Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 34

It was the first and only real argument we had ever had in the long weeks we had known each other. In my room, well into the night, Raf’s voice rose and swelled as she demanded to know why I was throwing away the life I had just grasped with my own two hands, all for the same man who had already broken my heart.

I had no defense. What did it it even mean, that I was ready to put my life on hold again for a man who had only halfway committed to me, and only in secret? What did it mean when he hadn’t told me with his own mouth he would stop looking for his fated mate to replace me, and that I was simply believing in his strength that would take him there when he was ready?

Rafael didn’t know how to get through to me, and neither did I. I could only sit patiently while responding to her questions with understanding and no little shame, especially when she asked again and again about the house we had decorated, furnished, and gotten ready for me to live my new life in. My friends were few, but they had all come together for me and put all their strength into making it a happy home I could love.

ely suppressed like a rumbling volcano until her emotions were under control again, but only just barely.

r wishy-washy moment from the Alpha, tossing everything over my shoulder with sparkling eyes just because he had called my name.

ou’re an adult woman who can make her decisions on her own!”

hands and pulled her back, urging her to sit on the bed next to me.

me like that and bring me here without my consent. But he wasn’t trying to hurt me.”

To force you to do what he said, not

me.”

en searching for for like two years? Everyone knows it, Claudia! Everyone knows why he’s been lining women in all the packs he takes over! Do you get that?”

appen from now on. He told me he loved me, Claudia, and he meant it. I believe that with all my heart.”

pack and then he comes back with her! What do you think is going to happen? That he’s just going to treat her like an honored guest while you and him happily

e snatched you and dragged you back all the way here if he wasn’t cruising for p***y right that second! What, did he have no booty calls he could make in the middle of the night!”

telling her about the pit of prisoners because I knew that would only horrify her even more, and that she would assume Evan was threatening to lock me down there if I didn’t give him my body… which technically, he had threatened me, yes. But he hadn’t meant it. He had been angry and terrified of losing me. That was all.

ed to hurt me. Not real

Raf understand, but I suspected she was thinking the exact same thing of me.

ing but sit quietly next to her until she was vented out. Nothing I said would sound right, at least nothing honest, and I couldn’t lie to Raf just to make things look ‘better’. She deserved to know the truth even if made me look stupid and gullible.

in love with Evan, and he loved me. At the very least he believed that he was, and I could only cling to that confess

rning?”

ea either, didn’t you? And you still did it. So don’t try to stop me.”

le packs even if he’s handsome and rich, that will never change what he’s done. You get that, right?”

o…”

’t stop me from what I have to do, too.”

***

EVAN

that displeased him. Rain washed away scents. At the Dark Moon greenhouses, the trackers had failed to isolate any scents outside the buildings because of that.

up the steps…

pped in the doorway when someon

ardonic fury. “Please, let me pay my proper respects.”

one with the boyfriend who had also fought that night outside the bar. Evan narrowed his eyes.

e–“

ou want her. That night at the dance was one thing, but you never actually committed to anything, did you? Are you going to be changing things up all of a sudden, or is she just a distraction for you to enjoy in the meantime?”

r business.”

es it. So go ahead. Kill me. Kill me like you kill everyone else who pisses you off. You want to, right?”

did nothing. She watched him. She

let out a slow breath and relaxed his shoulders.

him for any other reason, he would have snapped, but…

t Claudia, and I haven’t done right by her. But I’m workin

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