His actions shocked me. I tried to free myself from his grasp.
He tightened his grip around my waist. He shook his head as his chin kept brushing against my neck.
With a blank expression on my face, I stared in front of me.
How could he say I know him?
“I don’t know you. I used to love you and give you everything. But you hurt me and broke my heart. Even if you want, you can’t mend my heart.”
As soon as he heard me, he turned me around to face him. Our bodies rubbed against each other by the turn. The closeness caused me to take a deep breath.
He was my ex-boyfriend. We had broken up only a few months ago. I had not come over the fact yet. Why was he doing this to me?
“I promise I will mend it. Just give me a chance, okay?”
I shook my head, but he cupped my face and lowered his head to look at me.
“Do you remember what you said on our first anniversary? You promised me that you would never leave me. When I asked you, even if I did anything wrong, what would you do? You replied that you would give me a chance since you believed that I loved you.”
I blinked my eyes as I recalled the memories.
Even though I did not want to remember those days, it made my eyes blurry.
“How stupid I was!” I muttered.
I was so in love with him that my brother used to call him my weakness.
I looked into his eyes and saw a glint of hope. I shut my eyes and took a few deep breaths in order to better deal with this situation.
But as soon as I closed my eyes, I was hunted by a pair of dark eyes.
Immediately after opening my eyes, I experienced a sensation of being suffocated. I felt as though my wolf kept reminding me of the person I belonged to.
I bit my bottom lip and pushed him away from me.
He looked at me with disbelief. “Why?”
His question was simple, but I had no answer.
I turned around but was stopped from leaving by his question.
“What if I make you fall for me again?”
The cold air that was all around me gushed in my direction to engulf me. His question gave me a chill inside.
“It’s not possible,” I replied to him.
‘The situation is different now,’ I told myself in my head.
I turned my head to him and said,
“Bruce, you cheated on me; we broke up, and you realized your fault. But that doesn’t mean I will return to you. There is no excuse for cheating. I was pure from my side when I was with you. So if I give you a chance, it will be unfair to that Sophia.”
He was silently looking at me. I got my chance and left him there alone.
As I made my way to my class, my heart pounded because I couldn’t stop thinking about Bruce’s defeated look. Was there still a place for him in my heart? Why could I not react viciously, just like he did to me at Luisa’s house?
If I had been in his position, would he have been able to forgive me?
My mind suddenly flashed back to the warning that his older brother had given me. I experienced a tremor within my body.
‘I am someone else’s mate now. If I still think about another man, will it not count as cheating, too?’
I shoved Bruce’s thoughts from my mind and tried to focus on my classes.
I got messages from Sara. She was asking about the post that Luisa had uploaded. I told her everything. She became enraged at Luisa and uttered more than a few curses at her.
She said she went out with Nolan somewhere. So they did not come to the university today. I wished for them to have a good time while they were together.
After the classes, I left my university and went to the company.
People smiled at me when they greeted me, which was something that I really appreciated. It was almost as if my position increased the amount of respect I received. The last incident gave other employees a closer look at my image.
I went to my new cabin and put my backpack on my desk. I thought about my first job, which was making a cup of coffee for Alpha Bryan.
As soon as I got to the coffee machine, I started working on my task.
When I was done and ready to leave, I heard some women’s laughing voices.
I took a little stroll and then stood against the pillar that was next to me in order to hear them clearly.
“This is the third time Alpha has asked about Sophia.”
“Yeah. I heard he even allowed her to use the VIP elevator yesterday.”
“What do you think? Maybe he is feeling interested in the girl.”
“No way. What about us?”
“We can’t even think of that. He is our head Alpha. But we never saw him get mad like that before. Didn’t you all see how he treated Miss Lily?”
“Of course. She was so scared that she accepted her fault herself.”
“I wonder what he had done to her to make her do that.”
“There are so many employees who got fired from our company. But Alpha never cared to instigate their matters as he did for Sophia.”
I kept listening to their conversations. They did not know I was there.
“The way he had lunch with her in the cafe was something impossible to believe. He had never done it before. At least I had never heard of it.”
I stared at the cup of coffee that I was holding in my hand. Their chuckles made me realize that the coffee would turn cold if I kept standing there for any longer.
Just as I was about to walk to Bryan’s cabin, I heard one of the women.
“I think Alpha likes his young secretary. People do these things when they are in love, you know.”
I froze on my way as soon as I heard it.
I slowly raised my head from the coffee and glanced at the door of Bryan’s office, which was a little far from there.
‘Does he really like me?’
