Chapter 12

Amber

My stomach won’t stop churning. Alex isn’t acting like himself and driving at a scary speed through the traffic. He was always a big and scary guy, but he is colder now, more intimidating than ever. I regret picking the front seat. Why didn’t I choose to sit with Edison in the back?

Alex drives past another car, and I sink into the seat, hoping I will survive the drive home. I wonder how Alex is going to treat me back at the mansion.

I know that he doesn’t trust me since he doesn’t know whether or not I’m working with Alpha Ashlee. His cold attitude towards me is a way to protect himself and his heart, and I guess that, in a way, I can’t blame him. I’m not his enemy, but Alex doesn’t know that.

“Guys,” Edison’s head is hovering over the middle console, and there is a big smile on his face. “These are simply...divine and delicious. What a delight! What delicacies could these be? Exquisite meat?”

I raise an eyebrow at the bag of sour cream and onion chips in his hand and try