Rejected, My Jaded Love
Episode 48

“He would be lucky to have my sweet sister as his mate” Tate growls out.

“He doesn’t deserve Jade. She is sweet and innocent, and I have heard about all his partying at Alpha Training from his own pack while I have been getting food in the dining room when we have been there on our visits to see Jade. That slut Ashley was hitting on me and my brother to increase her odds of being asked out on a date. She is a lying and manipulative person. She is basically free to a good home and will do anything to get a beta or higher title to claim her. Then she twists the story, and he believes HER side of it? What in the actual hell is he thinking? He is judging someone that he doesn’t even know, even after his own whole family and best friends vouch for her? I don’t care what issues he has, no one in their right mind sees someone being a slut and thinks better of them, than someone who is kind and loving to everyone they meet. I don’t know if I want him even talking to her actually. I need to cool off. I think I need to reach out to cooler heads and call mom and dad to let them know what happened at the Sandbar, and that Jade found her second chance mate. I actually wish it had been Mason or Travis myself now, at least then I know she would have been treated right” Tyler says before coming over to me and kissing me on the head before kneeling down in front of me, grabbing my hands in his and telling me “I love you and I am here for you. We are going to figure this out. But I tell you right now we will NOT let it ruin our trip. We are here all week and I want you to think of something happier and figure out what we are going to do tomorrow ok? I will see you in the morning sis” and Tyler walks off to go to his room alone to make his call.

“Yes, what do you want to do tomorrow, Jade?” Dixon asks me.

“Well, I wanted to go see the London Bridge and visit the 28 lighthouses, both those are free to do, and the bridge is really cool looking. They also have a museum here that looks pretty good too” I say

“Trust my “little smartie” to want to want to do something having to do with learning on her vacation,” Nicole says to me and laughs before continuing. “I am just teasing you, plus you KNOW we won’t be run into those idiots from Howling Wolf there, Goddess forbid they learn something”.

We all laugh, and I feel myself relaxing a little. No matter what, my friends have my back. I am not in this alone and they will protect and defend me, even to their own soon-to-be Alpha.

“We can always come back here and swim or layout. They have a pool table here and we can grab stuff to make smores tomorrow night too. I need to hit the grocery store to get food for the house for this week, we can’t afford to keep eating out. Let’s go ahead and make up a menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and reload our snacks for the rest of the week. I will make out a shopping list for the menu. Let’s all think about it tonight. Tate mentioned that there are some ski rental places, or we can rent jet skis too. I would like to take the bikes out to some as we have them and I enjoy getting to ride them. We have a lot of options, let’s all think on it and pick out something that we each want to do, and make our plans at breakfast tomorrow morning.” I say and everyone agrees as most head off to their rooms.

While we are laying in our beds, I speak out to ask, “Bree, do you think that your brother is going to reject me? I am worried as he is my second chance mate, and I am scared that he won’t want me. Our mates are supposed to be our Goddess gave and perfect for us, but Calvin wasn’t perfect for me, he may have told me when I accepted his rejection, that he wanted me, to accept me, and was talked into rejecting me by his group. What if the same thing happens with Asher? He had almost a month and a half to accept me, replace me, claim me, and he didn’t. That is what I am most scared of, being 18 and not even graduated from high school, and being rejected twice. Who would want me? I say to her in the dark.

“Jade, my brother should be grateful to have you. You are the nicest person I know. You are my best friend and I know Dixon loves you too. I would love for you to be in our family officially. Asher has been struggling lately, Mason was right he had changed since he went to Alpha Training. He used to be the best older brother that anyone could ask for, but the stress to excel got to him, He wants to be the best at everything, and it just isn’t possible to best the best at everything when there are 50 other Alphas there, that are used to being the best too. I think he started drinking to soothe himself, and the girls, for the same thing. That him being as attractive as he is, the human girls are all over him whenever he goes out. He should have waited, he should have made better choices, but he didn’t. I think he will want you, and I think you need to make him work for it.” Bree says.

We lay there in the dark lost in our thoughts and then I hear Bree speak again “Dad just reached out to me in mind link, we have great news. Apparently, Asher does want you. He was so upset at seeing you hurt by Ashley kissing him that he made her pack up and drove her back to Stone Moon tonight. He will be coming back in the morning and wants to try to meet with you to talk. Dad and mom also want you to play hard to get. They said Asher has it BAD and has done a complete turn-around. They said that they heard him leave our apartment after tossing and turning and he had to go to your room to be able to sleep. He had tried to mindlink me earlier tonight, but I ignored him because I was mad at him. Asher asked mom and dad to reach out to see how you were doing, I told them “Ok considering everything”. Asher reached out to Dixon, Brax, and Mason too, but they all ignored him as I did. Dad said that he would mindlink them to tell them that Asher is coming back in the morning and that he wants to speak to you, and me and Dixon, and then Brax and Mason, then the rest of the group. He isn’t aware that Tyler and Tate are your brothers yet. Asher was mad because he saw Tate k**s you on the top of your head when we left the Sandbar. He is supposed to be back here by 9 am, so I guess we need to decide when and if we want to talk to him tomorrow.” She finishes.

I say to Bree “I will think about what I want to do, I am going to talk to Tyler in the morning. See what our parents said to do or get their opinions. I don’t want to let him think that he can just leave me for almost a month and a half, like he is scraping something off his shoe, knowing that we are bound by the Goddess. To know he just blew it off so he could keep screwing around and doing what he wanted to do, and he would get around to me when he wanted to. That is hurtful. That is heartbreaking. That is insulting to me. He didn’t want me when I was fat, but I am the SAME person now than I was then, the packaging just looks better now than it did. If he truly wanted me, his mate, he would have come back when he knew I would be there. I came back early that Sunday because it was the one that Eric and his group followed me down to Sedona on my first trip. My brothers followed me back, so I had to come in early as they had to drive back to Sedona that night. He could have come any of that week. Or any of the weeks thereafter. The Alpha training is only a 30-minute drive away in Tempe. He isn’t in California, or Nevada, he is literally here and didn’t care enough about me, or the bond to come and meet me. That is what hurts me to my core. That is what gets me the most, he knew, and he blew me off like I wasn’t important. Then he sees me, and he is like, hey I am willing to date you. It makes me want to cry. I wanted him just by smelling his scent, sight unseen, I wanted him, because he is my mate. But he doesn’t think the same way about me, and it hurts me to my very core. I know Ivory still wants him, very much, but that is because his wolf Aries isn’t a complete a*s. Aries wants us because he loves us, and Asher didn’t because he was more concerned with my appearance than my soul.”

I turn over and get comfortable “Goodnight Bree. I am not trying to be ugly. I really am trying hard to not be. But with all that I have had to put up with, how I have been treated like crap. That the people who raised me only did it to be in charge of the 2 million dollars, they never loved me, only recently have I found people who love me, you guys, and that is it, I can count you all on both hands. Maybe all that hurt has risen to the surface now and I am fighting to keep it contained. I feel like my anger at Asher is like a volcano about to blow up. That NOW that he has deemed me important or valuable to him, I should just fall all over myself to just accept him, and I am sorry, I really don’t know that I can.