Page 24 of Same Difference
He spotted Liam’s truck at a distance and muttered a curse to himself. The road was busy, and he couldn’t escape fast enough that they wouldn’t see him.
“Shhhit,” he drawled as Nory pulled in and rolled her window down.
His skin prickled with an urge for a Change as he rolled his window down slowly. “Ladies,” he greeted them.
He had no idea where Liam was, but it was Nory driving his truck.
He looked past Nory and froze when he saw Delta in the passenger seat.
Her hair looked different. It was streaked with blond, but her base color was darker. It made her glowing green eyes look even brighter. God, she was pretty.
“Hey, eyes over here,” Nory said, snapping her fingers.
Nate blinked hard and tried his best to pay attention to the little rude one.
“We are going out tonight, and some of the Pack are meeting us, and I wanted to make sure there won’t be another moment like this afternoon.”
“Okay?”
“Can you stay away from the Yeti tonight?”
He ghosted a glance at Delta. “Is the whole Pack going?”
He’d meant to just say, ‘okay,’ but now questions were coming out of him without his permission.
“Almost all.”
“Everyone but me?” he guessed.
Nory pursed her lips. “It didn’t start like that. Vic heard us talking about going out and invited himself, and then he invited everyone else.”
“Except for me.” Nate didn’t know why he cared, honestly. He nodded and looked at Delta again. She looked so different to him now. The darker streaks in her hair, contrasting with the blond made her eyes impossible to look away from. “You look…”
He closed his eyes tightly and forced himself to look forward. “Whatever she needs,” he told Nory. And then he rolled up his window and pulled onto the road. Twice he looked in his rearview, and Liam’s truck was just sitting there. He wondered what they were talking about. Probably him and how bad he’d fucked up. It was fair.
Delta was something else, and he hadn’t appreciated her. She was glowing up after he destroyed them, and that was on him. Maybe she’d been quiet and boring because he hadn’t taken good enough care of her.
Fuck this ache in his chest.
He’d seen that guy talking to her earlier while he was eating with Bridger. It had been easy conversation. His saving grace was that she hadn’t given him her number or anything, buthow long would that last? Delta was gorgeous. Why the fuck he hadn’t seen that before now, he didn’t know. And what did it say about him that he only noticed her like this after she wasn’t his anymore? Nothing good.
He really was a Donn. His dad and brothers all acted like this too, but that wasn’t an excuse. He’d had a chance to do it better and he’d ruined it.
Fuckin’ typical.
At a light, his phone screen lit up with a message, and his heart dropped to the floor as he read it.
The Arrangement between Nathanial Braxton Donn and Delta Amelie Harrington is officially dissolved on reason of non-consummation and mutual decision to terminate the pairing. All documents can be downloaded here.There was a clickable link in blue.
Chest heaving, heart pounding, Nate dropped the cell phone onto the seat next to him and stared straight ahead of him. They hadn’t kissed on their pairing day. He’d tried to be respectful of her submissive, shy personality and not do that in front of her old Pack, but in this moment, he so fuckin’ regretted it.
He’d kept her at that distance for two months, thinking he had the rest of their lives to build up, but they hadn’t built anything. The Pack had fallen apart and so had they.
He should’ve leaned on her, not pushed her away.
They were supposed to be a team, and now…they were nothing at all.
Once an Arrangement was dissolved, it could never be reinstated officially again. They were really done.
