Asher glanced at her sharply. The question was never one he had expected from her or even asked himself. Their eyes locked and he tried to see what could have prompted the question from her but all he saw were clear beautiful hazel eyes. Seconds ticked by before he answered in a whisper, “I don’t know. I have never been in love, so…” he licked his lips softly, his eyes traveling to hers. “To reject your mate, you have to be feeling a bond stronger than the mating bond with someone else, otherwise, there is nothing stopping the mating bond from claiming you the first day.”“Never been in love you said,” Naomi whispered.“Never ever.”“Does that make you a virgin?” she asked, her face coloring over with her question as she chided herself in her mind.Asher chuckled, “that word is very far from me.” The look in her eyes made him laugh softly, “it stopped applying to me from my sixteenth birthday.”“So you are like a playboy?” she raised an eyebrow.Asher smiled and shrugged, “that’s one

Naomi walked to school feeling a little happier than usual. Thinking about her new found friendship with Asher uplifted her mood in so many ways she never thought possible and the fact that she would be seeing him soon made her want to fly to school. She had dreamt about him all though the night. Even she was surprised at why she was feeling so giddy about him but she just knows that she was. She could still remember how he would often stay at her lips last night and bite his. She knew he wanted to kiss her but what she didn’t know was why he didn’t. She had looked forward to it at some point last night but he didn’t oblige.Not letting it dampen her mood, she had prepared for school happily. Since her father’s slaps last night didn’t leave any bruises coupled with Asher’s words, she decided not to wear a hoodie to the school today and had spent nearly twenty minutes thinking of what to do with her and had ended up settling a messy bun. It didn’t make her look beautiful but it gave he

“Excuse me young man?” Cage asked staring at the young boy who ignored everyone else in the room as he walked over to Naomi and place his hands on her shoulders. “Hello?”Asher ignored him and looked Naomi in the eyes, her tears burning him in his heart as he could feel the power threatening to take control while he fought to control it. “I couldn’t listen anymore, your sobs hurt my heart. That’s enough, no more,” he said, his voice calm but authoritative and it slammed into everyone’s heart.“Master Alexander the third, you are not supposed to be in my office,” the principal said, hating the boy’s attitude immediately. “You are supposed to be in your class.” Everyone glanced from the principal to the boy who pretended to not hear him as he was still preoccupied with the girl. “Asher!” he yelled this time.Asher ignored him as he wiped away Naomi’s tears and pulled her into his arms. Having him hug her seemed to have broken Naomi’s resolve as she started sobbing hardly this time. Ashe

“Asher,” Naomi smiled seeing the boy climbing into her room from the window. He looked up at her but his eyes weren’t all smile as usual. “What happened?” she asked, going to him, “why didn’t you show up in school for the past two weeks. Is everything okay?” she wondered, now standing in front of him and she reached up to cup his cheek in her palm. However, he did something unimaginable to her, he avoided her touch. “Hey, it’s me.”Asher backed away from her and when he looked at her once more, his eyes were black, “I don’t ever want to see you again.”“What?” Naomi was shocked and she could feel the tears blurring her vision immediately and threatening to fall. “Wh-why, what did I do?”“Nothing, you are just not my type. You are not beautiful enough for me and I would never choose you over my mate.”“B-but I’m not asking you to choose me over her,” she said, the tears now trailing down her cheeks from his former words. “Asher.”“You are hoping it, you are wishing it. I can see it in

Hearing the sound of the door, Asher turned sharply, surprised to see her gone. Without thinking, he teleported and appeared right in front of her, deriving a shocked gasp from her. “Where do you think you are going?”“Don’t do that,” she said, placing a hand on her scared chest. “You almost gave me a heart attack.”Asher ignored her words and repeated, “where are you going?”“I’m going home.”“By this time? Do you have any idea what I just saved you from? How sure are you that they won’t be more? Your only safe place now is with me, Naomi,” Asher said, slightly annoyed at her way of reasoning.“How can I be here when it’s obvious that you don’t even want me here?” She yelled.“What the hell do you mean?”“You know what I mean,” she accused, her eyes blurring over with fresh tears. “You are acting strange, not that it’s really strange since I know where it is leading.”“Like, you have lost me, Naomi, can you please speak in a way that I can understand?”“It’s obvious, okay? I have see