All Chapters of The Hot Alpha’s Curvy Craving : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

Chapter 101Sophia"Don't come in yet, don't come in, give me one minute, I'm fixing it."Kellan's voice came from the kitchen the second I opened the front door, and right behind it came the smoke alarm, loud and screaming, and a cloud of grey smoke rolling down the hallway toward me along the ceiling. I dropped my bag on the floor and ran.He was standing in the middle of the kitchen with a frying pan in one hand and a dish towel in the other, waving the towel at the smoke alarm on the ceiling like he was trying to fan it to death. Every window in the kitchen was open. The back door was open. There was black smoke pouring off the pan, and in the pan were two things that might have been steaks once, a long time ago, before something terrible happened to them."I said don't come in," he shouted over the alarm."Your house is on fire, Kellan.""It's not on fire. It's just smoking. Smoking is different. Smoking is a choice."I grabbed a chair from the table, dragged it under the smoke a

Chapter 103Sophia"Did you touch him?"Kellan said it into the dark, very quietly, with his hand still flat on my back and his heart still kicking under my ear. Neither of us had moved. The last candle had gone out and the kitchen was black except for a thin grey line of moonlight coming in through the open window over the sink, falling across the floor a few feet from us, across the two halves of the broken plate."No," I said.He didn't say anything."I didn't touch him, Kellan." I lifted my head off his chest so I could look at him, even though I couldn't really see his face. Just the shape of it, the line of his jaw, the dark where his eyes were. "He walked into the locker room at the end of my shift. He's starting nights in the north wing on Monday. He came in early to do charts. He didn't know I was still there.""And then?""And then he went to the other end of the room and stood at his locker with his back to me the whole time, and he told me the transfer went through, and I

Chapter 105Kellan"I don't know how I got out here."She said it before I'd even taken a step, without turning around all the way, her voice small and scraped in the cold. She was still sitting on the top porch step with her knees pulled up and her arms around them, and in the low moonlight the silver fur on her arms looked almost white, running all the way up past her elbows and under the sleeves of my t-shirt. Her claws were out. Her toes were curled on the frozen wood.I didn't say anything. I let go of the doorframe and walked out onto the porch and sat down on the step next to her.Not close. Close enough that she'd know I was there. Not close enough to touch. The wood was so cold it went straight through my jeans."I was asleep," she said. "I was in bed. I was looking at the ceiling and I fell asleep, and then I was here. I don't remember the hallway. I don't remember the door. I don't remember any of it, Kellan.""I know."She turned her head and looked at me. Her eyes were go

Chapter 107Sophia"Where'd you go?"I asked it with my back to him, standing at the counter pouring coffee into two mugs, because if I turned around he'd see my face, and I hadn't figured out yet what my face was going to do. I'd heard his truck in the gravel. I'd heard the engine cut off. I'd heard him sit out there for almost five minutes before he opened the door, and I'd stood at the counter holding the coffee pot the whole time, listening to his heart through the wall."Driving," Kellan said behind me. "Couldn't sleep."His heart jumped.One hard kick, then too fast, the exact same sound it made last night at dinner when he told me training, nothing special. I heard it as clear as the coffee pouring into the mug.I didn't say anything. I put the pot back on the burner and picked up his mug and turned around and held it out to him.He was standing in the kitchen doorway in his jacket with his keys still in his hand. He looked like he'd been up all night, which he had, grey under

Chapter 109SophiaI'd been standing at the north wing nurses' station for almost a minute, holding my bag against my chest, trying to think of what I was going to say when I saw him. Something calm. Something a nurse would say. I've been sleepwalking, I need to know if it's connected, I need to know what's happening to me. I'd practiced it in Kellan's truck in the parking lot for an hour while the sky went dark, and every time I got to the end of it I thought about the envelope Elina said the palace guard brought to the house this morning, and I couldn't make myself turn the key and drive home.Then the north wing nurse looked up at me and said, "Dr. Harland's on break, he went that way," and pointed toward the stairwell door at the end of the hall, and before she even finished saying it my wolf lifted her head and I could smell him through the door. Soap and pine. And under it something sharp and sour and frightened, the way patients smell when they come in at night and don't know y