Savage Mates

Tillie

Pushing open the door to the club, I tried not to think about what Jake had said to me earlier.

I reject you, Tillie Mason.

I mean, who breaks up with someone like that? Now if he had said something like the normal, ‘I think we should see other people’ or even ‘it’s not you, it’s me.’l wouldn’t have thought anything of it. But just the way that Jake had said it. Like it was all formal, I didn’t get it. I supposed that I had dodged a bullet with him. I mean, sure, things had been great for the past few months with him and sure he spent way too much time with his friends.

They all but lived in his apartment and he loved to spend time hiking and doing outdoors, which wasn’t something that I enjoyed. At least, I didn’t enjoy spending that time with his friends. I wouldn’t have minded camping with Jake or even going on a romantic hike with him. They always seemed to tag along.

Today, things had changed. I had dressed up and headed over to his apartment. Expecting to ask him to go out for drinks and dinner. When a woman had opened the door. Her bright pink hair hung in messy curls that framed her heart-shaped face.

“Who are you?” She asked.

“I’m Jake’s girlfriend,” I answered and she stepped back, letting the door open a little more for me to walk past her.

over the floor. The big denim couch that sat in front of the tv was pushed at an odd angle and a blanket was thrown over it. The door clicked closed and I turned back to

seen them in concert. There was a bleach stain on the left sleeve from when I’d had my first sleepover with Jake. We had been cleaning the kitchen when he’d accidentally caught me on the

down her body where the shirt stopped just above her thighs.

“Who are you?

her head to the side to mirror me. Her eyes moved over

full figure. I knew that look. She was writing me off as less than her. She shook her hair back away from her face and neck, exposing an angry looking bite mark on the side of her neck. “Well, I’m more

but her words hurt. I cared about him. He was my boyfriend, even if things had been a little tense between us lately. The door to the bathroom swung open and steam swirled in the sunlit hallway. He had a

he caught sight of me. His brown eyes went wide for just a moment before he started walking

of me. I opened my mouth, trying to think of something that I could say to him. Some way to hurt him like he had hurt me, but nothing came. It was like my mind went blank. I glanced over at

was just talking

stopping in front of me. “I’m sorry. This wasn’t how I

cheater?” I asked. My eyes burned and I looked away from him. How could he be so calm about me catching him

up and resting them on the tops of my arms. The more than a girlfriend let out a growl and my eyes widened. Jake tensed for just a moment, letting his hands fall to