Page 53 of My Forbidden Alpha

I speed up, no longer bothered about where she’s going. She can’t leave pack territory. How she knew what time the guards will make their rounds here and when it’ll be unguarded is beyond me.

I’m about to call her when she takes a sharp turn down towards the river away from the town and I frown.

So, she’s not sneaking into town? Wait, does she have a boyfriend or something?

I scrunch my nose, wondering if I overreacted by following my gut feeling. I follow her, debating if I should leave before she sees me when she slows down.

Where are we?

It’s just a rocky place overgrown with thorns, branches and weeds.

But she knows where she’s going, finding the gaps between the brambles before ducking down, and for a second I lose her before I hear her grunt and then a thud as she drops down from somewhere.

Reaching the edge, I peer down as the wind blows. I know ifI jump she’ll hear me. Hesitating, I linger on the edge, crouching down between the thorny branches. I can still see her from here and I don’t think she’s going much further as her stops have slowed.

“I’m back,” she whispers, making my curiosity pique, watching as she pushes a bush, and some large leaves out of the way to reveal a…

A rock!

What on earth?

Frowning, I watch as she drops to her knees and closes her eyes, sighing.

Is someone hiding behind the rock?

I try to look closer, unable to see or smell anyone, and I can’t hear anyone either. My wolf is calm, not sensing danger either. I really can’t see anything behind the rock.

Indigo is silent as she sits there and rummages in her pocket. “Here! I brought you a chocolate.” She chuckles as if proud of herself and opens the bar, halving it and placing half by the rock. “Ok, maybe you should have more,” she breaks some more off, leaving me completely baffled.

Does she know I’m here? Is that why she is putting on this strange show to mess with my head?

I stay low as she eats her small share of chocolate and simply sits there quietly. I watch the chocolate beside her waiting for someone to reach out and grab it, but five minutes pass… then ten… It’s nearly fifteen minutes later and the chocolate remains there untouched.

Weird.

She stands up after a couple more minutes.

“Well, I got to go, bye.” She places her hand on the rock before she takes the uneaten pieces of chocolate out of the wrapper and pockets the wrapper, placing the chocolate back on the ground by the rock again. “Oh and my brother’s back! Soyeah… I guess.”

Leaving her awkward statement at that, she turns towards me and I instantly move back. She probably knows I’m here. That entire thing was bizarre. I mean, I know Indigo is strange, but what the hell was that?

Silently I make my way back towards home, unable to make head nor tail of the entire strange exchange.

Soon the music reaches my ears and I can see the lights from some of the houses through the trees when I stop suddenly and turn back.

I have to ask her.

Knowing she won’t be far behind, I hurry back the way I just came and it’s not long before she comes into view, hands in pockets and looking like her normal self, as if she didn’t just do the weirdest thing I’ve seen.

“Where were you?” I ask, making her come to an abrupt stop. She glances around and cocks a brow.

“Nowhere, you freak.” She frowns. “Why are you even looking for me? I went for a walk, ok?”

Rolling her eyes, she pushes past me and continues towards home. I tilt my head. “So you just randomly took a walk alone through the woods at your favourite brother’s Welcoming Home Party?” I ask in disbelief.

“Yeah, why’s that so weird? The party was getting a bit boring. Besides he’s with his friends,” she retorts.

It’s weird because you left after taking a careful look that no one spots you.

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