Academy Of Mates novel Chapter 99

Chapter 99

Chapter 99

Sebastian

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I can’t remember the last time I lost control of myself. Years. Maybe. But with Vareesa, always with my Vareesa, my control over myself just goes out the window. Like it was never there. She could give one smile, one lift of an eyebrow, one word from those lips and I am hopeless at her orders, a man possessed.

A man willing to do anything for her.

Anything.

And I should be angry about this or at least bothered, but I’m not, as I enjoy every second of it, demanding more of it.

Except today.

When I came out of the shower to find Vareesa gone and tracking her back to where I had just killed an old friend of hers and then seeing her with Benedict, my Beta, the man I had taken her from. I should have been more understanding. I could have been until I heard what Benedict was saying.

“You know good and well how much I love you. I was ready to leave it all for you.”

And then him telling Vareesa, my mate, the girl I’ve been looking for all my life, that he still wanted her and that he regretted not choosing her in the School of Love just pushed me over the edge. The blinding rage that consumed me was something else entirely. I felt so angry. I felt so betrayed and Vareesa just stood there.

Any other man that said such a thing to Vareesa or even just attempted to say that would have already been dead. Most likely tortured, but this was my Beta. This was a man I thought of as my younger brother And he has never betrayed me before until now.

I know what happened to them in the School of Love and it was less than two weeks ago. A short time to be able to move on. And I do feel guilty, I do feel shame that I claimed her for myself when he obviously loved her too.

But this?

It was just too much and before I knew it, I was ready to end Benedict’s life. My hand was already up, ready to strike, ready to hurt, but seeing him flinch back with those eyes- those same eyes that begged for his death all those years ago, it all came back to me.

He was so young back then. I remember it clearly.

I knew who he was when he left the city pack borders. The Alpha’s nephew. The future Beta.

But I also knew the secrets of what they did to him. I didn’t have to look hard at him to know that this teenage boy was constantly beaten and always near death. His skin was marred with old bruises-permanent bruises but also new ones. Fresh ones. He smelled of burnt flesh and some parts of his face were charred.

Some of the things they did to him, I can’t even stomach and I’ve done a lot of terrible things,

I remember thinking how awful these people were to do this, even to their own. He wasn’t even just some pack member. He was their family. A kid.

My hatred for the city pack grew that day because he was a boy, like I was just a boy and he was obviously in so much pain. Sympathy didn’t come often for me. Not for the city pack. But I realized that day how disgustingly vile they were, more than I had originally thought.

Because they obviously have been doing this to him for a very long time. Younger than when they came for me.

Chapter 99

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He was begging for his death, begging for it to all end and as much as I hated everything about the city pack, especially a boy with the Alpha’s blood, I couldn’t do it.

How could I?

And when he took my hand, offering him another chance at life where he would be safe, where he could be taken care of, I imagined my baby brother from all those years ago. He would be around his age too. It was… fate.

From then on, we forged a sort of brotherhood between us. He had become my best friend, my closest ally. The one I could blindly rely on without having to ever worry.

So when I lifted my hand to him, ready to unleash my anger, to show him what happens when he threatens to take the love of my life, I saw the same boy who begged to die. I saw the boy that wanted to end it all because of the monsters that hurt him and I realized with horror that I was about to do what everyone in his life has done before. I was about to become that monster he ran away from. I promised him safety and I was about to break that.

I was horrified.

I was disgusted with myself.

For how could I do that? How can I be the same monster that he ran away from?

He had asked me to kill him all those years ago and now he was doing it again. I couldn’t bear it.

With all the horrors I’ve done in my life, I can’t imagine doing that to Benedict, who has only ever been a loyal friend.

And when he repeatedly pushed me, trying to get a reaction from me, all I could give was this defeat. This boiling anger that wouldn’t surface.

Not for him.

Not for a man I consider my younger brother.

The worst part of it is that I know that they’re lying to me. Two of the people I love the most, who I trust the most, were lying through their teeth.

I feel as though I had lost a brother that night.

I feel as though I’ve lost even more people that I care about.

When Vareesa comes to find me, she continues to lie and I know that if I let her touch me, it would be over. I would give in because I could never say no to her. Despite how much it hurt me to move away from her touch, I do it and plead for answers. Because if there’s one person that I can never cope with losing, it would be her. I’ve lost Vareesa before. Seventeen years of it.

And I can’t fathom losing her again.

When Vareesa tells me she loves me, I know she means it. I know that I am the first she’s ever told this to and I am so weak for her that I almost gave in, nearly falling on my knees at the sound of it.

I wanted to hear it over and over on repeat.

She loves me.

Me.

I had never deserved anyone’s love before.

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