23. The Beast

ALPHA LENNOX

Did I fucking do the right thing? I asked my mind a couple of times.

I was still in bed and I had been staring at the ceiling for almost five hours (perhaps), while silently waiting for Keira to come back to my room.

No. Our room.

Sharing my room with someone else aside from Zoe was…how do I say this? Uncomfortable. I hated it. But if Dad finds out Keira was sleeping in another room or me in the other room, he will bombard me with questions. Endless questions.

So I had to share this room with her.

Temporarily.

I could do that.

My gaze shifted to the door.

When will she return? It's been three o'clock in the morning. Still no sign of her.

'Find her,' my beast urged.

He was an enormous huge wolf. A dominant one who thought he could do whatever he wanted and thought I should always follow him.

'No. She knows how to step outside. She knows how to return.'

That was my principle. It was not me who will always chase a woman. Another woman unless it was Zoe.

'Are you not