When I got up the following morning at 5am I got dressed and headed downstairs and to my surprise, Asher was waiting for me out the front. “What the hell got you out of bed this early?” I asked. “Well, I thought I might give these morning jogs a go. And I think it will be a good time for us to talk about you working for the Alpha.” He said. “Why do I get the feeling that you’re about to warn me off of working for the Alpha?” “I think there’s just a few things that you need to know.” He said. “Well, I am not giving up the job. He told me that I can work from home on the computer.” I said as we started jogging down the path. “I know. But he will also have access to your computer. He will be watching everything that you are doing on there.” Asher said and that made me look at him really skeptically. “Why would he do that? Why would he care what a teenager is looking up on the internet?” I asked. “I don’t know. But he has never had a receptionist before. So, there’s somethi
“Get Paris to the hospital. She’s going to need more than the school nurse. Daniel, get this one to my office.” The Alpha ordered. So Beta Daniel grabbed my arm and he dragged me away down the hallway and around a few corners until we got to the Alpha’s office and he forced me to sit in the chair and he closed the door behind us. He leaned on the desk looking at me the whole time but I refused to look at him. I stared out the window with a very defiant look on my face. I wasn’t going to apologize for sticking up for myself. But my mother was definitely going to hear about this one and she was going to be furious. I didn’t know how I was going to talk my way out of this. I don’t think there was a way of me talking my way out of this one. The Alpha came to his office a little while later and he told Beta Daniel to leave and he sat behind his desk and leaned back on his chair. He stared at me without saying anything and I stared back at him, defiantly. I wasn’t going to walk on eg
ALPHA KANE’S POV I was sitting at my desk looking aimlessly at these papers in front of me while Savannah was working on the computer right across from me. When her phone rang, I thought she would just ignore it since she was working, but she answered it. She kept working while she answered it though, so I didn’t mind. But when I heard her mother’s voice screaming at her on the other end I couldn’t help but snap my head up to look at her. Savannah looked at me with this strange and embarrassed look on her face and she got up from her chair and she left the office. I knew that her and her mother had a really close relationship so why the hell would her mother be screaming at her on the phone like that for no apparent reason. “Daniel.” I mind linked. “Yes Alpha.” “Are you still in the packhouse?” “Yeah. I’m in the kitchen.” Daniel said. “Savannah is in the hallway outside my office. I can’t hear because she closed the door and this room is soundproof. Try and hear what she’s
SAVANNAH’S POV I woke up to the sun shining in the windows of the car and my phone was vibrating in my pocket. I felt my cheek and it was still really sore and tender. It hurt to touch. The claw marks were definitely still there. It didn’t feel like they had started healing at all. ASHER - Hey, are we jogging this morning or not? ME - No. Not this morning. Not up for it. Won’t be at school either. ASHER - Is everything alright? ME - Just not feeling well. I’ll talk to you later. I sat up and I got in the driver’s seat and I went home. I pulled up outside the house and stared at the house before I got out of the car and I went inside. I saw my mother sitting at the kitchen table but I ignored her and I went upstairs to my bedroom and I slammed the door and locked it. Making sure that she got the hint not to talk to me. I heard her leave for work a little while later so I came out of my room and I went to the bathroom and I had a shower. When I got out of the shower I looke
ALPHA KANE POV I sat there staring at Savannah, thinking of what I could possibly say next. There was so much going through my head and so many questions that I couldn’t get them straight. It made no sense. Why would he let them leave if he wanted to kill them. They didn’t get his permission to leave. They are runaways. It is wrong for another pack to take in runaways from another Alpha, and that’s why she was so scared when she first got here. But it looks like she’s not holding back anymore. She obviously didn’t want to keep that secret from me anymore, and I was starting to wonder why. Why is she willing to tell me all of this? She knows that she could be banished from my pack if I think that they are a danger and if I think that they have broken the rules of the werewolf council. I can’t put my pack at risk, but at the same time, I am not letting her leave this pack knowing that she’s got a target on her back. I don’t care about her mother. I will gladly throw her out afte
SAVANNAH POV I wasn’t sure what time mom was going to be home tonight. And I really didn’t want to see her when she did get here. I wanted to be anywhere but here. She broke the biggest promise to me that she has ever made. And on top of that, I have cuts on my face to prove it. I wasn’t going to forgive her for this. At least, I wasn’t going to make it easy for her. So when I finished eating that night I went to the hospital and used the spare keys to her car that I had and I got in it. I sent her a text message and told her that I was taking the car, because I’m not a complete bitch, and I left the hospital and drove straight off the pack territory. I know that it is stupid and reckless, but at times, I just don’t care about being stupid and reckless. Sometimes that’s the only thing that keeps me going. The only thing that does keep me sane from all the insanity in my life. So I drove to the nearest human town and stopped at the bar just on the outskirts of town. Knowing that
I sat there practically frozen in place as Alpha Kane stalked towards me. The murderous look in his eye had me scared for my life right now. He bent down and grabbed my bra and shirt and threw them at me. “Get dressed.” He growled. And he walked outside of the room but I could hear him in the hallway outside. He wasn’t leaving until I did. I got dressed as fast as I could and I got up and walked to the hallway where he grabbed my arm and he dragged me out of the clubhouse. By now, there was a crowd gathered outside the bar and they all backed off as soon as they saw the size of Alpha Kane and the look on his face. I tried to pull my arm free a couple of times, but he only gripped it tighter and he dragged me to the car and he opened the passenger door for me to get in. He then got in the driver’s seat and he sped out of there like a bat out of hell. I was surprised that he could see anything with that murderous look on his face. Almost like he was seeing red. I didn’t know
####TRIGGER WARNING - SEXUAL ABUSE REFERENCES#### “My dad was an asshole. He used to beat my mother and she used to cope with it by drinking and taking pills. So she was off her face most of the time and didn’t know what was going on. Dad started beating me because he was sick of beating my mother. She was usually unconscious anyway, so he got no joy out of it. The scars on my back are from a silver whip. Dad and Calvin took it in turns. When the council found out what dad was doing, he had to take off. But it didn’t sober my mother up. Calvin kept up the abuse. It was just physical at first. But afterwards, it turned into more than that. He called me to the packhouse one day while I was at school. I had to leave class and go to the packhouse. I assumed that he was just bored and needed someone to beat. I thought that’s what it was. But when I got there I was told to go up to his room. I’d never been to his room before that day. He was waiting for me up there. And when I walked in, h