The Alpha's Gamble - Chapter 69: Chapter 69
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MADELINE
The chef called for me when I passed through the mansion, he yelled happy birthday and I thanked him, flashing him a genuine smile, but then I did my best to ignore any other people that I crossed paths with.
Everyone would be wondering the same thing: What’s my wolf’s name, what does she look like, and how does it feel to have finally come into my true form?
To which I had no answers. The shame that would land over the mansion when they found out that the Alpha’s woman had a daughter without a wolf living under his roof would be unfathomable.
No shame could compare. Even the sex tape would be better than this.
I might as well pack my bags, because once my mother was informed, she’d kick me out on my ass to make sure I didn’t embarrass her further. She’d blame my father and his weak genes, she’d make up a story about how I was adopted, and do everything in her power to gain sympathy from the others.
One small token of joy, as I opened the door to my room, was the vase standing on my bedside table. The most beautiful midnight lilies in a big bouquet that took up the whole area. I took the note, the plastic had been ripped, someone’s already read it:
Madeline, happy birthday. It’s not just any birthday either. I hope you’ve gotten acquainted with your wolf, and I hope I get to meet her someday. Maddie,
And then it went blank. I took a lighter from the bookshelf where it rested next to my candles.
As I held the flame under the card, the letters formed. I guess he knew my mother would be snooping:
Maddie, meet me in the garden at midnight. There’s something I need to tell you.
I folded the note and ripped it into pieces before throwing it in the trash. I didn’t put it past my mom to try and look at it again, and if he felt the need to hide it, then it obviously wasn’t meant for her eyes.
Midnight was another few hours away. What do I do until then?
Maybe I should take that nap I lied to Noah about, but I doubt I’d be able to sleep.
“Hello?” Please answer me.
All I could hear were the screeching voices of my demons. My friends. The only ones who never left me, an ever-constant in my life. Never abandoned me.
“Please tell me you’re there.”
Laughing and screaming, repeating words I thought I’d forgotten. Reminding me of memories I wish I’d never made.
But no wolf. No female voice waking up and telling me her name, how excited she was to meet me, and how she wanted to go for a run.
The tiny bit of hope I had been holding onto was gone, slipped through my fingers, and fell into hell along with the shambles of my life. This was it, I guess, there’s nothing left for me here. Without my wolf, I’m nothing.
The mattress formed around my body when I jumped back, and my head sank into the pillow with a blanket of dread and shame pushing me down.
Whoever put me on this earth was playing some cruel fucking trick to see how much it’d take before I snapped.
Well, here it is, I’ve snapped, I’m done. There’s nothing left for me here.
Just when I closed my eyes and decided to sleep my life away, a throbbing pain pushed against the walls of my mind, and my face contorted when I tried to control it.
“Hello?”
Her voice had me flying up on the bed and staring at the wall. No fucking way.
“Hello?” she repeated.
“Hi!” The excitement in my voice rang like bells on a sled, and I got up on my feet when the jitters shook my legs awake.
“I’m Nasha,” she said.
“I’m Maddie.”
“I know.”
I laughed and paced around the room. It felt amazing to hear her speak; her voice was edgy with a guarded tone, and she was standing stiff in her place. I’m not sure what it was supposed to feel like. I’d always been told that it was a different experience for each werewolf, but I was too up in my feels about her waking up to give it much thought.
“For a second there, I thought I was wolfless.” I laughed.
I spun the ring on my finger, anxiously awaiting her reply.
It felt good, yeah, to hear her voice and feel her stirring into place, but something also felt… off.
I couldn’t put my finger on it because I had no clue what the actual feeling was supposed to be like, but there was something deeper, more fundamental that was missing.
Something tying us together. We’re supposed to hear the other’s thoughts because, after all, we share one mind.
But somehow it was blank, utter silence whenever she didn’t speak.
“Really,” she said with thickly laced boredom.
But I was determined to turn this around.
“Do you want to shift and go for a run?” I asked, trying to egg some reaction from her. That was apparently what they wanted to do first thing when they woke up.
“Not really feeling it right now.”
“Oh—okay.” I looked around my room, my eyes landing flat on the photo of the Auburn Academy and the Elites kneeling in front of the building.
