Chapter 54


    Chapter 54.


    Alsa’s POV


    Caden grips my arm, ripping me out ofke’s hold and pulling me into his cheat


    I stand still, my head finding it difficult is wrap around what just happened. I also hoping that might have dreamt about it


    but the number of wat hul gazes trained on me lets me know that is he came


    “Alpha, I didn’t know she was your mate would have never dared toy a hand on her if we


    I d Jake’s head is bowed so I can’t see the expression on his face but is he being serious now?


    Did be just say that he doesn’t know Caden is my mate? My brows furrow together in confule linee hi eves hift to meet


    mine. I figure it out


    This was his n. He asked to spar with me, knowing that it would make Caden lose his con


    And like the predictable a s s h o l e that Caden is, he fell for it. H o o k, line, and sinker.


    I close my eyes, holding in a groan as Caden drags me away from the training ground.


    Jake has created such a mess. He might have meant well but the repercussions of this are gome


    The rumors were already too much to handle. I can’t imagine how things are going to go now tat ponde have found out


    that we’re fated mate. It’s going to be a huge cluster and I’m not looking forward t


    avigating through it.


    I jerk my hand out of his tight grip once we get into the woods and away from onlookers.


    “Why did you do that?!” I yell because I can and because I f u c k i n g deserve to yell out loud.


    When Caden had first told me that we were going to be hiding our rtionship, I admit that my


    feeling were a bit bruised. But after staying in the pack house for more than a month and


    figuring out how, The dynamic works, I’m more than grateful to Caden for wanting to keep us a


    secret. Now every


    and out in the open.


    Caden blinks at me and then his face tightens in anger. “This isn’t my fault. I wasn’t the one


    waymatra another male arms in the presence of my mate.”


    I roll my eyes, pinching the bridge of my nose as my head starts a full throb. I thought we


    couldn’t get headaches.


    “It wasn’t my fault either I start. “Besides, you don’t see me acreaming out to everyone that, we


    35- when you have your arms wrapped around f u c k i n g Julianna Her name tastes like acid on


    a we grimace at the offending memories


    “Julianna?” His brows draw together. “What about her?”


    get


    I huff and cross my armover my chest “Like you didn’t notice that she was doing everything to


    g?i h?i hands on you.”


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    We’re getting off track here but I don’t know how to reel the conversation back in. Thankfully,


    Caden de


    He shakes his head. “That doesn’t matter right now. We have an issue at hand here.” A pause.


    “Why did you have to spar with him? I’m always your sparring partner. You should havee


    to ask me.”


    My reason for not doing that now seems stupi d in light of our imploded world. I bite the inside


    of my check. “You left me alone,” I whisper, refusing to meet his gaze.


    “I left you alone?” Her forehead clenches in confusion. “I don’t understand what you mean.”


    I sigh heavily, knowing that I’m going to have to spell it out for him. “I woke up alone in your


    weren’t there. You left me alone in your room.”


    bed. You


    Caden brows lift in surprise, nearly entering into his hairline. “I left you only because I thought


    you needed more sleep. I didn’t want you to train when you were feeling fatigued.”


    Well, you


    can’t me me if that wasn’t the first conclusion I came to. I thought that you were running


    away from me, I’m kickingzily at an innocent rock wedged in the ground. “That is your default


    response and I told you the same thing was happening again.”


    Caden sighs and his shoulders fall, the fight visibly draining out of him.. “I wasn’t running


    away.” Another sigh.


    “What are we going to do now?” I ask, drawing closer to him as though


    pulled by some maic force.


    He shrugs. “We’ll ignore them. Like we’ve always done. They’re bound to find out things to


    entertain their selves with when we don’t give them the time of the day.”


    Somehow, we both know that it won’t be the case here. People will never let it go until we


    address it. But then again, Address may just add more fuel to the fire. We’re at a cul-de-sac with


    nowhere to go except to stand still.


    Caden walks over to me and ces a hand on my shoulder, squeezing softer. “It isn’t going to


    be all that bad.”


    Won’t it? I nod though, putting on a false sense of bravado, Besides, the only thing that people


    are going to do is talk and I’d like to think that I’m past the point of letting hateful words get to


    me.


    “Let’s go back to the training grounds,” Caden suggests and I open my mouth to reject the offer


    but think


    twice.


    Won’t running away make it worse? The best thing to do is to face this issue hard on and pray


    that we aren’t eaten up whole..


    “Ok.” I nod. “Let’s go back there.”


    When we get there the atmosphere is stiff with tension and there is a lull in all the


    conversations going on around us. Everyone is looking at us but thankfully no one makes any


    move to approach us. I wonder how


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