The Setup Next Door
Jaxon’s POV
I waited. Patiently waited for her to come back. I wasn’t sure where she’d gone, but I had a pretty good fucking guess. The pups were still playing at my house with the babysitter watching them, so I wasn’t worried.
The sound of the door lock turning made me spin around. Thea walked in, stopping when
she saw me.
“Jaxon? I thought you’d left hours ago,” she said, surprise evident in her voice.
I shrugged. “Figured you might need someone to talk to.”
She moved toward the couch and sank into it heavily, one hand automatically going to her swollen belly. “Today was a nightmare.”
“I can imagine,” I sat down across from her. “Seeing Wyatt in this situation…”
“That poor child,” she murmured. “I guess I can relate to him in some ways, but it’s different too. At least my Sterling parents pretended to maintain a relationship with me. Aurora won’t even give Wyatt that much.”
I hadn’t expected this level of honesty from her. I didn’t know much about Thea. In school, I was two years ahead of her. We weren’t friends then I didn’t pay attention to any girl except Aurora.
–
“He’s so much like you, you know,” she said suddenly. “Wyatt has your eyes, your patience. But that smile… the first time I saw it, it felt familiar, and now I know why–it was
Aurora’s smile from when she was younger.”
My fists clenched involuntarily. The next question was inevitable.
“Anyway, I want to know the truth, Jaxon,” her eyes fixed directly on mine. “Can you tell
me how Aurora ended up being Wyatt’s mother?”
I took a deep breath. This story had been festering inside me for too long.
“You know I loved her since high school,” I began, and she nodded.
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The Setup Next Door
“Like I did with Sebastian,” she said softly.
“The difference is, my wolf recognized her as my mate,” I saw Thea’s eyes widen. “During that Mating Ball in senior year, her scent suddenly changed, and my wolf nearly burst out to mark her. But she chose to reject what fate had planned for us–rejected me.”
“I thought she and Sebastian never found their fated ones and they choose each other,”
Thea said.
I gave a bitter laugh. “The pain of rejection completely changed me.I started transform myself. I worked my ass off until I actually felt proud of how I looked.”
“I became unrecognizable when I went to college. I immersed myself in college life. Girls, parties, and alcohol. Life was great. Girls were all over me. I could take my pick from a very large pool. Soon, I started forgetting about Aurora. There was no point crying over a
mate who didn’t want me when I could have others.”
Thea nodded understandingly.
“Everything was fine until my grandfather had a stroke. I transferred schools to be closer
to him, which happened to be Aurora’s college. When I saw her again, she was in bad
shape, like she was dead inside. I later found out she and Sebastian had broken up. I
couldn’t believe it. Especially when I learned Sebastian had betrayed Aurora.”
“I wanted to comfort her, but I knew she wouldn’t let me near her. By coincidence, my project partner was her best friend and roommate.”
I didn’t want to be involved in Aurora’s life again. Yet when Helena was assigned as my
partner, my eyes turned to Aurora. She seemed captivated by me. As if she couldn’t take her eyes off me even if she wanted to. But even then, I was still avoiding her. I didn’t want
“I fell asleep thinking it was finally happening. Finally, she wanted something with me. Only I was wrong. When we woke up the next morning, she was disgusted with herself. I
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