The chef called for me when I passed through the mansion, he yelled happy birthday and I thanked him, flashing him a genuine smile, but then I did my best to ignore any other people that I crossed paths with.
Everyone would be wondering the same thing: What’s my wolf’s name, what does she look like, and how does it feel to have finally come into my true form?
To which I had no answers. The shame that would land over the mansion when they found out that the Alpha’s woman had a daughter without a wolf living under his roof would be unfathomable.
No shame could compare. Even the sex tape would be better than this.
I might as well pack my bags, because once my mother was informed, she’d kick me out on my ass to make sure I didn’t embarrass her further. She’d blame my father and his weak genes, she’d make up a story about how I was adopted, and do everything in her power to gain sympathy from the others.
One small token of joy, as I opened the door to my room, was the vase standing on my bedside table. The most beautiful midnight lilies in a big bouquet that took up the whole area. I took the note, the plastic had been ripped, someone’s already read it:
Madeline, happy birthday. It’s not just any birthday either. I hope you’ve gotten acquainted with your wolf, and I hope I get to meet her someday. Maddie,
And then it went blank. I took a lighter from the bookshelf where it rested next to my candles.
As I held the flame under the card, the letters formed. I guess he knew my mother would be snooping:
Maddie, meet me in the garden at midnight. There’s something I need to tell you.
I folded the note and ripped it into pieces before throwing it in the trash. I didn’t put it past my mom to try and look at it again, and if he felt the need to hide it, then it obviously wasn’t meant for her eyes.
Midnight was another few hours away. What do I do until then?
Maybe I should take that nap I lied to Noah about, but I doubt I’d be able to sleep.
“Hello?” Please answer me.
All I could hear were the screeching voices of my demons. My friends. The only ones who never left me, an ever-constant in my life. Never abandoned me.
“Please tell me you’re there.”
Laughing and screaming, repeating words I thought I’d forgotten. Reminding me of memories I wish I’d never made.
But no wolf. No female voice waking up and telling me her name, how excited she was to meet me, and how she wanted to go for a run.
The tiny bit of hope I had been holding onto was gone, slipped through my fingers, and fell into hell along with the shambles of my life. This was it, I guess, there’s nothing left for me here. Without my wolf, I’m nothing.
The mattress formed around my body when I jumped back, and my head sank into the pillow with a blanket of dread and shame pushing me down.
Whoever put me on this earth was playing some cruel fucking trick to see how much it’d take before I snapped.
Well, here it is, I’ve snapped, I’m done. There’s nothing left for me here.
Just when I closed my eyes and decided to sleep my life away, a throbbing pain pushed against the walls of my mind, and my face contorted when I tried to control it.
“Hello?”
Her voice had me flying up on the bed and staring at the wall. No fucking way.
“Hello?” she repeated.
“Hi!” The excitement in my voice rang like bells on a sled, and I got up on my feet when the jitters shook my legs awake.
“I’m Nasha,” she said.
“I’m Maddie.”
“I know.”
I laughed and paced around the room. It felt amazing to hear her speak; her voice was edgy with a guarded tone, and she was standing stiff in her place. I’m not sure what it was supposed to feel like. I’d always been told that it was a different experience for each werewolf, but I was too up in my feels about her waking up to give it much thought.
“For a second there, I thought I was wolfless.” I laughed.
I spun the ring on my finger, anxiously awaiting her reply.
It felt good, yeah, to hear her voice and feel her stirring into place, but something also felt… off.
I couldn’t put my finger on it because I had no clue what the actual feeling was supposed to be like, but there was something deeper, more fundamental that was missing.
Something tying us together. We’re supposed to hear the other’s thoughts because, after all, we share one mind.
But somehow it was blank, utter silence whenever she didn’t speak.
“Really,” she said with thickly laced boredom.
But I was determined to turn this around.
“Do you want to shift and go for a run?” I asked, trying to egg some reaction from her. That was apparently what they wanted to do first thing when they woke up.
“Not really feeling it right now.”
“Oh—okay.” I looked around my room, my eyes landing flat on the photo of the Auburn Academy and the Elites kneeling in front of the building.
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