I Rejected You, Alpha

ELEIA’S POV

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After Aiden paid for the car, we headed to the mall, “Now Cleo, we’d appreciate it if you didn’t tell Felix or Arlen, especially Arlen, about the car. It is a surprise.” Aiden glances at her through the visor mirror, “Because Arlen has a big mouth.” she snorts, nodding. I turn in my seat, glancing at her, “Thanks sweetie.” I smile, looking at Aiden and then back at her. “Did you want to buy underwear?” I ask and her eyes grow wide, she glances at Aiden, “Mom.” she grits out whiningly and I forget that I use to be that shy too, “Sorry.” I throw my hands up in the air to surrender, “I forgot.” my eyes widen as I turn to the front, biting guiltily into my bottom l*p.

I didn’t want to make her feel less, or uncomfortable, but with Aiden, I never had a problem talking about anything.

We’re close, closer than ever and it’s just so comfortable, but I get it. He’s not her real dad and she’s seventeen, young and shy.

“My love…” I let my hand rest on Aiden’s, who’s holding the shift of the car, “Yes.” he glances, grinning at me with loving eyes, “Would you mind getting something to eat while Cleo and I shop?”, “You mean at home? Because that could take hours.” he snorts, teasing me. I swat his arm, not hard, as I scoff, “How dare you? You can go home, I’ll have Rosie pick us up, or even Felix.” I roll my eyes, crossing my arms over my chest as I glance out of the window. The cars fly by, speeding so fast that you could barely see the faces behind the windshield.

“Oh, you know I just love teasing you.” his fingers brush over my bare thigh, dipping underneath my sundress and I shove his hand to the side, glaring at him.

‘We have a child in the car!’ I yell at him through the mind link while I stare at him like he’s crazy.

‘I know, no need to yell.’ his eyes narrow at me and I roll my eyes again before sliding my legs to the door, away from his grasp and out of his reach.

“Yeah, I’ll maybe go shop for myself while you too hang around. And then go eat because I take like half an hour, max.” he says it like he’s proud of it, but the truth is, something, just one thing, won’t fit or sit right and then I would have to come back and swap it or return it. “You better keep the receipts.” I warn and he laughs, “I always do.”

Liar, he never does and we have to track the credit card back to the purchase and when I say we, I mean the cashier behind the counter and I, because he doesn’t help- not one bit.

Cleo and I part ways with Aiden when we go into a clothing shop and she immediately disappears to the underwear section. It makes me feel like a bad mom, did I not take it seriously when she said that she needed underwear? It seems urgent at this moment.

I follow her, letting her glance around and I do too, for myself of course. She comes up to me, holding a pair of granny panties and I kind of feel it’s my job to make her feel good.

“Sweety, don’t you want something more… good-looking?” I wiggle my brows and the horror that falls over her face makes me regret it, “It’s just me seeing it. So…” her lips twist to the side, her eyes glancing around. “Well what about sports? School’s almost starting and you have PE.” I shrug and her eyes narrow and I could tell she didn’t think of that. “Sweetie, girls these days are…bithces.” I blurt out and a smile crosses her face, “So let’s get you something they won’t bully you over.” I sigh and take the granny panties from her and put it back on the shelf.

We take at least ten minutes to choose out at least seven panties and gorgeous bra’s that fit her. We decide on getting sport bra’s too, but not the lame ones, the ones with the open back and straps holding it together.

“I think I’m done.” she shrugs and I tilt my head to her, “What about some new clothes?” I offer, glancing around and I could tell it peeked her interest, but she seemed to shy to ask. Turning back to me, she shrugs, “It’s fine.”, “How about we get new ones and donate some old ones?” I offer and that seemed to do the trick because she agreed.

Since Cleo was a child, she helped people. I could tell it was in her nature. She loved looking after Arlen and play with him, she once took her new dress because one of our omega’s children torn hers and she was upset, even though it was already old.

It made me love her more, because I believe that if I grew up here, with my parents, I would have been the same.

I see myself in her.

We continued to shop until Aiden called me and I wanted to go home, that’s when I realized that we’d been in the same shop for about more than an hour and a half, trying on clothes, laughing and it felt normal again- between Cleo and I.

“We’re almost done.” I lie as I hand Cleo a few dresses through the curtain of the changing room.

She gives me a worried look, but I wave it off, “Try those on.” I mouth to her without making a sound and she smiles and continues to change.

“You’re still not done?” Aiden sighs and I could tell he was getting impatient, “I just saw Felix, I’ll call him for a ride. I know you have things to do, go.” I beam and I swear I could feel the atmosphere change, “Are you sure?” Aiden asks, “Yes, I love you.” I beam, feeling like it’s the first time I said it. “I love you too.” he murmurs before ending the call and I scroll through my contacts in search for Felix’s number.

“Mother.” Felix sighs as he answers the phone, “When did I stop becoming mommy?” I tease, knowing fully well he’s with his friends. “Mom.” his tone is filled with warning and I giggle a bit, “I’m kidding, could you pick us up at the mall in town?” I ask, batting my eyes as if he could see me, but he can’t.

“Right now?” I don’t miss the irritable tone, “In about an hour.” he doesn’t answer and I guess he’s checking the time, “Yeah fine.” He blows out a breath and I thank him before ending the call.

Aiden is going to be mad that I interrupted Felix’s plans, but he’s my son. I gave birth to him, he can drive me around.

After we’re done shopping, Cleo and I wait outside for Felix, but since the dressing room, she’s been less happy, less talkative.

“Did I upset you?” I ask as I notice our car drive into the parking lot. Cleo’s head snaps to me, a smile on her face, “No, I really enjoyed today. Thanks mom.” she picks up the bags at her feet and I pick the others up at mine as the car comes to a slow halt in front of us, “Did someone call an uber?” Felix teases as his elbow rests on the window sill. “Haha.” I beam as I put our things in the trunk and get into the front seat.

Felix glances back at Cleo, smiling at her before turning to the front, “Did you two buy the entire mall empty?” he jokes as he smoothly pulls away and I put my seatbelt on. I don’t have trust issues with my son’s driving, but he learned from Aiden and that’s enough to know I have to wear a seat belt, not because we could crash, but because my body might lean side to side the entire drive.

“It’s just a few things.” I shrug, not making the mistake to mention underwear shopping again as he drives us home.

Arriving home with a relaxed body and not a stiff one, was a shock, but I was happy about it. I could now see that Aiden was right, that Felix does deserve his own car. He rightfully does.

“Thanks for driving us,” I smile as I unbuckle myself, “Yeah well, dad said I was not to drive like a maniac when you’re in the car.” he throws his head back against the headrest and I shake my head, “And he’s right, otherwise I wouldn’t let you use the car again, ever.” I threaten jokingly, “If only I had my own car.” he beams, the hope in his tone making me want to tell him he’s going to get one, but I don’t wan’t to ruin his surprise.

I close the door, leaning down to look at him through the window, “Maybe when you’re twenty one.” I wink before tapping the door and head to the trunk where I help Cleo with the bags.

“Let’s get these things washed before you put them away.” I brush my fingers through Cleo’s soft ends before picking up the bags and we head inside while Felix speeds off, just because he’s trying to make me mad.