All Chapters of Fated to My Best Friend and The Alpha: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Running as Nyx feels nothing like running as me.There is no awkward pounding of feet against the ground, no burning in my lungs after I push too hard, no moment where my brain starts calculating how far I’ve gone and whether I can justify slowing down.My paws strike the earth in a rhythm that feels impossibly natural for a body I’ve inhabited for less than an hour, muscles stretching and contracting beneath thick silver-black fur as I weave between trees that once seemed close together but now open effortlessly around me.The forest pours into me through senses I didn’t know existed.A rabbit crossed this trail sometime this morning.A deer is somewhere uphill.Water moves over stone to my left, farther away than I should possibly be able to hear it.The air itself seems layered with information, every current carrying something different until the woods I have known my entire life become a place I have never truly experienced.This is incredible.Nyx’s pleasure rolls through me.Ye

The unfamiliar scent gets stronger with every step.Sweet perfume, warm skin, something sharper underneath it that I don’t have enough experience with my wolf senses to identify, though Nyx seems to understand it long before I do because the happiness inside her starts thinning into something wary.I barely notice.Drevin is my mate.The thought keeps crashing through me, huge and impossible and so stupidly perfect that I can’t stop smiling even with another person’s scent hanging in the hallway.Drevin.My Drevin.The boy who climbed through my window before sunrise because he wanted breakfast, who held my hand when I broke my wrist, who knows exactly how much caramel I like in my coffee and which movies make me cry even when I pretend they don’t.The person I chose years before fate apparently decided to agree with me.Maybe this explains everything.The distance.The weirdness.Maybe his wolf somehow knew before mine woke up.I don’t know if that’s even possible, but right now I do

I shifted without a thought. One second my shoes were sliding across damp leaves and pine needles and the next my bones began snapping into place, the pain nothing compared to the pressure in my chest.Nyx pushed forward, eager to take my body and grief. Four paws thudded against the ground beneath us, the cold dirt flying up with every step as the wind rushed through silver black fur.We ran. My lungs burning as branches whipped past. Nyx never slowed, and I didn’t ask her to.I didn’t ask for anything. I let my consciousness slip into the back of my mind, listening to the forest around us. There were no footsteps behind us.No voices calling.Just the sounds of the forest, of paws thudding against the ground.Still, every sound made something inside me lift hopefully, stupidly. A branch cracking, leaves rustling. Distant sounds of animals crashing through the brush.Nyx’s ears flicked every time.Our disappointment grew every time it wasn’t him, until eventually, we both sto

We had been walking for almost twenty minutes. I didn’t realize I had run so far in my desperation to get away from Drevin.Zeus is taking the long way.Nyx mused softly.“Zeus?”The wolf in front of me stopped and I tripped trying to avoid running into him. My foot caught a root causing me to pitch forward. I grabbed the trunk of a pine tree to avoid falling face first in the dirt.The wolf swung his head around, his eyes on me again, ears lifting. My body heated at his gaze and Nyx practically purred inside my head.I straightened slowly, brushing pine needles from my palms while avoiding meeting the golden eyes in front of me.“Nyx?” I whispered harshly.Silence meets my question.“Seriously?”The wolf tilts his head, looking confused.Zeus.Nyx whispers, sounding very pleased with herself.“Who is Zeus?” The wolf’s ears twitch. My gaze jerks towards his.“That’s your name?”His long black tail sweeps slowly through the leaves.My eyes narrow.“How did you know?” I question Nyx

By the time the sun rises the next morning, I am wrecked. My body hurts, my head feels swollen and plugged, and worst of all, there is a throbbing thread that seems to lead to the one person I least want to think about right now.I pull myself from bed, turning the shower to scalding before slipping beneath the spray and letting the heat cascade over me.When I step out ten minutes later, I only feel marginally better. I look a little better, at least. The angry redness around my eyes has faded, though faint shadows still sit beneath them, and my face isn’t quite as puffy as it was when I climbed out of bed.I sigh as I stare at my reflection in the mirror, my hair dripping around me.*I think this might be the best it’s going to get today.*I can feel Nyx inside my mind. She doesn’t speak, but she rubs against my ribs in quiet comfort.I slip into a pair of maroon sweats and a black hoodie before carefully opening my bedroom door. I linger in the doorway, listening for the familiar s