasn’t alone.
The man from the woods had found my little home, and that means I could no longer stay here. I had wanted to keep this place a secret, and now… It wasn’t anymore.
“How did you find me?” I questioned, because despite my anger, I still wanted to hear him speak; there was something alluring about his voice.
“This is the only building around; it would make sense that you live here,” he said.
“You aren’t giving up, are you?”
“No. No, I am not.”
“What do you want?”
“Everything,” he says, he was confident. I liked that and at the same time didn’t.
“Well, since you’ve let yourself in, you might as well make yourself comfortable.” I said to him, but he didn’t make any move to take a seat.
“I have questions for you, and I won’t leave till I get my answers.” He said to me, the intensity of his gaze caused me to look away. I was no omega, but I could recognize power when I saw it.
“I might not have answers to every one of your questions.” I say to him, and he walks closer to me, I back away. He paused, noticing how uncomfortable his closeness made me, and so he gave me some space.
You said you didn’t feel the mate bond; I don’t think you were being honest.”
“I wasn’t. I lied because I can’t be with you.
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“Why?”
“That’s a question I cannot answer.
“I will provide for you; I will give you everything you’ve wanted, everything you’ve ever needed,” he promises, and I almost belleve he could.
“No, you can’t. I do not want vanity; what I truly want, you cannot give. I cannot be with you, not because you are not good–looking enough.” I paused; he was
extremely good–looking, drop–dead gorgeous, with the body of a Greek god, but all that could never be mine.
“Where are your parents?” he asked, but I gave no response. “Bella, come with me; come back to my pack with me, and I will prove it to you; I will show you that I can make you happy.”
His promises felt so enticing, it felt so… right.
“I don’t want to be in your pack. I had left my own pack behind, my family too, all to be here and I can’t even make this place my home anymore, not after you’ve discovered it.”
“You are leaving?” he asked.
“Yes, I have to.”
“Where are you going?”
“That’s the point; you aren’t supposed to know.”
“What exactly are you running away from?” He questioned; those eyes seemed to pierce through my very soul. I felt bare in his presence.
“I am not running from anything; I just want to be alone.”
“That can’t be it.”
“You are right. That can’t be it. Do you want a reason? Then maybe I want out because I am sick of having to deal with packs, family, and people; I just want to be alone; that’s all I’ve ever wanted.”
“No one ever wants to be alone, so I don’t believe that either.”
“You want to be with me? Then you will have to come with me.” I said, realizing then. that I had made a mistake, What exactly happened to my plan of staying away? I was going to hurt him in the end; I was making a risky choice; I was selfish, and yet… he
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was right. I always thought I wanted to be alone, but he made me want more; I sought company–not just any company but… his. “You are of an Alpha blood; I can sense it, so are you willing to leave your pack and everything you’ve ever loved to be with me, right here in the middle of the woods?
There is another option though; Reject me and let me go.”
“You think you know me, Bella, but you don’t. I will make a choice, but it is not going to be what you are expecting.”
