Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

387-When Your Mate Is Heartless
I was shivering when I raised my hands and instantly put them down, even when he was right in my face now.
He raised his claw to attack me, and that's when I fell behind out of fear. He was grunting when he crawled on top of me.
It was too dark on the road. Since the house was an abandoned one and was known to be a witch's house, there was no
population even for miles around.
He let out a howl before launching an attack. As he raised his hand to hit me, the world seemed to have gone numb. Nobody
said a word. We both stared into each other’s eyes silently. I noticed how red his eyes were.
He was a Lycan, a humanoid wolf. His body was big and broad.
He stared at me in silence for a few minutes, even before he jumped off me and sprinted away. I couldn't see Thiago's face, but I
felt him in his eyes.
I stayed on the road, even minutes later.
'I knew he was around,' Nia sounded much happier when gushing over her ability to sense him in the surroundings.
'I wonder what made him come back,’ she proceeded to talk while I got on my feet to get back to the mission at hand.
‘I know I should have been happy to see him around, but the fact that he had turn—ed into a full lycan just shattered my heart,’ I
whimpered when trying to talk. Tears blurred my vision as I snorted and walked on the empty road. I was sobbing so loudly for at
least five minutes that I forgot I had to be somewhere.
A monstrous howl in the distance shook me awake. I cleared the tears with the back of my hand and bolted back to the
academy. They must still be looking for me. The sad part was that I didn't get to find any spell books that could help us. What
were we going to do now?
While running back into the academy again, I was welcomed by a horrifying sight. Many of our students have been left wounded
while the others were trying their best to survive.
The loud music had caused them severe headaches. Seeing me enter the academy brought smiles to their faces. I felt guilty for
returning empty-handed.

After making it to the floor where Corbin and Lazio were, I let out a sigh to see them alive and kicking.
"Enya! you are back!" Lazio yelled, rushing over in my direction and scanning my hands.
"You didn't bring any spell books," he asked, looking anxious.
"There were none," I whispered, lowering my face in guilt.
"What? How are you going to fight them then?" He almost seemed to be scolding me. He stepped back and grasped his hair in
his fist, walking back and forth.
"What is going on there?" I asked him, looking at the she-wolf they were trying to drag into a room.
"The fear and noise are making them go crazy. Her mind was so distracted that when she tried to transition, she couldn't reach
her wolf. It irked her to the point that she decided to run into walls. Things are going downhill pretty quickly. If we don't find a
solution soon, it will be all of us banging our heads against the wall." Lazio explained her condition in a sad tone.
I couldn't even look at her. The way she was howling and struggling to break free from Corbin's grasp to harm herself was
heartbreaking.
"I saw him," I whispered, getting Lazio's attention.
"What? saw who?" he asked, hunching over to look at my face even more clearly.
"Thiago!" I said his name under my breath.
"Really? Where?" The shine in Lazio's eyes reminded me of their friendship. They used to be so close before everything went
south.
"He has transformed into a full Lycan," I announced, wearing a brave face even when I was dying inside. This night was not
supposed to be for this kind of news. I lost most of my confidence after seeing him.
"Oh, shit!" Lazio sighed, "did he attack you?" He then placed his hands on his waist and watched my face with full attention.
"That's the thing; he didn't. Even when he could, he just didn’t," I murmured, and tears sprung down my eyes.

"Why did he come back then? Isn't it weird how he and the witches arrived at the same time?" Lazio continued to express
curiosity, as Thiago would have never returned after the transition. We lost him. This new him was nothing like him. It was Theo
who wouldn't care about anyone, so why did he return? Why not attack me?
"He left because he found out about my mother being the witch who cursed him. When he heard me talk about sacrificing the
witch, he ran away. The fear of me sacrificing myself made him run away. Now! I don't know why his lycan is back," I said as I
missed Thiago deeply.
The fact that he ran away because he would rather suffer than watch me suffer reminded me why he always had a special place
in my heart.
"Hm! He is lucky that you still talk about him with so much love and affection. I guess that is the secret of love. Lose them, and
you will know their worth," Lazio's little scoff confused me. He wasn't suggesting that I don't show love to him, was he?
"I have shown love to you, Lazio. It is just I don't feel the same from you anymore," I retorted when felt like being questioned over
my love for him.
It was indeed true that my feelings changed for him, but it was because of his own behavior. There are times when you don't love
someone too much. The intensity of love fluctuates with the way they treat you.
"That is not important right now," was his response, which made me shake my head at him in disbelief.