The Prince’s Unwilling mate by Mutya

044 Ayla My phone was in my bag and I just couldn't reach it. Griffin must be sick with worry now. | was over an hour late.

About halfway hat terrible accident had happend, and it slowed down the traffic. It happened about thirty minutes before | got there so | wasn’t involved at all. But it delayeda lot and | couldn't risk taking my eyes of the roadt to try and grab my bag. It had started raining there was a lot off debris on the road still. And people were driving as crazy as if they wanted to make up for the delay by going over the speed limit.

I finally saw a chance to get off the main road and stop at a gasstation. | needed to fill up the tank. get scaffeine inbut most of all reassure my family and Griff. Griff had textedalready but | texted Grandpa first.

“I am okay there has been an accident | was not involved but stuck in traffic it will be about another hour or so” Then | clamped the phone between my shoulder and ear to call Griff as | was filling up the tank. He answered on the first thing, and | felt sick when | heard how worried he was. So while filling up my tank, and getting ssnacks and an energydrink | told him about the traffic jam. That | wasn’t involved and would be hin another hour. Telling him he could just go to bed. Of course he refused | know he would, still it felt good he was so concerned about my health my well being that he refused to go to bed before he knew | was hsafe and sound.

D DOL 12:16 288 (Vouchers By the t| did get h| was exhausted, | texted Griff to let him know. His reply was instant. Tellinghe missedbut was going to bed now. | had one last drink with Grandma and Grandpa telling them all about my weekend and how | accepted Grillin as my mate. Which made them incredibly happy then | dragged myself to bed. Not bothering to take off Griff's hoodie or unpack my bag. | heard the chof another text message but since it couldn't be Griff | ignored it. | had to be up in a few hours and | desperately needed my sleep.

ork The next morning | of course overslept, | saw the late text last night was from an unknown number but | didn’t have the tto read it. | only texted Jessa and Griffin and then rushed to get ready, eat something, and then go to work. When it was tfor my lunch break I finally could sit down and read the text from the unknown number. It was David. | had not blocked him since he never texted me. All | did was delete hist number from my phone so | would never be tempted to text him again.. The irony of it all. now that | was sure | would never feel tempted to text him again he was texting me.

“Do you ever regret what happened between us Ayla? | was stupid to reject you as my mate and | regret it every single day” | scoffed at the obvious lie in the text and didn’t even respond. | just left him on read thinking this was a one-off text in a drunken haze. Or a cruel joke just to mess withsmore? Both wouldn't work onbecause he wasn't the only one who texted me. So | focussed all my 15.09% 0 12:16 288 V202hers energy on Griffin not telling him about David's random text. | would save that conversation for this weekend when we were together. Even if | wasn’t the slightest bit tempted by David. Griffin wouldn't like it and he deserved to read the few seewhen | told him all about it. | just hope with Griff being so protective every once in a while he wouldn’ t lose his shit over this. | would hate for this to cause us more . when we are finally in a good place.

As soon as | left the library | checked my phone. | never used to be like. that but I just knew | had a text message from Griff waiting for me.

“Hey. Darling about to head into a meeting it is going to be sooo boring and | miss you like crazy. Want to Facetwhen | am done around eight?” Was the last text he sent about ten minutes ago.

Along with a bunch of cute texts about his day-to-day business. Things like him tellinghe went out for a coffee. That he was going to help Collin out in finding his role in this pack. As he was still feeling a little afloat.

Still, I answered them all, even telling him about what | was about to have for dinner since he asked. Promising him we could. Facetwhen he was done “I don’t know if knowing | get to see you when this is over makesfeel better or worse about the meeting” He texted back instantly, even if he should have been in the meeting now.

“Aren’t you in a meeting now?” | replied.

39.36% 12.16 “Yes, but | like texting you better don’t tell anyone” | giggled at his reply but told him to focus on his work instead of texting me. And after one last sad smiley, he did stop textingby the t| arrived home. It was funny to think David thought | might regret how things went down between the two of us. In reality. | was starting to see how even without the rejection Griffin was a much better mate forthan David would have been.

David likeddespite my posture, Griffin loved everything aboutincluding my posture. David didn’t mind my reading even if he teasedabout it a little. Griffin loved | had a hobby that matched so well with his hobby.

David loved all the fancy get-togethers, the more luxurious the better. | always preferred the smaller get- togethers. Griffin hated the balls and fancy meetings. With David. | would have been arm candy like his mother is to his father. With Griffin, | felt needed and loved.

“I can turn the lights out and save smoney on the electricity bill with how you're beaming” Grandma chuckled.

She was right ever since this weekend | have felt like | was on cloud. nine. There were still a ton of doubts in the back of my mind. But they started to fade because Grillin kept showinghow much he cared for me. Even his admission that he lovedhadn't scaredoff. | tried my best to not just talk about Griffin during dinner. And leaving out that David had texted me. It had clearly been an one of thing since | didn’t get another text from him. Still when | saw there was smeatloaf left over I couldn't help mentioning it was a shGriffin wouldn't be here next weekend since | was going over to his again. With a bright smile.