Alpha Series Boxed Set: Books 1-5 by Midika Crane

Author:Midika Crane [Crane, Midika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkitt
Published: 2017-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Dad is sitting at the dinner table when I walk back inside.

Despite the fact he is slightly balding, and the scuff of dark hair on his chin suggests something like a beard, we look alike. Everyone says we have the same nose, and our eyes have the same dark tint around the outside.

He smiles, setting his newspaper down on the table, letting me get a glimpse of the front page. Jessica’s face has been printed large scale, with a daunting title and, most likely, a degrading passage on how she was depressed and how it was suicide. If the town believed that, then no propaganda would surface, and everything would be okay.

“Hey honey,” he says, peering at me from behind his reading glasses. I smile at him warmly, dumping my backpack on one of the dining room chairs as I go to sit in the seat opposite him.

“I was just at June’s,” I lie. No point bringing Casper up.

Dad stands, tucking the newspaper under his arm as he wanders to the kitchen. “You look cold. Would you like a drink?”

“Sure,” I say, rubbing my hands together. He has no idea I’ve shown up here in someone else’s car, rather than walking all the way from June’s. I know he hates the fact I took a route so close to the Phantom Forest.

Dad rustles around in the kitchen for a moment, boiling the jug, getting the tea ready. In the meantime, I kick off my shoes and hang my jacket on the back of the chair.

“Someone else went missing today,” Dad tells me from the kitchen, making my blood run cold. “A boy, this time.”

This is the third person who’s disappeared from town. It can’t be a coincidence. “Who?”

“Ryan Connolly,” Dad tells me. I close my eyes, a mental picture of the young boy clouding my vision. Another one I went to school with. His family are very wealthy, living in the best neighborhood, providing him with the best clothes and car. He wasn’t a jock, but his money bought him popularity, and even girls.

“What do his parents think?” I ask warily. Prominent figures in this town’s society, Ryan’s parents are known to hold the town on a leash. Sometimes, we think his father believes he is the substitute Alpha, since no one took over the role since Jasper’s father.

Dad chuckles. “Your boyfriend and his father, along with half the town, are out looking for him.”

My father loves Luca. Loves him. The two get along so well they should be the ones dating. My father was the one to introduce me to the boy, letting us date straight away, unlike other boys I’d had any interest in before.

“Apparently a man recently moved into the estate in the Phantom Forest. He might be brought in for questioning,” Dad says, setting my tea in front of me. Casper … He wouldn’t be the reason why they have gone missing, right?

I sip my tea. “I suppose it is the only lead.”

I look down into my cup, taken back by the sour taste it leaves in my mouth.

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