Page 6 of Bullied By the Alpha Wolf

“Eli, we’ll get you what you need. You need to be more fucking patient.”

The voice wasn’t familiar, and I flattened myself as best I could against the wall so that I wouldn’t be seen. This was new.

“Don’t fucking tell me what to do, Reggie. I have a product to deliver.”

I heard the shuffle of feet against the stone floor and a low thud.

“Don’t fucking call me that.”

Curiosity got the best of me, and I leaned around the corner to see what was going on. I couldn’t see whoever Eli was talking to, but the alpha was visible—plain as day and pinned to the wall. I was not meant to be seeing whatever was going on, and my heart jumped into my throat as I tried to sneak backward.

“Get the fuck off me, and go get your fucking buddy to get me my drugs. I have a business to run and a lot of young, stupid wolves looking for a quick high.”

A scrape against the floor, and then I was backpedaling as fast as I could. I didn’t want to turn away for fear that I wouldn’t see Eli coming.

It had been the stupidest fucking move, because I walked right into the corner of the next section of the hallway. The edge bit into my spine, and I involuntarily yelped, the noise cutting through the air far too loudly.

“Oh no.”

Faster than I could think, the pound of footsteps rang through the hallway, and suddenly I could see Eli. He glared, a partial shift taking over his mouth and making his fangs descend as his normally pale blue eyes shaded yellow.

“Fucking stop her!”

I turned and ran, moving as quickly as my inferior human legs could carry me. The front door was so close. All I needed to do was just get there. Please. Please.

The guard wolf patrolling at the vestibule was Rook. He stopped when he saw me run up, and I used the knowledge of wolves in the pack that I had and yelled out.

“Back there! A rogue wolf! Help!”

He took off, and I was so damn grateful that he was as dumb as a bag of rocks. With Rook gone from the entrance, I shoved myself forward, practically throwing myself through the doors.

I had no shoes, no warmer clothes than what I wore, but I didn’t care. I needed out of that house, to begin with, and now I was the unfortunate bearer of knowledge that I wasn’t supposed to have. The Williams pack was selling drugs to other wolves. Eli was selling to…kids?

God, this was so fucked.

I rushed off through the trees, the branches nearly bare as late autumn trudged on. They scratched at my skin as I sprinted with no sense of direction. Away, that’s all I knew. I needed to get away.

Again.

It only took a few yards for my shirt to be torn to shreds, blood turning sections of my skin red as I pushed on. I couldn’t run anymore, and the bottoms of my feet were no better for running without shoes. The socks were done for, and the tiny pajama shorts I had on were doing nothing to keep my legs unmarred or warm.

Exertion was keeping me from freezing, but I knew that wouldn’t last. I couldn’t survive in the woods with no shelter or protection or food. And just as the enormity of that thought hit me, I stumbled over a thick tree root and went ass-over-tea-kettle in the damp fallen leaves.

My head hit the ground hard, and I knew I’d be sporting a lump, but worse was the twist my ankle made when it got wedged between the root and the earth.

“Fucking hell.”

Struggling, I pulled myself up to stand, bracing my weight on the trunk of a nearby tree. I was filthy now, and the aches and pains were really piling up. As I stood there catching my breath, noises in the trees were pulling my attention in several different directions. Bugs, animals, I couldn’t wholly tell, but all of them made me feel watched. Ever the prey, right?

Snap.

I jerked my head to the right, but I couldn’t see shit with it so dark. God, how far had I come? Was I even still in the Williams territory right now? I was terrible at judging distance, and it wasn’t like I could smell where I was like a wolf could. I’d run for, what…fifteen minutes?

“Dammit. I’m so screwed.”

“You have no idea, human.”

I jumped, falling on my ass again. There was someone right there next to me, and I didn’t hear him get close at all. It had to be another wolf, but I knew the voices of the Williams pack and this…this was not one of them.

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