Hidden Predator

Chapter 12

Alex gasped, her breathing heavy and her heart erratic. What the hell was that? Her hands trembled beneath Harper's, her eyes flashing back and forth between her hands and Harper's green eyes. Her mind was confused, bewildered, pushing and pulling for answers that could fit the specific questions she mused. Alex opened her mouth to speak, to say anything that could explain what she had witnessed, felt and endured within her own head.

"Are you okay?" Harper whispered, her hand squeezing Alex's in comfort.

"I-I," Alex stuttered, her words not being able to pass her lips. "I, I need to leave." She mumbled beneath her breath.

Alex stood up slowly, her body going into shock. Harper stood also, her body straight, her eyes staring into Alex's back. Harper began to place the chair back under the table as Alex walked off and out of the room. She sighed beneath her breath at the trembling girl. This wasn't getting any better for her.

Alex's speed quickened, her slow jog turning into a full blow run and she dived around the corridors looking for some kind of exit. A place of fresh air. She needed to calm down, she needed to get her head straight -but these winding halls weren't doing her a favour. She couldn't understand why she always ran after seeing a memory. What was she running from? Her feet slapped against the hard wood, her heels digging into to the planks sending a shooting pain up her foot however her pace never ceased to slow down. As she skidded around a corner and down the hall she knocked into a hard figure.

A grunt came from the person she had slammed her body into, her hands splayed awkwardly across the mans chest. His hands had wrapped around her waist to balance them both and his grip loosened slightly on her hips when he realised what he was doing. Alex glanced up, her subconscious self cringing slightly when she came face to face with Jaxon.

"Sorry." Alex mumbled, standing back on her own two feet.

Jaxon hummed beneath his breath, his eyes casting over her body and then at her bare feet.

"Where are your shoes?" He asked, his eyebrow raising.

Alex glanced down at her red-raw feet, a slight pink rash moving up towards her ankles as she stared. Now that she noticed her feet were bare, she could feel the cold air brushing along her toes and caressing her tortured skin.

"Oh, I don't know." Alex muttered, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion. She glanced up at Jaxon and then the unfamiliar corridor she was stood in. She must have been in such a rush to find an exit she hadn't realised where she had actually been running to. Alex stared hard at the walls and then back at where she came from, anything that gave her a clue about whereabouts in the building she was.

"Lost?" Jaxon interrupted her thoughts, his expression showing nothing but amusement. "Follow me."

Alex gazed back at the mysterious Alpha, his body walking past her and leading the way back to somewhere familiar and hopefully her shoes.

"Your name is Alex, right?" He muses in front of her, his head tilting to the side to glance back at her from behind him.

"Yeah." She replied, her eyes remaining on the muscles of his taut back.

"Is that short for anything?"

"No." Alex lied, she didn't like giving her full name out to strangers. She felt like it gave them an advantage over her and him being an Alpha, she didn't want to give him more. And if Kane hadn't told him what her full name was, she didn't feel like she should either.

"That's a shame. You could have been the girl in the prophecy." Jaxon said out loud, his mouth quickly moving into a straight line once he realised what he accidentally told the young girl.