Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 12

“Evan, Claudia’s my date tonight.”

Ken’s voice. It brought me out of my stunned reverie, and I glanced between both men. I might as well have not been there. The challenge in their eyes gleamed bright under the lights, and it didn’t take much to sense there was something more than good-natured ribbing or jealousy behind Ken’s words, or the stare Evan fixed on him.

“Then lend me your dance partner for a while. I came all this way, you could be more generous.”

t taken the initiative to accept his, and he pulled me to the dance floor where dozens of others had been rocking

w abrupt and synchronized everyone’s recovery was.

with me? Where had he even come from! He wasn’t supposed to return until far later tonight, or so the head maid had said. Tha

th someone he disliked, he had taken my hand and danced with me. Was still dancing with me right now. I was so

eally was handsome, even if he was a narcissist. I couldn’t take my eyes off of his as we danced and danced and danced…

w could I have missed it all this time? The sculpted jawline, the bright blue eyes, anyone woul

uld make it through the night if he didn’t let me go of his own volition. What was I supposed to do?

softened to a quieter song. “And didn’t you have business to handle?”

s beautiful. The dress is goo

t hear his thoughts. What was worse was that I couldn’t even dance to begin with, so I couldn’t pour my attention

ible. It was amazing. It was simply too much. Every time I caught his gaze, I forgot every single thing I meant to say, and all I wanted to do was keep dancing,

ll things, it had to end sometime.

ally my turn now, right?” he aske

him. If nothing else, dancing so closely with Evan made me too nervous to speak, but seeing Ken here to rescue me made all the knots undo themselves in my stomach.

im.

rivately, and I almost reacted to it. I held back just in time.

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t I could hear him clearly.

talking about Evan.

use he had mistaken me for someone else entirely?

mate the very next day.

to the party? We just met.”

you.”

hat. Besides, having and waiting for a mate is only an option.”

tion.”

But fortun

o long, or some rejected their mates for various reasons… but not Evan. Finding his mate was his only option. There was no one else for him.

erate for that he would wade in a se

other Alpha in the region. No one had beaten him yet, and no one would dare to dream of it.

t would it take to make him stop this insanity?

irls lurking close by and eyeing him with hungry stares. Of course. He was the reigning Alpha of this entire city, dominating more than ninety percent of the territories that made it up. And he was still single. No woman could ignore that. Handsome. Wealthy. Intelligent.

o simply wait for fate to take its course.

nd of man tried to out

et himself enjoy it.

ady? Besides, we had come separately, so it wasn’t a matter of having to carpool. Or had he come without a car again so we could take mine home together?

a parting word.

n’t have the privilege of showing her to her front door tonight.”

leaving her at, so might as well.”

nodded again, but this time there was a faint thought in his head. (P

? I couldn’t tell.

stomed to. “I’ll see you soon.”

wed him out of the building and off the campus. Just before we reached my car, the great bel

ge, hypnotic dance with Alpha Evan and lasted until now — was fading.