Chapter 4- A Beautiful Rose For A Beautiful Girl.

My eyes widened in utmost surprise- he likes me? What did this mean? Was I overthinking things? “Excuse me?”, I could finally voice out after a few minutes of just gazing into his warm eyes,

“I said that I like you, in a different way”, his eyes never left mine and the amount of sincerity in them scared the living daylights out of me. I had never had anybody confess their feelings to me- not that anybody had ever even had feelings for me, at least, none that I knew of.

But how could Brennon like me? “We aren’t even mates”, I should know, considering the fact that my mate dumped me after sleeping with me and the ending result was the gigantic bump in my belly.

A small sigh left his lips and he turned towards me fully, taking both my hands and holding it to his hard chest, “I know that we aren’t mates, Brea and I haven’t also felt this way about anybody in the last four years since Katlyn died”, he squeezed my hand tighter in a comforting manner, “Look, I know its kind of sudden and we’ve only known each other for a very short period of time but I am not one to hide my feelings- I see something I like and I go for it. I can’t promise that being with me would be how being with your mate would be but I’m willing to try my best, to make you happy is all that I want to do and I swear, I would never do what your mate did- I will never let you go, not without a fight”,

His words brought tears to my eyes but I was still indecisive, my brain told me to be logical and accept Brennon but my heart was nagging to me, telling me that I had a mate who was supposed to be my world but unfortunately, he wasn’t. Jax was my undoing, he had ruined me and had scarred my very existence, could letting myself fall for another male heal that emptiness within me? Could it fill that barren hole in my chest?

“I don’t know, Brennon, if I agree to this, I would feel as though I’m just using you to heal”, I decided to be honest with him,

He inched closer to me on the bench, “I admire your honesty Brea, I really do but you know what? If this helps you heal, I am ten times more willing to go through with it”, my heart skipped a beat, did people like Brennon actually exist or was he the only one gifted with this kind of heart? “What do you say, Brea?”, he gave me that show stopping smile that could have any girl swooning, but at that point, it made me extremely nervous.

Why was a beautifully sculptured male like Brennon interested in me? Not just why but how! I mean, I was me- Brea, an omega, a girl who had barely existed until now, what on earth did he see in me? I broke eye contact with him and retracted my hands, placing them on my lap and fiddling with them, “Can I please have sometime to think about it?”, was accepting going to be a good choice for me to make? I needed to be clear on so many things first before I jumped into this.

His smile wavered a little and his lips formed a tight line, “Sure”, he placed a smile back on his face, “You have all the time in the world to think about it”, I nodded and gave him a small smile, happy that he wasn’t forcing me into this.

Comfortable silence aired between us for a few minutes until Brennon stood up and reached out for me to hold on to his hand, I gave him a skeptical look, “Where are we going?”, I thought we were going to spend more time in the park before seeing the doctor,

“I want to show you something”, he smiled, bringing his hand closer to my face and urging me to hold on to it. I did just that and he helped me rise to my feet, his face flashed with excitement as he moved us towards the tree line at the end of the park, “I’m sorry if I’m acting eager, I’ve just never shown anyone this before”, he picked up his speed, literally dragging me behind him as my short legs and heavy body could not keep up with him,

“And you want to show me?”, I said, a little bit out of breath, he stopped in his tracks and turned to me, worry and guilt laced in his eyes,

“Goddess, Brea, I am so sorry and inconsiderate. I shouldn’t have let my excitement get the best of me”, he bit his lower lip nervously and ran a hand through his messy blond hair,

“It’s fine”, I shrugged, “You don’t have to be sorry for everything and its okay to be excited, plus, I am not a china doll”, I pouted. Amusement flashed in his face and he stepped closer to me, hooking one of his arms at the crook of my knee and the other on my waist. I gasped in surprise as I felt my feet being lifted off the ground,

“You are my china doll”, he smirked and I could not hold back the cringe that took over my face,

“That was so cheesy”, I giggled, enjoying the warmth he emitted from his body and snuggling up closer to him, I could actually get used to this- not having to walk in my heavy state, “Am I not too heavy, though?”,

“Too heavy?”, he scoffed, “I am an Alpha Brea, you are as light as a feather to me”, for the slightest second, I had once again forgotten that my knight in shining armor was an in fact an Alpha just like my mate but a thousand times different, a thousand times better.

We came to a stop at a cliff with a beautiful waterfall facing it, my breath hitched, “This is beautiful”, he put me down before I asked but made sure to intertwine our fingers, there were colorful butterflies and several other unique insects flying around and going on with their day, the grass was extremely green- I had never seen anything greener and the flowers were absolutely breathtaking, “How did you find this place?”, I asked as I walked towards a rose bush.

I was going to bend to pick one up when he quickly held me back, “I’ll do it”, a blush coated my cheeks as he picked the rose up and handed it over to me and said, “A beautiful rose for a beautiful girl”, he just called me beautiful- no one had ever called me that before. I lifted the rose up to my nose and took a good whiff, having wanted to smell a rose for a very long time,

“This smells absolutely wonderful, Brennon, thank you”, he took the flower from my hand and placed it in my hair, just above my earlobe,

“Absolutely gorgeous”, my face instantly blushed red at his overwhelming appraisal, his smooth words made me feel warm inside, a thousand butterflies fluttered in the pit of my stomach making me feel giddy- the feeling did not last long though as I felt a sharp pain shoot through my body.

A scream left my lips as I tumbled to the ground, Brennon’s arms not fast enough to catch me, “It’s happening again”, I breathed out, “Please, Brennon, make it stop! It hurts too much”, at this point, I was convinced that Jax was planning on killing me, “Please, Brennon, help me”, I felt him lift me into his arms and I could tell that he was running when I felt the cold breeze slap my face severely. Black dots were clouding my vision but I didn’t want to pass out, not now, not before I made up my mind that Jax was never going to come back to me, not before I told Brennon, “Yes, I will be with you”.