Once My Mate, Always My Mate novel Chapter 11

Aiden's POV

Sabrina and everyone else in this room may not know this... I can also decide not to tell them but to me, I have been gone a very long time or maybe not at all. There is no time to where I have been. A minute felt like an hour and an hour felt like a minute depending on what I was doing at the time.

When it came to accepting my part in hurting people, I spent some time taking my time saying it to myself, and to be honest, I don't even feel like I have perfected myself enough to deserve Sabrina.

I acted out of pure malice. Enraged with grief, I turned it into revenge and I hurt myself in the end. Did I shoot myself in the foot just to appease my appearance? My ego?

I stand here, looking at the man that everyone in this room respects. I had that once upon a time... The people in this room once held me in higher regard and convinced Sabrina to choose me. I don't exactly know when I went from being selfless to selfish or if my new love with Sabrina had me pretending to be some type of angel when I am the devil.

It came pretty easy to me... Acting out against Sabrina and her family. Having to watch my actions instead of living them had me look at life a little differently. To stand here, before all of these people was gutting. Sabrina deserved way more than me and this earthling combined. Yes, he was a better man than me and he just proved it now but even he knows it... He knows that there is not a man alive that deserves her love. She is love herself...

Grants life and decides death. Protects and empowers...

Who are we when we stand next to her? A little reminder I am given as I feel her breath at the back of my neck. Her heart was calm considering the rejection she was gifted with for giving a man the sort of power many kill for. Her heart was rather calm for someone who was not expecting my quick return... But that was Sabrina.

One can never really say they know her... Even her sister is baffled once or twice at times but we stay because we are drawn to her. The lack of her presence brings forth a hole one can never truly fill. Maybe it is the power that resides within her or just her mere presence... Whatever it is, we all want more of it... more of her.

"I agree. I hold you, Aiden in the same box as I have placed Maximus. He may be my nephews' daddy but he is an enemy to me. For the rest of my life, I will hate him and I will you just the same... You are Sabrina's mate and that guarantees your life but hurt her again and I will ask Hunter to allow me and my man a taste of your blood." Josey says and then Anthony jumps in with an equal threat.

Yes, minutes went by as I listened to Sabrina's family tell me how a shit mate I was and that even though I went through dark valleys to become a better man, they would always hold a grudge against me but who could blame them? That is the way of the wolf. I guess being mated to Sabrina saves my life but I have got to say...

Something feels oddly different with the mate bond between Sabrina and me.

I am not quite sure what it means if Sabrina herself can sense it and if things will ever go back to how they were before my evil crusade. All I know is that Sabrina was still the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life... She just did not feel like she was mine.