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Nolan laughed and took a bite of his pizza, then chewed while he thought. Finally, he swallowed and said, “Nah, I think we should leave him to freak out for a little longer.”

I smiled at him. “You’re right. He can suffer a bit more.”

CHAPTER 53

WESLEY

“Are you going to reject me?” I asked as I followed Nolan and Haven to the door.

“What?” Haven asked.

“Are you going to reject me as your mate?”

She stopped and looked at me, her eyes scanning my face, taking in whatever she saw there.

She swallowed. “I don’t know.”

Then she turned and walked out my front door, with Nolan right behind her.

I slammed the door shut and banged my fist against it twice before I leaned my forehead on the cool glass of the small window. I couldn’t even feel her anymore. She’d cut me off from her emotions without even knowing she was.

I had no one to blame but myself. I mean, sure, I could have blamed my dad, but when it came down to the bare bones of the issue, it was nobody’s fault but my own.

I turned and slumped down to the floor, my back against the door and my arms draped over my knees. I sat and sat, waiting to feel even the tiniest bit of something from her end of the bond, but there was nothing.

I already missed her. Missed her scent, her sassy attitude, and her smiling face. It had only been seven and a half minutes since Haven had walked out the front door, but as Maddie would say, it felt like it had been five-ever.

“You’re her gamma. You will call her by her title,” I mindlinked Nolan, reminding him to speak to her with respect and hoping maybe he’d give me at least a brief insight into what they were doing and how she was feeling.

Not that he would be disrespectful. I just wanted him to call her “Luna.” Because that’s what she was. My luna. Until she rejected me, I wanted everyone to call her luna.

“Please convince her to accept me,” I added.

He just snorted at me through the mindlink. “My luna is mad at you, so I’m mad at you. If you want to fix it, you need to fix it on your own.”

“Fuck you!” I exclaimed, hitting the door with the back of my head. Then I sighed. “Damn it, you’re right.”

And he was. Again. It was up to me to fix what I had broken. I had to grovel. Again.

But unlike the first time, I knew what I wanted to do.

“Reid, Maya,” I said, reaching out to both of them through the mindlink. “I need your help. Come to my house. Please.”

I closed the link and walked down the hall to throw a shirt on. Then I went into one of the two extra rooms in my house, the one I used as my home office.

I got straight to work dismantling the furniture and moving it into the other bedroom. That room was plenty big enough to hold the computer desk, rolling chair, and bookshelf I had set up for my “office.” I rarely used it anyway, and it would get more use with what I had planned.

“Knock knock!” Maya called out as the front door opened and shut.

“I’m down the hall!” I yelled back to her. “Is Reid with you?”

“Aye, aye, Alpha!” Reid said from the doorway, where he leaned against the frame. “What do you need? Are you moving?” he asked, looking at the furniture I had taken apart.

“Just moving this furniture into the other room,” I told him.

“What do you need us for?” Maya asked.

“I need the two of you to go to your apartment and get some things for Haven. Clothes, shoes, whatever else she might need or want.”

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