The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 159
Third person
Scarlet paced her study, feeling a buzz like electricity in her veins, a state of constant panic that over the past few days had come to feel like home.
Donovan had known that she didn’t have much time. That once the trial was over, she would no longer be available for their trade. Tomorrow morning, that would happen. She would be found guilty and she would be…
.
gan to change as the sun slipped down toward the horizon, darkening into the vibrant orange and pink hues of sunset. Scarlet had shoved the curtains all the
he evening sky dampened to deep blue,
her wait as long possible. She’d been stupid to expect anything less.
sage she’d been waiting on for weeks.
hin her own mind, saying, first, only her name in his distinctive drawl.
aking her skin tighten and go goose-fleshed
new war… Because she had no other way out. No other tricks left to pull. It was this or prison or a dungeon or worse.
ifferent than she’d been expecting.
wait, that not only had the vampires already breached the borders, but were here—within about a mile, she figured, in order for Donovan to be able to reach her with his little hyp
er for the trade.
decisively replaced it with irritation.
re exactly to meet him, instead of teasing her with a riddle. He could have just texted her an address. But no, he had to play these spooky nonsense mind games instead…
The breathless laugh that she hated.
er where to go.
e, where she stood on tip-toe to reach a book on a high shelf, tilting it from the top down slowly. Then she stepped back to let the bookcase swivel around, and touched it lightly to stop it when there was enough of a gap for her to slip through into the dark passageway behind.
on from the other side.
hardly out of the palace grounds, emerging from her secret passageway onto a service road just a block
ng closer… an unnatural rush of air was blasting through the tr
ven a quarter mile from the Alpha King’s palace.
ips curled up into a smile. “H
d brushed some dust from his shoulders.
urge to flinch as the vampire crept closer, his strides few and long.
ou dare to come so close to the palace grounds?! We’ll be seen—”
e fangs bared. She went silent.
your attitude,” he growled. “I’m well aware of the risk I took in coming here. But you are the one who invited me, remember?”
es. And now she couldn’t look away.
r, he said, “Don’t you dare speak another disrespectful word to me again.”
breathed compulsively.
trembled.
ere, then,” he whispered, pressing his cold
sudden WHOOSH of that unnatural wind, they were gone. L
Fiona
belly.
bedside lamp and clamored to my side.
nd’s face.
a.”
t heavily. “I’m okay. I t
contraction?”
n sweat. “If it was, there will be more. Will you get me a glass of water, please? And a hand towel?”
it up.
laid a gentle hand on my belly.
a wide-eyed “are you
and exhale, then sipped my water. I was feeling better.
Thank you,” I said, suddenly overwhelmed with sleepiness. “I guess maybe we sho
. Okay?”
he arrived, clearly having been roused from sleep by Alexander’s ca
s false labor, something that could happen near the end, she said. She als
troom and then crept back into bed, where Alexander
ou’re okay?” he a
ibly drowsy.
in just an hour.”
x. Sleepy now, but I can get up in an hour. I shou
se.