Academy Of Mates novel Chapter 75

Chapter 75

Chapter 75

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He laughs, the sound of it exactly how I remember it from the School of Love. “I remember it well.”

I try to redeem myself by covering up this ridiculous topic that I’ve opened up as best as I can. “Ah, I was wondering if I knew her or if I had met her-”

The cringe was real and Benedict’s blue eyes seemed to be taking absolute pleasure in my horrible attempt to keep myself afloat in this conversation.

I cleared my throat like nothing awkward happened. “I mean, I was referring to, you know what? Don’t answer that.”

“I had a handful of flings. A long time ago when I was having a difficult time.” He says honestly, saving me from this hole I’ve dug myself in. “None of them you know or have met before. I don’t even remember them nor do I plan to reconnect.”

Something about this makes me smile. “Oh.”

“Does that answer your question, Luna?” The way Benedict says my title is playful and teasing. “Does that suffice?”

“Yes, Beta.” I did the same to him, using his title playfully rather than respectfully. “A shame though, I hear the girls absolutely love you. Both at the School of Love and here.”

“There’s only one girl I want.” He shrugs and then freezes like it merely slipped out without him meaning to.

I stared up at him as well, completely lost on what to say next.

Benedict sucks in a breath through his teeth. “Vareesa,”

My throat constricted, feeling the familiar fluttering of my heart that would not cease. “It’s okay. Let’s not. I didn’t hear anything.”

He obeys, keeping a distance from me, but his face said it all. Hurt. I hurt him by cutting it off.

But what did he expect?

This wasn’t the School of Love anymore. We weren’t eating chocolates in the gardens or laughing by the lake.

No.

That was now far away.

Choices have been made. And yet again, we didn’t choose each other.

We walk quietly after that, our thoughts louder than our footsteps. Benedict was taking me deeper into town, far enough that the crackling fires of the town center couldn’t be heard. The smell though, I think no distance could be far enough for the

smell.

Suddenly, Benedict takes my arm and yanks me behind a gap between two houses. I let myself get dragged, ducking my head low as I hear a voice that chills my spine.

“Moira! Come out!”

If I ever doubted Sebastian and his Delta, that all quickly goes away with how he calls her. It was full of disgust and the anger behind it was enough to make anyone kneel. Benedict and I slowly poked our heads through the gap to find Sebastian standing in front of a small cabin at the edge of town.

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No crowd has gathered, at least not a crowd I can see. If anyone was watching, they were doing it in the shadows like Benedict and I were.

The house that I’m assuming is Moira’s doesn’t open and Sebastian, not exactly the most patient man in the world, clicks his tongue and, without another warning, kicks down the door. It breaks easily under the weight of his foot. Obscured by the house we were hiding behind, we did not see anything, only hearing something break and something thrown loudly across the house.

And then, as if I was asking for it, Sebastian emerges from the house dragging Moira behind him by the neck. She struggles, shouting and begging, but Sebastian is colder than ice and keeps dragging her until they are near the woods. He throws her down the ground with very little finesse and, for a moment, I don’t recognize him.

He still looked exactly like my Sebastian but he was different.

This man was someone else.

“She’s lying to you! I didn’t do anything to her.” The Delta screamed, kicking and fighting and pleading. “She wants me gone! That’s all this is. Please, listen to me.”

The roar of his possessive voice echoed through the valley, shaking the walls of the house we were leaning against. “Now you’re telling me that my mate is a liar?”

“She doesn’t even love you.” The hysterical words that left her lips made both Benedict and I freeze. “She loves Benedict! Your mate loves your Beta and your Beta loves her too! I know you know that they were both together in the School of Love. They were naked in the lake, naked in their rooms. They’ve been kissing and doing Goddess knows what else. I know that you know! Stop being blind. You commanded everyone to stop talking about it, to keep quiet. You ordered it because you know, but you won’t admit to yourself that your Beta and your mate are in love with each other!”

Sebastian’s dark eyes narrowed but otherwise didn’t say a word. If he did know about what happened between Benedict and I at the School of Love, he didn’t say or do anything to confirm it.

Moira was on her knees, blinking away fat tears from her eyes. “You don’t even know that girl but you know me. We’ve known each other since we were hungry kids in the wild. You knew me before there was a pack to take care of, and I’ve been with you through it all. We started this together. I’ve been loyal. I’ve been true. Why would you kill me for her? Someone you barely know? I love you, Sebastian.”

I felt bad for her.

I really did.

My lips parted, attempting to say something, but Sebastian beat me to it.

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“And I love my mate.” He says in a tone that said nothing else came before that.

Like he promised.

“You have threatened her safety. Sebastian spoke through a growl. “I was very clear this morning. My mate will not be disrespected. It doesn’t matter who you are?

Her wails shook the mountain tops,

But Sebastian didn’t even flinch.

I held my breath.

“I am truly sorry, Moira. But I can’t trust you with her anymore.”

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It was fast.

A mercy killing in some awful way as her head rolls off her shoulders, a clean cut that left her body still for a few moments before slumping to the ground.

The head stops just a few inches away from Benedict and I, facing us with a frozen expression of surprise.

Here was a girl, loyal to a fault, who had been with him longer than anyone else and was so easily killed because Sebastian deemed her a threat to me.

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