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

asked while we both made our way out of the hospital in a hurry.

“To meet him.” I was about to run to go to my mate, leaving Markus's bike at the hospital, when Kaith called me from behind.

“Get on. I will drop you.” He motioned his head at me to sit behind him. I knew that he was going to pick up Jenny as well, and I was going that way too, so there won't be any problem.

Without delaying further I settled myself behind him and he started the bike quickly only to run the wheels towards our mates.

I wondered again thinking about what new I was going to find out tonight. What else was waiting for me in the dark?

Surprisingly time flew with a great speed tonight, and I didn't know why I was feeling anxious to meet my mysterious mate for no reason, for the first time.

No, maybe there was some reason, but still, I never felt this excited before.

In no time Kaith stopped his bike in front of the club as I had asked him. I got off the bike and was about to run to the darkest alley when Kaith pulled me back by my wrist, only to say,

“You are not the unlucky one, you know. Unlucky are all those who couldn't get to know you better.

And that's why I feel myself the luckiest to have a friend like you.” He let my hand go, only after saying all those words to me from the depth of his heart. And I knew that he meant each and everything what he just said. His eyes revealed so.

Before running out of his sight for tonight, I hugged him tight to show that I am glad too to have such a great friend like him. Yes, just a few words could not show what I wanted to convey.

Yes, he is indeed the best person in my life.

Anyway,

After running for a while I was already standing in front of the alley where I was supposed to meet my mate every night. But tonight something was different.

Yes, I got it what was missing.

Unlike other nights, I found no smell of my mate, quite surprisingly.

Didn't he come tonight?

As far as I know, it was already past midnight.

I know that I am late, but I didn't expect him to walk away without waiting for me.

What could have happened?

Episode 21

Summer's P.O.V

Even though I knew that mate wasn't here tonight, I started to get in the dark alley, thinking about a lot of possibilities of his absence. I was well aware that no matter how many steps I take forward, nothing will take me to him, to my mate...nothing was going to replace this cold and empty night with something warm. His warmth.

I was dying to know why didn't he come tonight...why did he choose to stand me up alone in the dark...what happened all of a sudden.

The cold night air around me started to feel heavy while my heart was already at the verge of becoming numb once again. I had never thought that not being able to see my mate for just one night would make me this pathetic, at least when I was always reluctant to meet him until tonight. Then why?

Was it my punishment for not letting him know each other's actual identity?

Was I really wrong to take such a decision?

Why does nothing happen to me in a normal way ever? Why each and everything has to be all messed up in my life?

Standing in the dark and deserted alley I kept thinking about all those incidents that happened to me recently...only to find me the answer about where exactly I did the wrong.

No, I had no intention to go back this quickly just because mate was not here. I was determined to wait for him this time, at the exact place where he left me hanging.

And the only reason I kept giving myself for such decision was what if he was also late like me? If not, what if he decides to come back to meet? What if he could not see me when he reaches here?

So, I must wait, and which I did obviously with all my hopes high.

But, there was no sign of him at all.

Seconds turned to minutes and minutes to hours, I kept standing alone in the dark but he was still nowhere near this place.

The night had started to become cold, causing me to shiver a bit. The only thing that I could smell all this time was the rich smell of iron, the smell of blood.

Yes, my clothes were a bit soaked with Markus's blood after what happened earlier, but they had already dried by now after waiting for such a long time out in the cold, which caused my shirt to become a bit stiff and sticky at the back.

The intense smell of blood kept reminding me of the horrible incident from earlier, making me much worried about Markus's condition right now but also it didn't fail to make me aware of the fact that I need to return too...that I had waited for enough...and also that my mate was not going to coming either.

But how could I make my heart understand which was still willing to wait even if it takes all the time until he comes again tomorrow night?

Then again, will he even come to meet me tomorrow or would I have to keep standing in this exact dark and wicked alley every time only to wait for him just like tonight?

Will he ever come again?

But still, I kept asking myself so many whys.

Yes.

Why didn't he bother to tell me before?

Why when I was finally dying to be with him...to touch him...to listen to his deep