The Alpha and His Ace by Ana J. Phoenix

Author:Ana J. Phoenix
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Published: 2015-06-27T07:24:51+00:00

Chapter Five

I made my way back to Aidan's apartment the next day, apologies churning through my head as I rang the doorbell. This time however, it wasn't Aidan who answered the door. It was Ruby, who didn't seem too pleased to see me.

”Oh, it's you,” she greeted me.

”Waiting for someone?”

”Nah.” She was chewing bubble gum in between talking. Strawberry bubblegum. The scent was coming off her, almost overlaying what I could catch of Aidan's scent coming from inside. ”Aidan's not around.”

I knew it even before she said it. The smell of artificial strawberries couldn't have distracted me if he had been. ”Do you know where he is?” I asked.

”You're a bit of a stalker, huh?”

”I'm not a stalker.” Just... persistent? God, I really was sounding like a stalker. ”I have no bad intentions, okay? I only want to apologize.”

”Yeah...” She looked at me thoughtfully. ”I'll tell you if you tell me how you can turn into a wolf.”

”My mom had sex with a radioactive canine.”

”Really?”

I blinked. How could she even consider for a second that.... Not important here. ”Tell me where Aidan is, please.”

”He's teaching a fencing class at the gym on Second street.”

Fencing? Unexpected, but cool.

Ruby went on as I turned away from her. ”I don't think he wants to see you right now.”

So they'd been discussing that failure of a date. Great. ”I know,” I said. ”That's why I need to apologize.”

****

I got to the gym only a few minutes before the class was over and people started coming out of the building. I waited on the opposite side of the quiet road until my mate exited the gym. He was dressed more casually today than he had been yesterday, but I didn't think I'd ever get enough of seeing him in any way, shape, or form. I approached him and he froze when his eyes landed on me. He frowned.

”Are you really stalking me now?”

Dear Lord... ”Ruby told me where I could find you.”

”I see.” He looked like he was going to have a word with his roommate when he got home.

”I came to apologize. I'm sorry for yesterday.”

His expression turned hard. ”What exactly are you sorry for?”

”Running off.”

He relaxed a little. ”Good.” Had he thought I was going to apologize for getting an erection? Yeah, even I knew that’d be stupid.

”I also want to apologize for the botched date,” I continued.

”I don't care about that. The weather, the food, I could deal with that. You know what sucks, though? When your date runs away after you kiss him.”

I cringed. Yeah, I'd screwed that up.

”I gave you a chance because I thought you might be different,” he said.

”I am!”

Aidan eyed me intently, waiting for me to continue.

”I'm a wolf.”

”So what?”

”So I...” I stopped for a moment to think. How to explain this to regular humans? To someone who’d never experienced it? ”So I have this animal side in me. My wolf. And sometimes, it takes over. When you kissed me, it felt like I was going to lose control of it, and I freaked.

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