The Alpha’s Bullied Bride: Enemies to Lovers Shifter Romance (Alpha Wolf Island Book 7) by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 - Kiran

When they went in to visit the patients, Wren was nowhere to be seen. Shut up in her bedroom, no doubt…unless she’d climbed out a window. She certainly hadn’t come back out through her front door. Kiran had been watching, even as he and his friends laughed with giddy disgust at the prospect of vivisecting a demon. He’d never even thought of a demon as having a body, not really. It was something about how quickly they dissolved once they were killed, even the hard matter of their claws and fangs melting into a thick, unpleasantly sticky substance before dissolving altogether. That was their paradox—a constant and terrific threat, but an impermanent one. The idea of catching a demon felt like the idea of catching a shadow.

It had made him uneasy, the thought of her taking apart a living demon with the surgical precision with which she’d harvested the herbs. And that uneasiness, along with the presence of his old friends, had paved a path for old habits. It hadn’t felt good, laughing at her with his friends. It had felt awful, in fact. An awful regression—a regression to a dumb, brutish side of himself that he’d been trying very hard to leave behind. And Wren had seen him, clear as day. She’d looked through him with those eerily still silver eyes, and he’d known how badly he’d screwed up. The other guys weren’t worried. They were chatting away with the patients, filling them in on what had been happening around camp, trying to keep their sleeping spirits up. They hadn’t seen the way Wren had looked at him. They didn’t know her like he did.

At least, he damn well hoped they didn’t.

Surprising, the force of the anger that rose up in him at that idle thought—a protective, almost jealous wave that shocked him into sitting up a little straighter. Why would he give a damn if any of his friends had slept with Wren? It had nothing to do with him. It wasn’t like their weird night together on the other side of the lake had meant anything. Just a bit of fun, he told himself. Or maybe it was a mind game on Wren’s part, that was another theory he’d been developing—a new, more subtle form of revenge that wouldn’t violate the terms of the truce. If that was it, he had to hand it to her—she’d won, well and truly. He’d tried to forget what it had felt like to hold her, but every second of that night was burned into his memory as if her touch had been branded onto his skin.

Maybe that was why he’d lashed out at her when he saw the opportunity. Petty revenge. Not exactly becoming of a would-be Alpha. An explanation, not an excuse. He’d have to apologize once she came out of her bedroom. He didn’t relish the idea of doing it in front of his friends, but he’d do what he had to do.

But she didn’t come out.

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