Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 19

Connor doesn't lay a harsh strike on her nor does he allow her to connect, it becomes more like a training battle, Leilani becoming more and more upset as everything becomes clearer.

Connor grabs her and throws her onto his desk, landing heavily on top of her, pinning both arms above her head with one hand and pinning her legs down with his own. Leilani still thrashes, her self-preservation in overdrive.

This man in front of her, she knows that he can hurt her more than the other two combined, because she thought he was different, she thought he was good, she thought they had a connection, she thought they had something real.

That soft apricot scent fills his nostrils once more, he has tried others to get her out of his system, he has tried to convince himself that it was just a one-night stand, that he felt nothing, that any one-night stand could be the same, there was nothing to feel with them, the act became a chore, there was no desire, there was no pleasure.

"Leilani, talk to me"

"Talk to you about what?"

She nearly spits the words, she wants so badly to hate this man, but with his body on hers all those feelings, all those touches from six months earlier are sitting on the surface.

"Why are you acting like this?"

"Like what, maybe everything before was an act and this is the real me"

"It isn't"

"It is the real me that deserves nothing, that deserves to be abandoned, rejected" "Babe, what....."

"Don't call me that"

Leilani's voice is nearing the level of a screech, her wolf feels disconnected, she is hurting so much internally it feels like she will never be able to feel happiness again. Connor is shocked as he stares down at the woman whose eyes are brimming with tears.

He has no idea what to do, she is coming undone and he has no idea what he did nor does he know how to fix her. He slams his lips down on hers. Her canines bite straight through his lip and as he is sure he is actually going to lose one of his lips, her teeth release, blood fills the two mouths as they kiss.

The kiss is the same as it was back then except, instead of being full of passion, it is full of desperation. Connor releases her hands and they weave around his neck and one hand travels in through his hair. Connor just wants to show all the heartache and uncertainty he has been feeling since waking up in a cold bed with the woman he longed for was long gone and a stupid piece of paper in her place. Leilani has no idea why he is doing this when he has made his choice, but she is so desperate to feel something, to feel anything, to rekindle what was there that night, to believe that it wasn't fake.

***

Maggie sits up in bed, a hand on her chest, her other hand moves to Gabriel's naked form as she pushes him slightly. He groans as he rolls over.

"What is it? It is too early"

"I feel weird in the chest"

Gabriel groans as he throws an arm over his eyes.

"I feel weird in the chest too. Maybe we ate something strange last night"

"Where do you feel weird?"

Gabriel's free hand moves to the place just above his heart and rubs the slight constricting feeling. Maggie breathes a sigh of relief.

"Ohh I thought it was something to do with my mate"

"Impossible"

"Exactly because you haven't met your mate and your wolf hasn't had a chance to form that bond"

"Yeah exactly"

Gabriel rolls with his back to Maggie. She is wrong about the first part, but right about the second, Leilani didn't live long enough for the two wolves to have the chance to bond. Gabriel frowns at the uncomfortable feeling in his chest. It makes it very hard to get back to sleep. His wolf feels weird and uncomfortable. Was he poisoned? What is this feeling?

He rolls onto his back with his morning wood on full display.

"Well sl*t, since you woke me up you had better deal with this"

Maggie giggles as she throws a leg over him and takes his full length straight into her.

***

Connor slowly removes his lips from Leilani's and looks down at the breathtaking woman as her eyes slowly flicker open, her pale cheeks are slightly flushed and her lips are slightly swollen, her lips and chin stained red from his blood that is slowly drying on her skin, his large thumb moves to wipe the remnants of his blood from her skin in a tender motion, her stormy blue eyes look at him, they have a somewhat glazed quality to them.

"Talk to me babe"

Leilani's hand lifts to touch the handsome face before her, touch his rough stubble and trace his strong, defined features. Connor just watches her and lets her do whatever she wants to him.

Connor feels the familiar tinge in his heart, he rolls his eyes and sighs. Leilani's breathing becomes laboured and he looks down at her in a panic as her face contorts in pain.

"What is wrong?"

Leilani's eyes go wide as she grips onto Connor for dear life. The pain is tearing through her body, stemming from her heart and hurting everywhere.

Connor moves with Leilani in his arms, sitting down on his seat and rocking her back and forth in an attempt to comfort her. He knows what is happening as the first few times it felt the same for him, but it got easier as time went on, thankfully, as Maggie has s*x a lot. But as he holds the weeping Leilani and feels his own dull ache in his chest.

"Impossible"

Connor holds her tight.

"Come on babe, you are strong, you are better than this"

In normal circumstances, Leilani would hardly stumble but her wolf is against her and her mind is against her, her whole body is in an all out war against itself. As his pain starts to peter out, so does hers.

"If what I think is going on, is what is going on, this is a new unexplored level of f*cked up babe"

Leilani looks up at him through tear-filled eyes.

"It is exactly what you think but it is worse"

Connor throws his head back as he looks at the white ceiling, sighing heavily, worse than the woman he fell madly in love with in a few hours on a one-night stand being fated to the man that is with his own fated mate? Can't they already write a soap opera about this sh*t?

Connor's eyes move back down to meet Leilani's, who is still cradled in his lap. He plants a kiss on her forehead.

"Lay it all on me"

"I was originally from the half moon pack"

Connor shows a shocked expression but bites his tongue as he watches Leilani's eyes shut as she starts her story.

"I was an orphan, a baby abandoned at the edge of the pack. I guess they thought they were doing a good deed by taking me in, but that was the extent of their caring. As soon as I was capable, I was their slave. I cooked and cleaned for the whole pack house. I had a mattress on the floor of the cleaners room from the age of four. When most other kids were still getting spoon fed and their butts wiped, I was scrubbing toilets and cooking" Leilani pauses, taking a deep breath in.

"That was fine, I was alive, I had a roof over my head, it wasn't till I was nearly a teenager when I went from the forgotten one to the despised one. I am not sure what I even did. I sat alone at school and all my free time was either looking after the pack house or holed up in my "room". As the years went on, the despise turned to hate, the hate turned to abhor."

Leilani rests her cheek on Connor's strong chest, hearing the steady rhythm of his strong heart soothes her and his unique scent calms her.

"It wasn't till I was twelve that the nudges turned to hits. Once I was found sleeping in an actual bedroom instead of in my cleaners closet, I was tied to the punishment pole and whipped until I nearly lost my life, then I was left there to barely survive for two days while the pack members were encouraged to torment me verbally."

Leilani wraps her arms around Connor's waist, enjoying his heat that is soaking into her body that has felt so deathly cold for a day.

"When I was thirteen, it was the first time Maggie was bought into the pack"

Leilani looks up at Connor, seeing if he wants her to continue. He already knows the direction that the story is going, so if he doesn't want to hear anything bad about his precious fated mate, he had better stop her now. Connor nods for her to continue. From the brief glimpse of Maggie he got he doesn't have the greatest impression, so if it gets ruined further, he cares little. He has a new goal in mind now anyway, Maggie is nothing.