Channing did not turn around for so ti. He was waiting for to let go of his wrist, to run away from the situation. But I held on. He had to turn back. He had to et my eyes.
"Have I done sothing wrong?" I asked innocently, looking for the answer. But his brows crinkled. As if not correctly understanding why I asked that.
His body turned to face as he stood outside of my bedroom door fra and I opened the door full. His eyes looked down, and my eyes followed. He saw still holding on to his wrist and I let go as if gently swatting a fly. It hadn't taken a lot of ti to adjust to the presence of n, but Channing had pulled in yesterday, when drunk. It had made it difficult for with him.
Channing had a faint smile, watching my reaction. The little ti I took to adjust my eyes back to his. "You had hidden the truth, now you have rectified it."
But that answer did not convince . He had been distant before the ti of discovering being the Alpha. There was sothing that happened between last night and the morning.
"Go to sleep now. You had a long day," He said, this ti waiting for my reaction. His care was showing, and yet the distance was still there.
Since he did not want to co onto that topic, I asked upfront, "You are being distant. And it is not subtle, Channing. Have I... Have I done sothing to break your trust in as a person?" If he had ignored my false information in the registry, that ant he still had trust in the person who I was. He did not even bother to push for revealing my true identity a while back. He still had that trust, but then what went wrong?
"What!" He laughed with a huff, but I could see the hesitation in his eyes. When he saw my narrowed eyes and I tilted my head, wanting explanations.
Channing sighed and raised his hand, bringing it forward to pat my head, "I am sorry I missed giving you a head pat back then, was a little distracted. There is nothing distant, Selene" He raised his eyebrows, forcing his usual playful nature forward. "Okay?"
I couldn't help but blink at him. He almost looked normal, but it just wouldn't convince , "No!" My words ca like a rebellious child. "No Channing. Do you take for a fool? Please tell whatever it is. You don't understand how heavy it gets later on, the things can't be fixed then and trust I have seen it happen very badly." I unconsciously took a step ahead, reducing the distance between us and tilted my head up to match his eyes "What is it, Channing? Let's see if we can work it out"
Channing watched step close, but did not budge. His eyes were searching for sothing on my face while I stood with my resolve. I wasn't letting my first friend go this easily.
He rolled his eyes, running his fingers through his hair, sothing he has been doing a lot since he ca here.
Turning his head, he watched through the lobby of my rundown house, outside the broken main door from where the village was visible over a distance. The darkness had covered the skies and lights from the building reflected gently towards my house.
Turning back to find still looking at him, he sighed and entered the room, making turn sideways for him to enter. I didn't know why I shut the door. Maybe he wouldn't want any disturbance.
"Selene" Channing raised his hands to make them fall back again, he was struggling to say.
"Yes, Channing?" I asked, pushing him further, "Just tell the truth"
His grey eyes turned darker as he looked into mine. He was standing at a distance and yet I could see him clearly. "Selene, I don't want people to think I am being partial to you"
He stopped, and it was annoying at this point. He will say two words, pushing forward and drop them.
"Are you being partial?" My eyebrows raised, a minor irritation in my voice.
Channing could see clearly that his going in circles was vexing . "We are close, Selene, aren't we? I don't an having known each other long or getting the door to each other's secrets"
Where was he going with this? Was he still wishing for my secret, where I co from? But he was distant since morning. At this point, he could not twirl round and round. I nodded, waiting to see where it goes this ti.
"We went through so tugging tis together when we first t. You had brought back from death's door," He elaborated further, "You blindly trusted back then and so did I. It is a different bond we share, I can see what you are going through even without the use of my ability and sowhere you understand what I am feeling"
His words were overwhelming and although I wouldn't agree with the part of understanding him, I still had to know him better for that, but I would accept that he understood . They made feel warm on hearing.
Channing casually smiled, "I would obviously be partial to soone with whom I share a special bond. Till the competition for Beta ends, I don't want that biased opinions and liking towards soone to be spotted out. It can hinder the selection of the correct Beta," His lips pursed before continuing, "You know what happened with John Walter, I don't want my trust coming in between this ti"
My eyes narrowed. I did not want to call him out for his childish behaviour.
It was not his trust in John, even though he knew he was wrong and naïve with whatever decisions he had taken to end up in that situation then. If he truly had trusted John, he would have sided with him before believing my side of the story, which he did not take even minutes to do in the hospital.
This man was lying straight through his teeth. Not about the things he just said, but this was not the answer to my question and it irked now.
I might have let him go if he would have lashed out and asked to stay away from him, but with his circling the thing round like he wanted to hold onto and yet keep his distance. In that case, he was going to talk. I would make him tell the truth because even if he did not, I cared!
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