Always Yours by Amicia Bianchi (best books to read fiction TXT) 📕

I would say yes, only if Bryce was on the same page with me… because we could get through it any way that everything turned out. I closed my eyes and let the vision sweep over me…

I was in front of a floor to ceiling window that took up an entire wall. The window had a nice view of the city beyond and I stood there in a shirt that obviously wasn't mine because it was pretty big on me.

Leaning against the window staring out at the view I don't know how many times I found myself staring at this same view since I've been here. I never tired of looking at it.

As my attention was set fully on the view I didn't notice Bryce come behind me until he wrapped his arms around my waist. He pulled me into his chest and kissed my temple causing me to giggle softly.

We stood there in comfortable silence before he spoke.

"Mate," was all he said.

"Mmmm?" I looked up into his eyes seeing how much he loved and cared for me, that captivated me more than the view I had been staring at. This was the look he had me addicted to and every time I saw it I melted. This was the look the one that always made me smile and the one only Bryce showed me. He turned me around, so that my back was now against the window.

"Alyssa," he breathed. At first I had thought he wanted something but I quickly realized that he just liked calling me and I understood how he felt.

"Bryce," I whispered just because I could, he smiled.

"I knew that was my favorite shirt for a reason," I smiled at him just before he leaned down and kissed me…

It was the first vision I ever had and although it was short I saw enough to know that we were mates. We were a bit older in the vision but that didn't change the fact that we obviously weren't around here. It also didn't take away the fact that we are mates and that we were clearly happy together.

And that look… I wish he looked at me like that now…

We're mates why couldn't we make it work? Do you really have to know that they're your mate before you'll look at them like that?

All I wanted was that special look, was that wrong? He's my mate can't I want to see that look? We're mates so we were going to end up together anyway why couldn't he fall in love before he found out and not after? Is that not possible?

But it's fine… I guess, I'm disappointed but I still accept him.

I just thought that since we already knew each other it would have or should have been easier but I guess not. He was my best friend he already should have known anything about me already that would have made him fall in love with me by now, right?

Was it purely the mate bond that makes a person love you, I hadn't felt it yet but I was already in love with him so-

"Alyssa!"

 "Alyssa!" I snapped up at the sound of Angelica's voice.

"What, you called me?" I asked confused.

"Yeah, I've been calling you for like five minutes now," she furrowed her eyebrows.

"Oh, what's going on?" I questioned.

"We should start getting ready for the party."

"Why don't you go ahead with Jason and I'll come after it starts, you know, just for effect," she gave me a worried look.

"You aren't chickening out because of what we talked about are you?"

"No! As a surprise, I'll just come a little after the party starts just enough time for him to talk to people a bit since I'll probably be hogging him for the rest of the night anyway…" finally she laughed and let it go.

She finally left to go meet the guys after I promised to call her when I get there. After she left I watched some TV and hoping that they can distract Bryce better since it'll be two of them. I reached over onto the coffee table to grab my phone and looked at the message he had sent me:

Hey what are you and Angie doing?

With a smile on my face I shook my head at the phone, Jason you're his best friend and you couldn't distract him… I put my phone on the couch next to me and took a nap. I woke up an hour later and was about to pull my hair out as I rushed to get ready. Later my phone vibrated next to me:

Hey babe where are you?

I slapped my forehead, even with two of them... in no time I was hurrying out the door to my car. It was almost like our first date all over again except I was more excited than nervous because I'd been eagerly anticipating the moment I see him.

Despite the fact that I had made myself stay away all day I'd been dying to see him. I'd gotten Angie to distract me just so I wouldn't give in and go over there.

The time had finally come and I couldn't stop smiling every time I imagined his face when he realized I was his mate.

I pulled up to the place his parents had rented for the party and somehow found an empty parking spot close to the building even the rest of the parking lot was full. The party had started half an hour ago so I grabbed his gift and went into the first entrance I saw. I'd never been to this place before so I had no way of knowing that I'd gone through the wrong door, especially when I saw Bryce standing in the middle of the room as soon as I walked in.

