"Explain what?" I ask, playing dumb. I do regret a tiny bit how I lost my shit like that in front of him. It wasn't very wise of me.Elliot steps back to close the door before walking closer, without taking his eyes off me. Oh, god. Here we go. "Why do you even care if that ugly alien slept with your ex," he spits, and I almost laugh, but I control it."Because she's my best friend. Fake and all, but still my best friend, and she knew Dario was sacred because he's my first love... my only love before you," I explain, trying to make it as clear as possible so he doesn't get mad, but failing. His eyes narrow even more and he moves closer to me, his scent getting heavy, like when he gets jealous, "Not that I'm still in love with Dario or anything, because I'm not. But he's still mine and...""He’s not yours anymore, Angie,” he interrupts, gluing his body to mine and getting his hand in my hair to pull on it. Now I have look at his angry face directly. I hate it how wet I get when he mi
{ Elliot }I swallow to moisten my dry throat and, once I'm able to move, I grab the box I came for in the first place. The effort of carrying this huge, heavy box is welcomed. My arms feel like they're going to give out, but I've already wasted too much time, so I just carry it until I get back to the group. I half expected Angelique to be hiding somewhere avoiding me, but instead she is talking normally with Eva and Xavier while the alien watches them from afar with anger in her eyes. I decide not to say anything and drop the box at Luc's feet."What took you so long, champ, you need to lift more?" Luc taunts, punching my chest. I try to smile at him but I don’t think I succeed. "Man, I think we better leave the shooting for tomorrow. I'm not really focused, my mind is completely elsewhere," I say quietly and Luc just shrugs as if it's okay, "We'll do it tomorrow, I swear.""I hear you, it's fine," he nods at me and starts giving different orders than we had planned.We march fo
With that in my mind, I walk over to Luc's bed and grab Angie's broken phone. I plug it into my charger and once it turns on, I put my name as her password once again.Angelique has a thousand apps and they drive me crazy. I want to arrange them all by color in folders but I don't. She has a lot of pictures and a lot of texts from a lot of people. I start looking at her pictures, which was not a great idea because there is almost fifty selfies of her with Dario. Laughing, making stupid faces, sticking out their tongues, and... kissing."Damn it," I mutter, gritting my teeth again because this is the last thing I'd want to see. The last thing I needed to see today when I feel so on the verge of losing my shit over anything.I'm trying to stay calm when the door opens and my favorite omega walks in. I forget about the pictures I just saw and immediately stand up, my heart pounding wildly in my chest.I knew she would come back. I knew she would change her mind."Just came for my stuff,
“Okay, let’s create something. Put that evil mind to work,” Marea says, suddenly looking excited. "I’m trying," I mutter and close my eyes. I know I need to focus all this negative energy I feel into a plan against him, but my mind is blank. I probably can't think of anything because I don't really want to hurt him. Love really made me weak, that’s embarrassing. “I’m sure you can use yourself to hurt him, just play around. Pull him in, then push him away. Drive him insane that way. Alphas are so fucking stupid, he’ll never know what hit him,” she opines but I can’t do that because… maybe that’s what I’ve been doing this whole time, “It would work because I think he actually likes you. Like, for real. He even said he’s unavailable when I tried to come on to him.”"What?” I ask, my amusement gone. Marea lifts her hands in case she has to defend herself. And it’s a good idea because I want to slap her again, “What the fuck did you do, Marea?” "Don't get mad, I just tried something. I
{ Angelique }I know I’m acting psychotic again, but I don't care.Elliot on the other hand clearly cares A LOT, because he overreacts a bit. He forces us to do a continuous plank. That might sound easy, but it’s hell after five minutes and we have to do that shit for two hours with just a few minutes to rest here and there. My upper body has never felt this tired. But that’s not all because for lunch we get served paste. Of course, Marea has a hard time keeping it down, but I’m used to it by this point. I just swallow it and drink a lot of water. I tell Marea to do the same because she really needs to eat something, but she can't force more than three spoonfuls down her throat when she is throwing it up. Unfortunately for her, Elliot decided to join us in the cafeteria so he demands Marea to keep eating. He’s being unusually cruel, so much so he reminds me of his father. "You know what the punishment is for someone who hides, don't you, Monroe?" He asks when we get in formation af
"Thank you for your sweet words, Elliot, but I’m dead serious. I don't want to be with you anymore,” I say. Elliot sighs and ignores my words, he moves his hand until it's cradling the back of my neck and he pulls our foreheads together, "I'm emotionally exhausted. I can't take it anymore.""But we haven't even started, Angie," he complains. As usual, oblivious to the facts."That's the problem. You've ruined me and you’re not even my boyfriend, do you have any idea how damaged you left me?" my voice starts to rise but I restrain myself at the end. I don’t want to fight, I just want him to disappear, "Seriously, just leave.""I won't," he denies, getting even closer to me until his legs are tangled with mine and I can feel all of him. His breath smells minty he's not wearing his uniform so this feels even more intimate, "Please just shut up for a second and let me say this. It's kind of hard for me.""Ugh, fine. But then you’ll go,” I accept. Elliot takes a deep breath like he's prepa
{ Angelique }"What was he doing here?" Marea demands to know the moment Elliot leaves, sounding annoyed. I'm about to tell her to shut up but I hear a faint cry and I frown. I put a finger to Marea's lips to shut her up and she puts it in her mouth to bite it softly. I gasp, trying to grab her hand to bite her back, but then I hear another sound, this one a little louder and clearer, and I realize that is Xavier the one who’s crying.I get up from my bed immediately and crawl into his. Xav has his hands covering his face and his whole bed is shaking. My chest feels funny and I can't do anything besides hug him."What's wrong, Xav?” I ask softly, stroking his short hair. Xavier finally uncovers his face."That was just so beautiful," he says softly, "What Elliot said. I heard everything, you know I have trouble sleeping... and you guys weren't exactly being quiet.""Oh, I freaked out for a moment. I thought Luc had done something wrong.""No, no, nothing like that," Xavier gives me a
I go into preservation mode and start looking around to see where I'm going to hide. Marea is doing the same, but Elliot is just standing in front of the door, hyperventilating silently."Elliot, move. Do you want them to find us?""We're going to get found, that's a fact. We can't hide from five alphas in this place," he explains, and I grimace because he's kind of right. They've been trained for way harder things than finding three people in a room this size. I know from experience, if I was indoors, my dad would always find me, "We need another plan. I can tell them we came here for alcohol. My father will forgive anything I do as long as it has to do with alcohol or sex. But Monroe is there, I don't think... agh."Elliot moves to the bar to grab a bottle, but his words make my mind start spinning. Yes, my dad is out there, but he loves Elliot. And I think he appreciates Marea. Being out here getting drunk is something that will definitely piss him off… but anything else will make