novelxo Chapter 3- Say It A gain
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 have spent some time in a realm I don't know... surrounded by my past self as I watch my actions play right in front of me..." I say to the family that probably still hates me. Yes, I guess I decided to come out with it and share my experiences.
"I can tell everyone one of you that it was a very unpleasant experience and I can never undo what I have put you all through but I sort of feel your pain and probably to a greater extent being that I was the cause of your pain and it was brutal having to watch myself act like a complete jackass in front of my mate and her family,” I say but Hunter jumps in.
"Boy, no apology necessary. The one person you seem to have hurt is Sabrina. Anthony will outlive you and whatever you tried to do to him, he can't hold it against you seeing that he cannot die. However, you both lost something very important and as a father, that is not something you take very lightly. We don't need any of your apologies or promises but we expect you to uphold every promise you make to my daughter or I will kill you myself. Sabrina will cry for you but it seems she has a shoulder to cry on when the time comes to mourn you." Hunter tells me and I swallow every bit of that because this man is a man of a few words and he said quite the mouthful to me.
Hunter is the kind of guy that carries out his threats. Who will challenge him? Surely not I... The only ones I can defeat in this room are earthlings and the elders that just left. I could challenge Josey but my manhood has suffered enough self-damage after I tried to kill a child. "Father..." Sabrina calls her dad out.
"Your father is right, Sabrina. Aiden here has wronged you and we were all granted front seats to the shattered pieces that were your life and he was not man enough to help you pick up the pieces of the damage he had caused, instead, he continued and divided the entire realm. If anything, I would kill him in his sleep if he was not your mate.” Kimberely says to her daughter, Sabrina.
“ 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.