Chapter 358


    358-An Alpha Cannot Control Me


    The three days felt like living in hell. Every time we friends were together, I would see


    Maynard staring at me without breaking eye contact. I was worried Christina or Lazio


    will notice it and think something was up.


    Finally, the day of the mating ceremony arrived. I was excited to head out of there and


    go back to the academy. Lazio had worn a grey suit, while Maynard wore a ck suit.


    Christina looked extremely gorgeous in her white wedding gown. She had selected a


    peach dress for me as her bride’s maid.


    ‘I hope everything goes by nicely,’ I whispered to Nia before walking down the aisle


    with the bouquet in my hands. Maynard had walked to the gazebo before us. He was


    smiling and taking greetings until his eyesnded on me.


    We hadn’t been able to talk because ourst conversation was so awkward. It was


    then that I saw him smile at me. I had to smile back because, well, it was his wedding


    and we had some wonderful memories together.


    He kept staring at me even when I reached him and stood on the spot where


    Christina was supposed to stand a step ahead, facing him.


    I tried looking around, but his stare was so intense that I could not turn away from


    him. It was then that I saw Christina walking down the aisle with Lazio. I turned to


    Maynard, but his eyes were still stuck on me.


    I had to grab my phone and text him to get his attention back to his mate and Luna.


    Me: She is walking down the aisle and probably waiting for your reaction.


    I saw him read my text and then look over at her.


    He finally started paying attention to her, and the ceremony began. Lazio stood


    beside me as the two exchanged vows.


    Usually, when mates see something so romantic, they want to experience it too.


    I don’t know what Lazio was feeling, but I couldn’t get my mind off of Thiago.


    ‘He would look so good in a ck suit. Waiting for us here with a smirk on his


    lips and his behavior, eyes staring at us as we walked down the aisle,’ I told Nia,


    feeling goosebumps as I thought of my mating ceremony with Thiago.


    “Hey!” Lazio elbowing me, woke me up. I shook my head and started pping


    to apany him.


    Christina and Maynard finally tied the knot. I didn’t want to stick around and ruin


    their night, so I wanted to head back to the academy.


    Lazio was reluctant because he wanted to stay, but then when he heard I was


    ready to leave and to call myself an Uber, he got on board with the n.


    “The preparations were allst time, but the wedding turned out so good,” Lazio


    mumbled, driving the car while I had my head resting peacefully. And turned to


    the other side to look outside the window from the passenger seat.


    I was stuck in some other world.


    I couldn’t help but think about Thiago.


    “Yeah!” I answered absentmindedly. Nothing seemed to be moving in my life


    anymore, not even this moving car.


    “Did you notice how the pack members were looking at me?” I uttered under my


    breath, my eyes following the road we were leaving behind.


    “I mean, obviously.” Lazio answered, “They have found out about your mother.


    Còntens bel0ngs to N?(v)elDr/a/ma.Org


    They are bound to react. It is not a small thing to watch someone being so many


    alpha mates whose mother—,” he paused only so that he can give his head a


    jerk and scoff.


    “Hm! No, I get it. But it is not like I did something wrong. I was barely 6 at that


    time when she was doing all that.” I stated that, but he didn’tment on that.


    We stayed silent for a few seconds before he cleared his throat and started


    talking again.


    “I think you shouldn’t make it about yourself. This matter is very sensitive, and


    many people have suffered from it. It is not very thoughtful of you to keep talking


    about yourself only.” He finished talking, and I couldn’te up with a response


    for a hot minute.


    It took me some time to even process his words. What he was trying to say was


    that I was making it about myself by even wondering why people were giving


    me hateful res.


    “Lazio! you are my mate. I am supposed to share my worries with you. I am not going


    around fighting people for ring at me. But I can share what is in my heart with you,


    or I can’t do that either anymore?” Iined, turning in my seat to face him and


    watching him roll his eyes at me.


    “I am sorry! What is this attitude for?” I couldn’t help myself but ask him, finally. He


    had been giving me shit over something my mother did.


    “Nothing, okay? Would you let it go? I am driving, let’s not argue,” he said, raising his


    voice and putting pressure on the steering wheel until he finally remembered he was


    driving.


    “Fine. Then stop the fucking car so that we can talk about this,” Imanded as I


    ced my hand on the door, ready to leave.


    “Don’t be stubborn. We are in the middle of nowhere, and it’s so dark outside. Sit


    down, we will talk when we are in the academy,” he tightened his grip on the steering


    wheel and yelled at me. I felt odd listening to him.


    It wasn’t even like he was concerned about our safety; he was just trying to control


    me.


    “Lazio! I said, fucking stop.” I stood my ground just so that he knows he cannot force


    me into doing something just for the sake of showing his power and control over me.


    “If you don’t stop now, I will stop the car,” I warned him, and he stopped with so much


    force that if I didn’t have the seatbelt on, I would have crashed on the windshield.


    “This is what you wanted to do? Use your power over me? It’s always just you trying


    to prove how you are bigger and better than an Alpha, isn’t it?” He started yelling at


    me, talking about something I never did.


    It wasn’t my fault that I wasn’t a regr omega that an alpha could control.