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"Its gonna get better."

Amelia's POV

I growled as I walked around the room. I was waiting for my mate. Waiting to confront him so I could leave. I'd made plans.

Finally after some time he came back into the room and I turned to face him. He looked at me with an annoyed glared and Rain snarled inside me.

"It's obvious that you don't want me anymore. This isn't working. You're in love with someone else. Someone who's never coming back and I can't stay here. I love someone else as well... It just took me some time to realize it. I have to go." I said and for a moment I felt my throat clog. I looked up to see Kaden's still glaring eyes.

"So you're leaving me?" He growled and I nodded.

He stomped toward me his eyes blazing and my wolf whimpered a little, "Why?!" He snarled.

"You're still in love with Emma." I told him and walked around the angry male. He didn't say anything as I left the room.

"Say hey to your pup Noah for me!" Kaden called after me in a goading voice.

"Guess you're not so different from your mother are you?" He added and I frowned softly, but kept walking.

When I finally made it to Noah's house I was shaking and tears were streaming down my face. The fight was taking its toll and my heart felt like it was being stabbed.

Noah hurried me inside and pain filled his eyes at my cries. He ran his fingers comfortingly through my hair and I let out a sigh.

"You'd think breaking it off wouldn't hurt so bad. Imagine rejection." I said aloud as my heart clenched and I buried my face in Noah's shirt.

"Hey, its okay baby. Don't cry. Look at me." Noah said and I glanced up at him. He brushed my tears away and frowned worriedly.

"You're gonna be okay, I'm here for you. No one is ever going to hurt you again." He huffed and kissed my forehead before hugging me tight.

"Can I take you out tonight?" He asked after a while and I nodded. I needed to get out.

I smiled at Noah as he ate. He'd brought me to some restaurant. The food was delicious and he'd managed to clear my mind of my mate.

"Amelia you are beautiful." He remarked wistfully and I felt a blush burn my cheeks.

"Thank you." I said softly and he reached across the table to take my hand in his.

"I'd do anything for you. Just say it and it's done." Noah sighed and held my hand tightly.

"I don't know what to say..." I trailed off feeling my heart pounding.

"I love you." He said softly and I glanced to meet his stunning mahogany eyes.

He brought my hand up and kissed it gently. My eyes closed briefly and I took in a breath.

"I love you too." I replied and his eyes lit up with happiness. I smiled at his joy.

"You want to get out of here?" He asked and I nodded. He stood and left cash at the table before we both headed out. His arm wrapped around my waist as we walked to his car.

We arrived at his house and once inside we began kissing like our lives depended on it.

"Noah." I groaned as he pushed me into a wall and deepened the kiss. His hands ran over me and I gasped and hummed in content.

Our clothes were discarded one at a time and soon we were in his bed. I closed my eyes as he kissed my neck and then his lips met mine again....

I cuddled up beside Noah and sighed as he held me. The sex was good, but it was nothing compared to Kaden's, and I hated that. I hated that even after I just had sex with this wonderful man I was still thinking about Kaden.

Kaden's POV

I laid down in the empty bed with a sigh. Amelia was gone to be with Noah and I was perfectly fine with that. She'd been gone all day. My eyes raked over where Amelia should lay and I frowned before turning away and glancing to the window. Outside the moon had begun to rise.

I pulled the covers up over me and closed my eyes.

Suddenly there was light, a blinding light and I blinked and rubbed my eyes. I glanced around and frowned at the large oak and meadow. What the fuck?

"Kade." I tensed at the voice and my whole body was flooded with a feeling of shivers. I glanced around and froze when I saw her.

"Emma."

She looked different, a woman now, but it was her. Her fiery hair flowed softly in the light breeze and her green eyes shown at me.

"I wish I could say it's nice to see you." She said folding her arms and giving me a scowl. My mouth ran dry.

"You think this is a game Kaden? You have a second chance who you're treating like a dog." Em hissed and I looked at the ground.

"Why are you doing this to her? She's your mate." Emma said in exasperation.

"You were my mate first." I managed to say.

"I'm dead!" Emma snapped and I looked up to see her face had reddened in anger. She took a deep breath and the color faded.

"I'm dead." She repeated in a softer voice a look of dismay on her face.

"I died because I tried to make peace with someone who only wanted death." Emma growled.

"I was stupid and ignorant and Kaden we could never have been... I would've rejected you because you didn't need me as my mate; you need a fighter. You need Amelia." The young woman said eyeing me gently.

"But Em-"

"You love her. Stop fighting it. You're just hurting her more. She loves you Kaden. She really does, but she doesn't trust you now." She stepped toward me and laid her hand on my shoulder.

There were no sparks. Just the touch of any other person. She gave me a soft smile and touched my cheek.

"Kaden you were always hardheaded. I knew from the first spark I felt all that time ago that you'd never be mine. There is a hunger inside of you that I could never satisfy." Emma said and took her hand away.

"I couldn't survive a battle. I was weak and thought too much of the goodness in people. I couldn't see the bad." The woman sighed.

"She can though." Em added and stepped back a bit.

I glanced down and shuffled my feet.

"But she's with Noah." I grumbled and felt a yank at my heart.

"She's still your mate. You didn't reject each other. She still loves you. You love her so get to it. Have sex again, just don't go all crazy on her like the other night. Ha, yeah if you tried that with me, hell no, I would've been out. Oh don't look at me like that, I didn't mean to see. Frankly I wish I hadn't. Well I'll let you in on a secret. She really loves it when you nip at her neck." Emma said with a smirk.

"When did you get like this?" I asked.

"After I died I started not caring about what people thought as much. I'm in Heaven Kaden. It's great." Emma said and punched my lightly in the shoulder.

She suddenly gripped my ear and tugged it toward her, "Make it work Kaden." I winced at the pain and finally Emma let me go.

I jolted awake and rubbed my aching ear.

Amelia.

I slipped out of bed and went over to Ryan's room. I knocked anxiously at the door and it opened up to reveal and annoyed, tired Beta.

"Dammit Kaden the hell do you want?" He groaned rubbing sleep from his eyes.

"Can you call Amelia?" I asked and he frowned.

"Why?" He said leaning on his doorframe.

"Don't you have her number?" I asked him.

"Don't you?" He replied with a raised eyebrow.

"No." I grumbled and looked at the ground.

"Why the hell not? She's been with us for practically three years." Ryan scoffed.

"There was never really a need to get her number." I retorted.

"So...?" Ryan asked.

"So can you call her or not?" I growled.

"I don't really know if I should. What's the point of being the carrier pigeon?" Ryan yawned and I frowned. What was he going on about?

"Ryan can you please call her?" I sighed. He looked at me with his green eyes and huffed.

"I don't see what all the fuss is about. Weren't y'all just-" he began.

"I saw Emma Ryan. Now please will you call my mate? Tell her I don't deserve her and I'm sorry." Ryan's eyes widened and he coughed. After a while he blinked and let out a breath.

"Goddess its always something, isn't it? I'll call her." He started into his room then paused giving me a long look before continuing to talk.

"Now, I'm going in here to call her and then I'm going back to bed so don't come in here in thirty minutes or whatever asking if I called. Goodnight Kaden." Ryan sighed and shut the door.

I sighed and ran a hand roughly through my hair. I went back to my room and glanced at Amelia's side of the bed and felt my heart wrench.

This was all my doing. Why'd I have to be such a dumbass?

She'd slept with Noah, that I could sense, but I wasn't angry at her. If I'd been a better man she wouldn't have done it.