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Chapter Fifty Four
I and Thane lay side by side on the bed in a comfortable silence.
“I’m feeling very generous now. Ask me a question; you might get an answer,” he says, and I peck up. I had so many questions to ask, and he was finally giving me an opportunity. I might as well take it while it lasts.
“Why did you pick me?, you would have had others easily… What is your intention, and what are you going to gain from this?”
“So this was the first thing that came to your mind?. Ask any other question, but that,” he says. That wasn’t fair. But I quickly moved on, I didn’t expect an answer either.
“Your parents had been present at the time you were being…” I paused; I didn’t want to say the word punished again, so I moved on, hoping Thane got the clue: “Freya did nothing. I feel like there is something you haven’t told me, something between your parents, particularly your mother and you.”
Thane watched me silently. “That’s another question I can’t answer.
“Were you planning to ever answer a question?”
“I didn’t expect smart questions from you,” he said, and again, I didn’t know if I should be offended by that.
“Have you ever been in love?” I tried. I couldn’t imagine Thane in love; it felt too mundane of a thing for a man like Thane. I didn’t think he had ever been in love.
“Is that all you want to ask?” he questioned. Maybe he would give me an answer after all
“I want to know everything about the bond you share with Axel. I want to know if you had a mate and… what happened to her.”
I didn’t miss the slight stillness at the mention of a mate. It had never been officially known that Thane had found his mate, but maybe we just weren’t well informed. a
“Those questions I would answer. I think you deserve to know something, but there is a condition. No one would ever hear about this,” he says.
“Is this like a top secret?” I asked jokingly, “What would you do if I did tell someone?”
“You won’t; I don’t think you will dare that,” he says, and I think about daring it, just to prove. to him that I could.
“Don’t worry, no one will know; as you can clearly see, I don’t have a lot of friends.”
“Good, it would be bothersome having to kill you if you do,” he says. Thane doesn’t joke, but I want to believe this was some kind of a rare joke.
“I had been in love before,” he said to me, and I was indeed surprised. I had so many more
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questions: who was she? Had it been Beatrix? Was she in the pack? Do you still love her?. I voiced out none, though.
“That is very hard to believe.” I say instead.
“Yes, sometimes I can’t believe it either. There was one thing Slade had taught me. Love was pain, and he was very much right.” Thane said and I waited patiently for him to continue. “Her name was Bella, and she was my mate. I did love her, so very much; I was so obsessed with her.
I had found her during a trip, and she was… she was different. She was so small and delicate; her name was very fitting, and I fell instantly in love. She ran away that very first day I met her, but I couldn’t let her go. I found her; she lived alone in a small house right in the middle of nowhere, but she was no rogue, just a runaway wolf. She didn’t seem to like me, though, not one bit, and I wondered if I were the only person feeling the pull from the mate bond.
You see, I didn’t see myself as particularly unattractive; I was an Alpha, young, and wealthy. Who doesn’t want that? But she hadn’t wanted me close to her. I never gave up; I visited her as much as I could, and the only person who knew about this was Axel. One day, I asked her why she wouldn’t a mate. She told me that the only reason she couldn’t be with me was that she didn’t want to make me choose between her and my own pack. See, Bella didn’t want to become a part of this pack–or any pack; she said she liked a free life where she could be all on her own, and if loved her that enough, then I could come along with her.
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I loved this pack so much, but… I couldn’t live without her. I hadn’t told anyone but Axel; he was going to cover up for me for the main time, and if I finally chose to be with her, he would become the next Alpha in my stead.
The few weeks I spent with her were one of the best moments of my life, but then one day just like every other day, I woke up to an empty bed. No, she hadn’t run away; she was seated on her favourite couch, backing me. Only when I got closer did I discover that something w very wrong. She was still–too still.”
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