Chapter 183: Missing her
Dominic knew that there was something wrong. He felt it in his bones the second he woke up. His wolf was pacing inside of him, agitated at something which in turn made him furious as well. The reason? It was unknown but Dominic just fucking knew that something was pissing him off.
"Are you alright?" Tao asked while looking at him carefully. His eyes were filled with wariness, and Dominic knew that it was because he could sense that Dominic was in a totally pissed-off mood. The words ’don’t come close’ were practically printed on his face.
"I am supposed to be," replied Dominic as he placed the documents in his hands. His fingers drummed on the surface of the table as, for the twentieth time, his eyes flashed wolf. The two of them were closely linked with one another, with his wolf pressed right against his surface. Thus, there were times when his emotions would align with his wolf when he was upset.
Tao frowned. "And what’s that supposed to mean?"
Dominic took a sharp breath before saying, "What I mean to say is that I have not the slightest bit of a clue why I am angry. But for some reason, I am." He ground his teeth, feeling another rush of anger.
Tao looked at him. For two minutes, he said nothing and stayed quiet, but then he placed the file in his hands on the table and said, "Dom, you need to snap out of this."
"Snap out of what?" Dominic gritted out with a snap.
"The withdrawal of the mating bond," Tao replied, and Dominic shut his mouth. He didn’t say another word and simply turned his gaze away from his beta. His eyes were now staring at the screen of his computer, but he knew that he was not reading a single word displayed on it.
Because Dominic knew that this was not just the withdrawal of the mating bond. No, it was far from it. He was pissed not because he was going through some stupid metaphysical unwinding. No, it was because he was missing Inez. Her smell had long disappeared, and he could hardly remember how she sounded when she laughed because she hadn’t done it in years in front of him.
In the past, it had never bothered Dominic, but now that Inez was no longer here, he started to miss things that he had never taken to heart. These days, without Inez, they were not just hard; they were terrible. Without her by his side, Dominic started remembering, even hallucinating.
His eyes flickered as he closed them, and there she was, sitting right in front of him, her sixteen-year-old self glaring at him in annoyance.
"Dominic, are you listening to me?" she said to him. Her eyes were blazing with anger as Dominic leaned back in his chair. Twirling the pen in his hand, he looked at her and chuckled, "I am, but you sound B.O.R.I.N.G."