Page 20 of Rejecting My Lycan Mate: The Throne

Both Ellie and Will were holding back their laughter.

“Stop laughing,” he said as he pulled me toward the couch. “It’s not funny. I was 12.”

Dimitri and I sat on the couch. I pulled him closer and kissed his cheek.

“It’s a little bit funny,” I said, making him sigh and roll his eyes.

“Okay, enough about the treehouse,” Ellie said, smirking at Dimitri. “Did you talk to Janet? What did she want?”

My smile disappeared immediately and worry hit me like a train. I looked him up and down and I sighed in relief. He wasn’t injured. Well, physically at least.

What did she ask him? What did she say to him? Did she hurt him?

I pressed myself closer to him, wishing I could just absorb his pain.

CHAPTER TEN – Just A Few Hours Away

Dimitri's POV

Being next to Maddie was healing my body and my soul in ways I never thought possible. I felt more at peace as soon as she wrapped her arm around my waist and leaned her head on my chest.

I smiled at her and placed a soft kiss on her forehead. I missed her terribly.

I never could have imagined I would feel like this. I knew that mate bond was a powerful thing, but I never knew that I would struggle to be separated from her for more than an hour.

“She wanted out,” Will responded to Ellie’s question. “She said that she would change.”

I could feel anger starting to pulsate inside me, but it didn’t even get to develop because Maddie turned her head and placed a soft kiss on my chest. I ran my fingers through her hair and took a deep breath of her scent. I smiled and sighed contently.

“Oh, what a buttload of crap,” Ellie said angrily. “She is obviously lying.”

I looked at Ellie and smiled.

“Obviously,” I said calmly.

Ellie furrowed her brows and looked me up and down.

“Why aren’t you angry?” she asked. “Or annoyed? Or something other than happy?”

I ran my fingers through Maddie’s hair and sighed.

“It’s hard to be angry when I am with my mate,” I said.

It was really hard. I wanted to be angry. Just thinking about my mother had me furious, but it was like something was stopping me from feeling anything other than pure bliss.

Ellie furrowed her brows and shook her head at me.

“Anyway,” she sighed. “Why did you even agree to go see her? We all knew what she was going to say.”

“I just can’t get her reasoning for hurting Maddie out of my head,” Will started explaining. “I am sure that there had to be another reason other than what she told us.”

Maddie tensed up a little. I ran my hand down her back, trying to relax her.

“And you thought that she would tell you?” Ellie asked, snorting. “Let me guess, she didn’t.”

Will glanced at me and smirked.

“We didn’t ask,” Will said.

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