Academy Of Mates novel Chapter 68

Chapter 68

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Without another word, Sebastian places his arm around me and guides me to the center of town where the nameless pack waits. “You haven’t changed your mind have you?”

Startled by his question, I stiffened, glancing up at him. Big molten amber eyes shined bright with repressed emotions. ‘Sebastian,”

His jaw clenched. “Answer the question.”

I couldn’t help but think… what did he stop Benedict from doing?

How did he stop it?

Will I ever know?

Should I know?

Following my instincts, I reached for his face, cupping his bearded cheeks. “No.”

The darkness in his eyes doesn’t easily subside. “I don’t plan on sharing you, Vareesa, and I don’t care who I trample along he way to make sure of that.”

t wasn’t a threat. It was a reminder.

He pulls me close, worry so very clear in his amber eyes. It was the first emotion to break out from his stone expression. Vareesa, I need to know that I won’t lose you.”

My foolish, foolish heart.

do not understand how it seems to respond to both of them in such different ways.

You won’t.” I swore to him, to the mark on my neck, to the healing wound on my finger that claimed me to him, to the imber eyes that had followed me for much longer than I realized.

sebastian lets out a breath that he’s been holding and then leans down to place a long kiss on my forehead. “Time to show he pack who they’re new boss is.”

lift an eyebrow, a squeeze in my heart making it difficult to fake a smile. “New? Was there someone else before me?”

He also lifts an eyebrow. “Me? As the Luna, you outrank me now. All your orders go first before mine. At least that’s how I want it.”

‘Oh,” I said dumbly.

‘What did you think it was? Are you perhaps…” He stared at me with a small smile playing at his lips. “Jealous? Is my little mate jealous?”

I don’t respond. Too red in the face to speak.

Sebastian leans down to press his lips on my car and whispers a low: “Admit it. Tell me you’re jealous.”

My heart fluttering from his close proximity and his husky voice that both chills and burns me, I take him by surprise by facing him. Our noses are pressed together and our lips a mere breath away from each other. Making sure to copy his low voice, I whispered back: “Do I have anything to be jealous of?”

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My pulse quickens, waiting in anticipation for his answer.

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Suddenly. I’m on a wall, pressed against it by a body that was pure muscle. Sebastian is on my neck, his lips sucking on my mark and making me gasp and shake. The shocks that went through my body were like a lightning bolt coursing through me and I couldn’t keep myself up, my knees were too weak. If not for Sebastian’s hands on my waist gripping me steadily in place, I would already be on the floor.

“Only you, Vareesa. Only you.” His hot breath fanned my skin, making my skin prickle and my eyes roll back. “If you knew just how much…”

He doesn’t finish his words, his tongue making a home in my mark.

Thank goodness Benedict was nowhere in sight, probably already at the center of town, because if he saw this…. if he heard the sounds I was making…

We were getting carried away. Continuing this, out in public too, would- oh. Using his tongue and sharp teeth, he goes down my neck, claiming every part of me that he could reach.

A sharp cough makes me jump out of my skin, trying desperately to distance myself from Sebastian, who does not stop as easily as I did. He continued to pepper me with kisses, keeping me in place.

Sebastian and his monstrous body blocked my line of sight so I couldn’t very well see who was there.

“Alpha,”

I felt myself shrink.

It was Benedict.

I couldn’t see him.

But it was Benedict.

I would know his voice anywhere.

“They’re waiting.”

Placing one final kiss on my mark, Sebastian finally pulls away. A mask of stone was already on his face, unreadable and impossible to crack if not for his blackened eyes. “I thought you went ahead.”

“I did….” Benedict wasn’t as hard to read, his face tight and his eyes red rimmed. “But people were asking for you, so I thought,”

“Thank you, Benedict.” Sebastian says quickly, and if I didn’t know better, Sebastian also wasn’t aware that Benedict had returned. Maybe I was just imagining it, but I think he’s guilty of being caught with me.

Or maybe I’m just overthinking things like always.

Or maybe he saw the same heartbroken look on Benedict’s face.

They seemed to be close and, from how Benedict spoke of Sebastian, they sounded like a team, a good team, though t haven’t seen them interact much since I arrived. I just hope it’s not because of the situation we were in. I would hate for Benedict to lose his relationship with his Alpha, who he obviously looks up to.

Sebastian licks his lips and uses his thumb to wipe mine. “Ready?”

I let out a breath, clearing my throat and giving myself a little shake. “Ready.”

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The Alpha of the nameless pack, the mountain dwellers, the monsters of our monsters, takes my hand in his and tugs me forward, to his world, to his pack, to the people that he is responsible for- that I will be responsible for too. I do not know what I was expecting, but as we left the path we were walking on and came out to the center of town, I did not expect to see so many faces.

