Falling For My Cruel Mate
Chapter 74

A small chuckle rumbles throughout his chest and quickly apologize in

embarrassment. "I'm just really excited."

He opens the box slowly, causing all my attention to focus on the object in his

hands.

"I saw this and I knew I had to get it for you. As an apology, but also as a promise."

I could feel my heart drop in my chest and my eyes widen in shock. It was a

beautiful rose gold color. There was a rose in the center of the ring and diamonds surrounding the bud of the flower. The ring was so amazing it nearly took my breath away. I'm sure it went beautifully with the theme of my party as well.

"I'm sorry for the way I treated you when I first met you and when you first got here. I promise to do better and to hopefully learn how to open up and trust you with my past. I know you must have a lot of questions and I promise they will all be answered in time."

He pulls the ring from its place in the box and grasps on to my slightly shaking hand. I don't know what to do or even say. My mouth opens to form words but none come out. I'm sure I look like a fish out of water.

I admire the ring that now sat perfectly on my finger. It was hard to tear my eyes away from it but I did. A large goofy smile breaks its way onto my lips as I look up at him. This is the happiest I've ever felt in a really long time. Which is strange because I was sure that today would be my most miserable.

And so I do the only thing that felt right to do in a moment like this. I stand on the very tips of my toes and wrap my arms lovingly around his neck and connect my lips with his. We've only kissed a handful of times and none of them have felt like this. I didn't really know how to describe it. All I know is that I like it... a lot. I like it way too much.

His arms wrap themselves around my my waist pulling me closer to him as his lips molded with mine perfectly. I never wanted this moment to end. Here in the garden, is a memory I'll never forget. Something changed in my mate I could see it. It was almost strange. A good strange. I just hope he does keep his promise.

"Well then, I can't wait to see how you react to your second surprise." He says after disconnecting his lips from mine slowly.

Huh? Another one? Okay seriously, who is this guy and what has he done with my mate?

"You really don't have to do all of this." I laugh nervously. What else could he have planned? Is that was Sam is watching over?

"Alright," He shrugs his shoulders. "I'll have it brought back if you really don't want it."

"Wait, no!" I grab onto his wrist as he begins to walk away. "I want it."

He looks down at me with a boyish smirk. "I know. Let's go home I wanna take a nap."

His hand replaces its way into mine and we begin walking in the direction of the house.

"I don't like naps." I cringe at the thought of sleeping for a few hours in the middle of the day. Anytime I've accidentally taken a nap I've always felt like a drugged zombie when I woke up.

"You're an alien." Ajax says as he shakes his head disappointedly.

"What makes you say that?" I was shocked as I tried to hold back the laugh that dared to escape. An alien? Me? No way. Maybe him. Yeah he's definitely an alien.

"Because you have bad taste in tv shows and now you don't like naps? Thats not normal ducky." He explains teasingly.

My laugh breaks free and I give him a playful shove.

"My taste in tv shows is much better than yours."

"Yeah, in your dreams baby."

I toss the blue dress back into the closet with disgust. Why did that dress literally make me look like a blueberry? I dig through the many dresses one more time. I've already decided that I'm not wearing the yellow one because I look like a naked bumblebee. I'm definitely not wearing the brown one, along with the purple one and green one. Which leaves me with red, black and white.

I begin separating the dresses by color and style. I begin picking and choosing, every-time I see one I don't like I throw it back into the closet.

"Happy Birthday!" The door swings open quickly and in bursts an excited Cipher. Her dark hair fell around her shoulders beautifully. She had on a pair of skin tight jeans with some pumps and a revealing top. She looks hot to say the least. When didn't she though?

"Thank you." I choke out as she wraps me in a suffocating hug. I have not seen Cipher since last night at dinner, when she was wearing an evil smirk on her face. She clearly knew something that I didn't.

"How's your day been so far?" She releases me from her choke hold and turns her attention towards the dresses. She sifts through the last remaining ones and pulls a black long-sleeved dress from the rack.

"It's actually been pretty great. Im really grateful for everything you guys are doing." I say. She moves into my closet and a few shoes come flying out. I duck quickly as a heel almost hit me in the head.

"Awe, Octavia. We'd do anything for you. We love you so much." She smiles lovingly at me as she walks out with a pair of thigh high boots. What is she doing?

"I love you guys too."

"I know, love. Now go put this on." She places the dress and shoes into my arms and begins pushing me towards the bathroom.

"But I didn't get to try the other dresses on." I say trying to look over my shoulder at the remaining dress that hung neatly on the clothing rack.

"Trust me. I'm a genius!" She laughs loudly and gives me one last push into the bathroom before closing the door.

I stare at the closed door for a moment before silently laughing to myself. She's such a weirdo. I remove the bathrobe that I was wearing and pull on the long- sleeved dress she had picked out. It was short, but not short enough to expose anything. It was also very fitting, making it seem as though I had nice curves, when in fact, I don't.