Chapter 22
“Can you really not tell them the truth?” Ella asks. I could hide my feelings from the doctor, but not from my best friend, who could see through my charade in an instant.
In my heart, I wish I could tell them, just as I wish they would accept me, love me, and keep me safe and happy as proper fated mates should.
I reality, I know that’s just not possible. They are cold and unfeeling toward me now. They’d be more likely to confine me than anything else, hiding me away so they’d only have to deal with me when the bond required them to.
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“Would they truly treat us so terribly?” Scarlet asks softly in my mind.
“I will not be bound to them,” I says firmly, to Ella and Scarlet both.
“Then you can reject them,” Ella says. “It doesn’t have to be permanent.”
“Do you really think they would allow that?” I ask her. The brothers are prideful. Again, it is much more likely they would just hide me away than to face any type of public ridicule for rejecting a fated mate.
Ella falls silent.
“There is another solution,” the doctor says. “It is not one I would usually recommend, but… you are in a particular circumstance, and it is my duty to give you every option, whether I agree with them morally or not.”
hat is it?” I ask, interest piqued. There is nothing I wouldn’t do to escape this situation.
If you can find a way to have sex with one of your fated mates…” the doctor says. “It
should appease the bond enough that it will stop draining you so much.”
Ella’s eyes go wide as the doctor spoke. Then she looked at me, just as the doctor does, both
seemingly waiting for my reaction.
Truthfully, I don’t know how to act. I think I might be in a small state of shock.
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Yes, I’ve been fantasizing more about the brothers lately, and yeah, okay, I’m not exactly disgusted by the thought of falling into bed with one of them – though I’m still not totally sure what to expect in that regard…
My first impulse is to reject the idea outright however, based solely on how the brothers have been treating me.
But then I think of my failing health…
With my final exams coming up, I can’t really afford to be sick. I need to be at my best to excel enough to be eligible for a university in a different pack. In addition, I will need all the energy I can muster to help manage the quadruplets‘ coronation ceremony.
Maybe having sex with one of them is the perfect solution.
Then I remember the party, and how Hugh, not knowing who I was, gave me his number.
“I’ll think about it,” I say in front of the doctor, because I don’t want her to think less of
- me.
She seems to know anyway because as Ella and I leave, she calls after me, “Use protection!”
My face burns as I scurry away.
Ella guesses the truth instantly as well. Once we are in the hallway, she says, “You are thinking of Hugh.”
“He did give his mate his number…” I say.
“Then we better get her a phone to text him,” she says.
Together, we go to the department store and pick up a burner phone, the kind you can add minutes too. After buying a phone with a new number and some minutes, I save Hugh’s number, then open a text message to him.
“What should I say?” I ask Ella. I’ve never done anything like this.
“He’s your mate,” Ella says. “What does your heart tell you?”
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Maybe I should try to think of something clever. Hugh’s clever, so he might appreciate that
“Be yourself,” Scarlet says. “You are his mate.”
He already knows I’m shy and nervous. He might be suspicious if I suddenly start acting
like someone else.
So I type, This is your mate. Can we talk?
And I hit send.
I start to tuck the phone away, when it buzzes in my hand.
Hugh already replied.
I open his message and read.
I’ve been waiting for you.
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