The Dark Thrall Mating Olivia

Chapter Sixty-Four

Swiping my thumb over the screen, I lifted the phone to my ear. Not trusting myself to say anything to her.

"Nick." She sobbed on the other end of the line and I cringed, wondering why she would be calling me crying like this.

"Chelsea." I growled, rolling my head to the side. My teeth lengthened with the need to taste her blood. To hurt her as she had hurt us.

"Oh Nicki, this has been the worst day. Can you, can you come home?"

Nicki.

Just the way that she said that nickname made my skin crawl. It was one of the things that she used to do that I hated.

"Home?" I asked. What could she mean? When we had split up, I had left our apartment on campus, not wanting to stay there with her and her mate.

"Nicki, everything is a mess. It's all so screwed up." Chelsea cried gut-wrenching sobs that in the past would have had me dropping everything to run to her.

I still didn't say anything to her, not trusting myself to say anything. My wolf was snarling and growling in my head, demanding that we make her pay.

"My mate. He, he," She hiccoughed and let out another wail. "Nicki. My mate cheated on me." "I'm sorry, Chelsea." I said, struggling to keep my tone even. Her mate had cheated. It wasn't something I wanted another person to go through. I had heard that the mate who was being cheated on could feel it when it happened. A part of me wanted her to hurt. It wasn't my business why he had cheated on her, but it made me wonder why? Why had her mate cheated? Was the goddess paying her back for what she had done to Livie and me?noveldrama

"Please come home, Nicki. I, I need you. H, he didn't I, lo, love me I, li, like you do." Her words were fractured by her crying. Before I had known what she did, I probably would have given into her. I would have gone running back to the apartment that we had shared on campus and try to pick up the pieces of our broken relationship.

"Chelsea, why did you do it?" I asked, unable to hold back the growl that slipped past my lips. "D, do what, Nicki?" She asked, and I could picture the look on her face right now. How her cheeks would be splotchy and red from crying. Her red hair messy from her tugging at the strands the way she did when she was stressed.

"You hurt my mate."

"Wh, what are you t, ta, talking about?" Her cries tapered off and she sucked in a breath.

"You texted her to take care of the pregnancy, then you deleted the text, and blocked her number." I said, my voice flat and lacking the emotions that I had once felt for her. "Nicki-" She whispered.

"Why did you do it? I was going to stay with you. What did you gain by trying to hide that she was pregnant, by lying to me?"

"No, you weren't." She said, her voice rising with each word. "After you fucked her, you changed and I knew that you were going to leave me. You changed. I had to keep you. Nicki, you may not have psychically left me, but I knew that you were going to leave me."

"How, how did I change?" Anger burned through me. "I rejected her for you."

"It didn't matter if you rejected her. When you came back to me, everything about you changed. The way you looked at me. The way you talked to me. How you touched me it was like you wished that it was her and I couldn't let you go, Nick. You are mine." Chelsea's voice was so loud now as she yelled into the phone. Gone were the tears that she'd had when she first called me. Now all that was left was a burning rage that I could almost feel. "You've always been mine and I wasn't going to let you leave me alone."

How could I have loved Chelsea so much? How had I not seen her for what she was?

"Why didn't you tell me when you found your mate?"

"Because even though I found him, you are still mine, Nicki. You'll always be mine, just like I'll always be yours." Her words were growing softer, but it did nothing to soothe the pain of what she had done to me. To Olivia. To my daughter.

"I will never be yours. I don't want you, Chelsea-" I paused, my hands shaking as I tried to keep my wolf from taking over. "Stay away from me and if I ever hear you so much as come near Olivia..." I let the threat hang in the air.

"You're really not going to come home, Nick?" She asked and all I could do was shake my head. How could she think that I would want anything to do with her now?

"No, you lied to me. You knew she was pregnant and you hid that from me. You blocked her

from being able to reach out to me." I dragged a hand through my hair, closing my eyes. "You've cost me so much, I can't forget that. I can't forgive that."

"Nick, please. I'm sor-" She started to say, but I pulled the cell phone away. Swiping my thumb over the screen, to end the call.

I didn't want to talk to her. She would do what she had always done and make excuses for her behavior. My judgment wasn't clouded by my love for her anymore. I would never forget the pain that she had caused Livie and Everly. It was my responsibility to fix what she had done to them and I was going to do everything that I could to make it right.

Turning off my phone, I tossed it onto the bed. I needed to shift again and run or I was going to do something that I would regret. I hoped that it would clear my mind and help me focus on what I should do next. I needed to talk to Olivia and I was worried that I would mess that up if I went over there now.