Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 47
I didn’t trust Evan to leave my sight for even a minute. I stayed with him in the Dark Moon pack house for three days, never leaving the room where we stayed together except to get food. The only moments he escaped my direct observation was when he went to wash up, but even then I checked on him every few minutes, too anxious to relax while he was gone.
He was angry. He was so angry it prickled to be near him, like pressing myself to a wall of thorns. He didn’t mean to intimidate me, but when I caught him staring at the wall from the armchair or when I woke up in the middle of the night to find him sitting up and glaring at the window, the thick miasma of his rage threatened to drown me.
It had always been hard to read his thoughts clearly when he was like this. That wall of pure hostility, hatred, revenge, and rage formed a shell around his mind, keeping me out. Or maybe it was more that they flooded his mind so much from bottom to top that it all spilled out, pushing me away from reading what lay underneath.
ey were, but he was alone except for my company, and times like these, he usually let the cold facade drop at least a little. But not anymore. It was like Peelle had now become simply a soldier, albeit an elite soldier, no longer on close enough terms to call each other with familiarity. Three times I heard
they were doing, and they knew how to stay hidden, too.
d and hair through. I was tired too, but more than the exhaustion, the anxiety weighed so heavy I couldn’t bear to sleep. I slid out of bed, moving carefully to keep from waking him, and left the room with my phone in hand.
nd later, the phone buzzed, and I hastily answered it to silence the vibration.
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o pick some fresh ones.”
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. “He’ll be okay… I think. He has to be.”
have so many weak points that they can blend in perfectly.”
let pack.”
e there might be a few rebels who have a bone to pick, since… well. You know. But at the risk of making him sound even more cruel, this is why Evan has his policy of wipin
had come back to haunt the Scarlet pack by returning himself, and killing the previous Alpha?
rs, and when they would strike again.
knew it. This was only the beginning. They wouldn’t stop merely at the interim Alpha placed at the hea
n goes crazy and lets loose on…”
don’t deserve it.”
w.”
have to do. Keep doing it, okay?”
ll. And you have to take care of yourself. It’s you out there by
alone. I’ve got Deltas at my side, always. I know i
a threat to them.”
is snooping, probably, but that’s not the only reason. Think about it. Evan brought you with him all the way to this city. And now he won’t even let you leave his side. This isn’t only about threats — it’s about them looking for ways to prove they can get to him.”
it nonetheless. That had been pure insult, a horrific jeering taunt meant to enrage.
thing to set off his fury once more?
t I was going to do.
is Osborn’s funeral?”
it’s not right to do it without Evan’s permission. But I don’t think it’s a
are of Evan, you make the arrangements.”
the staff crying about it. Her cousin knows the family.”
e was a lo
”
put him to rest. His mate must be in agony right now. Evan will understand.”
me feel like a crap person.”
rust me, and let’s get it done.”
around the Scarlet pack Alpha like a low-ranking Delta werewolf.
ut my faith in, it was him. He believed in Evan, just like
’t ask what happened if this blows up in our faces.”
funeral. You can take care of the rest, right?”
I can.” He sighed
ll lucky t