Aurora smelled Fennick the moment he arrived at her cottage. She quickly hid the novel she was reading under her pillow and rumbled her duvet to cover herself up. She closed her eyes and pretended to sleep, shutting her mind so he wouldn't sense that she wasn't sleeping.
The expected knock came on her door but she didn't dare to answer it. She knew it was him and she wasn't ready to forgive yet. The knock came in again but she still didn't respond to it praying for him to leave.
However, Fennick wasn't ready to leave. He hasn't seen her since the other night and she won't let him in. He knew she must have shut him away from her thoughts because that was what she always does when it comes to their arguing.
He tried pushing the door open and thankfully for him, Aurora has forgotten to lock it. He smiled, opened the door for him to enter and walked in, closing the door behind him. His gaze fell upon her bed, where she was sleeping and he had no choice but to giggle.
Aurora was smart but sometimes she makes mistakes which she just did. She had forgotten to lock her door and it saddened her when she knew her mistake. All she hoped for him to do was let her be and leave. She noticed he moved to her nightstand and out the light which she had forgotten again. "I'm such an idiot." She groaned softly to herself.
Fennick gave her one more glance before her stride out of her room leaving her in regret. She felt bad for him but she just couldn't get herself to forgive him easily. She knew Fennick, he could do the same thing a hundred times and still wouldn't care. He was a good match for her. At that moment, she couldn't stand up from the bed again and since she had already prepared for bed, she stayed laid there with different thoughts popping into her head until sleep took her away.
"You only run and train the fighters, don't you have anything else to do?" Sage inquired from Aurora as he watched her doing the combat fight in the middle of the field beside the pack building. They had been there for the last two hours since Aurora started training and Sage has been begging her to rap up and escort him to town stating he wanted to meet with his long-time friends.
Fighting for breath, She responded, "It's my obsession. Now shut up, will you?" She groaned. She didn't like the fact that he was distracting her but she loved his company. Formally, Fennick was the one who always accompanied her but wherever there was an argument between them, it was either he followed her without them saying anything to each other or he stayed away. It felt as if Sage was taking his place. Yet she didn't mind. Fennuck was her best pal and Sage was just a random fellow she met two days ago.
"I think I'm starting to like you," Sage confessed and it made Aurora stop on her track from the spinning fight she was doing.
She kept quiet for some seconds, bracing him. "I'm sure if your mate was here, she could have strangled me to death." She uttered and returned to her regime.
Sage chuckled. If only she knew what she was saying. If only she knew she was talking about herself. If only she knew she was his mate, what would she do?
"You have a mate?" Sage decided to ask if maybe she would tell him something he needed to know but her answer stung him deep into his heart.
"I don't want him." She enunciated and suspended her training again. This time she was facing him and their eyes met. Since she didn't feel any sensation like Sage had felt, she added to her statement. "I haven't seen him and I don't want to. He would be a very good danger for me."
"Danger?!" Sage cried out still not getting why she didn't want her mate.
"You know." She shrugged, "I just don't want him."
"Why?" Sage asked, standing up from the rock he sat on.
Aurora didn't answer him, walked past him to the rock he stood up from and sat on it. Sage could sense the bitterness in her. Why was she hostile?
He watched her open the gun oil that she had brought from home to clean her sword. "You want to mate with another?"
His words got a fierce glance from her. "What did you just say?" She asked with a raspy voice. Was he serious?
"I asked a que_"
"You're insane!" She let out softly but aggressively. "Why would you ask me such a question? Of course, if I don't want my mate then I will have to mate with someone else, do you have any problem with that?"
"Yes, I do and who told you, you have the right to mate with someone else? Who told you you have the right to reject your mate?!" He snapped taking her by surprise.
"I don't have the right? And I never remembered telling you I was going to reject my mate? Hell! I'm never going to do that and the last time I checked, you aren't my mate so you have no business with me. I don't know why we are having this conversation."
Sage went mute. He didn't know what to say or what he should do. She didn't want her mate and she wasn't going to reject him. "Then, why the wish?" He thought, gloomily. She just said she was going to mate with another wolf. Was she in love with another person while he was away? "Why_" He paused when Aurora held her hands up to shun him up.
"No more words, Sage. This conversation had ended and if you wouldn't mind, I want to be left alone, can you take your leave?" She asked politely but deep inside she wanted to yell at him to leave her alone. If he wasn't her senior or the Beta's son, maybe she could have.
Sage took some steps backwards and turned to leave but on second thought, he veered back to her, grabbed her by her hand and pulled her up to face him. He was about to say something when Aurora growled at him. This time she wasn't at work because her wolf had gotten angry at him and fought with Aurora to shift. In a flash her claws had dug into his skin, ripping off his flesh. Sage groaned.
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