Alpha Daddy novel Chapter 58

"What changed?"

"You did." He blurted his eyes widening as the words fell from his lips.

"Me. What does this have to do with me?" I asked frowning at him.

"Everything! Fuck Ariana you're so clueless! So fucking clueless!" He shouted making me cringe away from him. His eyes flashing black in anger.

"Jacob calm yourself!" I shouted my fingers curling into a fist.

I was angry at him for losing his humanity and falling into his wolfs anger. For shouting and letting the patrols know he was in the territory. For changing in a matter of weeks. And for following Sarah like a lost puppy.

But my anger began to twist back to myself. I had pushed him away. I began to lose myself to myself.

"No! You're just so difficult! I love you Ariana Rosette Belle!" He shouted. His hands pulling on his non existent hair.

" I have loved you most of my life! I fell for you when you cared for me when my mom died. The day you kissed my cheek and said you loved me! I have been there for you when you first transformed. When you first broke your hand.... When you were bullied." My eyes began to tear as his voice lowered to a hushed whisper.

"When you met your mate and broke my heart. When you left... And then came back only to break all of me." He whispered brokenly. His eyes briefly meeting my own.

I opened my mouth to speak. To say something,

Anything.

But I couldn't.

I was shocked.

I never knew. I never thought of him like that.

I never thought he did. He was the confident loving goofy guy that every girl liked.

While I was the Bestfriend.

"Jake I ..." I stuttered staring wide eyed at him. He stood frozen to his spot. With a crumpled defeated look on his face.

"You don't feel the same? Yeah I got that when Caleb managed to get you in bed again." He sneered throwing a rock into the lake.

My cheeks began to heat in embarrassment. "How-do I know?" He interrupted as he turned and roughly walked up to me until we were chest to chest.

"I was in the pack house that day. I could hear everything. Hell, I'm sure everybody did."

"Stop... Jake I'm sorry. I never thought you would. That you ever saw me like that." I whispered my eyes trailing down to stare at the rocky floor.

"Wasnt it obvious when I helped you leave our soon to be alpha. When I visited you three times a year. Or how about the time we kissed." Shaking his head he leaned down to stare straight into my eyes.

"That kiss was my heaven and my hell Ariana." He murmured his eyes trailing down to my quivering lips.

I could see what he was thinking and my body screamed for me to push him away. My wolf wanted to make him submit for even thinking he could touch us when we had out mate.

My lips burned, my cold finger tips kept running over my bottom lip as I walked back to the pack house.

My feet stumbling over rocks and branches on the ground.

And my mind kept running back to that kiss. The feeling it held.

Out of all the things I could feel through it, love was the most prominent. And it scared me.

'Don't be an idiot Ariana. We have our mate who we love.'

I know I do love Caleb.

I replied to my wolf calming her from her outburst.

'So why are you thinking of that pathetic lower class dog.' She growled.

Anger swelled in my chest as she talked ill of Jake. No matter what I knew Jacob, and I knew he was better than half the Alphas out there.

He's a beta for goodness sake!

Don't Rose.

I growled back quickening my steps like if I could outrun my mind, my wolf, and my feelings.