Page 75 of Rejecting My Lycan Mate: The Throne

“You will apologize and everything will be okay,” he said. “She loves you, Dimitri. She loves you so much. She will understand.”

I gulped and buried my nose into her hair.

“She thought that I would leave her,” I muttered. “She thought that I would go back to Savannah.”

Will sighed again and I looked back up at him. He had a worried look on his face.

“You were really angry, Dimitri,” Will said. “I never saw you like that. She definitely never saw you like that. What the hell happened?”

Will furrowed his brows and shook his head.

“I know Kendrick pissed you off, but the anger was just rolling off you in waves,” Will added. “It was strange seeing you like that.”

I took a deep breath and placed a hand on Maddie’s head. I pressed her closer, assuring myself that she was safe and in my arms.

“I don’t know,” I said, shaking my head. “Maybe it was because I hadn’t seen Maddie in a few hours. I am really not sure.”

Will looked at her and gulped.

“Are you really that dependent on her?” he asked. “I mean, I get it now. I feel amazing when I am with Ali. I feel my best when I am with her, but I don’t think that being without her would cause me to react like that. I would miss her. I would want her back as soon as possible. I would be on edge, sure, but I wouldn’t react like that.”

I tightened my jaw and shook my head.

“I don’t know what to tell you, Will,” I said. “I can’t explain it. I can’t…”

I stopped talking and took another deep breath.

“It felt like I had that anger stored somewhere and it all just exploded out of me,” I mumbled, trying to explain the best I could. “I just couldn’t stop it.”

Will looked back up at me and furrowed his brows.

“That sounds weird,” he said. “It shouldn’t be like that, Dimitri. Maybe you should talk to someone about it. You’ve been through a lot lately.”

I placed another kiss on the top of Maddie’s head.

“You can’t hurt her like that every time you lose control,” Will added. “She doesn’t deserve it, Dimitri.”

I tightened my hold on her.

She deserved nothing but love and care. She deserved the best. She deserved to be cherished and loved unconditionally.

“She did everything right,” Will continued softly. “She handled it like she was supposed to. She wasn’t in any danger. Ellie and Mike were there. She told him no. When he asked about dinner she said that she was going to ask you if you could both go. She did amazing, Dimitri.”

I knew that. I knew that she did amazing. I knew that she wouldn’t do anything to hurt me. I trusted her, of course I did.

But I didn’t trust him. And I couldn’t control my fucking anger.

I ran my fingers through her hair and tried to ignore a wave of guilt that washed over me again.

“She did amazing,” I repeated. “I fucked up.”

Will nodded. “You have to make sure that you don’t do it again, Dimitri. Talk to someone about it.”

I sighed. “Talk to who?”

“I don’t know,” Will said, shrugging. “Oliver or Mike maybe.”

I sighed again. I didn’t trust Oliver yet, and Mike never really had a true mate. He never marked his fated mate and my mother was his chosen mate. Their bond was never really as strong as mine and Maddie’s was.

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