The Tripartite Mate Bond Chapter 122: CHAPTER HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO

“Aurora! Stop walking, I need to talk to you!” He shouted at me as I walked away from the pack house but I refused to answer him.

“Please, I just want to apologize. I know I fucked up, let me talk to you baby,” he pleaded as I walked out on him.

It felt so bad doing that as my emotions were warring with me but I was genuinely hurt and everything he was saying was only making things worse.

“I'm not interested in anything you have to say, Kane. You crossed the line and I can't get over the fact that you put me in this difficult state. I'll definitely love this baby till my dying breath but I wasn't ready!” I snapped at him and kept walking.

I was heading to Lyra, hoping she'd be awake for me to say goodbye to her and Kane had been following me right from the penthouse.

I had to tell Ares to get the car ready so they won't resort to fists. Kane was insistent on apologizing to me but I didn't want to hear anything he had to say. Ares understood why I needed to leave and was ready to Pummel it into Kane’s mind.

But just as always, he didn't think of anyone but himself.

He simply acted in his selfish interests and wasn't even thinking about the possibility of me having an opinion. His actions hurt more than any other betrayal I've had and there's been quite a lot of them over the course of my twenty two years on earth. But his cut deep as he was created from a fragment of my soul and I'd trusted him completely, believing that he'd never hurt me.

Yet, here we were.

He walked to my front and stopped me in my tracks before he grabbed my arms.

“Look, I know I fucked up but you can't just throw away everything we had for this. You can't leave at a time like this. The pack needs you, your dragon needs you here too. I need you, Aurora. Please, don't go,” he begged and I just felt more irritated at his words and their deeper meaning.

I realized that the bond didn't work on me the way it worked on werewolf women. I did feel drawn to him and I wished all of this would go away so I could curl up in his arms and take comfort in him but my judgment was not clouded. I could see through his bullshit from a distance, and I couldn't swallow it.

I still felt tingles at the spot our bodies connected but I also realized he'd begun to rely on me to help run the pack and hadn't ever thought of me leaving for NightShade Pack. Also, the pack would ask questions that he had no answers to because how would he explain what he did to them? It would make him look bad if I left

Deep down, he didn't feel bad about what he did and if he was given a chance to go scot-free for it, he'd do it again so I snatched my arm away from him, my eyes blazing with anger.

“You're not going to deceive me again, Kane. If you want to keep seeing me for what I can do and not who I am, then you don't deserve me. I'm going to go where I won't be poisoned or made to play into your fantasies as though I'm not human. I refuse to take that crap just because we're tied together by a bond that I didn't ask for,” I snapped and walked away from him angrily but he still tailed after me

“Why are you talking this way? I've always shown you how much I loved you, I've provided for you and made you a Luna. They couldn't even be bothered to do that. You belong here, don't walk away from us. Look, if you want, we can bring the pack together this week. It's already in the works and we'll just have to bring them over here and we'll all move from here, what do you think?” He asked me with a hopeful look in his eyes.

“So you do know how to ask for my opinion. That's nice but I need space to process your betrayal. You owe me that. I know you're saying sorry and acting like this because you don't want to have to explain what happened to the pack. Basically, you're evading the consequences to your actions but Kane you can't eat your cake and still have it. I'm angry, hurt and frustrated. I don't trust you anymore and you could have killed me with those pills, yet here you are, not even really sorry. You're selfish and until you stop focusing on yourself and see that this relationship is a four way street, I'll not be seeing you. Now, I'd like to go see my dragon without you tailing me with your fake apologies,” I demanded and the crestfallen look on his face nearly made me cave but I remembered how he watched me crumble because I thought my fire powers were gone and yet he did nothing and I walked away.

This time, he didn't follow.

When I got to the amphitheater, Lyra was currently chewing a wild goat. I only knew what it was because of the horns because she had swallowed it in two huge gulps.

“Hey,” I waved at Tharros who was watching over her like a hawk.

He huffed what seemed like a reply but I was more interested in Lyra.

“Hey girl. How are you feeling?” I asked her in my mind.

“Still feeling tired. I hate this feeling and we weren't even prepared for it,” she grumbled.

“It's the absolute worst timing but I know we'll get over this and have our babies. Scarlett has gone to get you a healer and hopefully she helps,”

“I just went through your memories now. I haven't been able to do anything strenuous since. How are you feeling?”

“Oh you should have just allowed me to tell you. Don't stress yourself like that please,”

“Don't worry, I feel fine. And I was too nosy. Besides, this is something I used to do without even knowing I was expending energy. Damn, I wish I could talk to my momma right now. I have all of her experiences in my head but it'll be so much better hearing from her,”

“Well, lucky you. Mine would probably throw a tantrum if she finds out about this,” I said sadly.

“Don't worry about them, they'll come around. I guess seeing after all these years must have spooked them. And I know my Mom's not letting her breathe easy about how they treated you. And you didn't answer my question, how are you feeling?” She demanded and I took a deep breath.

“Honestly, I'm just tired of being angry. I want to forgive him because being angry at him just makes me feel so bad. And the worst part is that he doesn't even realize how much he's hurting me with his actions. It's as if I'm overreacting or something,”

“Over? Girl you're so chill about this. I've studied humans and if I were you, I'd be flipping right now. If your beloved pack wasn't going to get affected, I would have gone down there and given him a piece of the lava in my throat,” she threatened but I knew she didn't mean it.

“But I still love him, Lyra. Why is that? He hurt me and has treated my opinions like they were unnecessary in the past so why do I still want this to work out?”

“Well, first of all, it's a mate bond that's forged in fire. You're not going to be able to lose him without consequences and on the other hand, when you love, you do it without reservations. You put all of you into it and for someone like Kane who's only used to control, he doesn't know what to do with you,”

“That's why I'm going to NightShade. I'm hoping a little bit of space would settle things between us. He's begging me to stay back but I know it's because he doesn't want the pack to question,”

“And he knows once he pressures you a little bit more, you'd forgive him without demanding that he changes. I support that decision,”

“Really? You're not upset about me leaving?”

“Of course not. Tharros here is doing so much to take care of me,”

“Aww, look at you so in love. Remember when you guys first met? You thought he was a disturbance,” I laughed out loud.

“Girl please. He still is. Just a disturbance I'd like to climb me over and over again,”

“Hey! Too much information,” I shouted at her as she laughed.

“You're no virgin yourself. It was your moans that woke me up from sleep. I thought you'd learnt to block me on a moment's notice,” she groaned and I laughed at her frustration.

“Well, that's the thing. I didn't get a moment's notice. But don't worry, I'll be careful next time. Don't wanna give y'all more ideas than you already have,”

“You're crazy. I'll miss you so much. Make sure you come visit once Scarlet is back. She'll not let me rest if she doesn't see you”

“She loves me, I know,” I chuckled and I hugged her snout one last time before heading back.

When I got back to the pack house, nearly the entire pack were gathered and immediately they saw me, they went on their knees and began begging me to stay back.