"Oh it's nothing at all alpha, I was just heading downstairs for pack training " Riggs commented with a straight face. He bowed his head a little and walked past me. My cheeks burned in embarrassment as alpha remained holding my wrist while my free hand tried to hold my towel in place. I couldn’t get over the fact that he had just seen me naked.I dared to look up at Riggs and found a smirk on his face and he just winked at me and hell that did not do well to make me feel better in any way.As soon as Riggs had left us both in the room, alpha turned to look at me, "are you okay? You should be watchful of your steps."I pulled free from his hold, keeping my eyes on the ground and nodding fast as I sprinted up the steps not wanting to meet his gaze for any reason."You took a while." My mom called to me once I was alone with her in the bedroom. I nodded, avoiding saying anything so I wouldn't get in trouble.I changed into a sports bra I'd packed and matching black shorts and joined my
"Alpha I'm so sorry," I blinked multiple times, as if trying to make myself understand this wasn't a dream but reality.The silence was deafening and from the stories I'd heard, people died from doing things like this to the famous alpha Kaden."You just hurt a pack member," Alpha Kaden frowned and folded his hands across his chest, "Talie." He pointed out like I didn't know. His eyes darkened and lines formed on his forehead, creeping me out, I hadn't seen him like this yet."She started it!" I pointed my finger at her.Shadow was now standing on her own two feet and sobbing, "I think she broke my fucking wrist, I can't move it.""Well, bitch, you deserved it, after everything you said." I clenched my fists by my side, irritated and feeling the anger all over again."Talie, I'm standing before you, watch your language, and how you speak." Alpha said but my eyes remained fixed on Shadow."Have you no respect? Alpha's literally talking to you and you are disrespecting him, do you even k
When I rejoined The crowd outside there weren’t too many people looking at me like I expected them to. I lowered my gaze and realised that the training had started. I felt awkward participating. Alpha Kaden was nowhere to be seen. I helped myself to a corner and watched the training. It was basically the warriors training the werewolves how to fight. I should have been patient and waited until the fight to beat Shadow's ass.I wanted to head back upstairs but I knew it would only drew unnecessary attention to me.I wrapped my arms around my body, I really didn't belong here.“Hey,” Jack's familiar voice called beside me.“Aren't you going to join the rest of the wolves?” I buried my face in my palm, thinking back to how I'd disrespected Alpha Kaden. It didn't matter much how he treated me when we were alone, I should have given him the ultimate respect.Jack sat down beside me regardless and shrugged his shoulders.“Ugh, you must hate me too.” I groaned, sighing and shaking my head at
Beta Riggs room smelled a lot like rose water. It had white walls and a lot of art pieces, I wondered where he found to make these himself. It was downstairs unlike Alpha's room.There was a king sized bed in the center of the room and his window had a view of training center. His bed, I reflexively plopped against. “Wow, this must be so comfortable for you to come home to especially after a long ass day out.”He only smiled at me. The look on his face was enough for me to figure out that he probably thought I was weird.“What do you think alpha and my mom are talking about?” I asked him as he set up the TV to begin watching his movie.“Hey, let's not get distracted by thoughts like that and just have fun okay?”I nodded at him.“You don't want to change out of your sports clothes?” He asked me, sitting by the edge of the bed and reaching for his remote beside him.“I clearly didn't participate in any activity so I see no reason to.”He didn't say anything at me and an awkward silence
He lifted his hand to hit him again when I jerked to my feet and stood between them, holding his wrist, "alpha!"I pulled my straps back on, panting heavily, "it's a misunderstanding."It was as though I wasn't present in the room as he faced Beta. He pulled free from my hand and held Riggs'to shirt even tighter. Because I was much shorter than the both of them, I was just sandwiched between them, my back pressed against beta Riggs' chest and my chest against Alpha's."What the fuck were you trying to do with her?" He continued to hammer."Alpha I swear nothing, she was hurt and I only wanted to help." Riggs continued to say in his defense."Alpha listen to me..." I groaned, realizing that his fur was now sprouting through his skin and his claws were taking over. It was only a matter of time before his wolf took over.I tried to push him backwards but he was too strong for me to move him.Maxwell was taking over his body. His eyes had gone completely dark and I could swear I just hea
I paced back and forth unable to decide what core of action to take. He had asked me to stay put, I didn't want to set him off and do anything to set him off but I needed to be sure that he wasn't going to hurt Riggs."Fuck it, what's the worse that could happen?" I barged out of the room and sprinted downstairs. I reduced my steps and walked on my tiptoes towards his bedroom door."...so why would you fucking do it? Talk man have you fucking gone deaf?" Alpha was making my heart race."I swear on my life alpha, I didn't touch her inappropriately, you know me, you know that's something I would never do." Beta Riggs was so calm and collected, I couldn't wrap my head around it. Any other person would have fainted in this situation."Riggs, why was she in your room in the first place?" There was a quick long pause."Answer me!" Alpha barked."Because I asked her to come here.""Why?"Goodness, did this man really want to know every single thing that happened? What was his goddamn problem
Alpha Kaden didn't respond to my accusations, just stared at me without any emotions showing on his face and then he walked away."Talie, what has gotten into you?" My mum gasped, giving me a slight knock on my head when he was gone. "I'm so sorry beta," my mum sighed, "we will get right to packing."Beta Riggs nodded at me, his eyes flickering to my shoulder and I knew he had unasked questions but he held it all in and went to do just as alpha had requested earlier."Don't give me that face, he should have told us earlier." I rolled my eyes at my mum as she glared at me."You act like we don't get to live here for free, I just can't phantom what your problem could be at this point." She was so done with me.I scoffed, "if only you knew the things he's been doing to me." I mumbled under my voice and headed towards the door."Where on earth are you go...""To get a glass of water." I snapped at my mom before she could even get to finish her sentence. Just like her, I had every right to
Once alpha left, my mum went to her room. I didn't want to bother her knowing she would want to still be reminiscing from whatever could have happened in her meeting with alpha.I flipped the switch in my room and sighed. There was an floor bed but that was all. I sat there and drew my knees to my chest, resting my head on them and staring at the floor as though it was the most interesting thing I knew in the moment.I thought about Shayla, Ash and everyone else and how they were doing. Surely by now they knew that we had escaped and thought of us as traitors but they were in my heart everyday.There was no activity for me to do so I just kept pacing back and forth in my room until it was midnight and time for me to sleep.I flinched awake from my sleep when Alpha's voice called through the mind link. "Get ready for pack run in thirty minutes."I groaned and immediately tuned him out, knowing he was addressing the pack in general anyway.My mum knocked on my door only five minutes late