"How can I trust you? After what you've done!"
Beta Prince Waylon Kailea's counting down the days of his final semester at the Antum School for the supernatural. Serving in his alpha sister's shadow, Waylon finds himself utterly alone and patiently...
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~Waylon~
"Ay, ay, ay, ay! WEI!"
Sora cheers me on as I made my last move in the open practice room with my footwork on point. Stopping at the cheers of my crew as we celebrated our last night together as a group. Sora wraps his arm around me and raises his plastic to the rest of the crew. With good music and great Forester style food we finished up our final dance and voted for next year's team captain.
"To the continuation of the Mono Empire! And may the three of us find mated bliss after the ceremony tomorrow," Sora cheers and we all tap cups before I take a sip of water. Just the thought of tomorrow slowly sinks in and I feel my joy fade to darkness.
"You alright?" Sora asks and I nod, taking a final gulp of water before throwing the cup away and grabbing my bag.
"Yeah, I just have to go see Alexei," I tell him and he nods with a small pout.
"Is it what we talked about?" He asks and I nod, knowing it's best to do it now rather than later.
"Good luck and if you need someone to talk to, come straight to my room when you're done alright? I'll be waiting," Sora offers with a soft ruffle of my hair and I try to play it off without a care in the world when really my entire world felt like it was being flipped upside down.
When I reached Alexei's room, the only thing I got was a haphazardous Artemis answering the door. She looked angry at first until she realized it was just little ol' me.
"Good afternoon Prince Waylon, what are you doing here?" She asks through the crack in the door and I was a little confused as to why she didn't open it all the way like she usually does.
"Um, I was just wondering where-are you okay?" I ask and she quickly nods.
"Of course I am. As for my brother, I believe he's looking for you in your place of residence," Artemis says and I hear a dry cough from the other side of the door that couldn't possibly be her.
Confused, I look at Artemis then the door itself before shrugging it off. I'm probably just hearing things. I wave a small goodbye before heading back to my room and as soon as the door closes I hear Artemis yelling at something and a burst of laughter that didn't sound at all like her.
"Whatever," I mumble, a little upset that she didn't show me who was with her as I go to my own room. Opening the door to find Alexei standing across from Juniper, causing me to freeze in place. Juniper's hands were balled into tight fists before she stormed out and Alexei broke his defensive position to sit down in my desk chair.
"Care to tell me what that was about?" I ask him and he shakes his head, looking to the window with that hint of mystery in his sweet brown eyes.
"Just alpha stuff, with the ceremony and everything I was hoping we could be on level grounds but that woman is so disagreeable I can barely tolerate her," Alexei groaned as he ran his hands through his thick black hair and I stood in front of him. Kissing the top of his fluffy head so he could feel some kind of relief while I basked in his soothing scent.
"You don't have to get along with her just for me," I mention as he wraps his arms around me, shaking his head as he did so.
"I know, but she's going to be one of my sisters so I thought I would give it an honest effort," he says and I bite my lower lip to the point where it started bleeding.
"But I brought you dinner since I figured you probably haven't eaten yet. How did your finals go?" He asks as he runs his hands over my hips and I wrap my arms around his strong shoulders.
"Um, they were fine I guess. I didn't really think they were that hard," I mention and he rolls his eyes.
"Of course not, why did I ask when you're a genius," Alexei chuckles as he pulls me close and I fall into his lap.
"Alexei, there's something I need to talk to you about," I start, trying to rip it off like a band aid as Sora said to do.
"Sure peaches, what's going on? Are you okay?" he was so concerned that it hurts me to think of the pain I'm about to cause this gentle sweetheart.
"We should break up," I spit it out and Alexei's smile slowly fades to a confused frown.
"I'm sorry, what?" He suddenly laughs but I stay completely serious. Did I say it wrong?
"We should end our relationship," I try to say it another way and now he stops laughing.
"Wait, are you serious babe?" He asks and I quickly nod, forcing myself to take a step back from him but now his grip on me was too tight.
"Hold on baby, why? Did I do something? Did I hurt you? Did I say something?" He starts asking all these questions that I had no answers to and I vigorously shake my head.
"No, no, no, it's not you. I just think about tomorrow and what if...what if I'm not your mate Alexei? I don't want to make it awkward for your soulmate," I mention and he gently thumbs my swollen lower lip. Grabbing a tissue before dabbing away the blood without saying a word.
"Waylon," He sighs my name before meeting my anxious gaze and I could see the thin line of water covering his lower lid.
"I just want you to be happy and if we were meant to be than I'll be the happiest boy alive but we have to prepare in case...in case..." I can't stop as the tears shake loose and it takes every ounce of my being to stand up and break away from him.
"Okay, if that's what you want," Alexei says but I don't look at him as he stands behind me and I feel his hand just graze my shoulder.
"But no matter what happens tomorrow, it will always be you," He says and I take off the ring he once gave me, holding it out to him. He closes my hand around it and gently kisses my cupped fingertips.
"Keep it," Is all he says before walking out the door.
And when it hits, it hits harder than I could have ever imagined.
I dropped to the floor as my uncontrollable sobs got the best of me and my tears pooled to the floorboards beneath me. Every breath adding to my shattered heart as it got harder to breathe. I've never felt any pain as strongly as this one before and the need for Alexei to come back was so strong I started screaming from its torturous burning over my very soul
I didn't even notice the door had opened again and I turned around after hearing the slightest creak.
But by then it was already too late.
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Oops, I fell asleep right before I hit publish lol
So my Patreon fans can leave a little 🙊 in the chat since they got to vote on who it is and already know from reading the bonus chapters about the mated ceremony...
But who do you guys think was in there with Artemis?
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