Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 30
Leon and Rafael picked me up in his truck. I had only one duffel bag of my clothes and my backpack, just the essentials. I could have never lived with myself if I had taken any of the luxuries and creature comforts that had been given to me during my stay here. Not once had I ever forgotten all of it was a kindness, and that at any time, I could have been tossed back into Dark Moon to live out my days in captivity and servitude.
That life was far behind me now, but I would never truly be comfortable in all these affluent trappings because of it. Leaving them all behind was a comfort more than a sadness, but I was thankful for all the generosity everyone had shown me since my first day.
It was just time to strike out on my own. It had been time for a while now.
get all of this together in less than three hours, I didn’t understand — until the doorbell rang, and Ken showed up on the doorstep.
the doorway. “Come in!”
d a bottle of champagne with a red ribbon around the neck as he entered. “My gift to you
ut all of this together. He had his people pick up the food and rush order the
hugged me tight.
r birthday,” she said. “I was so upset. I didn’t say anything then
ran out, and Ken leaning in and giving me a firm side hug that brought tears to my eyes…
l in a favor and get two this time.
h was to earn enough money to outright buy the house soon, and to pay Evan back as soon as possi
that I hoped he either got the revenge he hungered for so he could finally have peace, or that he could erase his hatred altogether.
hatever it was, would leave him.
dles out, all at once.
***
d butterflies in my stomach.
Those windows the rain pattered against, those were mine too now.
ecided as I relaxed in the tub. My tub! And I could bathe and relax for as long as I wanted. Even in the Scarlet manor, I’d been too anxious to spend too long in my ‘own’ bathroom. Because deep down, I’d known that place could never
sound, but that had been so loud the water rippled in my tub.
that! What had that been! Was someone breaking in! I prepared my wolf as I stepped
I rushed downstairs, feet padding down the steps at lightning speed… the sight that met me stopped me in my tr
Evan.
slightly from the banister I had grabbed onto.
et a towel. You sho
ly warrior, but one second he had been standing in the living room, and in the next, he was on top of me where I had stopped near the foot of the stairs. He forced me down, heavy body crashing into mine, and I struggled between his weight and the
obe.
ch fervor he abandoned all attempts to go lower. His hands still slipped inside my robe several times, and my heart pounded out a frantic beat as he continued to r****h me, growling in between his kisses when I tried to wriggle free.
.
w me into his car. The rain pounded down around us, and lightning lit up the sky as he strapped me in with the seat belt. Before I could get back out, he was already in the driver’s seat, and I grabbed onto the door handle when he peeled out of the short driveway and onto the road.
cried, blood ice in my veins. “What are you doing!”
”
***
sed tight around me as the car raced over dre
ted to let us in. He was too impatient to slow down and almost scraped the roof of the car on the gate, but he was beyond caring.
tered, almost pitch-black, but still it was cold, the winds beating into me and the residual spray of traveling rain making my skin damp.
d curled up, suffering on the filthy ground.
s is Adrain’s entire family,” Evan said coldly. “See them?”
down at the pit.
e price he pays.”
ut he was looking away, hiding his face. I star
into him as a little boy. He would never heal from some of those scars.
But this?
revenge on him, what am I supposed to do, then?” he demanded. “What do you want from me? What do you w
“You know this is w
ad, and you’re making children suffer who never c
ed it with his fearsome strength, but al
d me. What he did sickened me. And he knew it. It sicke
ain on everyone else, raging and uncontrollable.
op.
ging him with my silence. He had brought me here to make me afraid, maybe, but he knew. T
n. He whirled around and pulled me in hard, wrapping his arms around me so tight I couldn’t breathe. And then he caught my lips again in a passionate, frantic kiss, panicked and desperate.
said you wouldn’t. Don’t leave me, Claudia.”