The Alpha King Is My Second Chance Mate Chapter 152

“I officially have someone to call mine now.”

Delilah twisted onto her side so she faced him, a small smile gracing her lips as she gently pressed her fingers against the tender mark on her neck. “I guess I could say the same thing.”

“You absolutely can. I’m yours even if you haven’t marked me yet, and you can do that whenever you want. I’m ready for the ceremony whenever you are…are you ready?”

Delilah wiggled her toes as she thought about it for a second before nodding her head. Beatrice was completely out of the picture, he’d accepted her, she’d accepted him…they were in love; why wait? “I think I am.”

“No, I want you to be sure.”

“I am sure…I want that. I want my mark on your neck too…I bet it’d look pretty there.”

“It’d look just as perfect as mine looks on yours.” He draped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer against him. “How are you feeling? Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine…though my legs are…I think you wrecked them.”

Jake laughed. “Still shaking? I mean, they always shake when I’m between them…whether it be my head or my…”

“Stop it…not funny…how will I look wobbling to the bathroom?”

“To me you’d look cute, but as for your own judgement…you’ll think you look ridiculous.”

“And I will look ridiculous.” She glared at the smile across his lips. “So don’t laugh and don’t smile either.”

“Okay, I won’t laugh…but our first time, did you enjoy it?”

“Why do you even have to ask? It was perfect…being connected to you more than just physically felt…it felt so good and surreal…like we really were one.”

“Yeah?”

Delilah nodded, and he pulled her closer, etching his head beneath her chin. “I felt the same…hell, it took a lot to hold myself back…I didn’t want you to be reminded of the past and get scared.”

Delilah sighed, she too wrapping an arm around his back. “I told you, the past doesn’t exist anymore. Stop thinking about it…we took a long path to get here, stop trying to go back.”

“It’s hard though…it’s hard to forget how much of a f*cking jerk I was. Just thinking about it makes me want to hurt myself. If somebody else were to treat you the way I did, I’d kill them in the worst way possible…but I can’t kill myself, especially since I desperately want to spend the rest of my life with you.”

“It’s fine…you’re fine…I’m fine. Stop thinking about that, live in the now.”

“I’ll try my best. You know? There are a lot of things I regret in the past. Sometimes I even regret killing my dad and his family, but when I think about what happened to mom…I feel like I did the right thing. I marked the tree beside his grave on the day he was buried, but from that day till now, I never went back there to vent. Probably because I think that mom would feel betrayed if I ever forgave him for what he did to her.” He held her tighter, squeezing her small body against his. “I can’t forgive him, but I also can’t forgive mom for what she did to herself. I always feel sad and lonely on this day…but today I don’t feel that overwhelming sense of sadness and I don’t feel excruciatingly lonely. I actually feel like I can forget everything if I have you by my side.”

“Even with me here, I don’t think you’ll ever forget everything.” Delilah began. “You have to forgive to forget, and you don’t seem to have forgiven yourself yet. You’re not at fault, your mother didn’t die because of you, and your father died because he didn’t have a heart. Stop blaming yourself and accept that they’re gone and there’s nothing you can do to bring them back. It’s not your fault.”

Jake stayed quiet for a while, and then he spoke. “Nobody’s ever told me that before…all the blame I have stacked upon my shoulder, nobody has ever tried to get me to put them down. But if not mine, whose fault was it then? I wasn’t necessarily the cause of their separation, but I am partly what held their toxic relationship together. So whose fault could it be but mine?”

“Theirs…” Delilah countered. “It might sound selfish, but it was their fault. They chose their paths, they knew they weren’t mates, and yet, they went against fate. It might’ve seemed like it from the start, but they were never meant to be together. Their union was bound to come to an end…I learned the hard way what going against fate can lead to, it’s only sad that they lost their lives in their battle and I got to keep mine.”

“Well, I’m happy…” Jake lifted his head to stare at her. “I’m happy that fate didn’t do to us what it did to them.”

