Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 5
A lonely bitterness took root in me. Of course he hadn’t meant it. I knew it wasn’t true, of course, but last night, the thought that someone at least believed he needed me…
But with daylight, his senses had returned. He knew.
“I’m not the one who saved you nine years ago,” I said.
zed my mistake.
ell her about that? Did Peelle say something to
ned it being nine years — he had never said anything aloud about being saved. I hurried to cover my tracks.
ontinued. “And if that’s who you think I am…”
”
rward.
id you leave Dark Moon nine
l my life.”
he forest on the edge of it.”
out to deny it when I suddenly recalled getting lost in the forest long ago. So yes, I’d be
expression. “You remembered.”
e. You’ve forgotten.”
ur taste. So sweet.
tions.
his thoughts, I couldn’t figure out what he wanted from me.
mething that had happened a long time ago.
past memory of him calling out for help. I couldn’t make much sense out of it, but the memory must have been intense for me to hear even those traces
f someone touching him. A small voice, so light I could barely hear it:
(Are
voice:
)
er identified itsel
was me. But that was only more proof it wasn’t. It had been someone else in that memory, not me.
ooded through me.
this, from him.
” I said, and slid out of the bed.
***
with company even though he was the only one who ate with me or maybe it was because his presence was so significant it felt that way. Especially since he gestured for me to sit next to him.
the doors where outside, the staff were waiting to clean up after we finished eating. An uneasy tightness squirmed in my sto
lf with them any more than I do.”
ork halfway to my mouth. “Am… I not a maid?”
till my little maid, yes.”
, unable to hide the confusion and self-consciousness
aid, he said, but far from cleaning up after him, we were sleeping in the same bed and shari
***
ompletely.
registering at the university today, so we need to get a move on,” he explained as he escorted me to the front doors.
.”
ut just in case: “I do know how to drive, I just couldn’t get a license. There were times when I had no choice but to drive somewhere, and… I took Elly’s, em, I mean my sister’s car a few times.”
ll just have to get you a car so you won’t be reliant on a chauffeur to ge
A car?
For me?
have done to me.
k with questions.
ts establishment predated so many of the packs in the region, an old and venerated institution with tens of thousands of students, but I’d never known it could be so enormous.
n campus, too.”
’s up?”
h me all day?”
our own, isn’t it?”
er!
my high school ID if that’s enough for any paperwork.”
I wasn’t expecting this.”
d to handling things on my own.”
hey’ll come get me.”
lle.”
”
***
to her office to sort out my schedule for today. I’d thought I would be doing an exploratory routine to sample the courses, but she was already recommending majors scarcely befor
expected!
I’d heard the staff speculating on my relationship with Evan and his pack. But from what I could tell, mates were at the top of the list of gossip m
with the options. “But do all of the courses have seating available to add me?”
Anthropology and linguistics are popular lately.”
and sophisticated. I wanted something I was skilled at and enjoyed. My time in Dark Moon had given me at least that, an interest in all sorts of plant life.
my new life and luck, I was going to start right h
“Yes, I’m sure.