Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (ebook offline txt) 📗

I had to sigh again realising what I had to face any time soon.

But only if I knew that something bigger was waiting for me inside the classroom this time, which would definitely turn my whole world upside down, I would surely run away, far away from it.

It was where all the trouble had begun.

Only if I knew that I would be left clueless once again which will cause me to think each and everything from the very beginning but still I would be left with no possible answer to soothe my anxiety.

I wish I knew before.

Well,

Let me tell you what happened when I got into the classroom.

The classroom was filled with other students as usual, and I saw Markus as well, but to my surprise, he was alone today as the gang of whores were not here yet to please him, like always.

But it was not the thing which made me stunned.

Cause another thing took away my attention in an instant, shaking the earth beneath me, causing my heart to skip multiple beats.

I got a smell.

To be precise, I got the most intoxicating smell, only which could compel me to submit and that too with my own will.

Yes,

And the smell was coming from the classroom.

I could have run away but it was too late already, as I was intrigued to drag myself towards the source of the smell. My legs didn't let me stop, neither did it let me run out of the room but kept moving me forward with each little step.

With each of my steps the smell was getting even more intense and as I realized where it was taking me, I started to freak out even more.

Run.

Run.

Run.

I kept telling myself in my mind, but my heart didn't listen as it kept doing its own job and led me to stand in front of no one but the one whom I hate the most.

Markus.

Why? Why? Why the whole universe had to conspire against me to make my life even more unfortunate?

Why him?

I know that he was not at all aware of the fact that I am the one, because I had already manipulated my scent. But now when I got to know the reality, how could I stand before him again like last night. How can I accept that he is my mate, whom I had already promised to meet again?

And most of all, I knew who he is, and how is his reputation among girls. Then how can I accept? Why the goddess had to make someone like him for me?

My heart shattered in an instant only to bury each broken pieces deep into the darkness of my life from where nothing could be redeemed ever again.

I wanted to cry out loud, but I couldn't.

I wanted to run away, and I could not do that either.

Only thing I was left to do was to suffer throughout my life. I had to endure the fact that my mate didn't even bother to wait for me. He didn't even...

Wait.

That was not what mate had confessed to me last night. I clearly remembered him saying that he was waiting for me the whole time. Was he lying then?

Or,

Am I failing to see the truth, this time too? Just as I failed last night after I found Kaith and Jenny together?

I don't understand. Everything is becoming confusing now.

Ah yes.

I must be wrong somewhere.

Cause I remember, yesterday he was here too, sitting just beside me. And even though I was feeling anxious for no reason but there was no clear smell of mate like today.

How is this even possible?

I can clearly smell my mate's scent from him right now, but how come yesterday I got no smell like this from him even when he was sitting just beside me?

Not even the day before yesterday?

I mean, though he attains these classes seldom, still how could I not recognize his smell before when I had shifted already?

Was it because his smell always gets mixed with that whore Lizzie?

Or if there is something else which I can not see yet?

Oh my goodness!!!...

What is right or wrong? how can I know?

Who is my mate?

Is he really Markus?

I know, I had promised that I would never try to know his real identity, but if the destiny conspires against me only to make me stand in front of someone who is probably my mate, what else can I do?

But still, I don't want to believe.

It couldn't be Markus.

Please.

Suddenly, I realized that I was standing in front of Markus' desk for quite some time for no reason, causing him to feel awkward due to my uninformed presence. So, I moved from his sight as quickly as I could, only to find a seat for me again at the back of the class.

Mate's smell had never left my sensitive nose as I was becoming more and more involved with my undesirable thoughts, throughout the class.

Even I didn't hold myself back from sneaking a lot of peeks to take quick glances of Markus, bothering least to get caught for my uncanny behaviour.

And I got caught anyway, that too by Markus, as most of the time I found out that he was looking at me as well every now and then from his seat, with some kind of unreadable emotions buried in his seductive blue eyes.

No, he wasn't looking at me with disgust like before but something else, and which was causing me to freak out even more.

My heart started to beat like crazy and if I try to hear clearly it was not only mine whose heart was loud at this moment, but there was another one as well among many. And I could