Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 38
I had never watched a movie from beginning to end except for ‘filler movies’ in classes back in high school when we had substitute teachers. Being in a real movie theater, with popcorn and drinks and sitting side by side with the man I was in love with? It had to be a dream. I could hardly pay attention to the movie at all when Evan’s hand was on my thigh, fingers stroking me gently over my knee.
For dinner, Evan let me choose where to go. He had a list of locations at the ready on his phone and described six or seven places to me in the car, when at last I told him the truth. I didn’t want to go to another restaurant.
I didn’t want to be watched and ogled by others while Evan and I tried to eat in peace. Even the place where we ate at for lunch had been stressful despite us having a private room to ourselves. The knowledge that the staff was hovering outside the door at all times had made me anxious and self-conscious.
to choose for tonight.”
what kind of food you like
l like trying. Anything.”
eeks.
st.
ch, and taste…”
ering me up again. I gasped and looked around, but all the passersby in the parking lot took no notice and simply went about their business.
e utterly red, but Evan only smiled as he pulled the car out of th
ased. “Or did I make you forget?”
going t
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let him in, saluting and greeting us with almost panicked frenzy.
d at the specified location inside the park, there was a beautiful, cozy table set up complete with tablecloth and decorations. Evan must have chosen this spot for the lovely little lake and the elegant fountains constructed in the center of it. The handful of weeping willows drooping over the banks, the various flowers waving red and yellow and blue in the verdant grass, the birds cheeping in the branches…
is hand and stood on my tiptoes to kiss him, too overwhelmed to thank
her own usually worshipful partners in class.
voice. We didn’t talk about the day Flicka had walked into the Scarlet manor, and I didn’t want to ask first what it was about, but if he didn’t personally like her, then it must have just been for business. She was the daughter of the Gli
d in a way we never could in our human bodies. And it was the most peaceful I’d felt in so long… It felt so right as we ran through the trees, running parallel to the trail that would guide us back. I might be a hybrid, I thought, but that still meant I was part wolf. This was my heritage. My birthright.
he shade, enjoying the breeze as we dozed. We would have to return to our human forms and leave soon, but we would enjoy every last moment of this day first.
er trip, go far, far away from me where we could only communicate over text. Why couldn’t every day be like this?
rful arms as he kissed me lazily over my hair.
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EVAN
her. He couldn’t get enough of her scent, creamy and soft and unimaginably addicting. But she needed rest, and tonight he could forego his touches this once.
er that Claudia wasn’t awake for this; it might have ruined her mood to hear about Dark Moon. Either way, he retreated to his bedroom where Peelle and Osborn looped him into a three-way call from their current post in the other
ial up on the weird strains in the greenhouses yet, but Osborn found something in the pack ledger that he dug up from the old Alpha’s office. Osborn?”
too.”
See what they can find.”
the area, too. Strange things are happening lately, disappearing paperwork among them. I’m not letting these out of my sight.”
“Good man. Peelle, help Osborn with that. The greenhouse
t it.”