Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

400-The Lost Mate Returns

"If you don't want to sleep with me, just let me know." He was screaming and walking around. I was getting more

anxious about his constant nagging.

"It is not like that," I murmured, steadily lowering my head and calming myself down.

"Then what is the problem? Are you missing him again? Do you think about him when we are doing it?" His

statement and aggressive tone made me raise my face and look at him in silence.

"No!" I shook my head, feeling cornered. I would never do that. That is disrespectful.

"Really?" he grunted, approaching me and grabbing me by my arms. "Then what the hell happened tonight?" He

shook my body despite me giving him a look that I didn't appreciate him holding me like that.

"Let me go, and I will answer you," I demanded, breaking the eye contact because staring into his empty eyes was

painful.

"Answer me, and I will let you go." He shook me again, making me close my eyes as I felt the pain of his nails

piercing through my skin.

"What is going on between you and her?" I finally answered with my eyes closed, and when he didn't respond or

shake me, I opened my eyes and made my question even clearer for him. "Is there something going on between

you and Valerie?"

He was watching me back with a little hint of guilt in his eyes.

"Where did you get this from? We are good friends. And because you don't pay attention to me, I rely on her. She is

very nice and genuinely cares about what I like and dislike," he yammered when I hadn't even asked him anything

more than a simple yes or no question.

"What about that restroom? There is no way you two go in there and rest—," I closed my lips tightly when feeling

ashamed of even talking about it.

"I don't know what to say to you. You were thinking about this while we were having sex?" He set me free and asked

me in a defeated tone, "This was the time you found appropriate to question me?" He shook his head and kept

stepping away until he was near the door.

"I didn't know how else to ask you," I murmured, tears running down my eyes.

"You are just too consumed by yourself, Enya. Look around; not everything is about you," he finished, walking

towards the bed and grabbing his pillow.

"Where are you going now?" I asked because I thought he would sit down and we would discuss all our problems at

last.

"I am sleepy, Enya. I have work to do in the morning,'1 avoiding looking me in the eye, he briskly exited the room

and left me behind with million questions.

I sat down on the bed and covered my face with my hands.

'Did I do anything wrong by expressing my emotions?' I asked

Nia. It was a bit saddening because now that I was not a powerful hybrid, I wasn't seen as someone who carries

heart. In fact, my tears bothered Lazio a lot.

There were many times when I missed Thiago and cried, and it upset Lazio. He said I use tears to gain sympathy. I

got scolded so many times that I stopped crying in front of him.

I walked after Lazio but found him sleeping in the guest room with the door locked from the inside so that I could

not enter and bother him. I was left with no other option but to walk back to my room and cry my heart out until I

fell asleep.

The next morning came with a lot of stress for me. I had bags under my swollen eyes. I had to apply heavy makeup

before Lazio saw me. He would make a huge fuzz about me crying the whole night. He didn't really care that I cried,

but it irked him that I cried for someone else.

Wearing a black pencil skirt and leaving my long hair open, I joined the group in the parking lot.

"I am excited for today," I said, trying to end the fight and start the new day in a fresh mood.

"Enya! can you sit in the second car today, please?" He asked very sweetly, but without raising his face from his

phone.

"Oh sure," I nodded, not getting why he would want me to sit in a separate car. But in order to avoid any more

arguments, I just nodded and sat in the car behind his car.

I watched him travel alone, and soon we were in the office.

There were minor acts that left me bewildered, but I had stopped questioning him. In the beginning, I did question a

few things, but after he made it very clear that he doesn't like anybody questioning everything; I stopped bringing

up everything that heart me.

But that didn't stop him from coming at me for anything that irked him. So maybe the rules applied differently for

both of us.

We were making our way to the office when Valeria tagged along. She was walking right beside him, while I was

one step behind her.

I had my head down all this time as something kept crawling on my heart and making me uncomfortable. I don't

know what it was about today, but I was more uncomfortable than any other day. That's when I raised my face and

watched a pair of green eyes looking at my face from afar.

"Maynard," I whispered, watching a tall and handsome guy in a black suit waiting for us. His eyes were staring at

my face without blinking.

The world seemed to have stopped moving when I found him smiling with so much love for me in his eyes. It was

unusual. Somebody looking at me in the crowd was something I was no longer used to.

"Maynard!" Lazio’s loud greetings broke his eye contact with me. Maynard smiled before hugging Lazio. Christina,

wearing a green office suit, walked out from behind Maynard and greeted Lazio before she looked my way and

briskly rushed over to meet me.

I put on a huge smile on my lips, but she stopped right in front of me, and I realized the greetings were not for me.

"Vai!" She smiled and hugged Valerie.