Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Caden’s POV.
She is here.
I’m more surprised than anything. This is the first time since she arrived that she is out of her room and
socializing.
It doesn’t look as if she wants to be here but at least she is present and talking to someone.
“You may bore a hole into the side of her head if you keep staring at her like that,” Raphael says beside
me, drawing my attention away from Alessia eating her te of spaghetti.
from
“I wasn’t staring.” I deny the usation and focus back on my te.
“Sure you weren’t,” he ribs, a s h i t- as s-eating grin on his face.
I choose to simply ignore him. He gets his pleasure when he sees he’s riling me up. I wasn’t going to
give him that satisfaction.
“What are you two talking about?” Alex asks as he settles into the other seat beside me with his newly
filled te in his hand. “What did I miss?”
Great, now I have the two of them to annoy me.
Just Caden staring at his pretty little mate, Raphael’s mind links to Alex and me, more than happy to fill
Alex in on the topic of the conversation.
I hold my remark at his choice of words used to describe Alessia. Doing that would just make their day.
“Oh, realllly, “Alex drawls out like the a s s h o l e that he is as he looks over at where his mate and
mine are chatting away. ‘Scarlett told me that she was going to try and befriend her. Seems she made it
work,” he announces with a smile on his face.
I wasn’t surprised that he told Scarlett about the true identity of Alessia. Those two never kept anything
from each other and I would never ask him to hide something away from his mate.
“Why would she want to do that?” I ask, genuinely curious and slightly thankful for the gesture. Why I
was grateful to her for trying to get Alessia out of her shell is something I wasn’t willing to think about.
“She noticed Alessia wasn’ting out of her room. Said it wasn’t healthy for someone to be closed in
all day and dered to fix it,” he exins, turning his gaze away from thedies and digging into his
food.
Sounded like something Scarlett would do. Once that minx got something stuck in her head, she went
for it without another thought. It was one of the reasons why Alex was so crazy about her. It is also a
trait that I appreciate at the moment. Alessia needs someone like her.
I decide to share an ounce of the problems weighing on me.
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‘Do either of know of an Alpha that has a daughter or immediate rtive that went missing? I mind link
to Alex and Raphael.
If Alessia has a wolf of that size then she is definitely rted to an Alpha but I haven’t heard of any
Alpha with a missing family member. I was short of ideas and didn’t know what other exnation to
come up with. Sure, Alessia and I were going to straighten things outter but in the meantime, my
mind couldn’t help but cat away at my inside.
‘No, I haven’t heard of anything of that sort, Alex answer.
‘Same here. It’s Raphael this time. “Why do you ask? Did something happen at a pack in the region?”
I try not to let their answers dampen my mood. I was going to get the real answerster tonight
anyways. I just have to pace myself.
‘No reason. I know they wouldn’t believe my vague reply but I wasn’t ready to share anything with them
when I didn’t have all the facts yet. When I figure out what the hell was happening, then I’ll ry it to
them but for now, it was better they were kept in the dark.
After dinner, I make my way up to my office to wait out the hours left for me to go to Alessia’s room.
Besides not wanting toe off as an impatient brute, I also didn’t want to risk the chance of someone.
seeing me entering her room. Our already sketchy excuse wouldn’t be able to get us out of that
situation.
So I wait at my desk, doing mini-tasks to help keep me preupied.
Once the clock’s hand hits eleven, I’m off my desk and heading for Alessia’s room.
I scout out the premises before cing two swift knocks on her door. I half expected her to be fast
asleep but as soon as I ce the second knock, the door flies open to show a fully awake Alessia.
She wearing a thin ck tank top that hangs a little off at the shoulders and ck shorts, another
borrowed set of clothes from Scarlett.
It urred to me that I should have already bought her some new clothes of her own. Most of her
clothes. were ruined when those rogues searched through her things. I put the thought at the back of
my mind for future purposes.
“Are you nning on having our talk in the hallway?” I ask, seeing as she still hasn’t opened her door
for me to walk in.
“Sorry,” she whispers, realizing her mistake. Her cheeks tint a lovely pink color and she moves away
from the doorway, holding the door open for me to walk in.
I quickly move in, not wanting someone to catch me doing that. Once in, I walk over to the open and
stand in front of it, gazing out at the dark sky brightened by a single moon.
window
At the sound of footsteps, I turn around to find Alessia sitting at the edge of her bed.
In that moment, I contemte the wiseness in picking her room as our ce of meeting. It wasn’t safe
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be in closed quarters with her. Not after what happened in the woods. Not after realizing that my body
couldn’t be trusted around Alessia.
“Why did you want to talk to me?” Alessia questions.
Thankful for the distraction. I lean on the window edge and cross my arms over my chest. “Who are
you?” This was the second time I was asking her that question and this time, I prayed that she didn’t
tell me another lie.
She sighs, twirling her fingers in herp- something she does a lot. After a few beats, she looks at me
and holds my gaze. I’m the daughter of an Alpha.”