The thin line between love and hate

The beginning of an odd evening

LOGAN’S POV

“I can't believe you did this dude,” Edward said laughing

“What else could I have done if not this party?” I asked him “I certainly wasn’t going to spend my days cooped up in my room and getting drunk,” I said

“I have to ask you this man, why did you reject her?” he asked me “she was such a beautiful and humble girl” he added and I gulped down my drink

“Is that what everyone thinks I did, you guys think I rejected her?” I asked him

“I mean why else would she run away and kill herself?” he asked me

“I don’t know man I am just as confused as all of you but you know what I will allow you guys to think whatever you want. Aurora is dead and I am moving on with my life because I deserve to be happy” I snapped as I snatched another glass of brandy from a server who was passing by me. I was very offended that everyone was quick to assume that I was the bad guy but at the same time I understood why they were so quick to judge. Compared to Aurora, my track record was bad and I was known to be a womanizer so it only made sense to everyone that I was the bad guy even in this situation and it wasn’t like I had treated her like a princess anyway.

“Slow down on the drinks, if you are wasted we will snatch up all the good ones and you will be left with nothing,” he said as he walked away from me with a mischievous smile.

The conversation that I had with Edward had just ruined my whole mood, right now all I wanted to do was get another drink and as much as I had tried to limit my drinking tonight, I knew that I was getting out of control. I got a bottle of water from the buffet hoping that it would help me sober up.  

I gulped down the water that I had taken in one go and got a little dizzy so I decided to sit down. I looked around the room that was full of women and now of them were anything that I had expected. This party was meant to cheer me up and I was supposed to have someone next to me by the end of the night but it was becoming clear to me that none of the girls that were here were up to my standards. It wasn’t that they were not paying any attention to me or that they weren’t showing any interest in me, it was just that I kind of found myself repelled by them and I didn’t find any of them attractive at all…which was very unlike me.

“This has never happened to me” I murmured as I took another bottle of water and started drinking it slowly as I continued assessing the room.

This party was in my honor and yet everyone except me was having fun, all my single alpha friends were chatting with some female wolves and here I was trying to sobber myself up with bottles of water.

I was suddenly hit by a powerful caramel/cocoa-like smell, it was the strongest yet sweetest scent in the entire room. It was as if it was calling me by my name but I just couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. I stood up from the table where I was sitting and started walking around in search of the bearer of the sweet smell. It was like nothing that I had ever experienced before, I found myself searching for this female while trying to suppress my wolf who was fighting to be released so that he could search for her himself.

How could this be possible, how could I find my second chance mate so soon? I thought it would take me months or even years before I found her and yet I knew that she was here. I had convinced myself that the moon goddess was upset with me and I thought she would punish me first before giving me a new mate but she saw things from my point of view and she knew that I was innocent.

Where was she from, and where had she been all this while?

I finally spotted the source of my craziness standing alone at the corner of the room, she was wearing a short black latex dress that cupped her beautiful breasts perfectly. The dress she was wearing, even though it made her seem like a cheap and desperate w***e, made her the center of attention in this whole party. I could tell that all the male wolves had been captured by her beauty and the females were jealous of her curves and tiny waist. I had never seen such beauty in this small town and believe me I knew everyone who stayed here, they were my pack members after all. She had her metallic blonde hair tied in a low sleek bun and from the look of it, her hair was long and I could tell that by the size of her bun. Her make-up did not match the way she was dressed at all and I wondered what kind of a look she had wanted to go for tonight. Did she want to be simple and yet look like a cheap w***e?

But I wasn’t mad at her for it I appreciated her looks and I was glad to be blessed with a mate like her.

She kept pulling her dress down as if she was uncomfortable by how short it was and I found that too cute. She wasn’t used to dressing like this and she probably dressed like that just to catch someone’s attention, but whose attention did she want to get? Was it mine or someone else? or maybe she was just trying to be the center of attention.

I kept walking slowly around the room while my eyes were still glued on her, I was trying to figure out how to talk to her, I was trying to figure out how to not scare her off. I found my heart softening just at the thought of having her next to me on my king bed.

However, her curves seemed so familiar to me. I knew that I had seen curves like that somewhere in this kingdom. And then it hit me, Aurora was the one who had a body that was identical to this beautiful stranger.