Semua Bab The Cursed Alpha : Bab 41 - Bab 49

VIOLET The dent was growing, it was larger this morning.I sparred with the tree like it had long auburn hair, each blow landing with precision. My unmoving opponent creaked, bathing me again with almost dead leaves. Perhaps signalling its surrender, but I'd stopped listening three baths ago.“Two pack leaders? You're quite important, Luna.”Calvin's voice was ignored, as I continued my morning task. Aliya's unnerving eyes watched me as they usually did this morning, assessing and assessing and assessing as she always did.Calvin made some more comments that were also ignored. The young Delta simply did not understand the concept of silence. He wandered off after a while, but I knew he was close by; he also didn't understand the concept of personal space.He took his duties seriously, or he was simply wired differently. He stayed with me all day as I practiced my forms and even when I slept. He stayed until Brian returned and he was there when I woke this morning. And I thought Aliya

VIOLET Could trees cry? If they could, I'm certain this one would. I rained hits on it; elbows, fists, feet, shoulders, the weight of my whole body.“Liya would be mad if her tree dies,” Calvin casually commented. Day ten of my training with Aliya. Four days more and I would return to training with Brian. Brian, whom I hadn't seen in days. We slept in the same cabin, sure. But it was like we had made a pact to avoid each other. When one was in, the other was out. I did not know how to feel about going back to spending time with him. But those were worries for the future.Right now, I gave Liya’s tree a proper beating. I was earlier than usual for training, and she wasn't here yet. She should never have introduced me to it, if she worried about it dying.The mood suddenly changed. Calvin, who was playing with leaves, was instantly alert. “Aliya will not be coming today, we need to go.”Aliya had never missed a day of training, “Did she say that?” “She didn't have to.”I knew then

VIOLET Calvin was darting weird looks at me.Whatever Harriette did to distract him, it worked for longer than I'd expected and when he opened her back door, I was right there. He knew I'd gone somewhere, but he didn't know where.Now as he hammered a piece of nail into a chair Harriette had claimed was rickety, his eyes kept coming back to me. I wished he'd miss and hammer a finger, then he could feel as terrible as I was feeling.I was off the mark by several inches, but for the first time, I wondered if being on mark would have been better.Harriette showered him in praise as he worked. Now that Harriette had reinforced that Cain was okay, I wanted to get away from here, but I didn't want to be alone. And I didn't want to be here either.I played with the bowl of fruits she'd set out for me, but the sliced apples and blueberries weren't doing a lot for my mood. My one thought remained the same; how did I escape this mayhem untouched? What was the path forward?Most of the day pas

VIOLET Hearing him through the walls was a far cry from actually seeing him.My hand shook when I reached for my cup of milk. And on second thoughts, I took my hand back, I was fairly certain I would spill everything if I did lift the cup.Almost a full moon since my training with Aliya had started, and I would admit that some part of me had waited for Brian. It was supposed to be fourteen days after all, but when he didn't come, I assumed Aliya had fully taken on the role of everything.I was wrong. I don't know if I was pleased about that. But the strong tingling inside of me told me someone else was. She was way more dominant these days.He strolled in like it was nobody's business (it wasn't, it was his cabin after all), looking like a piece of cake I wanted to eat. Well, not me, but me, obviously.Calvin offered a sort of greeting, but I didn't hear, my attention was on the things I wanted but couldn't have.“Your training will resume today,” he announced like he was talking ab