Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 56
If I had been in my right mind, I would never have let it happen.
But sometime between the moment Peelle fled with the car to draw off the pursuers, and the moment Evan picked me back up in his arms, I drifted off. I had no strength left to stay conscious.
When I came to, I was somewhere warm, somewhere soft. A soft lamp shone its gentle yellow light from the nightstand by my head, and I twitched around under the covers while regaining my bearings.
nd you could hurt yourself.”
s. Evan had risen from the armchair on the other side of the nightstand and was now standing over me, adjusting the covers. Covers? Bed? Wait, where…?
ital.”
ing, piecing together the words long after he’d said them.
e…”
te the dazed confusion still wrapping heavily around my head, th
… no…”
.”
ive us time to escape. I won’t waste that by putting you out there in harm’s way again after that.”
’t bear to see Evan in danger either. But Peelle! No…
rdly louder than a whisper. “How long has it been? You
you’re in the clear or not.”
Are you hurt any
ing is back, I just can’t stay shifted.”
ting bette
ew seconds. Much better now. I should be fine in a little wh
r Peelle. But he had said there were others looking for him already, right? It sickened me to think of him out there alone, waiting for someone to save him, but two more bodies searching
f being trapped in the slaves’ hut as the fire grew around me resurfaced, burning my elbows, my bare feet, reaching across time to scorch my face.
They couldn’t put it out in time.”
t that.”
ne else? Did they make it ou
tested while they’re being taken care of so we can figure out what kind of new toxin we’re dealing with. We’ll have answers soon.”
had I?
hting going on. Wh
. “You don’t need to worry about that. Go back to sleep,
arring with the somber gentleness in his eyes. But he relented at last.
eparing for an all-out assault.”
? Coordinating?
all pay.”
watched the center of his authority burn to ashes tonight, and his friend — his best friend, I understood now — was somewhere out
embling with the effort, but it only took me a a few tries to drag them down far enough to make my message clear. “You should rest too.”
us.”
him, I have a feeling he’ll be okay.”
that?”
not a chatterbox or a joker all the time. When things get down to the wire, he pul
places, grinning as he waved, he would appear in front of us again.
grown, and I had become my own person. I was big enough to believe in things bigger than me now.
and until someone finds him, please protect Peelle from everyone who would hurt him.
on the other side. The mattress was too narrow for us to lie side by side, so he pressed his chest to my back and melded our bodies together, spooning me perfectly with his larger frame. He was so warm. So strong. I loved him, loved h
come to this?
wer.
ood, spilling it all over from pack to pack. It had been inevitable for the blood to answer back.
”
rms tightened around me. “Hm?”
Leon. Can someone check on them too?”
knew me so well.
t. I’m relieved.”
ress me with his lips. “Good. That was the worst of it. It’ll get better fro
estled in close to him and let his words lull me ba