Chapter twenty

My heart was racing, and I was trying my very best to keep myself calm because wolves had very keen hearing abilities, and with how fast my heart was beating, I was sure it wouldn’t take long before he heard me. I took a deep inhale as I stayed there, waiting for him to leave.

He turned, and just as he was about to return to the cloaked person, he stopped. It seemed he saw me because he started moving toward me, and I closed my eyes. Was I in trouble now?

Just as he was about to see me, I heard a feminine voice, and that was when it hit me that the cloaked person was a woman. "What’s wrong, Leo? I told you no one was there. Why are you bothering?" I heard her ask, and I furrowed my eyebrows.

Leo? It was definitely not a maid or one of the people working for the alpha, because if it was, they definitely wouldn’t address him as that. From the shadows, I saw the person walk closer to him, and that was when she took the cloak off, and there I saw who it was. It was Layla.

I clenched my fi