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Story: 101 Proposals? No, Alpha
The difference is that I chased him for seven years.
I was just about to depart when my phone rang and Jonat sent me a message.
“I’ll be there waiting for you for the 101st proposal tomorrow night.”
I grinned a little, then banned his number and got rid of all of his contact information and messages.
I said goodbye to all my coworkers and then departed the Werewolf Council Office.
I went to the airport in Burna City with my bags already packed.
…
Jonat, who had always turned me down and refused to get close to me, showed up in formal clothes and waited for me in front of the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs.
As soon as the plane took off, I let out a big sigh of relief and felt free. I closed my eyes, turned my phone to aeroplane mode and got ready to have a decent slumber in this long-lost moment of quiet.
My favourite ballad, an old werewolf pack song, played over and over in my headphones. It was soft and lilting, and it felt like it was waking me up from a long, bad dream.
Kista remarked to me, “You are free now, Mia.”
For years, I felt stuck in the endless, cruel cycle that Jonat weaved. I lost myself for a love I had mistakenly believed in and told him how much I loved him over and over again.
I asked him to link with me 100 times, and every time I was met with cold rejection and soul-crushing heartbreak. But I never gave up.
I thought that if I kept trying, he would eventually become my partner.
But I was incorrect.
To Jonat, my love was merely a silly one-sided confession that he played with while I sank deeper into the quagmire for his amusement. To him, it was probably just another fleeting entertainment in the world of werewolves.
As the chairman of the Werewolf Council, he used my admiration to boost his ego and pride, but he never really saw me as his fated mate. I was just one of the many people who admired him and could be thrown away at any time, a backup partner at most.
He thought my years of dedication and commitment were just a joke that would be forgotten.
So I decided to leave.
When I got to my location and turned on my phone, I got a lot of messages, all of them regarding Jonat. This didn’t surprise me because he was the Werewolf Council’s supreme leader and everything he did would make a big deal in the city.
That’s also why he made me ask him to marry me a hundred times.
That so, every time he was “late,” it became gossip at the Werewolf Council and a joke at banquets among the nobles. As a result, I became the sad joke that everyone made fun of.
Notifications kept flashing up on my screen at that time.
“Shocking news!” Jonat, the head of the Werewolf Council, is waiting at the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs and is thought to have been stood up! ”
“Alpha Jonat’s plan doesn’t work! His secret partner goes missing, and people on the internet are going crazy! ”
I clicked on one of the headlines, and a picture came up that looked both familiar and weird. Jonat stood at the door of the Mate Affairs office, dressed in a black suit and clutching a bouquet of bright roses. He seemed excited and happy.
His face showed the love and longing I had wanted to see, but no one was there with him.
I stared at the picture with no expression on my face, my nose tearing with emotion. I had dreamed of that precise moment so many times.
There was a short news story under the picture.
“This morning, Jonat, the head of the Werewolf Council, came to the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs in a black suit and brought gifts. He seemed ready to connect with his beloved, but he waited all day and couldn’t. A bystander filmed the event and posted it online, which led to heated comments all over the area.
I let out a quiet sigh, feeling a tempest of confused feelings in my heart. I could almost see the look on his face as his hope turned into disappointment, and maybe even anger.
He was probably wondering why I didn’t show up, and maybe he even blamed me for breaking a promise. He would never know how I had walked away crying a hundred times and how I had to swallow my pride just to face him again. But now I didn’t care. I had finally found myself again.
At the same time, the person who used to be invisible had suddenly become the talk of the town.
“Did you hear? Mia is gone! ”
“What? She went? When did that take place? ”
“Just yesterday.” She filled up her resignation papers and left without saying anything.
“Unbelievable!” Why would she quit all of a sudden? ”
“You didn’t know?” Today, Alpha Jonat went to the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs to propose, but no one showed up. ”
“What?” Are you kidding? ”
“Of course! I witnessed the news for myself. It’s all over the place! ”
“That’s right! And you know what? He asked Mia to marry him! ”
“Not a chance… That’s crazy. Is it possible that it’s fake news? ”
These rumours flew through the Werewolf Council Office like wildfire, as if the talk itself had grown wings and flown around.
My departure and Jonat being standing up right after led to a lot of suspicion.
My coworkers started to remember every little thing that happened between Jonat and me. All of those little things that they had formerly ignored were suddenly blown out of proportion and open to countless interpretations.
