Love with a Jerk by Nikki Plotner (inspirational books to read TXT) 📕

after that, Neil went upstairs. Not sure why, but I went back into the living room and watched movies with my brother for the remainder of the day. Later that night, I went to bed and then was awoken by Ms. Garcia, the maid the next afternoon. She packed two suitcases of clothes and personal belongings for me. I ate dinner with my family and Neil and then went to bed early that night, since we had to catch a plane at five in the morning. My mother came and woke me up at three, the next morning and told me to get ready to go. We left forty minutes later.

Chapter Five: Story

We arrived on the plane and the entire day and a half, we didn’t say much to each other. I felt he was upset about us being mates. When we landed in Dublin, Ireland, we got into his car that was parked in the airport travel parking lot. I got into the passenger seat and looked out the window. When we started to drive, I looked over at Neil.
“Are you upset about having to be my mate”? I asked him. He looked over at me and had a look of “I can’t believe you just asked me that”.
“No, I am not”. He said looking back at the road.
“Then why haven’t you said two words to me before this, since we found out we were mated”? I looked down into my lap, afraid of what his answer was going to be.
“It’s not that I am upset. I am just worried that you will hurt me. I have been hurt before and I don’t trust people easily”. He said looking sincere. I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t know if I should ask him to elaborate or not. Being afraid he would be upset with me for asking him. I decided to get the courage and ask. If I don’t then I will probably never know, right?
“Why don’t you trust people anymore”? I asked trying to sound sincere. I was really curious to why he was the way he was. He looked at me with hesitation for a split second and then looked back to the road.
“When I was in high school, in my second year; I met this girl. She was really pretty and I couldn’t imagine being with anyone else in my life time. I was so happy when I was around her, spending every waking moment with her”.
He looked like he was distant, like he was replaying the past life that he had. What could she have done that made him afraid to trust and be happy in his life?
“Anyways, I was with her for two years. It was the summer after my graduation, when I decided that I wanted to marry her. I went to many different jewelry stores with my best mate Caleb. Finally, I found the perfect ring. It was a white gold band, with shinning white diamonds all around it. In the middle of the band there was a big blue diamond in a diamond shape that attached itself to the wedding band. The wedding band had white diamonds around the band as well. I spent weeks trying to come up with the perfect way to propose to her. Then one day I come home and find her in our bed, but she wasn’t alone. You see she was with Caleb, the one who knew I was going to propose and was my best mate since we were little kids. I found her in bed with him, the day before I was going to propose”. I could see tears starting trying to escape his beautiful eyes, but he was fighting them to come out. I hated this girl for treating him like that. How could she do something like that to him, let alone with his best friend? I put my hand on his shoulder trying to give him reassurance.
“Is that why you’re afraid to be with someone again”? I asked.
“Yes, I am afraid of getting hurt again. I don’t think I could go through that again”. He said with sadness and disappointment in his eyes and voice. Was he disappointed in himself?
“Were you living with your parents, because I thought Alpha males have to live with their parents unless there mates don’t want to”? I asked curiously.
“No, we weren’t living at my parents. She was not a werewolf, so she was not allowed to be around the pack house. I got a house for us after we graduated from school. I guess I should have known it would never have worked out with her because I can’t get mated to a human girl and my mate would come along soon or later and I would eventually have left”. You can never truly be away from your mate once you found them, let alone completed the mating bond. I remembered my father telling me this when I was fourteen years old. I thought to myself.
“I am truly sorry that you went through all of that, but I want you to know I am not that type of person and would never do anything like that to you”. I said to him. I thought if he would know that, just maybe he would give me a chance, instead of keeping a distance between us. After all we do have to be with each other for the rest of our lives.
“I believe you, but you have got to realize that it is going to take me time to get over the vow I made the day she did that to me. That is the main reason why I am keeping a distance away from you Olivia”. Wow, he made a vow, I am so confused, what vow did he make?
“What vow is that”? I asked.
“I vowed to never be with anyone again and to never let myself fall in love with someone again. It was so I wouldn’t get hurt again. It’s going to be hard to let go of that vow, but I will try as best as I can. It is just going to take me some time”.
“It’s fine take all the time you need”. I wanted him to feel safe and learn to trust me. I knew it wasn’t going to happen overnight, but I just hope one of these days he would”. I noticed that we were starting to drive down a long paved drive way. There was a cream colored mansion, that kind of looked like a castle at the end of the drive way. I was in complete awe of the house. I couldn’t believe this was where Neil had grown up at.

Chapter Six: The Family

I got out of the car, when it was parked in front of the house, around the round-a-bout. Neil, told me to just leave my bags in the car, that one of the maids would get it. We walked into the big mansion and were impacted by a little girl, who looked around six. She came and jumped into Neil’s arms.
“Hi Brigee”, he said hugging the little girl. Once again, I was compelled to see him as a nice guy, even though he could be an ass. Neil sat the little girl down turning to me.
“Olivia, this is my little sister Brigit, I call her Brigee”.
“Hello little one”. I said. She smiled up at me and then looked at Neil.
“Who is she”? Brigit asked Neil.
“She is my mate”. Neil said annoyed but happy at the same time. Brigit ran off in another direction. Neil, told me to follow him, so I did. I could smell something cooking. It made the aroma of the room smell homey. We walked into a study, with this older guy sitting at a desk. He looked a lot like Neil, except he had grey eyes. The man looked up, when we walked into his study.
“Welcome back son”. The older man said with a huge pleasing smile on his face.
“Hello father”. Neil said.
“I see you got the girl”. Neil’s dad said.
“Yes, like you didn’t already know. Mr. Collins didn’t already tell you”. Neil said jokingly.
“Well alright then. Introduce her to me”.
“Olivia this is my father Gavin Donavon”.
“Nice to meet you sir”. I said reaching out and shaking his hand. Instead he brought me into a warm reassuring hug, telling me to call him Gavin. I nodded my head yes. Gavin told us that Neil’s mother was in the kitchen. We walked out of the study and went into the living room, come to find some more people sitting watching movies.
“Hello everyone”. Neil shouted. They all jumped surprised to see him.
“When did you get back”? This girl with a baby said.
“Just now, we talked to father and then came in here”. Neil said.
“Well introduce us now Neil. No need to be rude”. The girl said. Neil chuckled.
“Everyone, this is Olivia my mate”. Neil said.
“Nice to meet you Olivia”. The girl said, giving me a quick hug.
“Olivia this is my big sister Evelyn and her baby Katie. The guy sitting next to Evelyn is her husband Luke”. Neil said.
“Nice to meet you guys”. I said politely.
“That over in the back chair is my younger brother Shane”. Neil said.
I noticed that Evelyn has the same eyes as Neil and Brigit, but they have blonde hair. Shane looks exactly like his father, with grey eyes and brown hair. Luke had black hair and blue eyes and the baby looked like she had black hair, but she was too little to know for sure.
“Well come on, let’s go meet my mother”. Neil said pulling me towards the hall. We ended up in the kitchen.
“Hello mom”. Neil said pulling her into a hug. I already could tell that he had a better relationship with his mother than he did with his father.
“Hello dear. How was your trip” She asked.
“It was good, glad to be home though. I want you to meet Olivia, my mate”.
She walked around the counter and pulled me into a hug. “I’m Margaret, Neil’s mother”.
“It’s nice to meet you”.
She turned to Neil and gave him a glare. “You better not doing anything to lose this girl, she is far too nice to treat her badly”. Margaret said.
“Mother I won’t but, I don’t think nice describes her, she did after all color my white shirts pink”.
I started to blush, than Margaret looked me horrified. “I only did