My Not Yet Mate

Chapter 65

He muzzled into her neck. “Sweetheart, that is not love. That is obsession. Love doesn’t hurt. It heals. It protects. It understands. What I feel for you is love. He could have never loved you. He didn’t understand it.”

He tucked her hair behind her ear. She pulled away from him to si

“I think you are just like him and just want to possess me.

shrink against the headboard.

His heart stopped as he studied her face. “Do you really think that, Lily? Or are you just trying to push me away?

She closed her eyes. “Yes.”

He stood up and held his hand out to her. “Come with me, Lily. I want to show you something.”

She opened her eyes to eye him nervously. “Where are we going?“” Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

“I want to show you a memory of

“mine.”

She hesitantly took his hand. He focused on the day he met her and the air shimmered around them until it settled back into a vision of her old home and the courtyard in front of it. He stood behind Sasha and Alden, next to Galine and Dayan. He watched for a few minutes, before the air changed around him. He put his hands on Lily’s shoulders, so she would be able to hear his thoughts from that day. Gideon lifted his head slightly inhaling deep.

Do you smell that, Luke?”

I do. She’s bere.”

Gideon looked around slowly, but saw no one. The scent of cherries grow stronger and he looked around again. Gideon pawed at the ground anxiously, his frustration becoming more apparent

“Where is she?,‘ he growled.

‘I don’t know. Keep looking.”

thent. A small girl

He turned towards the forest where he could sense a figure approaching them. A girl came humbling out of the trees with tears on her face and snor pouring from her nose.

“Daddy!,” she screamed.

She stumbled when her leg didn’t move forward fast enough and she fell Gideon stood frozen as he watched her struggle on the ground. His heart had ceased beating and anger rose inside of him.

“No!,‘ he growled. ‘Who in the hell made her cry?”

Lukas paced inside their mind as he tried to keep the murderous streak inside of him in check. “I don’t know, but we will find out and we will punish them.”

“Daddy, they hit me and called me weak

“Who did, pumpkin?,” Luis asked

“Yeah, who fucking put their hands on our mate?, Gideon roared.

The need to scoop her up and find out just who had hurt her almost overwhelmed him.

“The kids at school,” she answered, sniffling.

Her father picked her up and Gideon bared his teeth. He didn’t want anybody touching her. She was theirs and only they could touch her. The only arms that were supposed to be around her were theirs.

“Don’t worry about it, sweetheart. They are just jealous, because you are the most beautiful girl there.”

She shook her in dental and another tear rolled slowly down her face. “No, Daddy. I am ugly”