I was just about to depart when my phone rang and Jonat sent me a message.
“I’ll be there waiting for you for the 101st proposal tomorrow night.”
I grinned a little, then banned his number and got rid of all of his contact information and messages.
I said goodbye to all my coworkers and then departed the Werewolf Council Office.
I went to the airport in Burna City with my bags already packed.
…
Jonat, who had always turned me down and refused to get close to me, showed up in formal clothes and waited for me in front of the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs.
As soon as the plane took off, I let out a big sigh of relief and felt free. I closed my eyes, turned my phone to aeroplane mode and got ready to have a decent slumber in this long-lost moment of quiet.
My favourite ballad, an old werewolf pack song, played over and over in my headphones. It was soft and lilting, and it felt like it was waking me up from a long, bad dream.
Kista remarked to me, “You are free now, Mia.”
For years, I felt stuck in the endless, cruel cycle that Jonat weaved. I lost myself for a love I had mistakenly believed in and told him how much I loved him over and over again.
I asked him to link with me 100 times, and every time I was met with cold rejection and soul-crushing heartbreak. But I never gave up.
I thought that if I kept trying, he would eventually become my partner.
But I was incorrect.
To Jonat, my love was merely a silly one-sided confession that he played with while I sank deeper into the quagmire for his amusement. To him, it was probably just another fleeting entertainment in the world of werewolves.
As the chairman of the Werewolf Council, he used my admiration to boost his ego and pride, but he never really saw me as his fated mate. I was just one of the many people who admired him and could be thrown away at any time, a backup partner at most.
He thought my years of dedication and commitment were just a joke that would be forgotten.
So I decided to leave.
When I got to my location and turned on my phone, I got a lot of messages, all of them regarding Jonat. This didn’t surprise me because he was the Werewolf Council’s supreme leader and everything he did would make a big deal in the city.
That’s also why he made me ask him to marry me a hundred times.
That so, every time he was “late,” it became gossip at the Werewolf Council and a joke at banquets among the nobles. As a result, I became the sad joke that everyone made fun of.
Notifications kept flashing up on my screen at that time.
“Shocking news!” Jonat, the head of the Werewolf Council, is waiting at the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs and is thought to have been stood up! ”
“Alpha Jonat’s plan doesn’t work! His secret partner goes missing, and people on the internet are going crazy! ”
I clicked on one of the headlines, and a picture came up that looked both familiar and weird. Jonat stood at the door of the Mate Affairs office, dressed in a black suit and clutching a bouquet of bright roses. He seemed excited and happy.
His face showed the love and longing I had wanted to see, but no one was there with him.
I stared at the picture with no expression on my face, my nose tearing with emotion. I had dreamed of that precise moment so many times.
There was a short news story under the picture.
“This morning, Jonat, the head of the Werewolf Council, came to the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs in a black suit and brought gifts. He seemed ready to connect with his beloved, but he waited all day and couldn’t. A bystander filmed the event and posted it online, which led to heated comments all over the area.
I let out a quiet sigh, feeling a tempest of confused feelings in my heart. I could almost see the look on his face as his hope turned into disappointment, and maybe even anger.
He was probably wondering why I didn’t show up, and maybe he even blamed me for breaking a promise. He would never know how I had walked away crying a hundred times and how I had to swallow my pride just to face him again. But now I didn’t care. I had finally found myself again.
At the same time, the person who used to be invisible had suddenly become the talk of the town.
“Did you hear? Mia is gone! ”
“What? She went? When did that take place? ”
“Just yesterday.” She filled up her resignation papers and left without saying anything.
“Unbelievable!” Why would she quit all of a sudden? ”
“You didn’t know?” Today, Alpha Jonat went to the Office of Werewolf Mate Affairs to propose, but no one showed up. ”
“What?” Are you kidding? ”
“Of course! I witnessed the news for myself. It’s all over the place! ”
“That’s right! And you know what? He asked Mia to marry him! ”
“Not a chance… That’s crazy. Is it possible that it’s fake news? ”
These rumours flew through the Werewolf Council Office like wildfire, as if the talk itself had grown wings and flown around.
My departure and Jonat being standing up right after led to a lot of suspicion.
My coworkers started to remember every little thing that happened between Jonat and me. All of those little things that they had formerly ignored were suddenly blown out of proportion and open to countless interpretations.