Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

358-An Alpha Cannot Control Me
The three days felt like living in hell. Every time we friends were together, I would see Maynard staring at me without breaking eye contact.
I was worried Christina or Lazio will notice it and think something was up.
Finally, the day of the mating ceremony arrived. I was excited to head out of there and go back to the academy. Lazio had worn a grey
suit, while Maynard wore a black suit. Christina looked extremely gorgeous in her white wedding gown. She had selected a peach dress
for me as her bride's maid.
‘I hope everything goes by nicely,' I whispered to Nia before walking down the aisle with the bouquet in my hands. Maynard had walked to
the gazebo before us. He was smiling and taking greetings until his eyes landed on me.
We hadn't been able to talk because our last conversation was so awkward. It was then that I saw him smile at me. I had to smile back
because, well, it was his wedding and we had some wonderful memories together.
He kept staring at me even when I reached him and stood on the spot where Christina was supposed to stand a step ahead, facing him.
I tried looking around, but his stare was so intense that I could not turn away from him. It was then that I saw Christina walking down the
aisle with Lazio. I turned to Maynard, but his eyes were still stuck on me.
I had to grab my phone and text him to get his attention back to his mate and Luna.
Me: She is walking down the aisle and probably waiting for your reaction.
I saw him read my text and then look over at her.
He finally started paying attention to her, and the ceremony began. Lazio stood beside me as the two exchanged vows.
Usually, when mates see something so romantic, they want to experience it too. I don't know what Lazio was feeling, but I
couldn't get my mind off of Thiago.
'He would look so good in a black suit. Waiting for us here with a smirk on his lips and his behavior, eyes staring at us as we
walked down the aisle,' I told Nia, feeling goosebumps as I thought of my mating ceremony with Thiago.
"Hey!" Lazio elbowing me, woke me up. I shook my head and started clapping to accompany him.

Christina and Maynard finally tied the knot. I didn't want to stick around and ruin their night, so I wanted to head back to the
academy.
Lazio was reluctant because he wanted to stay, but then when he heard I was ready to leave and to call myself an Uber, he got
on board with the plan.
"The preparations were all last time, but the wedding turned out so good," Lazio mumbled, driving the car while I had my head
resting peacefully. And turned to the other side to look outside the window from the passenger seat.
I was stuck in some other world.
I couldn't help but think about Thiago.
"Yeah!" I answered absentmindedly. Nothing seemed to be moving in my life anymore, not even this moving car.
"Did you notice how the pack members were looking at me?" I uttered under my breath, my eyes following the road we were
leaving behind.
"I mean, obviously." Lazio answered, "They have found out about your mother. They are bound to react. It is not a small thing to
watch someone being so many alpha mates whose mother—," he paused only so that he can give his head a jerk and scoff.
"Hm! No, I get it. But it is not like I did something wrong. I was barely 6 at that time when she was doing all that." I stated that, but
he didn't comment on that. We stayed silent for a few seconds before he cleared his throat and started talking again.
"I think you shouldn't make it about yourself. This matter is very sensitive, and many people have suffered from it. It is not very
thoughtful of you to keep talking about yourself only." He finished talking, and I couldn't come up with a response for a hot
minute.
It took me some time to even process his words. What he was trying to say was that I was making it about myself by even
wondering why people were giving me hateful glares.
"Lazio! you are my mate. I am supposed to share my worries with you. I am not going around fighting people for glaring at me. But I can
share what is in my heart with you, or I can't do that either anymore?" I complained, turning in my seat to face him and watching him roll
his eyes at me.

"I am sorry! What is this attitude for?" I couldn't help myself but ask him, finally. He had been giving me shit over something my mother
did.
"Nothing, okay? Would you let it go? I am driving, let’s not argue," he said, raising his voice and putting pressure on the steering wheel
until he finally remembered he was driving.
"Fine. Then stop the fucking car so that we can talk about this," I commanded as I placed my hand on the door, ready to leave.
"Don't be stubborn. We are in the middle of nowhere, and it's so dark outside. Sit down, we will talk when we are in the academy," he
tightened his grip on the steering wheel and yelled at me. I felt odd listening to him.
It wasn't even like he was concerned about our safety; he was just trying to control me.
"Lazio! I said, fucking stop." I stood my ground just so that he knows he cannot force me into doing something just for the sake of showing
his power and control over me.
"If you don't stop now, I will stop the car," I warned him, and he stopped with so much force that if I didn’t have the seatbelt on, I would
have crashed on the windshield.
"This is what you wanted to do? Use your power over me? It's always just you trying to prove how you are bigger and better than an
Alpha, isn’t it?" He started yelling at me, talking about something I never did.
It wasn't my fault that I wasn't a regular omega that an alpha could control.