Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

358-An Alpha Cannot Control Me

The three days felt like living in hell. Every time we friends were together, I would see Maynard

staring at me without breaking eye contact. I was worried Christina or Lazio will notice it and

think something was up.

Finally, the day of the mating ceremony arrived. I was excited to head out of there and go back

to the academy. Lazio had worn a grey suit, while Maynard wore a black suit. Christina looked

extremely gorgeous in her white wedding gown. She had selected a peach dress for me as her

bride's maid.

‘I hope everything goes by nicely,' I whispered to Nia before walking down the aisle with the

bouquet in my hands. Maynard had walked to the gazebo before us. He was smiling and taking

greetings until his eyes landed on me.

We hadn't been able to talk because our last conversation was so awkward. It was then that I

saw him smile at me. I had to smile back because, well, it was his wedding and we had some

wonderful memories together.

He kept staring at me even when I reached him and stood on the spot where Christina was

supposed to stand a step ahead, facing him.

I tried looking around, but his stare was so intense that I could not turn away from him. It was

then that I saw Christina walking down the aisle with Lazio. I turned to Maynard, but his eyes

were still stuck on me.

I had to grab my phone and text him to get his attention back to his mate and Luna.

Me: She is walking down the aisle and probably waiting for your reaction.

I saw him read my text and then look over at her.

He finally started paying attention to her, and the ceremony began. Lazio stood beside me as the two exchanged

vows.

Usually, when mates see something so romantic, they want to experience it too. I don't know what Lazio was

feeling, but I couldn't get my mind off of Thiago.

'He would look so good in a black suit. Waiting for us here with a smirk on his lips and his behavior, eyes staring at

us as we walked down the aisle,' I told Nia, feeling goosebumps as I thought of my mating ceremony with Thiago.

"Hey!" Lazio elbowing me, woke me up. I shook my head and started clapping to accompany him.

Christina and Maynard finally tied the knot. I didn't want to stick around and ruin their night, so I wanted to head

back to the academy.

Lazio was reluctant because he wanted to stay, but then when he heard I was ready to leave and to call myself an

Uber, he got on board with the plan.

"The preparations were all last time, but the wedding turned out so good," Lazio mumbled, driving the car while I

had my head resting peacefully. And turned to the other side to look outside the window from the passenger seat.

I was stuck in some other world.

I couldn't help but think about Thiago.

"Yeah!" I answered absentmindedly. Nothing seemed to be moving in my life anymore, not even this moving car.

"Did you notice how the pack members were looking at me?" I uttered under my breath, my eyes following the

road we were leaving behind.

"I mean, obviously." Lazio answered, "They have found out about your mother. They are bound to react. It is not a

small thing to watch someone being so many alpha mates whose mother—," he paused only so that he can give his

head a jerk and scoff.

"Hm! No, I get it. But it is not like I did something wrong. I was barely 6 at that time when she was doing all that." I

stated that, but he didn't comment on that. We stayed silent for a few seconds before he cleared his throat and

started talking again.

"I think you shouldn't make it about yourself. This matter is very sensitive, and many people have suffered from it. It

is not very thoughtful of you to keep talking about yourself only." He finished talking, and I couldn't come up with a

response for a hot minute.

It took me some time to even process his words. What he was trying to say was that I was making it about myself

by even wondering why people were giving me hateful glares.

"Lazio! you are my mate. I am supposed to share my worries with you. I am not going around

fighting people for glaring at me. But I can share what is in my heart with you, or I can't do that

either anymore?" I complained, turning in my seat to face him and watching him roll his eyes at

me.

"I am sorry! What is this attitude for?" I couldn't help myself but ask him, finally. He had been

giving me shit over something my mother did.

"Nothing, okay? Would you let it go? I am driving, let’s not argue," he said, raising his voice and

putting pressure on the steering wheel until he finally remembered he was driving.

"Fine. Then stop the fucking car so that we can talk about this," I commanded as I placed my

hand on the door, ready to leave.

"Don't be stubborn. We are in the middle of nowhere, and it's so dark outside. Sit down, we will

talk when we are in the academy," he tightened his grip on the steering wheel and yelled at me.

I felt odd listening to him.

It wasn't even like he was concerned about our safety; he was just trying to control me.

"Lazio! I said, fucking stop." I stood my ground just so that he knows he cannot force me into

doing something just for the sake of showing his power and control over me.

"If you don't stop now, I will stop the car," I warned him, and he stopped with so much force that

if I didn’t have the seatbelt on, I would have crashed on the windshield.

"This is what you wanted to do? Use your power over me? It's always just you trying to prove

how you are bigger and better than an Alpha, isn’t it?" He started yelling at me, talking about

something I never did.

It wasn't my fault that I wasn't a regular omega that an alpha could control.