Alpha Daniel | astera22

Chapter 20

*Some content has been added to the previous chapter a little after publishing, please check to see if you missed anything or the rest of this chapter won't make sense.*

Confusion is an understatement of what I'm feeling right now.

"Lucy..." Daniel shakes his head, disapproving. He then turns to the wolf behind her.

There was something awfully similar about his eyes; they looked a lot like Daniel's. And his fur was also black, despite the similarity I just personally didn't find him as attractive as my own mate.

"And Alex." Daniel rolls his eyes.

As if on cue, 'Alex' takes a few proud strides towards us. He looks me up and down, making me feel endangered or a target. Daniel, of course tenses.

Believe me, I want to keep quiet. I wanted to let Daniel sort everything out by himself.

"Who the fuck is Lucy?"

But I couldn't.

And now all eyes are on me.

"She's-" Daniel begins but Lucy cuts him off.

"I'm not the one you should be asking ab-" She begins in a cocky tone.

"I wasn't talking to you." I sass, turning my attention back to Daniel who looks confused and pissed off.

"Alright, Rem just calm-"

"No. Who the hell is she, Daniel? And why is she calling you babe?" I snap. There were too many girls in his life that I didn't know about.

"She doesn't know about us, Daniel? Better yet, who is she?" Lucy raises her brows playfully, clearly enjoying blatantly destroying my trust for him.

Daniel seemed to have a thing for blondes.

"She is my mate, if you must know." Daniel says sharply. This evidently surprises both of them. Then he turns to me. "Look, we're close to the pack. Let's go back and I promise I will tell you everything."

My hands just dropped. The amount of times I heard this phrase by now is unbelievable. I just didn't understand why every time we got along better, something or someone came along to ruin it again.

"Okay. It better be good." I nod, walking well ahead towards the pack and not waiting for him. It doesn't matter anyway because he follows me closely, not even putting in effort to be able to catch up to me.

"There is no 'us' with me and Lucy." He tells me as we arrive at the house again.

Lucy was not here anymore. Daniel made her leave, only Alex - whoever he was - came back to the house with us. He was finding some clothes to wear as we speak, after shifting.

"Then who the hell is she?"

"She was someone my parents wanted me to be with." He explains.

"And?" I press.

"And we were forced to go on dates when we were teenagers."

"And?"

"And nothing happened after. I had no feelings for her and refused to marry her." He almost throws his hands in the air.

"So why is she here? And who with?" I cross my arms over my chest.

"I don't know and don't really care. And she's with Alex because they're good friends." Daniel mumbles.