Chapter five

~Lexa’s POV~

“You don’t plan on harming me do you?” I gave him a murderous look. Ignoring the fact that he had been smiling all night long.

And just why have we been driving for so long?

“You’ll be fine since you were able to survive all these years with us.” He said smoothly, purposely making his voice sound soft.

Just enough softness to spook me off.

“Yea because I didn’t have to deal with your crazy ass directly..” I murmured with my eyes looking out the window.

“Tell me I’m a mind reader because I’m getting points that you don’t wanna train anymore?” He faked a serious tone, waiting for me to look at him.

“First, where are you taking me to? And what do you want?” I turned to look at him sharply.

Let’s cut the pretense

We’ve been driving for more than an hour and I just can’t think of anything nice happening with Alpha Zane by my side.

“I’m not going to repeat myself again Lexa. It’s a surprise and I just need a date. Is that too much for you?” His voice didn’t falter or shake.

Like he knew I wasn’t going to change my mind.

“Alpha we are here.” Josh broke the silence as the air went quiet after his last sentence.

Just hot glares

Unspoken words and known hatred filling the air.

It was tense for the shortest while and even when it felt like I should choke him to his death I remained still.

“We are here, one warning for the night. Don’t leave my side.” He echoed, looking straight into my face as he bent over to my side to take off my seat belt.

Our faces were so close that it made my heart skip again.

I never want him so close to me.

We got down .. or let me rephrase that. I got down and had to walk a bit fast to meet up. He didn’t give me time to take a look at my surroundings but it looked busy, definitely a pack I’ve never been to or heard of.

“Where are we?” My voice wasn’t too confident.

I didn’t like the way the air felt around here. It felt stuffy and I was getting angry for no reason.

“You just wouldn’t let it be, would you?” He raised his eyes at me, faking a smile with that pretentious soft smile he can easily plaster on his face just like I could.

I returned the smile. “No”.

“Smile princess, you are with me and if anything goes wrong kiss training goodbye.” He said in his quiet voice, interlocking our arms together.

It was so fast that I couldn’t tell him off or that I had a change of mind.

The doors were pushed open, and the sight before me made me stop thinking.

People were seated around tables for six, they were engaged in conversations.

Conversations that made me freeze.

Okay maybe it wasn’t that but the air around them.

I should have freaking known! Why didn’t I think where exactly an Alpha like Zane would need to go with a date?

Just somewhere I shouldn’t be

It just had to be the Alpha monthly meeting!

It felt like my legs were stuck but he held my hands firmly and made me move.

Eyes that were supposed to be focused on their conversations were now staring at Zane walking me to an empty table.

“You didn’t think you were supposed to specify what date it was?” I breathed the question down his arms I held onto so tightly.

My legs felt heavy, my mind blank as this wasn’t the gathering I should be in.

I can’t see him.

I don’t want to see him

“Why? Is there someone you are avoiding?” He asked so light-heartedly, making my heart skip even more.

Does he know about my past? I asked out loud in my head, trying to think of ways to make a run for it until my wolf spoke.

‘Calm down lexy, he never comes to these things and I’m sure Alpha zane doesn’t know anything. We crossed borders so he definitely can’t smell a thing on us and it’s been five years!’ Antrix tried to calm me down, as it felt like an old wound was about to open up.

‘Okay that makes so much sense.’

He never really comes for these things just to prove a point to other Alpha’s, especially Zane.

Thankfully he didn’t make me publicly known all in the name of protection, but he was the one that still hurt me.

“Funny, let’s just say I would have been more prepared if I knew I had to stare at your face all night while avoiding all round gazes.” I gave him a weird smile, calming a whole lot down as I took one last look around to be sure I was safe.

‘I didn’t even do anything wrong, he should be the one to avoid me, not me’. Pfft

“Maybe you shouldn’t have dressed up so nicely and looked even more pretty.” He muttered, his eyes looking straight at the door as he complimented me.

My hands held my chest

A laugh threatening to spill out as I didn’t want to believe this crazy just complimented me.

Maybe he wasn’t thinking or didn't know what those words truly meant.

“You are starting to scare me” I said, relaxing a whole lot now as I took the drink on our table to relax my nerves.

He turned to face me, his face looking dead serious. He was smiling so freely and I hate to say it but he looked less evil like this.

“Why? Nothing scares all mighty Lexa.”

I scoffed, “Yeah nothin…”

That scent Antrix

“You finally showed up Alpha Raemon, we were about to start without you”

I didn’t want to look up, that old familiar scent and Zane just confirmed his name

I could feel my blood boiling

Old wounds opened up as I felt his gaze on me even as I sat still and avoided looking up.

“I didn’t know we were supposed to come with a date.” His voice was calm, rich and vibrant.

“I also didn’t know we get to see pretty wolves here, I could have come earlier.”