Mate, You Are My Enemy

Chapter 7: Abyss

Diana’s pov

I didn’t move at all as he hugged me.

I have thought about the day I would meet him again, and it never went like this.

When the day came, I was supposed to be stronger, not just physically but also emotionally.

But now, as his scent hits my nose and his voice floats around my ears, I realize something.

I am not strong; in fact, I am far from being called strong.

I am still that girl who couldn’t avenge her parents.

Still, that girl who got saved by the enemy and who is still at the enemy’s mercy.

Because in that moment, it hit me that the only reason I was allowed out was so he could meet me.

This was all arranged by him; isn’t that the same as being at the enemy’s mercy?

He let me escape, arranged for people to come and get me, faked my death, and now even has the power to decide when he wants to meet me.

If that doesn’t count as being at the mercy of the enemy, then I don’t know what else does.

He let me go, and I slowly turned around to look at him.

Those red eyes haven’t changed one bit, but he has changed a lot.

He seems taller now, and from what I picked up when he hugged me stronger too.

He smirked, looking at me as if looking for some kind of reaction.

And I gave him my coldest smile before kneeing him in the groin.

He doubled back in pain but recovered and looked up at me.

“I expected worse. Gosh, I missed you,” that smile still on his face. How can someone be that shameless?

“You are stronger now,” he was sizing me up as he said those words. All of this, it is nothing but a game to him.

“Please, let’s stay with mate from now on,” Lilith kept pleading in my head.

Clawing and trying to come out to do god knows what she wants to do.

Stupid wolf, she doesn’t understand that we are nothing to Ezra.

This is just the kind of person he is and has always been.

We grew up together, and I have watched him play with people’s lives like they were nothing.

Controlling them like chess pieces for his own amusement, and we are not that different.

All of this, it is nothing but his twisted way of controlling us.

I looked at the evil bastard who is considered my mate, and I smiled.

He was looking at me, watching every movement of mine as if he expected me to strike him.

There is one reason that I can’t kill him now, well, many reasons.

The first one is because I know that I am not strong enough yet to stand against him.

The second one would be the fact that he saved me.

In his own twisted way and for whatever reasons, he saved me that night.

I was stricken by grief, and I was ready to die along with my parents.

And if I died, then who would avenge them?

If I died, then who would bring an end to these monsters?

I let my shoulders fall, which made him frown.

As if he could see me giving up, and he didn’t like it.

“Tonight, we settle this. After that, you have no claim on me. One night. Then you stay out of my life.” I told him.

“What the hell are you saying? Do whatever I want with you?” his brows were furrowed, and he had this complicated look on his face.

“Yes, but after tonight, I don’t owe you anything. We are done.” My voice didn’t shake, surprisingly so because deep down I was seething with anger.

I don’t want to owe him anything.

The day I come back to kill him, I don’t want the burden of being in his debt.

“Okay then, I booked a room in a hotel. Follow me,” he said after a few seconds of thinking it over.

I followed him; every footstep I took was heavy and made me feel even more helpless.

We walked in silence, for the first time in a long time, my heart felt like it was going to burst.

I wanted to turn around and run as fast as I could in the other direction.

And yet at the same time, I hoped that this would mean that everything between us would come to an end.

To be honest, the last few years haven’t really done much to help with this situation.

I am going to kill the Alpha King; that is a given.

I am going to make Justin and his parents pay for betraying my parents.

But every time I thought about what to do with him, I would come up blank.

And my wolf Lilith didn’t exactly make things easy.

She kept holding on to the breadcrumbs he fed us.

The gesture of letting us get away alive.

Him taking the impact of his own kick.

But after this, I won’t owe Lilith anything either, and she won’t complain.

This mate bond was doomed from the very beginning, and it’s about time she realized that.

We got to his room, and I stood by the door while Ezra turned to look at me.

Now that we were in the light and I could see clearly, I frowned.

He had bags under his eyes, yes, he seems stronger, but at the same time, he seems weaker.

He walked towards me, his eyes scanning my eyes and every inch of my body.

The gesture alone was intimate, but it wasn’t s****l.

As if scanning for injuries, as if taking in my appearance, and it seems like he didn’t like what he was seeing.

“It seems that neither of us can live without the other,” he said with a frown.

His fingers were busy tracing my face, soothing the little pain I allowed myself to show.

He took a few steps back and then walked towards the large bed in the room.

I didn’t even care enough to look at the decoration.

I want to get this over and done with.

He patted the other side of the bed, and I walked towards it.

The more steps I took, the more I felt my own resolve flicker.

What if this only makes things worse?

All these years, I have been telling myself that Ezra has this weird obsession with me.

It always seems like he did, but what if it was the same with me?

I could have drawn the line with him a long time ago, but I never did.

I liked his touches and his attention, and his obsession made me feel somewhat special.

So what if this only cements my own attraction?

Not only that, but I can feel the mate bond pulling me towards him.

The butterflies in my stomach that have no business being there.

What if I only fall deeper into the abyss?