Academy Of Mates novel Chapter 72

Chapter 72

Chapter 72

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Running a hand down his face, Benedict looked at me pleadingly. “That doesn’t sound right either, but you understand. right? Please say you understand.”

I decided to take him out of his misery. “As fun as it was to see you panic, I do understand what you meant.”

As if to hide away his embarrassment, he shifts into his wolf. I gaped with wonder as a wolf with fur of light ash appeared before me, remnants of clothes falling all around us. Benedict’s wolf form was as beautiful as his human form, his fur luscious and his eyes bright, the baby blue eyes of his were more prominent.

It’s like I’m seeing him for the very first time again, when he arrived at the Academy and all I could see was him.

It made me think about our earlier conversation, how we could be destined soulmates but we just don’t know it. Maybe.

Benedict bows his head low, allowing me to easily mount his back. I grasp his mane, my fingers gripping chunks of soft fur and very clumsily pull myself up his back. Benedict gently boosts me by using his shoulder to help me up. I swing my leg over and find myself on top of the world.

‘Ready?’ He asked through the mind link, his voice gentle and excited at the same time.

My heart was in my throat. ‘Ready?’

Before I can even get the word out, Benedict is running through the trees. Everything is a blur of green and blue as we jump through streams and thick forests. I held on tight, keeping low so the branches didn’t hit me on the face.

As promised, it didn’t take long at all before Benedict stops in front of a beautiful lake. It was so clear that I could see the rocks under the water and the colorful fishes that swam around. I immediately felt at peace, sliding down from Benedict’s back to the ground.

I find myself sitting down by the water, my hands in the water. Behind me, I hear Benedict shift back into his human form. and after much ruffling around, he sits down beside me, tight shorts covering his intimate parts.

We didn’t talk for a while, admiring the beauty of the lake in silence. But then the need for answers starts to stir something nside me and I give in.

Did they have a relationship?” I asked without facing him.

He glanced at me, eyes taking in my expression before answering. “No, they didn’t.”

‘Don’t lie to me, Benedict.” I shook my head as I hugged myself. “Stop protecting him.”

Benedict sucks in a breath. “The last thing I want to do right now is to lie for him. There’s nothing going on.”

turned to look at him, seeing only truth in his blue eyes. “Then why is she like that? Why did she make it sound like I was eplacing her?”

‘She was one of the first,” Benedict explains, getting comfortable against a tree. “A founding member of this pack. Way back when the Alpha was younger, before he was an Alpha and before he even met me, he rescued Moira from her pack and, like he rest of us, he took her under his wing. I suppose she thought they would be together after so many years of being by his side, but Sebastian isn’t interested in mates or women. He’s never been about that and has told us this repeatedly, but when ne chose you… I guess it hurt her a little.”

It sounded innocent enough, admirable for Sebastian to save her and others, but the way she spoke, there seemed to be more. “How sure are you that nothing happened between them?”

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Benedict cracks a smile, understanding my distrust. “Very sure. I have never even seen Sebastian look at any woman the way he looks at you. Frankly, I thought he was gay or the ones that just don’t find anything attractive, but then… he saw you and was immediately obsessed.”

As much as I tried to fight it, my cheeks flushed. Relief washes over me, making my tense shoulders relax as I let out a sigh. It’s definitely comforting to know that there’s nothing between them and, by the sound of it… he’s never had anyone else just

like he said.

He didn’t lie.

And I let myself think the worst.

“Do you know that the house wasn’t even furnished before you came?” Benedict continues, throwing a rock into the lake and watching it sink below. “At most he had a bed, maybe a chair or two, but the moment he chose you he had everyone come to fix things for when you came home with him. He wanted it perfect and the entire plane ride going here was him dedicating time to making sure it was.”

Again my heart flutters, a blush creeping up my cheeks. All this time… the plane ride where I was ignoring him and he was always talking to someone or buried in paperwork, that was for me? For the house? But then, something confused me. My eyebrows knitted together as I tried to wrap my head around his words. “What were your plans for the School of Love? Because it sounds like everything that happened was at the last minute.”

It was the first time Benedict stalled, his eyes widening as if he wasn’t sure if he was allowed to tell me. “Originally, we were ordered to go to the School of Love to attack it, to make a mess of the tradition, but the Alpha stopped us.”

This came as a surprise to me. “Why?”

Benedict shrugs like this wasn’t news. “He hates the School of Love.”

“No, I mean why did he stop the attack?” I clarified, coming closer to him and just too intrigued to let this go.

He takes his time to think. “I didn’t ask, no one really asked. All I know is that the Alpha wasn’t supposed to come and then suddenly he was at the School of Love and choosing you.”

There were so many holes to the story, pieces that didn’t fit the puzzle, I had multiple questions that needed answers and the one who had them was my mate.

My hands in the water, I let it soothe the last of my worries. I closed my eyes, taking a deep breath and right as I did, a shadow loomed over me like a storm cloud about to unleash a typhoon or, more accurately, a mountain ready to start an avalanche.

It wasn’t even amber eyes that greeted me.

It was black.

Sebastian stood over me like a pillar of stone, standing between Benedict and 1. His body pulsed with an energy that forced anyone near to bend to him. It didn’t help that his face was marred with blood, splatters of red dripping down his neck and down his clothes.

He had a way of darkening any bright place, taking the air and life with him. And when he spoke, he shook the entire valley we were on like a God threatening to destroy us all. “What are you two doing here?”

The growl that left Sebastian’s chest was vicious, deadly… monstrous. I’ve never seen him this angry before, not even during the Academy when he broke Jeff’s arm and choked Odette.

I know he would never hurt me, but I still inch away from him, his presence making me submit.

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His dark eyes find Benedict and Sebastian begins to shake, the edges of his body blurring with a shift. “What were you thinking? I told you to take care of my mate, not whisk her away to wherever you please.”

Benedict was quick to stand, keeping his head down and taking the brunt of Sebastian’s anger. He doesn’t bother to defend himself or explain, taking all of Sebastian’s words without ever looking up.

Sebastian towered over Benedict, his stance ready to attack- to kill. “I told you to let me know if anything happened to Vareesa but since you left the borders you have not said a word, have ignored my mind links when I asked about her.”

The distraught expression on Benedict’s face pulls at my heart. I can’t forget the way Benedict spoke about Sebastian. How Sebastian saved him, how he considered Sebastian as his brother.

Benedict asked me many times if I wanted to call Sebastian because that’s what he was told to do and I said no.

I told Benedict I didn’t want to see Sebastian.

And so he did what I asked, knowing well it would anger his Alpha.

‘You are rapidly losing my trust!” Sebastian’s roared through the quiet lake, his voice causing ripples in the water. “You have disobeyed direct orders and all of them have been about my mate. I should have your head right now.”

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