The Alpha's Favour

XLIX

Lying to Tristan was becoming easier and easier and I was ashamed to admit it.

Jasmine had left with him only to come back alone with her guards an hour later. Just like we had discussed.

Next think I knew we were driving to HQ.

"Tristan's gonna figure out what we're doing." I spoke aloud. Even though I had no problem going against Tristan's wishes this time around, doesn't mean I wasn't nervous about it.

I was freaking out on the inside.

And let's face it, the outside too.

I was anxiously wringing my hands and kept focusing on the trees that we by passed outside hoping it would momentarily distract me from the nerves that were making my stomach churn.

"I know he is." Jasmine spoke. "I just hope it will be too late by the time he tries to stop us."

She was scrolling through something on her phone looking all business like.

I sucked in a deep breath, my heart was racing in my chest.

Jasmine put her phone down and looked at me.

"You need to relax, Crystal."

"That's easy for you to say." I spoke out, my agitation coming off as anger. "Tristan's gonna forgive you. I've already done a lot of things to break his trust."

Jasmine frowned. "Tristan will always care for you, Crystal."

Jasmine hadn't been around when everything was going. I don't know how much Tristan told her but I knew she couldn't possibly know everything unless he opened his mind to her.

The pain that existed was deep rooted in his soldiers getting killed, in Roman managing to get the best of him, in the man who was responsible for his parents death being alive... and it all just came back to me. The girl who was supposed to be by his side but who instead was in love with one of his biggest enemies.

Jasmine couldn't understand. No matter how much she tried.

When we got to HQ, Jasmine turned to look at me.

"We're gonna use the back." She told both me and the driver.

Having the ex Luna and newly discovered granddaughter of the pack's biggest enemy walking through the door definitely wasn't a good look, I agreed.

"There's a back entrance?" I asked Jasmine.

I was mostly wondering how she knew about this. She wasn't a Silvercrest.

"There's always another entrance." Jasmine shrugged.

We got out of the vehicle and she gave the driver instructions to wait for us and remain inconspicuous.

HQ was in the middle of no where. So I wasn't surprised when he ended up navigating through trees, me following Jasmine who seemed to know where she was going.

All the while I was nervous. What if there were cameras that would alert them that we were here? Or trip wires or something. I refused to believe HQ was this easy to sneak around.

But mostly I was nervous about Tristan catching us. I had messed things up with him already and even though I was doing this to help him, I knew that he wouldn't see it this way.

"Here we go." Jasmine suddenly announced when we got to the back wall.

Before I could ask what she meant because there was nothing there, she reached out and swept away a thick covering of bush.