When they touch me (Shelagh Milano) novel Chapter 60

Chapter 60
ARTEMISIA

I’m officially pissed.

Raging wouldn’t even describe my internal whirlwind that is creating total havoc.

“And if you could check with Astrid. The annual excursion with the pups usually takes place before the ball,” Cayden doesn’t even look at me as he goes through the to-dos scribbled in his stupid notebook.

“Sure,” I answer annoyedly, whipping with my leg that I have crossed over my other.

With my emotions scrambled all over the place, Fynn not ignoring me only to mock me, and my mates avoiding me most of the time because of this complicated situation, nobody is telling me about, I just can’t seem to get a grip.

And after Lisa told me what I wanted to hear, I don’t want to get the grip back on things.

He sighs, throwing the notebook on his desk. “What is it?”

“Oh,” I lift a brow. “Are you asking me?”

“Yeah,” he simply states, sitting back down.

I shake my head, smiling at him. “You have been awkwardly strange to me, and avoiding me whenever you could. You tell me!”

“I never avoided you. Things can get chaotic, and I have a lot to do,” he responds, gaslighting me.

“Sure,” I say again, shrugging. “Then it’s nothing, I guess.”

He groans, passing his hand over his face. “What is it, Missy?”

“Nothing,” I repeat sulkingly, making him stare at me unimpressed.

I click my tongue, losing the staring contest. “Did you reject your mate?”

“Come again?” He asks, not appearing as dumbfounded as he wants to.

“Did you reject your mate because she wasn’t what you expected her to be?” I repeat my question, fighting to keep my temper in check. “Not Luna material, if you want?”

He chuckles, making me look at him wide-eyed. “Yes. Yes, I did reject her. And yes, she was the farthest away from Luna material you could imagine someone to actually be.”

“You are just incredible,” I hiss, clawing on the armrests of my chair as I lean forward. “Just a bunch of entitled assholes thinking they reign the earth and everybody has to kiss the soil they walk on.”

“Missy…” he says calmly, but I ignore him and the warning tone in his voice.

“Now, I don’t want to talk about what happened in the arcade rooms, yet. I hope you can wait a bit for us to have that conversation. But I’m going to talk this situation out with you, also because there are certain facts that we should be clear about, and the pack shouldn’t know.”

I wave at him dismissively, shaking my head. “Listen, it isn’t my place to know. In the pack there is a rumour going around of you being fond of me, so they were actually hoping I would be your second-chance mate. As I’m not your mate, they were even thinking you would take me as your chosen mate, and I would leave Fynn, Matt, and Logan for you. This is certainly crazy, but there is far worse that could be happening. So, please don’t worry! I’ll simply take it as a compliment and whenever someone asks me, I’ll say that I don’t know any details.”

“Thank you. But I can still confirm that I indeed prepared the pack on ending without a Luna. And I know that they are excited about having you here, and, if I may, I already talked about the succession with my brothers and your firstborn pup can gladly take over when it’s time to.” He flashes me another sad smile as my heart breaks for him.

“Oh my. Don’t say that too loudly when Daisy is around. She is already trying to get me pregnant too eagerly.” I joke and finally get him to laugh.

“Well…” I say, before getting up again. “My apologies… for being an idiot… again.”

“It’s okay, Missy. You aren’t an idiot,” he tries to cheer me up, making me smile awkwardly.

“Well… If you will excuse me,” I do a little curtsy before turning around. “My Alpha.”

He chuckles, and just as I lay my hand on the door handle, I turn around. “I could make you an ointment that would help you with the scars.”

“Thank you, but it’s fine.” He shakes his head, watching me with a devastated expression. “I know that you know about the fact that those scars appear only if it happens for a long period of time. They say that it is like your wolf clawed you from the inside. So, as a reminder to myself and also as my punishment for having put him through it, I will continue to wear them. It also raises rumours in the pack and risks blowing my cover, but it’s still fine.”

“Okay,” I whisper, before leaving by flashing him a last smile and closing the door behind me.