Page 22 of Bullied By the Alpha Wolf

It was just as easy to sulk at home, though, so I started to stand up, intent on walking back to the empty trailer.

Kaiden’s hand snaked around my bicep, squeezing hard. “Did you forget what good ears I have?”

I startled, yanking away from him instinctively as I tried to get my arm back and get out of there as fast as my short little legs would carry me.

“Let me go, Kaiden. I’m leaving. You should be thrilled.”

He growled low, the sound rumbling out of him like a rattlesnake, and I could see his fingernails lengthening as I looked down at my arm. As I looked up, his eyes were beginning to glow yellow, too.

Oh, shit. Is he going to shift? Christ, Kaiden could tear me apart in human form. This is so not good.

“Did you forget what sharp claws I have?”

The situation was just too insane, and that rational bid for survival faltered as I pulled my arm out of his grip, Kaiden’s claws tearing through the fabric of my shirt.

“The fuck is wrong with you? Do you hear yourself? You’re not the big bad wolf, Kaiden, so just leave me alone.”

That growl rumbled again, and when I met Kaiden’s eyes, they were entirely yellow now. The wolf within him was driving things, not his higher-thinking brain. Fuck, I’d really played with fire by taunting him. I needed to get out of there.

I turned my back on him and started to walk away. My parents had just died, and now I had to deal with this shit? No way. Kaiden needed to find someone else to pick on for a change.

But just as I took my third step, he pounced. I was thrown to the ground, Kaiden at my back, pinning me to the earth. Grass tickled across my cheek and nose as my face smushed into it, and his claws were gripping either shoulder, holding me down.

Panic swirled higher, and I worried he might actually…“take” something from me. I mean, even if he didn’t truly find me attractive, he could still have his way with me and then just leave me here. No one would ever believe me if I said he did, and we both knew that.

As I lay there, trembling with tears smearing down my face and mixing with the dirt, I couldn’t move. I told my body to thrash, to get him off, but it wouldn’t listen. That’s when I realized that Kaiden hadn’t tried anything. He held me to the ground, yes, but he didn’t move his hands from my shoulders.

“Kaiden, please, get off me. I just want to go—”

“What? Home? You don’t have a home here.” His voice was gravelly and dark, twisting my insides as it did something primal to me. “Do you know what you being here does to me? Does to my wolf?”

My mind reeled. I had no idea what Kaiden was talking about. Clearly, this was just more wolf magic bullshit that he was thrusting on me.

“You’re just a dumb human. How are you doing this to me?”

“I’m not doing anything! Get off me!”

Finally, my body listened, and I thrashed against him. It didn’t do me much good, however. I pulled and tried to shrug Kaiden off, knocking him to the side, but he was too strong.

“This is all your fault. You and that human scent of yours. Why are you doing this?!”

But just as his voice was changing to a growl, his fingers disappearing from my back to be replaced with claws, I felt something brush against my ass as I fought against him.

No, it can’t be. You’re so imagining that. Kaiden does not have a hard-on.

Before I could say anything else, though, he leapt off me, fully shifting into a wolf before my eyes. His clothes were shredded, and Kaiden ran off into the woods, jumping across a thick fallen tree trunk to reach the other side of the river and disappear into the trees.

As the world refocused around me, I still stood in Kaiden’s alpha quarters. I had no idea when or if he’d be back, and it was beyond late. I needed rest, and it didn’t look like I’d be let out of this room anytime soon. So, I pulled back the covers and lay down in Kaiden’s bed.

If he was going to piss off with his wolf, then he’d forfeited his bed, and I didn’t care if I stunk up the entire thing with my human smell. I was tired, and at the very least, I deserved to get my sleep in a bed.

I didn’t know what tomorrow held, but one thing was certain after all this talk with Kaiden—he needed answers about a drug I knew nothing about, and I wanted out of this place.

But I was going to get some answers of my own before I left.

Chapter 11 - Kaiden

I’d slept in the woods, branches and twigs sticking into my back the entire time. As the first rays of sunlight reached the forest floor, I stirred awake. I’d dropped my wolf form sometime after passing out, and every bit of my body ached from running for who knew how long. I did my best to shake it off, and as I stood, my stomach growled.

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