My Arrogant Mate
Chapter 16

When I slowly opened my eyes and a thousand strange smells hit my nose, I wanted to cry again immediately.

It wasn't a nightmare... I was still here and this realization suddenly made me feel lonelier than ever.

Then, as I looked more closely at my surroundings, the first thing I noticed immediately was that I was no longer lying on the dark wooden floor next to the kitchen where I had fallen asleep exhausted. I lay in a comfortable bed covered with light blue linens. Still tired, I reluctantly got up and continued looking around. The room was a fair bit bigger than my childhood room, but I still didn't feel comfortable here at all. In addition to the bed, there was a white desk and a large closet with mirrored doors. Confused, I looked out the window across from the bed and looked straight at the sun, which today seemed to finally be breaking through the thunderstorm that had been raging all of last week.

What irony...

I got up carefully and immediately felt the soft carpet under my feet, which covered almost the entire floor of the room with its white and brown color.

"So...and now?" I asked myself in a whisper, running to the window with a glimmer of hope left. Of course, this was also locked and I immediately felt like a fish in an aquarium.

Outside, normal life seemed to go on. I saw the swanky houses of the upper class, watched several people walking down the streets smiling and then looking further back I could even see as far as the lake. This house, in which I found myself, must have been on a hill.

When I looked at the bridge full of longing, there was a knock on the door behind me, which I skilfully ignored. Since it certainly wasn't my brother, I didn't give a shit who was standing in front of the door.

"Jadelyn?" I heard Viola's voice, which reminded me that she was the Alpha's sister. Great!!!

"Jadelyn is unavailable at this time," I handed her back through the door, then flopped back down on the bed to try to get back to sleep. At least in my sleep I wouldn't suffer and feel so crappy. "Good Morning."

She came into my room uninvited and looked at me with a smile that made me want to smack her face.

"If you don't want to help me escape from here, then you can leave," I hissed and then threw the covers over my body to turn on my side and not have to look at her any longer.

When she didn't say anything more, but I still felt her eyes on my back, I turned around confused and suddenly saw tears on her face.

"Listen," she breathed, sitting on the edge of my bed. I also got up from the lying position and looked at her questioningly. "My brother is not a bad person. Trevis had told him that Devin was your partner and that was just shameful and unacceptable for him as an alpha."

"Are you trying to justify the fact that he kidnapped me and almost shot my brother? You can skip that!"

I couldn't even sit up in anger at her pathetic attempt to put an end to such an act, and I hurriedly got up to pace back and forth on the carpet in front of her.

"I had the perfect cover, the perfect simple life, and you superiors seem to think that you can take whatever you want no matter the cost! I want to go home and you can tell your brother I love him reject with every fiber of my wolfness!"

I glared at her with anger as she wiped away her tears, still wondering what her reason for crying was. I would have to be the one shedding tears because I lost everything, not her.

"You can't turn down an alpha," she said, tossing her black locks over her shoulders. Her facial expression changed. There was no more pity, just pure hatred. Her posture also became almost arrogant and then she stood up elegantly to stand right in front of me. "Don't be so selfish! You showed what you think of soul mates in Mr. Handsome's lessons! But others aren't like you! Silvan needs you around and your brother also has the right to be happy with his mate, without you as a log on his leg!" "How do you know..."

I didn't get any further because I immediately realized why she took Trevis with her and didn't want to continue to watch him beat up Devin. At that moment I realized why she was trying to contact me. She smelled Devin on me. Our intense gazes suddenly made sense. Our brothers connected us in a way I only now understood.

"Oh my god!" I suddenly screamed, incredibly angry and stunned. "Your oh-so-great brother almost shot not only my brother, but his sister's mate as well, and you're trying to tell me he's not a bad guy?!"

I clutched my heart and trembled all over.

"I'm the daughter of the former Alpha, the sister of the current one. I'm forbidden from dating a lower level anyway, so that wouldn't have been my problem."

I wanted to grab her curly hair and throw her out the window, but the f*****g things were locked, like everything else here. How could it all be so shitty?

She was my brother's mate, who would probably never replace true happiness from it. Me the Alpha's mate who was anything but what I imagined?

I wanted to throw up, but my stomach was empty. Would have liked to dismantle the whole booth, but had no strength left... Wanted to cry, but why? It wouldn't do any good anyway...

"I'll be downstairs if you need anything," she said imaginatively and luckily left my room.

My thoughts flew back to my brother, who said that day at the sports field that he could be happy with his mate...did he already know that it was her? Then he also knew that she was a superior... "Shit," I yelled, kicking the edge of the bed full force and then falling to the floor cursing. I had forgotten that I was only barefoot and apparently I had just broken my foot!

Typical!