Chapter 21

Gabby’s POV

I leaned against the wall of my room with my heart drumming fast and lips still aching, not in a bad way this time but in a very, very good way. My hands came up to my face and I touched my lips, they both felt swollen beneath my fingertips as a reminder of what had just happened.

‘Feeling like this after a kiss?’ Hera chuckled mockingly, ‘What happens when he finally fu...’

‘Hera!’ I stopped her before she could finish her words as I blushed crimson. I walked to the bed and sat on it trying not to wake Kate.

Did he like the kiss? I wondered, did I kiss him well? Was he going to kiss me again? Would this change anything?

‘Don’t get your hopes high Gabby,’ my subconscious reminded me, he clearly said this meant nothing, he is going to mate with the Beta anyway.

Tears welled in my eyes as the realization dawned on me again. I felt stupid for letting him kiss me and touch me like that, I felt used.

Anger surged in me at the fact tha