Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 28

He must have taken my suggestion seriously. By the time I washed up and went down for breakfast fifteen minutes later, Evan was gone. The housekeeper said he had disappeared in a hurry, driving off with Peelle without an explanation to the staff. But I knew. He must have gone off to Dark Moon territory again.

Was there a point, though? It was not only possible but likely that if someone there had been intimately involved in the betrayal of his family, they were already dead. He had slaughtered everyone related to Alpha Kris after all… I shook my head, driving the grisly thoughts away. That was in the past now. I would never forget what Evan had done, but there was no way to bring anyone back from death. It was over. Evan might find that the path was a dead end.

But maybe he could find clues another way. I texted Peelle, staging the suggestion like an uncertain question. Didn’t we stop by the city garden that day you escorted me? I asked. I can’t remember clearly anymore but I think I got my cuttings from there. Do you remember stopping by anywhere else?

d times more.

me. He might find it strange that I would ask him instead of telling Evan outright, but hopefully I had masked it with enough questions that he wouldn’t find it too odd.

ging his mind about annexing another pack in two weeks. He was still searching for his mate, and the mystery of that curse he had fleetingly thought of was no closer to being solved. I had to give up. I could no longer hope and dream that he tossed it all away and came to me instead,

eyes and accept it. I had to get on with my li

ugh that I could have breakfast in peace.

ally would be stronger.

***

today.

xt, this time from Ken.

ou up in a few minutes?

’m already heading out now

about joining me

would be great to have you too.

efore.

f history pinned our origins at around nine hundred years ago, but this wolf could have lived during any point between then and now.

on display in a vat of preserving chemicals for examination by thousands of students over the years. What would this werewolf think if they were alive to know what was happen

idn’t seem to notice I had taken a few extra minutes to get there.

rn glower in return. She was not going to play matchmaker today. I placed my plate on the table and greeted them all, and soon rapid conversation overtook the four of us.

t questions on investments and business. Raf and Leon turned surprised eyes upon me.

dden alarm, but I shook my head, hearing her frantic thoughts. If I could only reassure her that Evan wasn’t withholding anything from me and that my

ad no permanent place to sleep in the pack house, they would drown me in sympathy. I didn’t want that.

whole truth. They would be horrified to know that Elly and Maria had gotten grand bedrooms while I stayed in cellars and attics, choking on dust and grime. “So the way to get my own place would be to make my own money, and I want to have a lot of it. I want to stand on my own feet and take care

in it.”

standing finally. This wasn’t just about the incident that had gone down between Evan and me, not completely. It was related, but the realization that I was so dependent on his money that I couldn’t even run away from him and the pain of

to get out. But more i

e anything to follow through on it. He was no longer expecting anything of me. He didn’t even really want to be lovers, even if he had tried to kiss me… He had no idea what to d

thoughtless.

same pack now. But this wasn’t how it should be.

ng on moving out,” said Ken. “How soon are

ossible.”

m. She can get out from under Evan’s shadow.

He had no idea I could hear his every thought, or that his faith that I could thrive without

him. I could do it on my own. I had to.

g between Evan and me to rest.