Ian:
The scene of Joshua kissing her kept repeating in my head. The problem was not my ego.
It was my wolf. Seeing my mate being kissed by soone who was not her mate sent through a rush of emotions, one of them being abandonnt.
I felt as if she was going to leave .
Things were already getting rough between us, and if soone else tried to get in the way, I felt like I would lose her.
In the last few days she had found out I was the headmaster’s son, sothing I had planned to tell her, but she discovered it another way.
And then, as always, my anger and my pride got in the way. Instead of showing guilt, I chose anger because that was how it worked for .
Every ti I made a mistake, I got angry so I would not have to admit it or face the consequences.
But she had been so upset with for sothing I had no control over, yet she stood so comfortably with Joshua so close to her.
The sa person who was the reason we were all still in the academy.
My jaw stayed tight as I stepped into the car. I shook my leg anxiously and aggressively.
I waited for the other crusaders to co in while my mind refused to work properly.
I knew I should not have acted this way.
This was the mont I should have stepped out of the car and spoken with Clentine, apologized for not telling her sooner, and explained everything I knew.
But I was so angry that I kept telling myself to wait a few more seconds, maybe two more, maybe one more.
And then it was too late. All the other crusaders had gotten inside.
The mont the car began to move, I told myself that once we returned to the academy, I would go talk to her.
But when I saw Clentine fall to the ground and cry in the mud, her face buried in her hands, my heart dropped faster than it ever had.
"Stop the car," I ordered, making several heads snap toward .
"I said stop the car!" I yelled at the driver.
He did not respond at first, then answered calmly,
"Those are not the orders. Once we start the car, we are not supposed to stop," he replied calmly, his words making my blood pressure rise.
"Are you serious?" I shouted, then leaned back and turned as far as I could to look at Clentine.
She looked so broken, all because of . I had never seen her cry like that.
Not even a monster had ever affected her the way I had.
And the guilt hit harder than ever.
"You are so full of yourself," Yorick scoffed from the backseat, comnting at .
"She was there for you," he remarked, "every ti, no matter what. And now you walked away like that? You have the nerve to look angry at her?"
He leaned forward and tapped my shoulder, making my fist clench instantly.
"We were jealous too when Joshua kissed her. Anyone would be. But it was nothing, just a peck. And that was because they had both almost died. They ca out of the monster’s mouth. That kiss ant nothing," he continued.
"If she cos to after all this, I will still accept her," Haiden added, making my heartbeat slow in my chest.
I did not know she had been inside the monster’s mouth.
"You do not even deserve her. You are only playing with her because she is beautiful and powerful. You are fascinated with her, that is all," Troy remarked with his arms crossed, acting superior.
"You should be the last one to speak. All of you were under Oriana’s control too easily," I shot back, finally speaking because they kept reminding that I did not deserve Clentine.
"Well, it was a powerful spell, was it not?" Haiden answered quickly, trying to defend himself.
"That is not the truth," I replied. "I did not fall for her spell because I love Clentine more than you all do."
The mont they heard that, Yorick began to laugh.
"No, you did not fall because you were never there to spend ti with Oriana. You were not in the room. It was Zian, and he was not going to get affected," Yorick tried to explain.
"That is not the case," I retorted. "In the long run, yes, maybe I would have been affected if I had stayed longer. But whenever she looked at her targets and touched her chain on her stomach, there would be a delayed response. It was not the sa for . I was able to break from it easily."
As soon as I said that, I saw Troy narrow his eyes. He looked genuinely upset.
"You are going to use that excuse again to turn Clentine against , are you not?" Troy pointed at himself, singling his own na out.
He sat on the opposite side of the car, facing .
"If you do not stop going after her, I will have to eliminate the competition," Troy added.
"Is that a threat?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.
"Yes," Troy replied. "This trophy is too important for to let go."
Hearing him call her that made sothing inside snap.
I could have attacked him, but I had already caused enough problems.
I needed to return to the academy, find a way to speak to her, apologize and explain why it had taken so long to tell her I was the headmaster’s son.
As we reached the academy, the storm grew stronger again.
It was going to stay for three days. The monster had nothing to do with it.
That creature had been a separate problem we had just dealt with.
Still, I wondered why it had co out at all. My grandfather had told about it.
It was called the Water Bride, but I had never known it truly existed until now.
That was sothing I needed to tell Clentine. She would be the only one who understood.
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