Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 226

Chapter 226: Moonveil Draught.

Leilani.

Two days later, I was hit with the weirdest most pleasant, but craziest news there is:

Gavin proposed!

To Maya!

And for the first few minutes after hearing that news, all I felt was betrayal.

Now, this may sound selfish but I felt like she had betrayed me by saying yes to him. That she had overlooked past all his wrongdoings and everything in between simply because of some mate bond between them.

That was what I felt before I was hit with a crazy amount of happiness so strong I felt myself levitating from it.

Maya was getting married!

My hands shook as I held the white golden rimmed invitation card in hand while I grinned from ear to ear like I was the one getting married.

Her hands wrapped around my waist tightened as she buried her face into the crook of my neck, and with a breathy sigh said; "I’m sorry it came as a shock to you!"

"Everything you do comes as a shock to me!" I answered with a smile, not missing the way the corners of my eyes brimmed with unshed tears.

Maya noticed this too as she leaned close to wipe them off my face and with a smile whispered; "I’m sorry."

"Congratulations." I answered softly, and I meant it.

I meant it so much and even the heavens knew that.

I meant it because I liked the way the corners of her eyes crinkled with laughter. I liked the warmth that emanated from her body, filling me with a kind of serenity that I loved. I also liked the way her hands around my waist tightened, squeezing me so tightly, I feared I would dissolve into her bones...

She sighed dreamily. "Thank you."

"I can almost feel your love for him, and I am sorry I almost made everything about me and tried to come between you two."

While I spoke, she only smiled, and occasionally she would nod here and there only to hug me tighter and tighter... and—

"I’m glad I can now be a part of your family even though I probably do not like the rest of the said family." She hissed into my ear, earning herself a heartfelt smile from me.

However, I had just smiled at that when suddenly a thought struck me, and it was the fact that she doesn’t know how I wasn’t really a member of the Blackthorne’s family yet.

She’d been so preoccupied and I caught in my own web of family drama and lies that we haven’t really gotten the chance to talk as much as we should, so I sighed and took a step back while shimmying out of her hold before sinking into one of her sofas.

"There’s something you do not know about," I said in a small voice, "...there are things I haven’t told you about."

Maybe it was the tone of my voice or something else but she slowly sank into the sofa close to mine, pulled her knees to her chest and rested her chin atop them to stare pointedly at me, her beautiful eyes drilling holes into my skull as she drawled; "Why are you scaring me?"

And at first, I blanched. My hands on my knees froze for a nanosecond before I dropped my head quickly, suddenly feeling afraid that she may not take the news so lightly. I also feared for Gavin’s reaction when he hears about it; and with this fear clawing its way up my chest, I said;

"Promise me, you won’t tell Gavin about it until I ask you to."

She stopped to glance at me then I didn’t miss the way her eyes darted to the door behind me.

"Yes."

"Yes isn’t a promise." I pressed on, still not missing the way it felt like she was hiding something from me; But deciding not to dwell on it further, I took a deep breath and sighed;

"I’m not a Blackthorne."

She laughed. Like really laughed. And the sound of it made me want to squeeze her neck so hard until it hurt. It made me want to pull out my hair because I knew that she wasn’t taking me seriously... that she wouldn’t take me seriously.

I pinched at the bridge of my nose— mostly from frustration than annoyance— and then I continued; "I’m not joking."

"I know you aren’t," she answered quickly— too quickly. "I know that you tell everyone that you’re not a Blackthorne but a Sinclair— which is a name you’d formed from the top of your head..."

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