Chapter 34 Cleo

I needed some time to myself. Time to process everything in peace. So why Landon felt the need to come and join me I do not know. My heart already felt like it was shattered with having to cope with mourning the loss of my Grandpa, but to see the look of what was close to disgust upon his face when he realized I was his mate, felt like Landon had stomped upon the pieces of my heart and damaged them forever. Like he didn’t care in the slightest. It was an added pain I did not need right now. And it was not something my family needed either. My Dad and my brothers would hit the roof if they were to realize my fated mate did not want me...
“Cleo.” Landon whispered from his space next to me, bringing my attention back to him. Surely he should have got the message I did not want to speak to him from the fact I had not acknowledged him? That I had looked away.
I was still trying hard to compose myself from the shock of his touch. The effects of the matebond were so much more than I had ever expected. Like a current pulsing through me at that slightest of touches. Awakening something within me. Something I wish I could send away again or something that was dead, because I know this dick does not want me. Whatever had happened, I wish I could turn back time so that it never occurred. Or turned back the clock so that I had stayed in the safety of my own pack. Oblivious to all of this mess…