Admitting defeat for today, I decide to concentrate on what I will be doing this evening, so firstly I call Sal who says she would be delighted to watch Summer at her mother’s house overnight and that having my sweet little girl around will brighten her day a bit.
Secondly, I sort out something suitable to wear. I will be meeting the rest of Aiden’s pack tonight and I want to make a good impression. He told me to keep it casual and relaxed. He had also invited me and Summer to Amber and Preston’s Mating Ceremony the following night.
“I want you to see what the bond means and how special it is. We see it as blessed and sacred. I hope eventually you will agree to have a ceremony of our own.”
It sounds very much like a wedding. And with a bitter taste left in my mouth from Ryan’s latest antics being revealed, I acquiesce and accept his invitation, but make no promises about us having our own ceremony.
The truth is when I am with Aiden, I have never been more sure of anything. I know I love him and want to spend the rest of my life with him. However, I have been such a fool when it came to Ryan and so although I desperately want to be with Aiden now, I have flashes of doubt in my own ability to make the right decision. But Aiden isn’t Ryan, he is one hundred times the man Ryan could ever dream to be.
I call Aiden back and pour my heart out to him, explaining everything and I tell how it makes me feel.
“Don’t worry, Shortie, we will work through this together, I promise.”
And I know he is right because I am stronger now thanks to Ryan’s ill treatment. For every time he hurt me, I became stronger. I suppose at the end of the day, I should thank him for that.