Alpha Divided (Alpha Girl Book 3)

I shuddered. “Gross. Yeah, Meredith may have mentioned something about that.”


Her smile faded. “I’m glad you were able to break that spell. How did you do it?”

“I’m still not sure.” I thought for a second. “It was pure desperation and a bunch of willpower. I just had to break the curse or else my friend would’ve died.”

I started fixing another sandwich. “I wish I had more answers. I’m just going to hope that everything works out okay.” I set down my knife. “So, I think tomorrow I’m going to ask some tough questions. I want to get to know some more of the coven members. Do you think you could take me around?”

“Of course.”

“Luciana’s in with a really bad Were, and it spells big time trouble. This nightmare…I don’t know if it was all this talk with Rosa or the confrontation with Luciana or if it was some kind of premonition, but if I mess this up, things will get ugly. I need your help.”

“Anything you need. I was the one who forced you to come here. I knew things were going down and I didn’t know what else to do.”

I shook my head. “As much as I hate being away from Dastien, I think I was meant to be here.”

She was quiet for a second. “May I ask you a question?”

“Sure.”

“How did you know Dastien was the one for you?”

Not exactly the question I’d expected. “I just knew. We had a rough patch right after I changed. We kind of danced around the idea of each other. Well, I was dancing around the idea of him, and he was avoiding me because I was adjusting to being a Were. To be fair, I was annoyed at him for biting me. And there was drama with his ex, but it ended up that none of that mattered. When it’s right, it’s right.” I paused. Something told me that she wasn’t just asking me to dig. There was something in her tone that made me wonder if there was a guy she wanted to be matched with. “Who is he?”

She looked away. “There’s no one. I just want there to be. Someone who’s just for me. I want what you and Dastien have, but I haven’t found that yet. Even if Luciana is pressuring me, I’m not giving in.”

“You’re really cut off from the outside world here. You might need to leave to find the one.”

She sighed. “Maybe. But I can’t leave. Not yet.”

“We’ll fix the coven so you can. I won’t let Luciana’s mess hold you back.”

She blinked a few times. It must be hard living here. Feeling stuck.

We were actually a lot alike. Both stuck here. Both wanting something else. I could understand that. Somehow, I’d make sure she got out, but we had a lot to accomplish and the clock was ticking.

I put away the sandwich stuff and started up the stairs with Claudia.

“Night, prima.”

“Night.”

The second time I got in bed that night, I felt more confident about my path. I wasn’t alone here. I had family. Friends. I could do this. I just had to believe in myself.

God. I hoped I believed in myself enough to fix this mess.





Chapter Seventeen



I had nightmares all night long. They plagued me.

Images of death. Destruction. My friends suffering.

But that wasn’t the worst of it. Not by far. The worst were the images of Dastien cheating on me with Imogene.

Those had me waking up crying. Even when I was awake, knowing it was a dream, my heart still felt broken. The hurt lingered. I couldn’t shake it.

After that, I gave up on sleeping around five in the morning, and spent the rest of the time thinking about what I was going to do.

I had a plan in place and breakfast cooked by the time Claudia came down. I just had to convince her to go along with it.

As soon as Claudia was on her second cup of coffee, I decided it was time. “I want to go to the schoolhouse today. It’s the best place to meet people.”

Claudia set her mug down. “Luciana said you weren’t allowed.”

I gave her a stare that said I-really-don’t-give-a-fuck.

“She’s not going to like it, and more importantly, I don’t think anyone’s going to be friendly. Not in that setting.”

“I have to try. Otherwise, I say screw the whole coven, let’s grab who we can and run.”

She looked at the ceiling for a second, and I imagined her praying for patience. “There’s a lesson in an hour. I guess we could say that you need to learn whatever it is that they’re teaching. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out the rest.” Claudia took a dainty bite of egg.

I gulped down half a glass of orange juice as I tried to come up with how to ask my next question, but I didn’t see any easy way around it. “If this goes bad, then would you fight against me or for me?”

She set her fork down. “What do you mean?”

“I mean, say Luciana wants to fight regardless of anything we do. Whose side are you on? Can you fight against your own coven?”

She blew out a big breath. “In some ways being part of the coven is easier than having your pack bond and in other ways it’s harder.”