Why My Mate Cries
Chapter 95

Reid’s POV

It was as if there was something hard to swallow after hearing how she yelled at me. Seeing my mate, my Aliyah looking like a mess, as if she no longer knew what to do made it even more painful.

“I-I need some space, Reid. I need time to think and breathe, so, please… I’m so suffocated. Just leave me alone.”

Suffocated. Was it really hard to deal with me? Was she that angry to the point that she felt suffocated when I was near? My jaw moved aggressively as I tried to contain the overwhelming misery I could feel deep inside.

“Is that what you want?” I asked with my hoarse voice, hoping that she would tell me the opposite, that she did not mean those words, that she was just tired so she spat those words without thinking.

I was about to take a step nearer but I stopped when I heard her answer.

“Yes… I don’t want to see you in the meantime. I just need time for everything.”

She needed time. Something I had to accept, something I had to give her.

I shook my head and bit my lower l*p hard to contain everything in me, just so we would no longer hurt each other through our irrational words.

I knew in this, I should be the bigger person. That instead of letting myself get engulfed with anger, I should understand, I should give her what she truly needed… that if she wanted space, I was willing to give her that no matter how upset I was with everything.

Looking back from the pack house, I turned around and was satisfied with just a glimpse of it before I fully left.

In the middle of the forest, in an old barn house, I opened the rusty gates and lighten up the place. For a while, I would stay here and give my mate the space she desired.

Yet, it was not even an hour but I already missed Aliyah because it was only her that I could think of. I missed her hair on our pillow. Her embrace against my skin. The beautiful shine of her eyes— everything.

Despite that, I hold myself together and vowed deep inside that I would let her be alone so she could think of everything fully without my presence.

So for days, I stayed at my barn and did nothing but drink booze.

There was also a time when, Klaus, my Beta, went and visited me wearing his grin as he saw how dirty the place had become because of the bottles that I emptied.

“You looked messed up,” he stated when he peeked at me while I was leaning on the side of the couch.

I only glared at him instead of arguing. My head was too clouded with thoughts about Aliyah. For sure she was with Jaxon again and just thinking about it made me lose my cool.

“Why don’t you join me hunting instead? There are a lot of lost animals around.”

Hunting? It had been a while since I last hunted. Smirking, I stood up and decided to go with him. It was something I needed instead of getting wasted continuously. What I needed now was the fully clear my head.

With our guns, we went deeper into the forest, carefully moving and making sure we were not creating obvious sounds. Only the chip of birds and the sound of dried leaves were heard as we walked.

My eyes were directed at the deer on the north, clearly not aware of our presence. With the hunting gun I had, I was about to pull the trigger when all of the sudden, I felt a presence coming near me.

With a skillful dodge, I slid to the west and eyed the panther that attacked without notice.

“F*****g disturbance,” I growled fiercely.

/”A panther had the courage, huh? I want to slaughter him.”/

Smirking, I let my wolf take over. I felt the surge of power in my body and my senses became enhanced. The Black Panther looked as if he was calculating everything.

I could not contain my growl knowing how he ruined my already tarnished mood.

The ghost of the forest, they were the panther. I knew how smart they were especially with their stealth ability. But they were very hard to deal with at night, too bad for him, the sun was still shining brightly.

Then again, he attacked skillfully, aiming for my neck but I was quicker and used full force using my head to push him forcefully to the tree on the side. His body was crushed against it causing him to g***n but immediately composed himself.

He ran again without thinking of the pain my attack caused and using stealth he faked a move to the side and tried to bite me when in fact he was aiming to harm me with his sharpened claws.

I g*****d when I felt how deep he cut my side. But the pain was nothing more than my rage that had been boiling deep inside me. Faster and tricky that time around, I jumped towards him and pushed him to straddle on the ground. With me above him, I was able to bite his leg causing him to mewl like an infant.

I was already in the middle of winning when I heard Klaus’s voice on the right. After getting distracted, the panther ran away limping because of the damage I caused.

I went back to my normal body and that was when I felt the cuts that the ghost of the forest gave me.

Normally, I would be unscathed in a normal one-on-one fight, but since a panther was a race that should not be taken lightly, I got wounds from him.

“F**k it,” I grumbled while feeling the pain.

“Alpha, I didn’t realize you were engaging in a fight,” Klaus muttered and helped me walk.

But when he saw how my b***d was gushing, he shook his head and stopped.

“This won’t do, I’ll bring you back to the pack house. It’s better if Charlotte does something about the wounds.”

Without my confirmation, he turned into his wolf and nudged me to get on his back. Annoyed, I no longer say anything and did what he wanted.

Quicker than ever, Klaus, my Beta, arrived at Jewel Pack in no time. He quickly brought me to Charlotte’s clinic.

“Goodness, what happened?” the woman asked while looking at my wounds but none of us answered.

“I’ll tell this to Luna immediately,” said Klaus.

I was about to open my damn mouth when he ran away without hearing anything from me. In the end, I cussed out loud and let Charlotte handle my open injuries.