I was Kidnapped for Revenge by a Ruthless Alpha-Chapter 191: Fixing Us

~Delilah~

Odette was home again. It was almost as if nothing has changed and yet everything had.

My dad was the first to leave. He was annoyed about sharing the table with a shifter, even though he’s Odette’s fated. My mom apologized on my dad’s behalf and followed after him.

Uncle Gabriel had work calls and left for his room and Grandpa Vlad left with my cousin Viktoria to call his brother my Uncle Vincint.

Lilith withdrew and left for her room with the Leviathan. Uncle Oliver left last, he had friends waiting to game. It’s wild in a time like this, he can still find the time and mental space to game...

Now it was only me and Odette.

"Come to my room, lets watch movies and talk like we used too." I smiled using my biggest, pleading and hopeful eyes.

"Sure, lead the way." Odette rose from her seat and straightened out her dress.

A wave of relief washed over me.

She was willing to come with me.

I was beaming with delight. I couldn’t wait to tell Odette about the man in my best friend’s guard force.

Inside the room I grabbed the remote off the nightstand and plopped on the bed turning the TV on. I wasn’t a fan of old school horror movies. But I loved The Shining and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

To fill the noise I started with The Shining.

A comfortable silence settled between us, until I opened a bag of chips. The crinkle was loud and distracting, I reached out offering some to Odette, opening up room for a conversation.

"How is it being mated and in love with a shifter?" I was curious about her love life. Not just because I missed gossip time with my best friend.

But I might actually be crushing on a shifter myself.

"It’s more than you can imagine. There’s this bond like my soul is attached to his by the most beautiful thread. I feel him like a soothing presence that never leaves. My heart never stops fluttering when I see him. My body never stops craving him, his touch. Everything. His scent does things to me. Turns me on, calms me down, grounds me, heals my pain. Its powerful, the bond." Odette’s face flushed when she began her next bit.

"Shifters are possessive, more than most vampires. I think I’d know better than anyone that truth." Odette chuckled.

"They’re very passionate about the things they do. About making love to their partners." I could see, she was totally thinking about Ambrose. "About sports or fighting. Some are soft in nature. Some are strong and loyal to a fault."

"There were a lot of really handsome shifters at the gala. One in particular I like and think you might know." I confessed.

Odette’s head jerked away from the screen and tilted when she looked at me.

"Oh? And do you know their name?" Odette’s eyes glistened with excitement.

"Yes... You know him pretty well actually." Delilah sounded quiet and sheepish. Which took Odette by surprise. Delilah was always bubbly and giggly and loud.

"Tell me! Who?"

"His name is Hector." My face turned beet red saying it out loud.

"Oh. My. God! You’re serious!?" Odette was way too excited about this.

"Yeah... I think so. I’m going to paint him. He’s going to be my muse." I know how shy I sounded. It was like love at first sight.

"Hector is a great man; I could put in a word for you." Odette winked.

"Would you really?" Tears began to swell in my eyes.

"Of course!" Odette almost shouted.

My smiled, but it faded slowly. I couldn’t believe she would do that for me, not after everything.

"Hey, Odette..."

"Yeah?"

"I’m such a piece of shit, I’m so sorry. I was stupid and so selfish I cared more about what I wanted and how I felt about him than I cared about my loyalty to you. That’s not who I am." I completely shut down and started to cry.

"I just... I loved him. I loved him so much, I’d have done anything for him. Or at least for who I thought he was. Who I hoped he’d be..." Sobs racked my body. "I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry."

"Delilah, I forgive you. I’m not hurt by your love for Kalvin; I’m hurt by your betrayal." I shuddered at her words, but she kept going anyways, "And you’re not completely at fault. I knew I didn’t love Kalvin, and I kinda knew you did. As a best friend I should have turned him down that day."

I couldn’t believe her honest, heartfelt confession. The fact she considered accountability when I did her such injustice. She was too good for me. I don’t deserve someone like her. I am so unworthy of her love and forgiveness.

I was hurt by him. Lead on by him for years. I didn’t want to hate him, but despite my efforts, each new day. I found more hatred in my heart for him. Each time I thought about him, my heart hurt and I was angered more.

If it wasn’t the end of the world, I think I’d make it a goal of mine to destroy him.

Not just for what he did to me. But what he did to Odette. My cousin. My family. My best friend.

We both owed her loyalty. And we both failed her.

But he was the worst. I did everything for love. He did everything for greed, for power, and for status.

We were both lied to by him.

Both of us fooled.

"I’m sorry I accepted his confession when I felt nothing romantic for him. I’m sorry for accepting the man you loved. But it’s good you didn’t truly waste all that time with him, because if you’d been the main girlfriend, you’d have been more in love and more broken when we found out he wasn’t the person we thought him to be." Odette reached out to me and rubbed my shoulder.

"I love you." I sniffled.

"I love you too."