Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 27
I pushed him away.
“Evan, no! You know–!”
I couldn’t even finish what I’d meant to say, the words catching in my throat like burning barbs gouging deep. How could he? All while thinking, all while knowing he would never stay with me, all while plotting to find another woman to be the one for him no matter what I did, he was still trying to do this to me?
I’ve lost her.
ing… this was the choice he had made
o even more chaos.
ut beneath the anger and the panic was also fear. The fear of losing me, not as a lover,
ld out my arms in an offer of an embrace.
just to make you happy for a litt
burst into tears just thinking about how all of this was stolen, these few moments that didn’t even belong to me but were being held in trust f
at it was.
u left for Dark Moon.”
s been t
lucky for us, I brought back some of the banshee weed from the Dark Moon gardens and the cit
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from the gashes I had opened in my heart, hoping in vain that he would accept me, and then he had to go and…
Why?
to my eyes as I took cuttings of two banshee weed sprouts I had potted after coming back to Scarlet ter
y to toss me aside like yesterday’s trash once he found who he had been searching for.
wanted me to stay in the pack house with an official mistress’s room once his mate and future Luna moved in. Whenever she was busy, he would call me over and kiss, have s*x, whatever it was, and then tell me to leave the
ade me throw up. I hung my head as I squatted on the ground, willing my stomach to settle and my heart to slow.
ed. Once he pulled himself together, he would stop tormenting me. That was all.
ould be okay. A year from now, a month, however long it was before another woman walked in and they stood together in a warm embrace… I would be okay.
nd until then, I worked. Hard. That was all.
urning leaves carry high into the night sky.
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I know it smells a lot s
s off and the room empty, I had known where to find Evan.
ad made me sleep here. Right next to him.
ven said that next morning how he would make me sleep by his side from then on, but he had never followed through with it. Would that change tonight
How much it hurt. And I could never explain how devastating it was to look into the future before us and know that path was closed to me f
”
d. Come in. So eas
expression making it evident he had caught the strong scent from across the room. Keen senses, but also, the true power of Dark Moon’s banshee weed. Despite feeling terrible, I had to giggle at it.
f their potency.”
our. And musk
Drink.”
he looked like he wanted to spit out the contents several times, but I watched hi
hat was a good sign. It meant sleep was quickly taking him, and in a minute, he would be long gone. “I’ll stay here until you fall asleep.”
t him, watching as he settled into the pillow with a frown.
to rest.
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have fallen asleep in the early hours of the morning. I was only dozing when Evan knocked on my door, and I hastily answered it. He stood in the doorway with a dark, brooding look on h
nly found in Dark Moon territory?”
banshee weed in general grows in several regions. Why? What is it?”
It lingers.”
ed. I think they might have been drugged with this.”
as only this strong because of the smoking method, which almost no one in Dark Moon knew. The method was too precise and more labor-intensive than simply steeping it in tea. But who else knew? I’d learned it from an old note lying around in a cupboard, not from someone specific.
you, Claudia.”