Page 2 of Bullied By the Alpha Wolf

Giggling, I leaned heavily on Sandy, grinning from ear to fucking ear. Yeah, the buzz was definitely happening. I was going to be so sad tomorrow.

Still, drunken regrets aside, I was so damn happy to be here with them. I adored my friends with everything I had, and they really were everything I had left.

“What’s shaking, bitches!”

A loud boom sounded as the door to the activity room kicked open and slammed into the wall behind it. We jumped and looked over, immediately recognizing the voice. Dammit, why was my dumb pseudo-brother here?

Grayson shoved into the room, knocking the door back when it started to close again, which made a massive dent in the wall.

“Hey!” I shouted, feeling a little braver than usual. “I signed up for the room. Leave. Plus, now Jet’s going to yell at me about the hole. Thanks.”

“Yeah, so what?”

My stomach clenched, and it was seriously considering throwing up those shots right then and there. The voice that followed Grayson’s was also familiar, and it meant that my birthday was now at serious risk of being the absolute worst.

Kaiden.

I looked at Jade and Sandy, my eyebrows pinched together as I shook my head. “Please. Please get rid of him.”

Sandy was the first of them to stand up, which made sense, as the bravest of us. She walked over to Kaiden, jabbing a finger in his chest as he sneered down at her. “Get out, Kaiden. We don’t care that you’re Jet’s pup in training. This is Kit’s party, and she reserved the room.”

Kaiden stepped around her and looked toward me. His black eyes locked on me, and the jet black of his hair was tussled, no doubt from a run with Grayson. The two were inseparable, and damn, it would be so much easier if the two of them were mates like Jade and Sandy.

Then maybe…well, maybe I wouldn’t let him push me around like he did. Maybe he wouldn’t care enough to do it then.

“If she wants me out of here so badly, she can say it to my face.”

Heat swelled in my cheeks as Kaiden sneered. He was too damn beautiful, too damn mean, and fuck, this night was supposed to be about me. It was supposed to be fun, not just another evening of me dealing with his relentless teasing because he was hanging out with Grayson in the family trailer off the main house.

Sandy shoved back at Kaiden, but he didn’t budge. He’d already gone through his first shift, and his muscles had exploded. He was bigger than Grayson now, though I had a feeling that wouldn’t last. Grayson was tall for a pre-shift wolf, and chances were he was going to get taller when he did finally shift for the first time.

I stood up, my legs a bit shaky. But dammit, I was going to take back my party. This was my eighteenth, and I needed to learn how to stand up for myself. As I walked over toward Kaiden, he met my eyes, smirking as he nodded toward the side of the room and started walking in that direction.

Okay, well, at least he was being private about it. Not talking right in front of everyone.

When he posted himself up against the wall, his foot planted and his arms crossed, I stopped in front of him. The dew and fallen leaf scent of him was strong in my nose, and despite everything, my thighs clenched. It was the best thing I’d ever smelled, and I needed to remind my subconscious that there was no way he would ever give me the time of day. If he was poking fun at me for being a human—and a rounder one at that—he wasn’t interested. Which made it doubly pathetic that I still had a crush on him.

“Kaiden, you need to leave, please.”

He snorted out a laugh. “Wow, is that it? That’s you telling me off. Fuck, that’s pathetic.”

I ducked my head, embarrassment making my entire body flame up and tremble.

“And come on, I want to stay. We could have some fun. You drink up that schnapps, and I’ll take you for a ride on my wolf. How ‘bout that, Kit?”

My eyes flared wide, and that heat in my cheeks tripled. Was he fucking flirting with me?

“I…umm…are you…” I stammered, the words nowhere near coming out.

Kaiden reached out a hand, and he moved it slowly and liquid-smooth through the air until he brushed the curl by my cheek, tucking it behind my ear. As he shoved off the wall, he stood before me, leaning down so close that the only thing I could smell was the dew and leaves. It was everywhere, something sweet tinging the smell like caramelized sugar, and my eyelids drooped.

“Can’t even talk right now. How cute.”

His face moved in closer, and I could feel my heart in my chest. The pounding just got worse as he lowered his mouth toward mine, hovering just over my lips. Oh God, what’s happening? Are people watching right now?

“Maybe it’s because you’re a dumb human who doesn’t belong here.”

My stomach dropped again, and I reeled, pulling inward like he’d actually hit me. Burning welled in my eyes as I looked up at Kaiden. He just smirked, laughing to himself like it was the funniest fucking thing on the planet.

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