Filed To Story: Fated is Overrated Novel Free by Brenda Minnaard
As the space is so restricted, Zeke’s leg brushes against my own and I feel a blast of electric sparks coursing through me. Whether I dislike them or not, the sparks coming from the mate bond are absolutely tantalizing. I could see why those who fell in love with their fated mates would say it’s the best feeling in the world. If you are in love with the person, I can imagine those sparks intensifying every touch would drive one insane. As my bad luck would have it – Zane also brushes my leg with his, as he is moving into his seat. Did they order the smallest limo possible to ensure I would be glued to them or something? Zane’s brush ignites the same sparks, and the feeling of the sparks on both my legs is overwhelming. Despite my mind objecting profusely, my body reacts instantly and I can feel my nipples hardening, and my breath is getting labored. Stupid mate bond! I try to move my legs away from them, but they have me pretty much caged in. I clear my throat, hoping my voice doesn’t betray me like my body has, and say “ahem…. Do you mind giving me some personal space?”. Zane just grins at me while Zeke replies “sorry kitten, the limo is not as spacious unfortunately, you will have to bear with us”. Both of them are grinning like Cheshire cats and I know they have done this on purpose. I roll my eyes at them and reply “I know you did this on purpose. It’s not working”. And we continue the ride in silence.
The ride seems to go on for forever, or maybe that’s just because I am highly uncomfortable with the tingles running up my legs. I hate this stupid mate bond and what it does to your body without your consent. I am even physically a little aroused just from our legs touching, but I hate admitting that because this isn’t what I want. I try to focus on the scenery outside, and a lot of the landscape reminds me of the lands I passed when coming here in the first place. Are they taking me back to the Royal Kingdom?! All of a sudden I panic a little bit, what if they try to keep me there by force? Or what if this was all a ploy to get me back and throw me in the dungeons? “Where are you taking me?” I manage to speak up in a steady voice. Zane replies “it’s a surprise” and that answer doesn’t sit well with me at all. The panic is either apparent on my face, or they can feel it through the bond or some sh*t, because Zeke quickly adds “don’t worry. Our intentions are good Lola I promise, nothing will be happening to you. And it’s not as if we could force you to do anything you don’t want, you’d hand us our *sses”. “Yeah, well, sorry to burst your bubble, but your promise doesn’t mean sh*t to me. And everyone has their weaknesses” I grumble. Their smiles falter for a minute but then those annoying grins are back on their faces again. It’s like nothing I say gets to them anymore, while in the past I didn’t even have to speak, I merely had to be present to annoy them. And it irks me. It irks me how they can only be nice now they had found out I am their mate. I hate people who aren’t genuinely kind, but only because they want to get something out of it.
Lola POV
The total opposite of that being Nick. Even when he didn’t know me and didn’t want anything from me (or at least didn’t act on it), he stuck up for me. He didn’t care if I didn’t have anything. He didn’t care I was an unwanted soul. He helped me without getting anything out of it himself. I smile thinking about Nick, as I am looking out the window, lost in thoughts. Zeke had to break my bubble of course, but this will be a perfect opportunity to piss them off and let them know where I stand once again. “What are you smiling about?” he asks gently. “My boyfriend, actually” I smile brightly. “And how he has been there for me without wanting anything in return. Unlike everyone else, who can only be nice once they want something from you” I grin, knowing this is going to piss them off profusely. Right on cue, Zeke and Zane’s eyes darken, and I can’t help but grin even wider and stare outside again with the grin still plastered on my face. They don’t reply, but I feel them shifting in their seats a bit and their legs are making even more contact with mine now. I don’t know whether they are doing that to try and change my mind or to calm themselves down at this point, but either way it isn’t working. After some more awkward silence and having passed the royal borders, we reach the lake. The lake where it all went down – the lake that was my favorite place here. It’s beautiful as ever, but it brings back a bad taste for me now. It isn’t all bad memories though, this is also the place I first got Justice. And I wouldn’t trade that for anything in the world. ‘Nahwwwww you are going to make me cry!’ she jokes in my head. I just smile at her, I am so happy to have Liberty and Justice, they are amazing.
We step out of the car and walk towards the lake, where I see a full picnic has been prepared close to the lake. A big plaid has been laid out, and I see a great variety of foods stalled out. If I ignore the fact that I am here with my unwanted mates, it really does look idyllic and cute, and like some thought has been put into it.
Zeke POV
The car ride back to the lake was tense to say the least, but it was to be expected after everything we had done and it being 2 years since she fled from us. 2 agonizing years of not knowing where she was or what her life was like, only feeling the betrayal pains every once in a while. We learned by the amounts of pain that she hadn’t gone all the way, which gave us the smallest bit of hope. And by the frequency of them it’s hard to believe she has a boyfriend as she claims. Sometimes there would be months in between the pains, which isn’t something you would have with a partner. I think she is rubbing it in our face to piss us off and getting us to accept the rejection, but that isn’t happening. Zane and I have had 2 years to think about how completely, utterly stupid we have been. Our little sister had been killed in a rogue attack years ago, and we let our hatred for rogues cloud our judgment completely. We now see how unfair it was of us. She was only recently a rogue and not by any fault of her own even. She has been dealt a sh*tty hand in life thus far according to the snippets we have heard about her life up until now. We know it’s going to be a long – if not impossible – road ahead of us, but we won’t stop trying to mend our wrongs. The whole ordeal has opened up our eyes and we have really started looking at all our flaws, which in hindsight, were way too many for future Kings. We were stuck up, arrogant *ssholes. We had a lot of talks with our mother about everything and she has been incremental in helping us right our wrongs. We had to tell her about Lola being our mate, and all the ugly parts that had happened – complete honesty – otherwise she wouldn’t agree to help us. She was really fond of Lola and was angry enough with us as it was when she vanished.
I have to admit the way she smiles and talks about her supposed boyfriend pisses me off profusely, and I nearly lost control of Lex who wanted to shift and rip the f*cker to shreds. But we can’t. She already hates us, and killing the only person she seems to care about in her life wouldn’t make that any better, it would destroy things beyond repair. In fact, seeing what she was capable of and not to mention her Royal ice dragon, I would be a little fearful for myself as well. I’m curious what her powers are and if she has been able to develop them in the last years, but that’s not a topic I will breach anytime soon. First I want us to get to know each other, and I want her to know how genuinely sorry we are and the stupid reasons we thought we had for hating her. As she is getting out of the car she looks around the lake, taking in the scenery. Her eyes then land on the picnic set up in front of her and I can’t decipher her emotions. We were doubting bringing her here, as this lake has a bad memory to it for all of us. But then again, it was her favorite spot when she was here and we would like to replace the bad memories with good ones. Hopefully, she will give us a chance to do just that.
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