Alpha - Forever #1 (Complete)

Chapter 6 - Part 1

Scarlett

My eyes traveled over the massive beast that watched me with its unusual amber eyes. Its teeth were bared but it had stopped growling. Blake sat calmly at the edge of the bed, watching my reaction.

I laughed and clutched my side when the pain shot through me. Despite the pain, I continued to laugh until I had tears running down my face.

Blake looked at me like I was crazy and shifted closer.

"Are you okay?" he asked as he gripped me by the arms.

"Yeah... I'm fine..." I tried to tell him in between my laughter. "I just can't believe... my hallucination would... be this good."

"You're not hallucinating," he insisted.

Finally, I managed to stop the laughter and I turned to face him, wiping the tears of laughter from my face.

"I bumped my head pretty good," I argued with him.

"You didn't hit it hard enough to start seeing things," he assured me, shaking his head.

"But if I'm not hallucinating, then..." I paused for a moment as my eyes shifted back to the wolf watching us. "It's real."

Holy crap! The wolf is real.

Blake watched me closely as my eyes remained on the massive beast at the foot of the bed. After I got over the initial shock, I peered closer and realized it was the same wolf that had been watching me the previous night.

I sucked in a breath as the realization hit me that Cade had been stalking me in wolf form and my anger began to grow. Common sense would dictate I'd be more concerned with the fact that Cade had turned into a wolf in front of my eyes, but the only thing that my mind would concentrate on was that Cade had invaded my privacy.

"You," I said angrily as I pointed an accusing finger at the now-growling wolf in front of me. Feeling my blood boil with anger, I slipped out of the bed, holding my injured side as I stepped closer to the wolf.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," warned Blake but I ignored him as I stepped closer to the wolf, whose amber eyes watched me closely.

"You were watching me," I stated angrily. The hilarious thing was that I was talking to a werewolf like it wasn't something out of the ordinary. Clearly, I needed my head examined.

"You came onto my property and you were watching me," I accused as I stood a few feet away from Cade—well, wolf-form Cade. The growling stopped as his amber eyes held mine.

"We were watching you." The explanation came from Blake.

"Why?" I turned to face Blake, who was standing beside the bed. He ran a hand through his hair.

"You need to sit down and we'll explain," he suggested as he flickered a glance to the wolf and then back to me.

"Don't treat me like I'm fragile, I can handle it," I assured him, feeling that independent streak rise up in me. I'd worked hard to make sure I didn't have to depend on anyone, even Gary.

Whatever these two threw at me, I would be able to handle. In my short life I'd experienced some dark times and I'd managed to get through them. Those moments had made me stronger and they'd made me the person I was.

"I don't think you're fragile, trust me," he said cryptically. "But the explanation might take a while and no matter how tough you're trying to be, you're injured."

He had a point, and sometimes I was too stubborn for my own good.

"Fine," I relented and sat down on a nearby chair that faced toward Blake and Cade, the massive black wolf.