Chapter 135: I slept with Brooke...I don’t regret it...
Selene POV
Noah stared at me as if I was a stranger and he was meeting me for the first time.
Slowly, with precise slow movement, he pushed himself up from his chair and moved around the desk until he stood directly before me. Up close, I could see the faint shadows of exhaustion ringing his eyes. A muscle in his jaw flexed as our gaze met.
I know these last few days have not been easy for him coupled with how rocky our relationship has been lately. I longed to reach out to him, to smooth out the rigid lines of tension from his body with my touch, but his next words froze me.
"I’m fine," he stated without emotion and if he wasn’t standing before me, I could have sworn he was a stranger. "You’ve returned at last. That’s good,".
The caution and the lack of tenderness in his voice sent a chill down my spine. The Noah I knew would be all over me, but he was treating me worse than a stranger. Suddenly, he reached out to me and my heart pumped with anticipation but rather than pulling me into his embrace as I had hoped, his hand settled on my shoulders in an awkward, stiff gesture.
Then he let it drop, then turned his gaze away. "I need some time alone, Selene. A lot happened in your presence and I just want to gather my thoughts," he said over his shoulder. "You should go back to your room and rest. We...will talk more later,".
The clear dismissal felt like a physical blow to me but I could excuse that and reason that it could be because of the whole saga with Conrad but why wasn’t he concerned about where I was or where I had been taken to?
"I know you have a lot on your plate so do I, but we need each other more than anything now, Noah... I need to be with my mate... my husband. Please,"