The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate (Jason and Laila) by Caroline Above Story novel Chapter 175

Chapter 175

Laila’s POV

He didn’t…

He never…?

Not once…?

He held my gaze. There was no lie in his eyes. I knew him well, and knew when he was being earnest. This was as open and honest as he could be.

I had no idea what to say, or even what to think!

I opened my mouth, hoping something would come out. All I could manage was a small, “Oh.”

Not a second later, Jason’s phone started to ring. “Hold on, I’ll reject the

“No,” I said quickly, seeing an out. “Take it. I need space. I… Take it. W

“It’s Marcus. I might have to go to the pack house.”

can talk later.”

“Then go,” I said. “We can talk later.”

“Are you sure?” he asked me, and tha

tearnest look w

me like he was going to put me first.

still on his face, Butterflies took flight in my stomach. He was looking at

I wasn’t ready for that now, even if in the past it was all I had hoped for. It was too much now. I needed time to think.

“I’m sure,” I told him.

“Okay,” he said. His phone was in his hands now, still ringing. “Just… don’t do anything rash, alright? Don’t start investigating until we talk about this. I want to be with you before you do anything dangerous.”

“I won’t do anything dangerous,” I said.

“Promise?”

“I promise.”

“Okay.” With that, he stepped out of my office and then walked to the stairs. Just as he disappeared into the stairwell, he brought his phone to his ear.

Claire peeked in at me from the desk outside the door. “Everything okay?”

“I… don’t know,” I answered honestly. “I…”

“Is there anything I can do to help? Anyone I can call?”

“No, I… I’m okay.” I liked Claire, but she didn’t know my secrets. Without knowing the truth of who I was, and what Jason had once meant to me, I had no idea how to begin to explain. “I think I’m going to just sit here quietly for a while. Can you hold my calls?”

“Of course,” Claire said, smiling kindly. “I’ll close the door for you, too. Please let me know if there is anything you need.”

“Thank you, Claire. I mean it.”

The minute that door was closed, I flopped down onto my desk chair and exhaled.

I thought I might have felt tired, or even exhausted, but in this moment, all I felt was relief. Brittany wasn’t pregnant. They hadn’t slept together. They’d never slept together?

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My head was spinning with possibilities.

He had chosen Brittany over me, but then had never slept with her?

That couldn’t be right. I couldn believe it. But wasn’t that what he had said? And hadn’t he looked so earnest saying it?

In the wake of the relief came shame, pushing down at my shoulders and making me feel small.

How could I celebrate this? Even without Brittany being pregnant, even if they have been abstaining, Jason had still chosen Brittany as his mate. He still went through with the ceremony, and was now bonded to her.

I still had to accept that Jason belonged to someone else now.

Because of that, I needed to reject his help, not matter how useful it would be to me, or what kind of danger I might find myself

1. in.

Besides, I still wasn’t certain that there was any danger. This could have all been a misunderstanding, despite the suspicious

nature of the accident or what Hannah thought.

The answer, I suspected, I would find in these case files.

Now was as good a time as any to start looking, especially if it would help distract me from my thoughts of Jason.

My workload for the day was pretty light, so this shouldn’t interfere with that. I had a few meetings this afternoon but was mostly going to make cold calls until lunch. Those hardly ever panned out.

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