A weekend with the Alpha novel Chapter 59

The line went dead, and I knew Ivan was thinking of what Aaron had just told him. After much silence, he spoke. "If she's the one, then it wouldn't matter."

Aaron pulled his hands away from my temple and I snapped back to reality, gasping for air. I didn't think what just happened was possible, but a lot of things that had happened in the past few days were impossible, yet happened.

I knew what I saw and heard, but I couldn't trust it. I glanced up and found Aaron's gaze still on me.

"Why should I believe you? For all I know, this is your way of showing me what you want me to see."

"I have no reason to do that. What you just saw is my memory, and it hasn't been tampered with. You might not believe it, but I know deep down you know it's the truth."

If this was the truth, then what I thought I heard wasn't the truth. I also had my heart broken for nothing. I should have confronted him then, oh how much pain and tears I would have saved myself.

"I thought you had someone," I admitted. "I thought you were cheating on her with me, as Owens did to me using Tatiana. I felt angry and hurt and used, and I believed you did not differ from him. That was why I never called back. I should have asked for an explanation, but I didn't think it was in my place to do so. We were just two people that met during the weekend to have fun and nothing more. I wasn't your girlfriend and so I kept my anger to myself and moved on instead."

"I never lied to you, Zera, and I never will."

I nodded. I know that now and I wish I had known that before, things would have been so much different. "I know that now," I told him and when his hand moved down to stroke my face, I leaned into him to get more.

I felt a calm I had not felt in a long while and I wanted to get used to it. It was the peace the truth brought, and it felt better than I thought it would.

This felt real. Staying this way, being with him this way, felt more real than everything I've experienced in the last few years.

My heart was back beating for him like it had five years ago and there was no stopping it.

"There is no reason you shouldn't," he answered, a smile coming to his face and his dimple appearing.

"Why are you being so nice to me? I'm not the best person and honestly, I would hate myself too if I were you."

"I could never hate you even if I tried, Zera Adams."

"And why is that?"

"Some day I will tell you why just not today." He rose from beside me and I wanted to hold on to him and tell him to stay a little longer. "I think you should bathe and get ready. I will tell Uwa to get Ivan ready as well."

The door shut behind him and I groaned in pain at what I could have had. He'd always be the one that got away.