Chapter 0343
Nan nodded; he did come all this way, after all. It was only right that he was allowed to sleep on the couch.
“It pulls out,” she told him.
He seemed to have relaxed. He soon cleared his throat and turned to her.
“First aid kit?” He asked as he headed towards the bathroom.
“It’s behind the door,” she said softly, sitting on her bed.
Chester returned a moment later with the first aid kit in hand. He grabbed what he needed and sat beside her. His eyes were dark with anger as he cleaned up her lip and applied a cream on her swollen cheek.
The silence stretched on, making Nan uncomfortable.
She tried to avoid looking into his eyes, but he was so close to her that it couldn’t have been helped.
“Who was that guy?” he finally asked after what felt like an eternity of silence.
“A distraction,” she whispered without hesitation. “But he went crazy.”
He didn’t reply right away; he allowed her words to sink in fully before he nodded slowly.
“Did you sleep with him?”
Nan’s eyes snapped back to his.
“Why does it matter?” She asked.
“Because you’re my mate-
“You’ve slept with any woman that walks by you!” Nan practically shouted. “So again, I ask… why does it matter who I sleep with?”
A low growl escaped his lips at her words.
He knew he was wrong for being upset because she was right. He wasn’t a big fan of monogamy, and he made that quite clear to anyone and everyone, including his mate. He dates women, leads them on, sleeps with them, and never calls them back. Harper was the only one he truly spent more than one night with. Now he had a mate, and things were confusing for everyone involved.
He spent the past week trying to convince Harper to let him go, but she doesn’t seem willing to do so. He had a moment of weakness one of the nights last week and slept with her, telling himself that it would only be one more time. It seemed to have set Harper off, though, and she’s adamant about keeping him in her life romantically because she’s “in love with him…” her words.
Chester made it clear he couldn’t be with her after he woke up the next morning riddled with guilt. His wolf was miserable without Nan. Judy told him where they were going to be before they left, and he went straight there. The only issue was he didn’t have Judy’s room number, so he had to ask the front desk clerk.
But they refused to give him the information without Judy’s permission.
His wolf picked up on the danger with his mate right away and knew she was in the area, so after his argument with the front desk clerk, he let his wolf guide him to where Nan was. He saw Tyler raise his hands to her, and then he saw fucking red.
He couldn’t control himself anymore until he realized others were now there and attempting to stop him.
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He couldn’t bring himself to fight them, too, because they were women, and he was against hurting women. He had no choice but to calm down and let Tyler go… but if he had it his way, Tyler wouldn’t be alive right now.
Why would Nan choose to spend time with him? The dude was a jerk.
“I slept with Harper after you left,” Chester found himself saying bluntly, making Nan’s attention snap to his face.
She hated that she felt hurt by what he had said. She blinked back tears as she stared up at him.
“It was only once, and I felt guilty about it. I booked a flight here, and a few days later, I was on the plane,” he continued, his voice casual as he put the supplies back into the first aid kit.
“Why are you telling me this?” She asked him softly.
He shrugged.
“You’re my mate, whether we like it or not. Stuff like that shouldn’t‘ be kept a secret if we want to make this work.”
She blinked at him, confused.
“And do you want to make it work?” She asked him.
There was a beat of silence, and when he didn’t answer, she let herself let out a breath that she had been holding.
“I didn’t sleep with Tyler,” she whispered. “He tried, but I denied him. We had gone on dates and did other things, though.”
His jaw clenched at the image of her doing “other things” and going on dates with Tyler, but he nodded slowly, keeping himself under control.
When he didn’t say anything else, she took a deep breath and decided to ask him the question that she’d been wondering since the day she found out she was his mate.
“Are you going to reject me?”
His eyes flashed to her; truth be told, he had thought about it on many occasions. But now that she was asking this question and sitting right in front of him with her big, pretty eyes and her innocent expression, he was even more conflicted.
And all he could muster was a whispered, “I don’t know.”
