built. I swear making us destroy everything we created at the end of every session was a torture of its own design. I hated that I had to pull apart the magic I'd spent the last hour and a half crafting for no other reason than some asinine rule. Assholes.
“Alpha! Have you got a minute?” Sonny called and I turned to him with a smile as he strode over with a new girl walking at his side.
My chin lifted with interest as I recognised another of my kind instantly and the way she held herself with a confident swagger told me she was strong. Supposedly me and Ethan should have been competing to get the strongest Wolves who turned up at Darkmore to join our packs, but with all of my attention focused on the escape, I’d palmed that work off onto Sonny. He would then introduce me to anyone worth the effort.
“Hey,” I said, my gaze skimming over the newbie as she met my eye and held it.
The Wolf in me perked up at the challenge and my lip almost peeled back with a warning snarl before she dropped her gaze in deference and I smiled. Girl had balls but had sense too.
“This is Laura,” Sonny said. “She’s looking for a pack and obviously ours is the only one worth bothering with in here, so she came to the right place.”
“Supposedly the Oscuras are the best, so that seemed like the right fit for me,” Laura said confidently. “Assuming you’re not all full of shit of course.”
I snorted a laugh and arched an eyebrow. “Damn right we’re the best. Which means the bar is high for initiation. You think you can keep up if you run with us?”
“Please. Whenever I go to my baby’s house I have to run like the damn wind to escape the FIB. I’ve never met a Wolf as fast as me,” Laura said with a cocky smirk.
“Why do you have to escape the FIB when you go to his house?” I asked curiously.
“Well…technically he’s married so our love has to remain a secret. We had a wild, steamy affair one weekend when my Academy met his for a Numerology tournament years ago which would have totally ended in a mate bond if the moon had been full and we were outside. But we had to hide what we had because he had obligations due to his identity,” she dropped her voice and glanced around like someone might be listening to us. “He’s kinda famous you see.”
“Oh yeah?” I asked curiously but she mimed zipping her lips.
“I’ll never tell. I’ll protect him with all I have because our love is pure and unbreakable. That’s why I have to stay hidden. Our love is constantly being thwarted by that bitch he married calling the cops and telling lies about me, but we’re destined. Elysian Mates. These are just the tests the stars have put in place for us, but soon he will come for me and get me out of here and then we will have our divine moment and if that nasty, possessive, ass-eating, manipulative, pussy-blocking twat he married wont step aside, then I’m fully ready to cut a motherfucker-”
“She really is fast,” Sonny cut in as Laura seemed about ready to lose her shit and start stabbing someone. I sure as fuck wouldn’t want to be the one standing in between her and her ‘baby’, but I was also getting the feeling that the guy in question might not actually be aware that he was in a relationship with her. Though as I already had murderers and arsonists in my prison pack, I could hardly get picky about a stalker joining up and she looked pretty fucking tough.
“Well, while you wait for your love to come for you, it can’t hurt to try out for the best pack in this dump,” I said, making sure I didn’t let any of my doubts over the reality of her relationship with her ‘baby’ show.
“Try out?” Laura asked like she’d expected to get in without all the bother of that and with that level of confidence, I was willing to bet she’d be initiated just as soon as we got a chance to run together in the Order Yard, though if she thought she could beat me then she was in for one hell of a race.
I felt Ethan’s gaze on me like a physical touch and looked up to find him scowling in my direction so