Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 68
“Wake up, bitch.”
The slap to my face didn’t hurt as much as Flicka thought it did. She was crowing in triumphant glee in her thoughts, which was ironically what grounded me in reality and allowed me to stay calm the second the slap woke me. Little did she know that I had been slapped by Elly and Maria so much when I was younger that I hardly cared about such trivial attacks anymore.
What I was more concerned and confused about was how I was back in human form. They must have forced me back into this shape at some point while I was unconscious. And they had shoved me into a loose hospital-gown like article, thin and drafty–
, wake up!”
hit me again.
u are? What kind of situation you’re in? Where do you think you get off talking to me, you stupid f*****g slut?”
to me,” I said patiently. “If you don’t want me to talk, then talk over me and say whatever it is you want to say.”
small, dim concrete room, a man’s voice.
went to make this happen fails.”
ch was useless since he was speaking them aloud anyway.
tulantly. She even stomped her feet, fists clenched at her sides. “It doesn’t matter if
he can be. If he believes we’ve hurt her already, he’ll lose his temper, and what good sense we hope he retains would be gone
bysitting her!”
rse not, my dear. If she do
em, skin chafed so raw I was sure they were bleeding.
kfully, he was only giving vague instructions to Flicka to control her anger and not jeopardize things. I ignored those and pried into his mind, digging deep. I had never done this before, always taking care to respect others’ privacy, but this was hardly the time to be moralistic.
il him into doing whatever they said — and if my suspicions were right, they wanted him gone.
e. His mind was so keen and dark that I struggled to part through the curtain that protected it, and even now I couldn’t unearth his name from his thoughts. Something about it almost being time, and something else about forcing Evan to go somewhere. Another thought about a hostage, of course, but that was me. No mystery there. Focus!
:
ould be able to hear them either way, after all.
anted me to hear this. They were trying to make me afraid and stay cooperative.
r my head.
know we’ve
g. She’s easy to control anyway.
ha Matthen? Why was that name familiar
’s father?
. Ken’s thoughts had always been open, even pure. After I had made my decision to be with Evan instead of him, even then he had never held it against me. The worst of it had only been his wishful thinking that I had chosen him instead, but that had never interfered with our friendship.
hat next? Think. The toxin — it was gone and they were bluffing about it, but I had already guessed that much. Even before I had been kidnapped, Evan and I had guessed that the enemy had only a limited amount of the toxin left, which was why they were trying to save it for when they were sure they could capture Evan. But they had given up and used it on me instead. If there had ever been enough to disable Evan in the first place, there certainly wouldn’t be enough now that they had wasted it on me.
d to get out of here and get back to Evan. Whatever this man had planned for him, I couldn’t let him execute it.
who paid off all the rogues and other shifters to invade Scarlet territory,” I said. “You stabbed your pack in the back for power. But all you’re going to get from it is a ruined city. Even if you
ust make it necessary for new leadership to step in.”
e next heir… and soon, engaged to my son, Ken. A perfect match, I think. Two families joined at the head of the pack.”
“You’re going to betray Flicka and her parents after all of that.”
e ones you fooled my son with. This will be the end of your mercenary ways though, very soon.”
ka I could read Matthen’s mind, and that he was indeed going to betray her. She would laugh in my face. In fact,
I always said