Chapter Five
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Lyra made her way past the long line of women waiting for the bathroom, ignoring the sneers and demands that she get her fat ass into the back of the line.
This wasn’t the time to play games. She pushed her way inside the bathroom, grabbed the pair of women gossiping by their arms and shoved them out of the room only to do the same to the woman applying way too much makeup and perfume.
The two women who came out of the stalls were thankfully shifters and sensed her mood and more importantly, her status, and made a run for it.
Once she was alone she locked the door behind her.
“Hey, we need to use the bathroom!” someone, probably a human, yelled.
“Use the men’s room!” she growled back.
“b***h!”
With trembling hands, she turned the faucet on and placed her wrist beneath the cold water. Slowly, she exhaled as the cool water soothed the burn of her new mark.
This was not happening. This really could not be happening to her. No way that…that…that manwhore was meant for her! That was just disgusting! Him, the father of her children? Ah, hell no.
It was not happening. She had choices. She truly did.
One thing was for sure, she was not going to accept him as her mate. Let the bastard go around for eternity limp. She'd be doing society a favor.
“You and I need to talk,” a low deep voice announced, startling her and making her jump back from the sink.
How in the hell had he gotten in here without her hearing him? She was a freaking Alpha for Christ’s sake.
She should have sensed him the minute that he stood outside the bathroom door.
She watched him as he leaned back against the bathroom door with his arms casually crossed over his chest.
“We have nothing to talk about,” she said with a casualness that she wasn’t feeling at the moment as she finished drying her hands and headed for the door.
He held up a hand, stopping her.
“I would say that we have a hell of a lot to talk about. Don’t you?” he asked, looking kind of pissed.
“No.”
“Well,” he drawled as he pointedly looked down at his mark, “this little mark says differently.”
“I don’t care what it says. I’m leaving.”
“No, I don’t think you are,” he said casually. “You just f****d me over, sweetheart.”
“I will never f**k you in any sense of the word, Kael, so back off,” she said through clenched teeth.
“Really?” he asked, sounding amused, which really just pissed her off more.
“Really.”
“Then I guess you don’t want pups of your own someday,” the manipulative bastard said casually like he wasn’t striking her where it would hurt the most.
She shrugged like it didn’t matter to her. “I can always adopt when I’m ready.”
Some of his cool façade began to slip away at that announcement.
“Oh, and what about s*x?”
This time it was her turn to smile. “Actually, Kael, I believe this,” she held up her wrist, “just opened up a brand new world for me. I no longer have to settle for human males. I can go for unmated shifters all thanks to you and have a hell of a time doing it.”
He glared at her. “You wouldn’t.”
She laughed. “Of course I would.”
Her expression turned concerned as she gave him a look of pity.
“Don’t worry. I’m sure you won’t miss s*x. Just think,” her tone and expression became bright and cheerful, “with all the new free time you’ll have because you can’t have s*x ever again!
Oh my God, you can get a hobby! Maybe bingo? You lucky bastard, you!”
Kael looked like he wanted to kill her, which was probably true. Everyone knew the man adored s*x.
This mating between them was probably the cruelest thing that fate ever conspired.
Oh well, she thought with an inward shrug.
“Now, if you’ll excuse me, one of us has to get laid tonight.”
With that she left the bathroom. Not twenty seconds later she heard glass shatter followed by a terrifying roar. She shouldn’t smile. Really, she shouldn’t, but she couldn’t help herself.
Five hours later she was dragging her exhausted ass into her small apartment. She was so tired. Why had she stayed there for so long? Oh, that’s right, to mess with Kael's head.
She really couldn’t remember ever laughing so hard in her life as she watched woman after woman offer to share Kael's bed for the night.
He glared at her each and every time when a woman made it obvious how much they wanted to spend the night in his bed and each and every time he had to send them away.
It was either that or let them find out that his equipment no longer functioned properly.
At least not for anyone but her.
Perhaps she shouldn’t have been so blatant about dancing with as many men as she had.
She may have stepped over a line or two when she was grinding away with two males from Kael’s Pack right in front of him, but it had been fun to see him being dragged out one of his own club before he could kill one of them.
The cherry on top of it all was making him think that she was going home with a very hot demon while he had to go home and be all sad about all the s*x he would never have again.
Ah, if only he hadn’t been such an asshole to her and so many others over the years she might feel bad for him.
Might, but didn’t.
Besides, she would never accept a mate or spread her legs simply because she felt bad for him.
She’d always hoped for a mate that she could truly love.
Something her parents never had, but something that she’d always wanted for herself.
Oh well, it was no big deal. At least now she knew who her mate was so she could focus on her life and ...move on.
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