Not Ready For My Mate novel Chapter 74

We need to keep our feelings locked up from now on.

Theo/Gage's POV

It's been a couple days since we've been home, to which Gage and I were very thankful for. After packing all of Izzy's things, which was not a lot by the way, we went for some lunch. Mother and Father were supposed to go with but she apparently felt 'ill', ill our ass. She has this new thing, that started rather quickly, where she is trying to set us up with Izzy. It's ridiculous, don't get us wrong, Izzy's a very beautiful, intelligent, strong woman but we can't have any feelings for her.

Even if she does have those soft doe eyes, that makes her look so innocent, and her soft hair that shines-what am I saying! Bad Theo! Stay away from Izzy!

Anyways so we went to lunch by ourselves, or so we thought.

Flashback

"So how you feeling?" We ask her as the waiter leads us to the table. She seems highly uncomfortable, but is trying to play it cool. We sit down and the waiter takes our drink orders, then leaves us alone.

"Um...I'm alright, better than usual." She says not looking directly at us. We understand that this probably hard for her, having to leave your childhood behind you, granted she was abused here. We knew how she felt. Sure we weren't abused by Steven and his family, but we left them. We killed them.

That stays with us all the time. We're sure people would say it wasn't our fault, it was theirs, but we knew that if we weren't with them they'd still be alive. We miss them so much.

"That's good, and don't worry about meeting anyone new. Everyone back home is really nice and welcoming." She smiles softly at us and we can't help but look at her, she's so beautiful. We've never had feelings for someone, mainly cause we wanted to wait for our mate but...

"Could you tell me about them?" She suddenly asks, snapping us out of our sad thoughts. "Who?"

"Your family? Could you tell me about them?" We smiled and began to explain each and everyone of them. Lord have mercy on our soul if mom tells Callie about me liking Izzy. That is something I don't look forward to.

"Izzy you don't have to." We say, trying to convince her to not even bother. She only shakes her head and grabs our hand. We immediately feel our heart beat slightly faster from the close contact, but keep our facial expression blank

"But Theo stays with us." She says sternly. We smile inside our head that she still wants us to be around her. We look over at Beau with a smug smile. He looks annoyed but says nothing. We all sit down again, with Beau across from us.

"Alright talk." She says while still eating. Its comical with how much, her just eating, annoys him. His fists clench tightly as his jaw ticks. "Oh I'm enjoying this so much." I say in our heads, loving this.

"Izzy, I-I want to apologize. I was supposed to be your best friend, but I abandoned you. I'm so sorry I hurt you in the worst possible ways. But Izzy, please, please stay. Please don't leave us, don't leave me. I'll change, I'll be who I use to be. No more-"

"Beau, I'm going to stop you right there. I may have forgiven you, and helped you keep your title but I'm not staying. There is nothing you can say to change that Beau. You hurt me, the worst ways anyone could imagine. And what's worse is that I know you'll never change. That was you, the Beau I knew is gone, and I don't think he's coming back." As she speaks to him, you can see pain and heartbreak behind his eyes. It almost makes us feel sorry for him.