Chapter Four

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"Kat, come on over here," Alpha Amor calls out.

Oh man. This is the last thing I need, I think to myself as I walk over trying to make my strides appear as confident as possible. "Meet Alpha Zyon, from the Midnight pack. Actually, you guys might know each other. Kat and I had the same friend's group in high school."

"We do, actually. Spoke a couple of times in high school," He says in his deep voice, that sends a shiver up my body. I look right up at him to see a smug smile on his face that sends a twinge of annoyance right up my body. I was the little girl crushing on him and following him around in school, but never really speaking to him. He knew how I felt about him, thus the smug, arrogant smile on his face. He didn't know the full story though. Man, how I wanted to wipe that smug look off his face. I see his eyes take me in, moving from my head, lingering on my breasts and down to my bare leg, making me extremely self-conscious, an emotion I don't usually experience. "You're different to how I remember, how are you doing Katherine?"

Hearing my name come out of his mouth made my annoyance dissipate almost immediately to be replaced with my face becoming warm. I knew my face was turning red and suddenly I hated the effect he had on me. I hated the way I had spent years pining over him from the shadows. I hated that he could make me feel this way. I hated that I was turned on just by looking at him. I pressed my lips down into a thin line, "I am well, Alpha. Hope you are well too. Can't say I remember you from high-school though, but it's nice to meet you now."

I see the smug smile transitioning into a scowl and I feel a sense of achievement that I was able to get under his skin. Almost felt like revenge for all those years of pining over him. I stood up a little straighter, looking right at him as I heard him give off a low growl. Then I see him lean in slowly, and my heart rate suddenly picks up, "Really? You don't remember following me around in school, you don't remember staring at me in your optional classes, library, gym or what about the time when I heard you tell your best friend over there, how hot you thought I was?"

At this point, I practically felt steam coming out of my ears. How dare he throw all this at me? Why does he even remember? I was hoping he had forgotten all about it? I wouldn't let him get to me though, "What? You have me mistaken with someone else, Alpha. I really don't remember you, nor do I find you "hot." If you don't however have me mistaken with someone else, you definitely are delusional."

I see him laugh, "That's not what your heart-rate is telling me though." I feel my face burn with embarrassment, stupid heart-rate but I refuse to admit it, so I stare right up at him and say, "You must be deaf, along with delusional. Now, if your stupid male ego is satiated, I'd like to be excused."

I hear him let out a growl as his deep voices, gets a little deeper laced with anger: "I'm going to let you go, just this once, because I enjoy your feisty nature. However, be warned, if you ever insult or disrespect me like that again, I promise you won't like the result."

Just like that Zyon had returned to the cold, calculating Alpha, he was known to be, yet even with the underlying threat he gave me, I couldn't help but think how attracted I was to him. Maybe, just maybe I wanted to know what he would do if I disrespected him again or was this just my desperate subconscious attempt to stay near him so I could see what those consequences would be. I know, I am so messed up. I knew it was time to shake myself out of it. I had to get away from him. His voice, his face, his body, everything just messed me up. So I looked up at him and in a firm, soft voice said, "Understood Alpha" and walked away.

As I walked away, I felt his eyes burning into my back. I felt as if I was being watched. Or perhaps that was just in my head. Maybe I wanted him to watch me as I walked away.

I walked straight back to where I knew Zarah was, and where she would be waiting for me. I grasped her hand and just put my head on her shoulder. Each interaction with him was just draining for me. I couldn't deal with the embarrassment I faced every time I saw him, and I hated the cringey feeling I got every time, I remembered how I acted around him when I was younger. Most of all I hated how conflicted I was. I hated that I didn't actually hate him, and I hated the crude thoughts that popped into my head everytime I saw him. The crude thoughts I think of him now, with him on top of me, slamming into me mercilessly as I scream his name and drag my nails down his back, make me feel incessantly guilty. This conflicting, complicated emotions were too much to handle and a burden I had been carrying around for a long time. I was tired. I didn't want to carry this burden around anymore.

Zarah squeezed my hand, "Hey, I had Yasmeen look at everything you were meant to do. She's seen to it all. We can leave and head home. I'll spend the night."

"I'd love that. Can't stay here a second longer. These pills are only going to last two hours anyway. I don't want to risk it," I tell her quietly. Yasmeen looks up at us a little curiously. I know I owe her an explanation, and a thank you for handling my responsibilities today: "Yasmeen, I'd love for you to join us please. I know I owe you an explanation. Zarah trusts you which means I do too."

She smiles, "I'd love that. Let me just go tell Harvey and then I'll meet you by the entrance."

About forty minutes later, we get back to my apartment. I unlock It and kick of my heels. Zarah, as always, saunters into my apartment like she owns the place and I tell Yasmeen to make herself comfortable. I walk into the kitchen, grab two tubs of ice-cream and head back into the lounge, knowing I have a long night of story-telling and reliving memories ahead of me.

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