Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 25
When Peelle had called mentioning that Evan was worried, I had assumed he meant Evan had not yet returned to the manor. But when I headed upstairs to my bedroom, the door to his own was wide open with the lights on. If I hadn’t seen his long shadow sliding across the threshold of the doorway, I might have thought it was a maid cleaning up, but there could be no mistake. Evan was home.
My gut churned. So he had been able to talk on the phone after all, and yet he had ordered Peelle to call me instead. Was he that determined to keep distance between us now? I had drawn back and patiently waited to see what he would do, even though I had tried so hard to convince myself I no longer cared. But this… Just more proof that it was far too late, if there had ever been a chance in the first place. Evan was avoiding me.
And yet just as I took the first step across my bedroom doorway, ready to throw myself into a miserable night full of more nightmares, Evan appeared.
y paused right before I took the second step. No matter how I tried, I couldn’t help it. What if he said something? What if he wanted me to stay? What if he…
ess tinged with jealousy radia
t gave away what might be hiding under the surface.
ad fun while I was gone.
was i
yed myself?
miserable as he was. More miserable than he was.
en the one to let me have it after so long.
. There’s nothing to worry about.”
ust friend
Was he asking as my employer? My landlord? My new Alpha?
was asking… but he refused to do that too, stubbornly letting the silence persist when I gave h
left him to brood in the hallway and entered my room, closing the door behind me.
***
f had texted me earlier when I was at Ken’s h
me, I texted her. Why would you go and do that!
updates. So what happened!! Tell me everything and don’t leave out a single detail.
should keep
live your life. This is the way to do that.
m morning to night.
You fast little racecar! You actually went to his place already! OMG! You’re moving so fast, what did I tell you! Anyway, what does
’s not like that. He
inx! I bet you were kissing all over each other the second you got inside.
to mean something.
count. Maybe. I wasn’t sure. Was it
eeded to be careful what I told Raf.
lasses tomorrow.
He wants that hanky-panky first thing in the
in the other day.
these, and she sent me link after link and practically gave me assignments like a professor to follow up with.
auty parlor attached to the manor for all the female werewolves going in and out of the place would have even more, I guessed. That first night when the maid team had cleaned and dressed me up, there had been shelves full of product I hadn’t thought to explore.
lor had them.
tayed up late to finish my botany assignments and a lab write-up. Once I finished, I obediently went through an abbreviated skincare routine before turning in to sleep, just as Raf had ordered.
ring the night. Was I cured? I’d been worried I would have to start making banshee weed remedies for myself like I was a little child again, but maybe I would be spared.
ntent he radiated at me.
no intention of changing his mind, he had the nerve to be angry that I wasn’t initiating communication with him. The dark thoughts swirling in his head were hard to read, but I could gather their surface meaning. He didn’t want to be the one approaching me after everything he had said back in the woods by Dark Moon. He wanted me around, but he didn’t want it to mean anything deeper.
ned that nothing would ever happen between us while he insisted on searching for his fated mate?
lace me? Did he think I had no pride as a werewolf, as a human being? As a woman?
. Ken drove me here yesterday.”
’ll drive you to school, then. Yo
to play games even though he had made it clear I was never going to be anything more than a temporary placeholder for him?
arrived. He says there was an arrangement to pick up Miss Claudia this morning.”
clenched. f**k.