“Me too…”

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Healing really did have a lot to do with forgiving…and when Jake finally forgave himself for everything…when he finally looked at it from the perspective of the past, his life got better.

It took him months, but those months felt like days with Delilah by his side. She was like the sunrise…the very start of his day. Their love for each other only grew, especially after their mating ceremony. The fate that tied them together could not be the same one that ripped his parents apart.

Adjusting the black bow tie around his neck, he looked towards Delilah, who was pulling a pink dress up those flawless legs. She pulled the cuffs of the dress over her bare breasts and then looked towards him. “Zip this for me…”

“Zip it or just take it off?”

“Not right now, Jake…you said this was important, how could you possibly want to turn up late just because you can’t control the d*ck in your pants?”

“It’s important…but stripping you down right now would be more of my priority than that damn meet and greet.” He walked over to where she stood in front of the mirror, still holding the strapless dress up. “Isn’t that right?”

His hand slid down her back, and she glared back at him. “We had sex last night, Jake.”

“And we can still do it tonight.”

“Why…? It doesn’t matter how many times we do it…I still won’t be able to get pregnant…”

Her words had Jake’s hand on her back freezing, the playfulness in his eyes disappearing. “Delilah…that…the doctor didn’t say it was impossible. It’ll work out, we’ll have our baby soon…I promise.”

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”

“When have I ever done that?”

She turned to him, head falling against his chest. “Never…you’ve never done that.”

“Then trust me, I’ll make it happen…I really will, babe.”

She nodded against him and he hugged her closer. This was their only problem…Delilah couldn’t get pregnant, and it was because of him. His own actions had come back to bite him…that serum he’d fed her to get rid of Jeovanni’s baby did something to her…

She was now almost incapable of getting pregnant…and he couldn’t be more sorry. “Turn around so I can zip the dress.”

Delilah did so as soon as he let go of her, and he zipped the dress and gave her a kiss on her neck. “You look beautiful.”

She smiled at him. “Thank you…you don’t look bad yourself.”

Jake laughed. “Couldn’t you just say I look handsome?”

“You look handsome…”

“Thank you.”

“I’m going to see Quinn tonight…”

“I know…you’ve been talking about it for a month now. I hope it works out between you two, but she hates me and I hate her mate…there’s no way I’ll fit in there with you. So I’ll just wait for you close by.”

“I understand, s~”

Both Delilah and Jake looked towards the door when it was knocked, knowing who was out there before they even spoke. “Are you guys not ready? We’ll be late if you stay longer.”

“Almost…lemme just get my shoes on, Neil.” She pointed to the white heels, and Jake took them up before stooping in front of her.

He tapped her feet and she lifted them each so he could put the shoes on. When he was done, he stood to his feet and held his hand out to her. “Let’s go, angel…I’ll make sure you enjoy tonight.”

Fate was uncontrollable…it took its own paths, but Jake had no problem following it. He just hoped that one day it could lead them to a child…one that had the same bright eyes as her…

A/N//And we’ve made it…we’ve made it to the end of their story. Initially, I had planned to make their story really short…like 20 Chapters short…

It was supposed to be way sadder…Delilah was supposed to die when Jake finally fell for her, and he was supposed to live the rest of his life regretting that he grew up with the same traits as his father.

But you guys made me change it up, lol…you guys fell in love with him and I didn’t have the heart to make him suffer. This one truly was a rollercoaster and I thank you all for sticking around until the end…even with the inconsistency of my updates…

I’m truly sorry about that…I will be writing about 10-15 Chapters about Jeo so you guys can meet his mate and also see just how his life turned out. I’ll try to make the updates faster…and I hope I’ll be able to keep up…

From Gaydar:

Once again, thank you guys for making this story a story…without you guys, I wouldn’t be able to do it…omg, I wanna cry…

But then again, aren’t I crying?