The War God Alpha’s Arranged Bride Novel

---- Chapter 99 | bit the inside of my cheek, worrying that this inconvenient episode was going to make me extremely late heading home. The last thing | wanted was to make everyone worried about my unexpected delayed absence. But it appeared that | really didn't have a choice. | gestured for Micahel to take a seat next to me. From there, | went on to talk about the insanity that endured for the last couple of days while keeping everyone's names censored for privacy purposes.

Michael was locked into my telling of how Fiona purposely poisoned the tea mix with the intention of hurting hundreds of people. "All because she was-what? Jealous?" he asked incredulously. I nodded my head and dared to glance at the time on his watch. Oh my God The time read a little past four. | needed to head back to the house before | ended up facing a flustered Nina and a furious Alexander. "| should really go," | said. "It was nice meeting you, Michael.

| mean, despite having almost fainted in public, I'd say that today was decently surprising and eventful." ---- Michael laughed and nodded his head in agreement. "You're right. | wasn't even planning on coming here today. And to think, | almost missed out on meeting someone as unique and honest as you." My stomach flipped. What the hell is wrong with me? | don't even know this person and already I'm feeling giddy around them. For Christ's sake, get it together, Evelyn. You're not attracted to him, you're just not used to someone giving you this kind of attention.

As sad as it sounded, my inner voice was right. | wasn't someone who just randomly fell head over heels for the first guy who glanced in my direction. Nor should any of that matter now anyway. | was a married woman. Alexander and | were gradually working through our marriage one step at a time. And | was more than happy with it... These estranged feelings that | had toward Michael, weren't necessarily for him. They were a brutal reminder of the feelings | wished were more prevalent between Alexander and myself.

| wanted Alexander to look at me the way that this guy was-I wanted to experience that intensity with him but there always seemed to be some kind of barrier to get through. ---- He'd told me that he was scared for my well-being when I'd been sick; however, he closed up right after that. | should have pressed him to expand on those feelings. Then again, who was | to talk? | was the one who tried to pull away from him in the beginning. | just wish | wasn't filled with so many damn doubts. Our relationship hadn't started off on any normal basis.

We were an arranged marriage and Alexander had put me through trial after trial, testing my devotion as well as my intentions. I'd faced people from his past who made me feel horribly inadequate and filled with self-conflict. Sure, we were getting closer but, at the end of the day, was | really what he wanted? Michael made sure | got up slowly before letting me head back toward the parking lot where the car was waiting. "Perhaps, I'll be lucky enough to see you again," he said with a hopeful note. | returned his smile but decided not to say anything in return.

It wouldn't have been fair to boost his expectations when there was no telling what the future had in store. "Goodbye, Michael."