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

I frowned as some thoughts had crossed my mind.

What if he finds out my secret?

What if he is the one?

What if he is just playing with me?

No, I didn't know any of the answers. But I wanted to find out for sure.

As if time was flying today with some great speed because the period bell went off suddenly announcing that the class had already ended even before I could realize exactly when it had started in the first place.

Whatever.

I felt like I should not stay here for long, so I was about to rush out of the room just when I heard someone calling me from behind. And I knew who it was.

And when I turned back, the very familiar blue eyes had confirmed my assumption.

Markus, it was and he was approaching me quite unexpectedly.

“Hey!” He said as soon as he came to stand in front of me.

“Bye.” I didn't even want to give him any kind of chance to find out whatever I was forced to suspect. About us being mates. And if my suspicion was the reality, then I should not be standing here right in front of him.

It might cause me troubles.

Cause I knew he was trouble.

If knowing the true identity of my mate could cause me this much misery then my decision about not seeing each other ever was right.

I shouldn't have let him come this far.

And also, why suddenly he wanted to talk to me? What is even there to talk? Where did all his hatred and disgust for me go?

What had changed?

Why now?

Again, I had no answers, neither did I want to know.

So, keeping myself away from him was the best option.

I was about to turn away to rush out of the class, but I heard him again,

“Wait, Summer. I am not here to look down upon you, neither I want to talk bad to you anymore. Instead, I want to apologise.” His words made me absolutely shocked because I had never ever expected him to say the very word he just uttered right now.

Apologise?

“What?” I wanted to ensure if whatever I just heard was my imagination or not.

“Yes, I realised that I was not a good person before, but I wanted to become one now. So I wanted to say sorry to you first.” Markus said again making me realise that whatever I had heard was no dream and he was actually saying all those words right in front of my sight.

“Okay.” As I was not at all interested to drag our awkward conversation any longer, I replied in short and was about to go away once again, just when I heard,

“So, can we start afresh?” I won't deny that his words had totally freaked me out.

“What did you just say? We? From when I and you became we?” I asked out loud with utter frustration.

Episode 15

Summer's P.O.V

With my sudden outburst, I realised that the rest of the students who were present there in the corridor the whole time had stopped to look at us, with their all curious eyes. As the sight was indeed something rare to all of them. No, actually, the sight of Markus talking to me politely was something that has never happened ever before, as per all of their knowledge. And I had no different impression as well.

My inner conflict soon started to act upon me, making me fume in utter anger. I was becoming more and more clueless about what was really happening, causing me to become even more irritated. I wanted to run out of his sight as soon as possible, far away from the most intoxicating smell that was coming from him, giving me enough reason to hide from my mate forever. But I knew that I couldn't do that. It was too late.

I have made a promise, which I must keep.

But to the least of my expectations, even after my rude behaviour, I saw Markus was still standing before me with his eyes fixed on mine, without any intention to take back whatever he had just said. He seemed determined to change the way we see each other...as rivals.

But no matter what he says or what he does, it was the only hand that I would never dare to take, I would never dare to touch.

I know everyone deserves a second chance but what if he is my mate? How can I accept someone like him who already had so many girls on his bed till now? What would I do if I found out that he is a liar too?

The possibility of him being my mate is already the highest as he got the very smell which I am still reluctant to believe.

I kept losing my mind with every single thought of what should I do or not.

Running away seemed the best option for now. As giving him the opportunity to get himself confirmed about my identity as his mate was the last thing I wanted.

Yeah, that's right.

“Summer, I know that we were never on the good terms with each other, but if I think carefully, I never had any particular reason to hate you. In fact, I never hated you. It's just that, you are way superior to everyone else, even me.

And you were right.

Maybe I was proud enough to acknowledge such reality. And maybe also the fact that I never stopped admiring you for whoever you are or how powerful you are, made me caught up in a fight with my own proud self. Only for that reason, even I thought that I hated you the most, but it is not the truth. And I know now.

So, I wanted to change that. From now on, I want to acknowledge the