Chapter One
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Rogue – Mason
”Olivia.”
I heard Aden’s voice even through the closed bathroom door.
He was dreaming about her and obviously it wasn’t a good dream. Not that I blamed him. I had been dreaming of her as well.
Opening the door, I paused for a second and just watched him sleep.
The blonde hair that was sticking up in all directions as he thrashed about on the bed. The tan chest.
He moved his head to the side again and I watched as his face screwed up. ”Olivia.” He called her name again and my feet moved without me even thinking about it. Perching on the very edge of the bed, I reached for his face.
”Aden.” Smoothing my fingers over his face. It hit me again. Aden was mine. I hadn’t even thought it was even possible to have feelings for another man but with Aden it was easy.
Sure, we argued a lot but I knew he had my back and he knew I had his.
It was the unspoken s****l tension that made things awkward.
Olivia had understood, which was one of the reasons she had been so perfect for us.
But at the end of the day, she had chosen someone else which meant we were still looking for our third.
And I couldn’t imagine any other woman putting up with our s**t.
Not that I was looking for another mate.
”Aden, wake up.” I slapped his cheek gently and his eyes flew open.
Wild. He looked wild.
”i…”
”You were having a bad dream.”
For a second his eyes darkened and then he hand was around my neck, fingers tangling into the hair at the back of my head and he pulled my face down to his.
His lips were bruising. His tongue hot and wet in my mouth.
Kissing Aden was easy. As easy as breathing and it had been since the moment I had first seen him on that summer swim.
The bond had swept through me instantly and I knew he had felt it as well. It had been written all over his face.
We had come together hard, that first time. Naked on the rocks but we hadn’t really been with each other since.
Not that I didn’t want to.
And not because I was feeling conflicted over being attracted to a man for the first time in my life because I didn’t.
We hadn’t been together properly because we had been so focused on Olivia and getting her to agree to be ours that we hadn’t even started to explore what we had with each other.
”What the hell man…” Aden tore his mouth from mine and his eyes were accusing. ”The f**k do you think you’re doing?”
What was I doing? I frowned down at him. My eyebrows knitting together.
I didn’t have a problem with my growing attraction to Aden but it was pretty obvious he did.
I knew he blamed me for the whole Olivia mess but it was a shock to see the anger in his eyes when he looked up at me.
”You were having a bad dream.” I stood, moving towards my case.
I needed to get out of this room. Away from him and into the sun.
”So you decided to stick your tongue down my throat?” I could hear him moving behind me but I didn’t turn.
I had stuck my tongue down his throat? Was he actually for real?
”Get over yourself Aden. You kissed me.” Not bothering to look at him, I pulled the first pair of shorts from my case and slipped them on .
I didn’t even bother with underwear. I would have walked out of the room naked if I thought I could have got away with it.
I just needed to get away from him.
He wasn’t the only person hurting. He wasn’t the only person in this room that had lost someone special.
But he was the only person being a jerk about it.
He could blame me all he wanted. Blame me for telling Beast what we were planning on doing. Blame me for not fighting for her like he had wanted to do.
Hell, he could blame me for introducing him to her to begin with.
“Where are you going?”
Finally I turned to him. Looking at him as he sat up in the bed. The white sheets around his waist. And there was something almost pleading in his eyes.
He needed me. But he hated the fact he needed me.
“Out.”
For a second we stared at each other. There was only a few feet between us but it might as well have been an ocean.
Olivia had ripped my triad apart.
“If you give me a few minutes…”
I cut him off. “I would rather go alone.” It wasn’t even the fact that I didn’t want to be with him. He was my mate after all but I couldn’t deal with my own feelings of loss and his bitterness as well.
“Yeah well…” Aden gave a shrug. “Being alone is what you do best isn’t it? Doing what’s best for you , instead of what’s best for us. You could have fought for her. We could have been complete…”
“We wouldn’t have been complete Aden.” I couldn’t help but sound tired. “Because she wasn’t ours to keep. No matter how much we wanted her to be. So don’t sit there and tell me that I don’t think of our triad or lack of one, Aden because it’s all I was thinking about. It’s all I think about. I just can’t deal with ….” I paused and my words slipped into silence.
“Just say it.” His own voice was bitter.
“I can’t deal with you.”
There I had said it.
He blamed me for letting her go, blamed me for making him fall for her and I couldn’t blame him for that.
But that didn’t mean I had to sit around and take it.
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