Feral Alpha by J L Wilder

Author:J L Wilder [Wilder, J L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.L. Wilder
Published: 2020-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

XAVIER

Louis was awake when they returned. He looked up at them and frowned, and Xavier remembered how instinctive his friend had always been. How intuitive. Was it possible that Louis could tell that something had happened?

“Come and take a walk with me,” he said. “Zoe...stay in the cave, will you?”

“I will,” she promised.

The way she looked at him was completely different now than it had been before. It was as if she recognized an authority figure. There was something almost worshipful about it. Xavier knew, without knowing how he knew, that he could count on her to do as she had said and to stay in the cave while he and Louis were away.

Louis got up and followed him out. “Where are we going?” he asked. “The waterfall?” His tone was mild, and yet there was a tightness to his words that Xavier had never heard before.

He’s angry, Xavier realized. It was harder to recognize anger than it was when his friend was in his animal form—human anger was so much more subtle—and yet Xavier thought he could see it in the set of Louis’ jaw and the way his fists clenched.

“The waterfall would be fine,” he said.

Louis nodded and strode out of the cave without looking back.

Xavier steeled himself for an uncomfortable conversation and followed.

They didn’t speak to each other the whole way to the waterfall. They didn’t even look at each other. Louis kept slightly ahead of Xavier, walking with his back to his friend, refusing to look back at him. When they finally reached the water, he stood on the bank with his arms crossed over his chest, staring out over the pond. He still refused to look at Xavier.

Xavier came up behind him. “So you’re angry,” he said.

“You slept with her,” Louis said.

Xavier was startled. “How did you know that?”

“I can smell it on you,” Louis snapped. “For fuck’s sake. How do I know it? For someone who spends the majority of his life in animal form, you sure do seem to forget that the people around you can follow their senses just as much as you can. I knew as soon as you brought her back to the cave.”

“Okay,” Xavier said. “I slept with her.”

“So, now what?” Louis asked.

“I don’t know,” Xavier said, feeling a little taken aback.

Louis sighed. “Of course, you don’t. You’re terrible at thinking ahead.”

“Hey.” Xavier was annoyed. “I can think ahead as well as the next person.”

“I don’t know if you can,” Louis said. “But I know that you don’t. I guess it’s another human thing that’s beneath you now that you’re a full-time wolf. Which reminds me—you were in human form when you fucked her, weren’t you?”

“Don’t be gross.” Xavier was angry now. He hadn’t necessarily expected Louis to support what he and Zoe had done, but he certainly hadn’t thought he’d be facing this.

“She comes from Omega University,” Louis said. “She’ll be going back to the school in a matter of days. Maybe even today. Did you think about that? She does seem as if she’s well enough for travel now.

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