Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 44
When my phone rang fifteen minutes later, I dove for it, thinking it was Evan. It wasn’t. Even so, I was pleased to recognize the voice on the other end of the line.
“Whoa. That was the most enthusiastic hello I’ve gotten in ages. I don’t even get that kind of greeting from my girlfriends.”
I sighed and lay back in my bed. “Girlfriends plural? You’re such a player, Peelle.”
I guess I missed out on a lot since I’ve been stationed in Dark Moon
ting it on
holding your hand and babying you…”
It’s… none of your business anyway.” I grabbed my pillow and flopped a pillow over my face, mortified. I was smiling, though, and Peelle clucked his tongue at me, all too awar
t it so bad. Man, this is too tragic to listen to. Oh, well. Better than having to ignore all the unresolved s****l tension nonsense you two had going on all the time. I’m glad y
. Not all.”
h, right?”
”
u have for me.”
y eyes. “There’s no gossip for you here. Evan and I are just… we’r
it happened. Last time he told me anything actually substantial, he was still on the brink of tearing his hair out because he thought you and Ke
”
en told Evan to let it go since he wasn’t going to stop it… But that was my way of telling him to go for it. That guy. Seriously, he takes things for granted until it’s being ripped away from him by someone else.”
w… I love him.”
h! The L word! Moon Goddess, you’re head over heels. Okay, spill. Tell me
was a sucker for gossip and refused to let me hang up.
rom a mile away and start running.”
ly laugh
anging up!”
t, wait!
voice dropped to a seri
d get rid of Adrain, has he?”
k, Evan had been all alone, fending for himself as an outcast, never with friends and comrades…
let pack must have been unimaginable painful.
s scared,” I said softly. “It wasn’t easy. I came to him first and he made it clear what he wanted wasn’t… w
akes down enemy packs. But for him, it’s black and white. If they’re the enemy, they get slaughtered, the end. And I know you don’t see eye to eye with him on that. But event
he level he drags himself down to. He’s changing. I can…”
ast werewolf who hurt him and his family, wipe them, out… and then he’ll move on to his next mission in life with a vengeance. This is who he is. You’re going to hurt yourself if you try to change what can’t be changed.”
for us. My stomach churned, heavy with newfound anxiety.
believe in Evan.”
hat talk about changing him, it’s dangerous. Know that.”
to. I needed sounds to fill the void breathing darkly all around me, something light to chase it away.
nd out why you had to leave all of a sudden? Do you want me to take the train there? Leon and I can take a few days
university, living in a house like a real member of the family instead of scurrying to and fro tending to Elly and Maria — I had yet to make more than a handful of friends. Raf, Leon, even Ken were all I had, outside of Evan and Peelle who were always bus
a new certification to improve his resume. It was the best escape. For those two hours, I put everything out of my mind except the insane mundanity of Raf’s life, away from the dread of
better, Claud?”
nt he left.”
, the guy who can singlehandedly wipe out an entire pack on his own?”
true. I sighed aga
?”
too hard about it. The mass grave outside somewhere, full of the Dark Moon pack who used to live here still haunted me…
uffy-cheeked, although they were quick to hide their faces, but there was no hiding that they had been talking about something, urgent and worried.
rt dropped.
uld it be?
uch a terrible feeling as soon as E
he Deltas straightened at my tone. “Tell
o get them to bend. The Delta on the left cleared her throat.
ody.”