I let the door close silently behind me as I stared at him surprised. I stepped away from the door and watched the scene before me transfixed.

This room was obviously a separate room from where the party was supposed to be so I'm not imagining some fantasy here when I say there was no one else in the room, well except some short chick who'd dyed her hair red.

I had one of those distorted moments where I was frozen in place and life continued on around me while I tried to make my body to work.

I wanted to speak but no sound would come out. I want to move but my legs were locked in place.

Suddenly Bryce looked up and I knew the exact moment when he found out but as soon as I saw the recognition in his eyes my view of it was gone and the red haired girl was kissing him.

My body jerked and before I could do anything else I walked out the door I'd come through headed back to my car. Just then my phone rang and before I could say anything,

"Alyssa, where are you? The party has been going on for a while now don't tell me you're not coming..."

"I'm outside," I admitted.

"Oh, well come on the entrance is on the side facing away from the parking lot. I'll be waiting for you," with that she hung up.

I turned around and I don't think I will ever know why but despite everything, I went. I'm not quite sure if it's shock or something else but I felt completely numb when Angelica brought me in to where the party was going on. She guided me through the crowd of people to where Jason was standing with her little sister, Patricia. Jason enveloped me in a hug that I returned without thought when he pulled back he considered me for a few seconds,

"Are you okay?" I looked around at everyone having fun before answering.

"And what would make you think that I wasn't? Stop worrying over me for tonight, okay?" He shook his head whether it was meant as a 'no' or not I didn't get to analyze as something else took my attention.

"Alyssa the gift table is over there if you want to put it with the others," someone offered pointing to it.

Not wanting to stand around with the present I went over to set it down and on my way back to my friends I accidentally ran into a guy.

I'd seen him around before but he wasn't someone that I hung out with so we'd never spoken to each other. He introduced himself as Raymond James, that's when I remembered he had been on the football team albeit he'd done more bench warming than playing most games.

Standing with my friends I had kind of felt as if I'd been waiting on something and it made me restless as I observed everyone.

As I waiting for him to make himself go away it occurred to me that the reason had been because I was waiting for Bryce to come find me.

On some level I'd been hoping he'd chased after me and not stayed there making out with-

"Alyssa," hearing my name I came out of my thoughts.

"What were you saying?" I asked.

"You obviously heard,"

Not a word, I wanted to say but I didn't.

"I should get back to my friends it was nice talking to you though," as I was trying to leave he stopped me. He'd put a hand on my arm.

"You're funny, I'd hardly say we talked," he laughed.

So he actually noticed, I smiled more amused because of my own joke then for his sake.

At that moment I heard a growl then felt a second hand grab me, this one was much stronger and felt familiar, when I looked to the owner I saw Bryce. He narrowed his eyes at Raymond, who shrunk away intimidated by the dark look he'd been issued from over my head, before I was dragged into an empty hallway adjacent to the room everyone else was in.

"What was that just now?" he questioned me.

"I was talking-"

"It looked like you were flirting with that bench warmer, Raymond James," his eyes were the deepest shade of green I'd ever seen them with prominent amber flecks that told me he was struggling to keep his wolf at bay. "I can't believe he even touched you," his eyes darkened with murderous intent.

I could see that he was angry and I knew somewhere in the back of my mind that I should be trying to calm him down rather than provoking him but I didn't care to right now.

"Seriously what am I to you really that has you this mad?" The next thing I knew I was trapped between the wall and Bryce who'd thrown me off guard with a kiss.

"Mine," his wolf growled.

"Yours," I said back instinctively, "yes Bryce, yours but if I'm truly this important to you why were you in that room with her? What were you thinking? Emy Hickens? Really Bryce, Emy Hickens? You couldn't have picked any worse. You couldn't have picked a better person to show me that you clearly don't care," I half-heartedly hit his chest.

Emy Hickens was a spoiled girl who dyed her hair a different color nearly every day, changed guys just as often. She thought she could have anybody she wanted and didn't care if the new guy she