“What are you doing here? Alec,” I ask Alec, still eating my ice cream.“I could ask you the same thing, Sadie,” he answers, his eyes focused on me. “I saw Micah’s car and wondered what he would be doing here. Only it wasn’t Micah, it was you.”I used to come here as a safe haven. I didn’t have anyw
Alec doesn’t say anything. This is what I was afraid of. Mrs. Walter always said that when she met Alec, she would give him a piece of her mind and let him know just how his behavior towards me was despicable.The stubborn tilt of her lips lets me know she’s about to reveal more of my secrets.“That
“Why would hybrids be following us?” Alec asks, his words coming through clenched teeth.I totally get him because I am currently wondering the same thing. Why would two hybrids be tailing us? In my honest opinion, I don’t think they are after Alec. Why would they be? He is simply in the wrong place
“Sadie?” I hear a voice calling me, but it sounds muffled underwater.My ears are ringing, and I can barely see anything given that my sight is blurry. I feel dazed and there is this excruciating pain radiating somewhere on my body.“Open your eyes, Sadie. We have to get out of here.”This time the
“I’m going to set you down so I can deal with them, okay?” Alec whispers in my ear. “It’s only going to take a moment.”Before I can protest, he sets me against a tree before turning to the two snarling hybrids. Alec is overconfident, thinking hybrids are easy to kill. Has he seriously forgotten all
The little energy I had leaves me, and I sag against the tree. Alec catches me before I can fall down to the ground.The hybrid's words keep playing in my head. Not about his cousin, but about the woman who was apparently coming for me.“You are bleeding,” Alec’s voice cuts through my thoughts.I gi
Alec.When I saw Micah’s car today, I never expected Sadie to be the one using it. I also never expected the day to end the way it did.I had some business in town with some of the neighboring Alphas. I also went to my company to check how things were running, given that I had not been in the office
Living among humans and hiding our nature, we’ve learned to clean up our messes. That’s why there has never been a string of suspicious deaths, even though we kill rogues all the time.We soon get to the vehicles, and I get in, still cradling Sadie’s form in my arms as if she were a lifeline.I look