CHAPTER 5

As I sat there trying to register what dad just told me, a lot of questions started popping into my head. Dad looked pretty upset right now and I didn’t really blame him. If he and the Alpha have been trying to work out why that pack was watching ours, I would be pretty edgy too. 

“Why the hell would he be watching us? We haven’t done anything to him, have we? I can’t imagine our Alpha would be that stupid. He’s called the Devil for a reason. And why the hell would he want to kidnap me? The Alpha’s son was right there.” I said in a complete word vomit. 

I couldn’t help it. I had all these questions and they just started spilling out and there was nothing I could do to stop them. 

My mind was telling me to calm down, but my mouth just kept moving. 

“Amberly. I can’t tell you any more than what I’ve already told you. And you can’t tell anyone else.” Dad insisted. 

My whole head was reeling. I know that it was horrible of me to say that the Alpha’s son was right there, but that made more sense to me. 

Why take me when the Alpha’s kid is a lot more valuable than me. 

Unless they thought that I was a weaker prey than Ryan. 

That had to be the reason. They must have thought that I was weaker and that’s why they grabbed me. 

But it was too perfect. Their attack on me. With the fight and everything. 

I was absolutely convinced that the fight that broke out was a diversion because no one was looking at me and Ryan and Evan were both standing in front of me. We were in the perfect positions and that bastard grabbed me without them even noticing at first. 

Dad stood up and walked over to me and he leaned down and kissed me on the forehead. 

“Try and get some sleep. I know that you’re tired. We’ll talk later. Just for now, you can’t say anything to anyone.” He said. So I nodded my head. 

So he left my room and I climbed into bed and I laid down under the covers. 

I had a lot of crap going through my head right now, but I was too exhausted to focus too hard on it. 

I could hear patrols running past our house at more frequent intervals, but again, I just blocked them out. 

I eventually passed out and I managed to sleep through the night with no nightmares or anything. It was a really peaceful sleep actually. 

Evan and I still had to go for our morning jog but I wasn’t in the mood to mess around like we usually did. 

I was unusually quiet and I could see Evan constantly looking over at me. 

There was just too much going through my mind right now and I knew that I couldn’t tell him. 

I can tell anyone about it. I knew that it was going to drive me insane, but that’s just the way it was going to be for a while. 

We jogged past the packhouse and we saw Alpha Matthew standing outside with Ryan, talking about something pretty important. 

I guess it was just more Alpha training, but when they saw me approaching they stopped talking. 

I wasn’t even near the house, but werewolf hearing was brilliant when you wanted to listen in on other people’s conversations. 

And this was one conversation that they didn’t want me to hear. 

“Hey baby.” Ryan said, walking over to me. 

“Hi. Is everything alright?” I asked as he leaned in to kiss me. 

“Yeah. Just Alpha crap. I want to be in bed.” He said. 

“I’ll say to you what I say to Evan. Suck it up.” I said. 

“Well, I’m not used to being up this early.” Ryan said. 

“I can tell. Are you going to be at school today?” I asked. 

“Yeah. Why wouldn’t I be?” He asked, confused. 

“Well, whatever you two were talking about looked pretty intense. So I was just wondering.” I said. 

“I’ll be there. I’ll pick you up on the corner of your house at the usual time.” He said. So I leaned in and kissed him before Evan and I had to keep jogging off. 

When we got home we were surprised to walk inside and see dad sitting at the table with mom and a full table of breakfast. Instead of him standing in the doorway with a stopwatch. 

Evan and I looked at each other strangely because we were sure we would have to do push ups because of my detour to talk to Ryan. 

But we cautiously sat down and dad didn’t do anything. He just started dishing up his own breakfast, so the rest of us did it as well. 

We actually ate a really nice breakfast together that morning and no one was more surprised than me. 

After the punishment I had received two nights ago, this was a completely different dad. 

We met Ryan at the corner at our usual time and he drove us to school and we got out of the car and started walking inside. 

“Evan. There you are.” A high pitched annoying voice sounded through the hallway. It felt like nails on a chalkboard. 

“Hi Molly.” Evan said. And she draped herself over Evan and started kissing him and her voice was getting more and more annoying as it went on. 

Ryan put his arm around my waist and we started walking towards my locker where Tris was waiting. 

“Hey. Is everything alright?” I asked her. 

“Yeah. Why?” She asked, snapping out of her daze. 

“You look a little down.” I said. 

“I’m fine.” She said, walking away. 

So I turned to try and look at what she was looking at. 

It was Brandon who was on the other side of the hallway chatting up a couple of girls. I let out a sigh before I opened my locker and I put my things inside of it. 

We went to our first class and Tris was sitting up the back by herself but I wasn’t going to let her deal with this alone. There was no need to. Not when she had me to talk to. Even if she thought that I hadn’t realized what was happening at the club the other night. 

I sat beside Tris and Ryan sat on the other side of me. That was so his friends could sit near him but be as far away from Tris as possible. 

“He’ll realize what he’s missing one day.” I mind linked her. 

“Who?” Tris asked. 

“Don’t play dumb with me. Do you honestly think that I don’t know?” I asked. 

“Well, he doesn’t seem too interested now. He was all over me at the club.” She said. 

“That’s because guys are idiots.” I said. And she looked at me with a smile on her face. 

Just as the teacher walked into the room he put his things on the desk and Ryan pulled my desk over to touch his, as he always did, and he put his arm along the back of my chair and played with my hair. 

But only moments after the class started alarms started sounding from all around us. 

Everyone was up as quick as they could and the teacher had to give the orders on where to go. 

Those alarms only meant one thing. We were under attack. 

I tried to run for the door but Ryan grabbed my arm and wrapped his arms around my waist, using all of his strength to hold me there. 

“What the hell are you doing? I have to go and help the warriors.” I yelled. But he spun me around and stared into my eyes. 

“As an Alpha, I demand that you stop fighting me and you do what I say.” He ordered. 

Now I was physically incapable of going against anything that he said.