Free Web NovelChapter 72: Princess Drives Faye Home
The drive was only thirty minutes long, but it felt like it had been hours. The silence between us in the car was so heavy that it felt like it was crushing me. Neither of us was ready to speak first, and the tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. freewebnσvel.cѳm
And me? I was absolutely furious.
Yuki was my idol. She was someone I had looked up to for years, and she actually gave me something of hers to keep. It was a gift. And this girl just reached out and threw it away like it was trash. Like, what does any of that have to do with her? It’s my life and my belongings. Why was she acting so possessive and crazy over a piece of cloth?
As her eyes stayed fixed on the dark road ahead, I noticed her hand in the dim light of the dashboard. It had already completely healed from those silver claw marks. That was incredibly quick. Considering they were silver and they were supposed to burn, it really should have taken much longer for an Alpha to recover from that.
I checked my own palm where the knife had sliced me. It had healed up perfectly too. I wasn’t that surprised. My wounds have been healing at a crazy speed lately. I guess that’s just part of the pregnancy.
My date had been going so well before all the drama started. If I had just told Yuki the truth from the very start, I wouldn’t have been acting so awkward and weird the whole time. And then this bitch just had to show up out of nowhere and ruin every single thing.
I still didn’t understand how that waiter even knew my name. It sent a chill down my spine. Why was he after me specifically? That felt really off and dangerous. And Yuki said he was being controlled by someone else. Who the fuck wants me dead?
Things were getting really strange, really fast.
I didn’t even realize how much time had passed when the car finally came to a smooth stop. Princess pressed a button on the console, and the roof of the sports car slid open, letting the cool, crisp night air into the cabin.
I looked around and realized where we were. We were parked right outside Eriko’s house.
Home.
I watched her for a second. She leaned her head back against the headrest and closed her eyes tight, like she was trying to gather herself and keep her temper from exploding. She reached up and adjusted the stiff collar of her paintball shirt. She kept tugging at it like it was suddenly choking her.
I wanted to lash out at her right then. Why act like that? Why throw away the first gift Yuki ever gave me? She had absolutely no right to touch my things. None at all.
She was still resting her head back against the leather when she finally spoke. Her voice was low and strained, like she was holding her entire body together by a thread.
"Why were you fucking outside of Oakland? I told you not to run away again, didn’t I?"
"I wasn’t running away, bitch," I snapped back. I didn’t care if she was an Alpha. "I was on a fucking date. A date which you ruined, by the way. You ruined my very first date with my idol. Do you even have any idea what that means to me? There are many fans out there, and I was the lucky one who actually got that chance. And then you just came out of nowhere thinking I was on the run. Why the fuck would I run from here?"
"Because you already tried to kill my pups once when you left town before," she said, her eyes still closed.
"That was because I wasn’t sure what I wanted yet. I was scared. Your pups are as much yours as they are mine now. I would never try to kill them. I was just on a fucking date!"
"If you wanted a date so bad, why didn’t you just ask me? I would’ve taken you anywhere you wanted to go. Why would you hang around with a complete stranger who looks and acts like a dangerous hippie?"
Where the fuck is she even going with this? Is she serious right now?
"Hey, don’t you fucking go there. Why on earth should I ask you out? So you can just turn it against me later? So you can say I’m the one throwing myself at you? Fuck you, Princess. I can hang out with whoever I want to. I can be with anyone I choose. I may be carrying your pups, but my life is still mine."
Yes. My life belongs to me. It doesn’t belong to her or the pack.
I had overlooked the fact that she tracks my phone and monitors where I go. I let that slide because of the safety of the pups. But I won’t overlook her trying to control how I actually live my life every day.
It’s my life. It is not hers to dictate.
I realized suddenly that she had gone completely quiet. The silence was different this time.
I turned my head to really look at her.
She still looked incredibly uncomfortable in that shirt. Her claws were out just a little bit, and she was lightly scratching at the leather of the door. It wasn’t a violent movement, but she was doing it repeatedly, over and over, like she was trying to control a physical urge.
My anger started to fade away, replaced by a cold knot of worry in my chest.
Something was definitely wrong with her.
Was it Yuki’s claws? Did they have some kind of weird venom on them that messed with Alphas?
"Princess... are you okay?" I asked. I reached over and placed my hand on her forehead.
She was burning up. Her skin felt like a furnace.
"Oh my God. You’re hot. Like, really hot."
"I’m fine," she said through gritted teeth. Her voice was a low growl now.
"No, you’re fucking not. You’re glowing."
"The storage compartment... open it. Now," she ordered.
I reached forward and clicked the compartment open. Inside, I saw several small bottles. They were shaped like inhalers. I picked one up and looked at it.
"What the fuck do you need inhalers for? Are you asthmatic or something?"
I stopped talking.
I looked at the label on the side of the bottle. Then I looked at her sweating face. Then I looked back at the inhaler in my hand.
It was a suppressant.
Specifically, it was for an Alpha’s rut.
I knew about those. Alpha ruts don’t happen that often, maybe once or twice a year at the most. Malo had mentioned something like this before, and we talked about it in health class at school.
Either it was just that time of year for her...
Or something.... was triggering it right now.
And judging by how many of those bottles were stuffed into her car....
"You fucking bitch..."
