Chapter 29

Elizabeth Summers’ POV
After getting rejected by Adam in front of most of our classmates Patti went to hide in one of the spare bedrooms upstairs. When I got there she was sitting on the daybed with her head in her hands. When I closed the door behind me her head shot up and I could see the tears trailing down her face. I sat down beside her on the daybed and gave her a warm smile.
“Is there something wrong with me?” She asked in between sobs.
“Not at all. This is his problem not yours,” I objected. Patti gave a fake laugh and rolled her eyes at me. I always thought I was good at comforting my friends but apparently I was doing a terrible job of it today.
“How can it not be about me? He wouldn’t even go on one date with me to see if I was the one. He must find me repulsive.” she said, triggering another bout of sobbing.
I put my hand on Patti’s arm in an attempt to comfort her. I could tell by the look on her face how much pain she was in. She had started to have strong feelings for Adam despite my warnings about him. She wouldn’t listen to me, she almost seemed obsessed with him. I hadn’t seen her this bad before. If I didn’t know better then I might think they were mates.
“It is nothing like that, he is just religious and that is why he won’t be with anyone other than his soulmate.” I said.
“I could be his soulmate,” She replied, tears leaking from her eyes again.
Oh great. This is the problem with lying, you end up having to tell more lies to cover the lies you have already told. If I wasn’t careful I would end up telling her that Adam was part of some cult of something. Then again that was probably less strange than us all being werewolves. Maybe I should just tell her that, she would think I had lost my mind and it would distract her from her sadness for a while.
“In his religion you know the first time your eyes meet. It may seem odd but it is what he believes and there is nothing that you can say to change it.” I told her.
She turned away from me and started crying again, I couldn’t see her face but I could hear her sobs. Her whole body shook as she cried. I didn’t know what to say so I rubbed her back to comfort her. I had to think of some way to snap her out of this, she was my friend and I hated seeing her in this much pain.
“What the actual fuck,” Someone shouted from down the hallway. It sounded like Oliver and he sounded beyond pissed.
Patti looked up for a moment then stood up and ran in the direction of the noise, rubbing the tears from her face as she went. I quickly got and followed her and the sound of shouting to one of the bedrooms.
When I got there Bev was in the bed almost completely naked with Oliver's older brother. She was trying to hide herself with the covers but Oliver’s brother was on top of them so they weren’t budging at all.
She gave them one large tug, finally managing to cover herself. Unfortunately she used some of the extra strength being a werewolf brings which caused Oliver’s brother to tumble off the bed and onto the floor. He landed heavily with a grunt.
“You were going to sleep with my brother? We are meant to be in a relationship.” Oliver shouted.
Bev was grabbing her clothes from the floor and putting them on underneath the covers as quickly as she could. Meanwhile, Oliver’s brother was sitting on the floor in his underwear looking at his brother as though his life was ending.
The two of them had always had a very close relationship. There was only a couple of years between them and they used to hang around with each other constantly, they did everything together. I was sure that Cole didn’t know about Oliver’s relationship with Bev because he would have never betrayed him like this.
“Oliver I really like you but I will meet my soulmate soon so I can’t risk falling in love with you.” Bev said as she put the rest of her clothes on.
“I have no idea what you are talking about but if you didn’t want to be with me then you should have told me instead of doing this.” Oliver shouted. He was flailing his arms around a lot which usually meant he was pretty annoyed.
“I didn’t mean it like that. The problem is you,” Bev said.
“Great,” Oliver said, tensing his muscles.
He turned as though he was going to walk out of the room but Bev caught hold of his arm before he could make it to the door and pulled him back again. He staggered backwards into her arms. She wrapped her arms around him but he didn’t reciprocate, he didn’t do anything. He kept his arms straight by his side and glared at her.
“I think I am falling in love with me,” She whispered.
“Ok, and you thought the perfect declaration of love was to sleep with my brother,” he replied.
“I was scared, I think I was trying to push you away but seeing how much I hurt you I know I was wrong.” She was pleading with him but he seemed unaffected. After a few seconds of looking into her eyes Oliver took hold of her hands and tried to remove them from his waist. Bev whimpered and held him tighter.
“I think you should just go,” Oliver said.
The anger seemed to have given way to sadness. He stopped trying to push her away, his whole body just seemed to go limp as he resigned himself to the reality of what had happened. Bev let go of him and took a step back but she didn’t leave the room.
“I am not going anywhere,” she replied.
“Fine.” Oliver shouted before he walked out of the room. The rest of us looked at each other for a few seconds then Patti and Cole started to follow Oliver out of the room. Bev tried to go with them but I stood in front of her and blocked her path. For a moment I was worried that she would take it as a challenge but looking into her eyes all I could see was remorse.
“Why did you do that?” I asked.
She sighed and took a couple of deep breaths.
“Like I mentioned earlier, I think I am falling in love with him and I can’t do that if there is a chance he might not be my mate.” She replied.
“What if he is your mate?” I was confused. Why couldn’t she just have ended things with him if she didn’t want to get involved in anything serious. Ending it this way was just so final.
“Then he will forgive me and we will live happily ever after,” she said as she looked dreamily into the distance. That was such an optimistic outlook on life, I wished I could share it.
“I am not sure about that. He is human, he isn’t going to understand.” I responded.
“That means he won’t know how to reject me which will give me plenty of time to seduce him.”
She passed me and walked out of the room while swaying her hips and exuding a confidence that I couldn’t even come close to having. I really hoped that she wasn’t going to end up being Oliver’s mate. As much as she tried to trivialise what had happened tonight, it was a big deal.
She had cheated on Oliver the last time they were together but at least that time she hadn’t done it with his brother. I don’t think he was going to forgive her after this and I don’t think it will matter how much she tries to seduce him.
I do wish that I had some of her confidence though, even if it was just for one night to see how it felt. I was sick of constantly worrying about doing the wrong thing. Things between Jasper and I had been amazing but I still worried that I would say the wrong thing and it would all be over. I knew it was ridiculous. He is my mate and he loved me, we were going to be together forever so I shouldn’t be this worried.
Maybe tonight I would take a leaf out of Bev’s book and take charge. It was the perfect night for it, if anything went wrong then I could always blame my behaviour on the alcohol. Jasper didn’t have a clue what was coming, I hope I didn’t frighten him.