Page 154 of The Alpha King's Curse: Part One

Right. The wolves in the forest. After meeting Chase, he would have to deal with that situation, too, before he took Layla away.

They were halfway to Chase’s territory when Dylan suddenly slowed down and stopped the car.

“I’m sorry, I have to get back. Amber is at the gates asking to see me,” he said as he opened the door. “Micah, please get Alpha Jackson there safely. I’ll get rid of Amber and run back as soon as possible.”

Amber? Would she dare to show her face after what had happened? Or was she going to tell Dylan the truth despite the order he had given?

“Let her sit outside. They won’t let her in,” he growled.

Dylan stopped midway from getting out of the car and looked back at him. He couldn’t hide his anxiousness and excitement. Maybe Amber was his Layla. No, that couldn’t be right. If Amber was his mate she would never have tried to get into his bed So why the hell had Dylan’s head been turned like that?

“I will meet you as soon as I can. Please, Alpha.”

He sighed and looked away. He shouldn’t be doing Dylan any favours after his attitude towards him lately.

“Send her away and come straight back,” he growled.

Dylan smiled before he nodded to Micah to take his place in the driver’s seat, and then he started stripping. Moments later, he shifted into his brown wolf and ran back towards their home.

For the first time in a long time, he sensed the happiness in his friend’s emotions. All because of that she-wolf? He couldn’t see how Amber could make anyone happy; he really couldn’t.

But then again, he was the one with a half-blood in his bed, making him happy. He couldn’t judge anyone.

“We’ve stopped too long. They are already starting to surround us,” Micah said as he settled in the driver’s seat and restarted the car.

“Don’t worry about them. I’ll deal with them tonight. Let’s just get this shit over and done with.”

And then he could get back to his mate and tell her she was either one of them or a menace to society that would be killed on the spot if anyone found out. Fun times.

Chapter 81

This was happening.

She was leaving.

Layla paced the bedroom as she waited and tried not to think of who she was leaving behind. It was better to concentrate on what she had to do once she left, how she would stay ahead of Jackson if he tried to look for her and protect her sister. It was the only thing that mattered now.

She didn’t recognise herself anymore, and that was all because she was in this strange place, living among beasts. Once she got away, she would return to normal.

She would no longer hear things she wasn’t supposed to hear. She wouldn’t smell things she wasn’t supposed to smell. She wouldn’t fight people with such horrific violence.

And she wouldn’t speak or behave like another person was thinking and speaking for her.

That was terrifying. Her school counsellor would have had her locked up if this had happened when she had been in school.

Could she trust Dylan with this? He wanted her gone but there was that nagging thought in the back of her mind that he was going to kill her the moment he took her out of this place. It was what he had asked Jackson to do. Why was she being stupid and putting her trust in him when he hadn’t even told her what the plan was? He hadn’t told her how he would get her sister away from her bodyguards and how they were supposed to leave town before Jackson discovered they were gone.

Thinking of Jackson again brought an ache to her chest. The pain spread through her body, forcing her to sit and breathe through it. But she had to stay calm. She had to make sure Jackson couldn’t sense anything that would make him rush back.

Her fingers played with her pendant as she tried to refocus her thoughts.

She had to make plans. She only had the money Jackson had put in her account the night he had persuaded her to make the biggest mistake of her life. Since she hadn’t had her phone since the night of the storm, she didn’t know if he had made any other payments as promised. But even the first payment would be enough to buy one-way tickets to a different city. A big city that would be easy to disappear in. If they got lucky, Brit could still sit her exams once they settled down.

She was leaving.

And Jackson was going to lose his shit.

“What am I doing?” she whispered to herself.

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