Hundreds.

Thousands.

Several thousand.

A sea of them.

They were more than I ever thought possible and they were all looking at me. The center of town could barely fit them, all of them shoulder to shoulder, and clearly waiting for us.

My first thought was that I didn’t belong here. Every single one of the people that had gathered was tall, lean and muscular, an all too familiar edge to them. The edge that made them the nameless pack. Even the children that were in front or sitting atop their parents’ shoulders looked battle ready and there I was… tiny and getting tinier.

I have never enjoyed being the center of attention. Mostly because I was never the center of attention. I was forgettable and I was good at being forgettable.

But now, hundreds, thousands, countless eyes stared at me, and I wasn’t so forgettable anymore.

Sebastian takes the lead, sensing my uneasiness, stepping forward and gathering all the attention on him. And on his mark. Everyone seemed to stare at it with both horror and wonder, because it is unheard of for a man to be marked in this day and age. Worse, when it’s a powerful Alpha and Sebastian wasn’t even hiding it, he didn’t bother covering it. He flaunted it for his entire pack to see.

Regardless of what they thought, it didn’t take long for everyone to bow low, murmuring their greetings. “You must all know by now that I have chosen a mate.”

His words echoed through the town, through the entire valley, and it was strong, unwavering and confident. An Alpha.

It wasn’t flattering words and charming smiles like the city pack Alpha. No. Sebastian was much different… more commanding and it showed that he had earned his position rather than bought it.

Sebastian glanced at me, unsmiling, but his amber eyes were softer, gentler. “Vareesa is your Luna and I expect everyone to show her great respect.”

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The rest of the pack stared at me inquisitively, looking me up and down, searching my face as if looking for something. looking for a reason why 1, a small little girl from the farm pack, could ever mate and mark their Alpha.

Despite all the obvious questions in their eyes, they all bowed respectfully, without saying a word.

Still, this greeting is leagues warmer than what I’ve experienced in the past. Curiosity and guarded expression are far more welcoming than disgust and immediate loathing.

If they think I’m not good enough for their Alpha, they do not show it. Or maybe it’s because they trust him enough to choose his mate, the Luna of their pack. Whatever it is, no negativity is shown to me. All still courteousness and muld

tolerance.

Sebastian, being Sebastian, clenches his jaw and sends a warning that shakes the crowd. “Try anything otherwise and I will personally see to your execution.”

He was serious and they knew that.

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Still, they stared, their gazes heavy, trying to probably see what their Alpha saw in me.

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In the sea of eyes that tried to see my soul, there were blue ones that were familiar and kind. Benedict smiled from the front of the crowd, nodding to me encouragingly. His eyes still glowed with pain but he fought it away, doing his best to make me comfortable..

But I also noticed one other pair of eyes, the one standing near Benedict. While everyone was curiously looking at me, some excited, some trying to get a feel of what I was like, she… for those eyes were of a girl, stared at me with a look that I had never quite seen before on another girl.

calousy.

In the School of Love, the girls were angry at me, seething from envy, but it was never this kind of jealousy… and never this

She held my stare, testing me and pushing me to my limits and though every part of me wanted to look away, to cower behind Sebastian, I didn’t. I stand strong, staring back.

To my surprise, she looks away first and before Sebastian can finish his introduction of me, slips away.

My eyes followed after her, watching her dark brown hair blowing against the wind. She was really pretty. Her eyes glowed >rown, almost like caramel, and her skin was so tan like she spent much of her time outdoors. A little on the smaller side ind almost exactly like my built, but fiercer, so much fiercer than me.

she turned before disappearing, her eyes on me… on my neck.

And I wondered if Sebastian was lying, if there was someone before me.

Because right now, she was looking at me not with anger or hate but with a look like I had stolen something from her and it vas ripping her apart.

Glancing back at Sebastian, he didn’t seem to notice her, answering a question that someone from the crowd asked. I wasn’t istening enough to know exactly what they were talking about, but when I saw Benedict again, his eyes were wide, as if aught.

io was it Benedict? Or was it Sebastian?

The lingering stare on my neck said Sebastian.

de lied to you. My inner voice spoke. There was someone else.

pushed the words away, forcing a smile as I stood beside Sebastian who was still talking to his people. Well, they talked and e listened, adding only a few words here and there.

Through all this, he keeps his arm around me, keeping me close. This surprises many of his pack members, all gaping up at is like they aren’t used to seeing their Alpha so touchy with another.

This comforts me but not enough to forget her.

Whoever ‘her’ is.

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