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REJECTED ONCE, FROZEN FOREVER-Chapter 58: CAN I BE YOUR BROTHER AGAIN?
Chapter 58: Chapter 58: CAN I BE YOUR BROTHER AGAIN?
Bradley and Casey arrived, everyone turned to look at them and they scoffed when they saw Bradley.
"Why is he here?" Olivia asked in disdain.
"I invited him, is it okay with you guys?" Casey asked pulling Bradley to sit with her.
Bradley hinted with his head in the direction where Ariana was sitting, he wanted to sit that side. Casey nodded and they walked there, Ariana looked up and smiled at Casey but when she looked at Bradley her smile went off.
Bradley felt a shiver when she stared at him, maybe it was the fact that he was not used to her eyes. Her once bright green eyes were now red. Ariana ignored him and turned to Adrian.
"Do you know what is missing now?" Avery asked peeking at the girls.
"What?" The girls asked looking at her puzzled.
"Morgan’s blood martini!" Avery replied and all the girls nodded.
"And the blood Ariana brought back seems fresh." Rosemary replied.
"It’s a shame we forgot to tell her." Samantha said with a disappointed look.
"Yeah, it’s a shame!" All the girls whined.
"Alcoholics!" Isabelle said in a low voice.
"Isabelle!" The girls called and Isabelle just shrugged her shoulders before turning to Aaron.
Aaron looked down at her and didn’t say anything. He smiled and ruffled her hair; she looked at him shyly and looked away.
"Look at her, she behaves as if she is a new bride." Samantha said to Derek looking at Isabelle’s behavior.
"Aaron, you have a lot of work ahead of you." Derek said turning to look at him.
"Meaning? Is that referring to me?" Isabelle stood up with her hands on her hips.
"Who else?" Derek teased back causing Isabelle to run towards him.
"What did you say daddy?" She asked running to him.
Derek saw her coming and stood up to make a run for it. Since the day Isabelle was born, they could see that she didn’t have a good temper. When she started talking, she would talk for hour, she would even force them to respond to whatever she was saying.
Samantha looked at her daughter and mate chase each other as if they were kids.
"Isabelle, do you still want to act like that in front of your mate?" Samantha asked teasing her daughter.
Since the time Isabelle understood what a mate was, she had obsessed with finding her mate. Isabelle hearing her mother’s words stopped in her tracks, she smoothed her clothes and looked at her father.
"This is not done!" She said and walked to Aaron.
"Don’t mind, be yourself!" Aaron encouraged and she smiled at him.
When Aaron first found out that Isabelle was his mate, he would always watch her play in secret. For her age, she was more mature than most adults.
Isabelle felt a bit hungry, she didn’t know how she was going to go and tell her mother that she was hungry.
Vampire children couldn’t drink the blood from the blood bank as they could not digest it. So normally the mother or the father would feed them with their blood, now she wanted to go to her mother but was shy.
"What is it?" Aaron asked when he saw her staring at Samantha.
"Nothing!" She said looking away.
Aaron stared her for a few minutes, he saw her looking at her mother again and saw her looking down.
"Are perhaps hungry?" He asked looking at her.
"Hmm!" She nodded her head facing the ground.
"You normally ask your mother, why didn’t you today?" He asked, Isabelle was not someone who was shy, she spoke her mind whenever she had something on.
"I don’t want you to think that I am a kid." She said looking at the ground.
"You are still a kid; I want you to be same as you were. I love you just the way you are." Aaron said looking down at her.
"You love me?" Isabelle asked confused.
"Yes, so you don’t need to change yourself." He said and brought his hand to his mouth.
Aaron bit his hand and offered it to her. Isabelle stared at his hand, and he nodded telling her to go on.
"Don’t worry!" He said assuring her and she took his hand and drank from him.
"Ariana!" Bradley called looking at her.
Ariana ignored him and continued to chat with Adrian, Bradley turned to look at Casey for help. She encouraged and he called out to her, she turned to look at him coldly. The smile that was on her face had disappeared and was replaced by an indifferent look.
"Can we talk?" He asked, it was the first time that he had been scared of his little sister.
"About?" She asked turning her head to look at the lake.
"Can we talk in private?" He asked again.
"We can talk here, there is no outsiders. They’re all my family, so you can say whatever you want." She said gesturing at all of them.
"I wanted to apologize for the way I treated you back then." He started and she turned to look at him.
"How did you treat me exactly?" She asked staring right into his eyes.
"I...I treated you badly, watched you being beaten and I couldn’t do anything about it. It was only after you left that I realized how badly we treated you back them, you didn’t deserve to be treated like that." He spoke looking at her.
"I want to be your brother again." He added and she stared at him blankly.
"Thank you for the apology, a little late but I accept." She said and turned her head away.
"Can I?" He asked.
"Can you what?" She asked not looking at him.
"Can I be your brother again?" He asked again looking at her hopefully.
"When I was in this pack, you really broke my heart. The brother I hoped would protect me from everything joined in beating me. I understand that this pack was scared about my powers but treating me like that was wrong. So, you are asking me to be my brother again when I don’t need you anymore." She said softly.
"They did everything you were supposed to do." She said pointing at Logan, Austin, Tyler, Ivan, Derek and Josh.
"They did everything a brother would do to his sister for me. He is the older brother I always wanted, and I got him, so tell me how I should respond to you?" She asked him.
When she was still in the pack, she always hoped he would come and save her, but he had been the one to join in the gang. When she was being beaten in front of him, she would turn to him as asking for help, but he would tell her to not make noise.
"There were days where I thought that it would be better if I died. This pack not only tortured me physically but also mentally. The only hope I cling on was that my mate would save me, but who knew he would do that. Had it not been for him I would have died." She said hinting at Adrian.
Adrian held her hand in support.
"If you want to be my brother again, you have to convince them. I will only let you be my brother again only if they can accept you." She said pointing at the guys.
When she said all those words, Logan sent Bradley a cold glance.
"If you want to be her brother, you will have to prove it that you will not fail her like you did before." Logan said and all the guys turned to glare at him.
"We’ll not allow this pack to hurt her again, you guys didn’t treasure her, but we do. This pack should not think that they will treat her anyhow." Austin spoke.
"You were a terrible brother, but if you want to redeem yourself then there is nothing wrong with that." Tyler spoke.
"I can assure you that he means what he says. He really wants to be in your life again." Casey said taking Ariana’s hand in her own.
"It’s only because of you that I am giving him this chance." Ariana said and looked at Casey’s stomach.
Bradley nodded and promised that he would protect her like he should have before.
They sat there for a few more hours before they decided to head back to the pack house. They walked, Isabelle had gotten tired, and Aaron carried her on his back. Amelia and Logan held hands as they walked, Logan looked at his mate.
"Everything good?" He asked her when he saw her staring into space
"Everything is good!" She replied and smiled at him.
"I hope we survive this war. You are the only reason why I am alive." She said softly.
"I am happy!" Bradley said out of the blue.
"Why?" Casey asked.
"Casey, she agreed." He said lifting her up and spinning her around, she nodded smiling and let him spin her.
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