Chapter 204 Tatum's wolf howls in pain as the bond snaps on his end and he almost falls over.
He has heard stories about the pain of rejection and the mate bond snapping but he never knew it was this intense.
The pain is greater than anything he has ever felt in his life before, the pain he felt from drinking concentrated wolfsbane poison that day is nothing compared to this......that pain was merely physical.
He can feel this pain on all levels, his body, his spirit, his soul, his wolf, everything fucking thing that makes him Tatum is drowned in it, his heart feels like it is being seared over furnance, at the stbeing poked by red hot spears.
His entire body shudders with a strong and unbearable pain, from his head, through his spine to his toes but he keeps his face stoic, his gaze calm, not showing any iota of the pain and agony that is flooding every cell, every nerve, every fibre of his being. "You can leave," he says calmly.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"Accept it," Leila says in a curt tone, watching him visibly struggle to rein in the pain.
Accept it? If he does that, Leila is going to feel this exact spain when the bond snaps on her end and he doesn't want her to experience any kind of pain whatsoever, not ever again.
He cannot accept it, he will try to save her this pain but until he accepts it, his wolf is going to keep yearning for her and he will remain trapped, feeling this soul crushing pain, a sacrifice he is willing to make for her sake even if it is a selfish one. "I'll accept it when we finalise the divorce," he says coldly, "now leave." "Tatum, acce-" "I said leave!" He yells at her, his aura blazing hard and Leila grits her teeth, storming out of his office.
He staggers to the bar with rage in his steps as Leila slams the door to his office shut, grabbing the bottle of whiskey and he chugs it halfway down but it is useless, it does nothing to ease his pain.
His chest clenches tighter and tighter, the pain grows stronger and his vision goes from clear to blur to clear and he throws the bottle of whiskey into the bar, smashing several bottles but the rage he feels does not subside, his pain does not dissipate. He grabs the wooden counter holding the drinks and pulls it off the wall, yelling as he smashes it into the ground.
This was not supposed to happen.
This is not what he fucking had in mind.
He did not know she was his mate then but the plan has always been to lure her back and claim her, to get another chance to love her right, not this, not this.....
He tried to lure her back by engaging Carmela but that didn't work, she's not even jealous, he fed Carmela and her father with false evidence for them to accuse Liana so Leila could cback with his intention always being to put Trent behind bars after he got the information of Alpha Recon from Garethand supplied it to Kelvin discreetly but that still did nothing.
Coming clean with her and offering her a chance to punish Carmela in any way that she wants still did not work, it would seem that he is the real enemy in her eyes and she has really given up on him.
To her, he probably is a lost cause with no way to redemption.
He walks over to the couch and sinks into it, his eyes holding pain and regret like a man who has lost everything and he truly has.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmWhat is life without Leila in it? Meaningless, hopeless, useless.
He needs her.
He can never accept her rejection properly, if the price he has to pay is to live with this gruespain Clive constantly, then he will, gladly. He would rather yearn for her knowing she cannot be his than accept she will never be his.
He thought he saved her but the
truth is, it was Leila who saved him, it was her constant nagging that om alarmed him and made him look into things for himself, it was her who saved him from living a life of deceit with that snake, Carmela.
Even when Leila knew Carmela could be his mate, she didn't push him away, her love for him remained, she accepted him and was willing to stand against the prophecy for him, she did everything she could to love him and he failed her. He is a failure, he could not even protect the woman he loves properly. Does he even deserve her after everything he has done?