Chapter 13 - Strange!

LAYLA

INSTEAD OF WAITING for the Alpha to approach me first, I devised another method through which we could speak as I laid on my mattress in the thick darkness.

As soon as the first cock crew, I got off my bed, put on my sneakers, tied my hair behind my back, and grabbed some cash I had seen under the bed the first day I found myself in this room. I stopped by Hermes room door indecisively, thinking I should check up on him before going for an early morning run. The thought crumbled at the imagination of ruining my chance to speak with him. I dashed out of the house at a sustainable pace, hoping my plan works.

There was a lot of similarities between Palmdale and Westwoods except that the former seemed more lively than the latter. Or maybe, I wasn't familiar enough with the environment yet. But it sure had more trees than houses.

As i hopped from one foot to another jogging, my thigh muscles were beginning to get heavy, while my stomach ached, and my heart kept beating faster the sam