Werewolf Academy Book 7: Chosen by Cheree Alsop

Author:Cheree Alsop [Alsop, Cheree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love, adventure, action, paranormal, young adult, werewolf, series, teenage
Publisher: Cheree Alsop
Published: 2016-03-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Jericho didn’t speak until they were at the top of the small cliff that overlooked the lake. It was one of Alex’s favorite places in the entire forest. A gentle breeze swept through the pines, causing them to stir like ocean waves. A surge of longing tightened Alex’s chest at the thought of the ocean.

“I’m not sure if I’m missing something or if you are,” Jericho said finally.

Alex glanced at the Alpha, but Jericho’s brown eyes were on the darkening horizon.

“What do you mean?” Alex asked.

Jericho gave a slight shake of his head, his gaze still distant. Yellow colored the Alpha’s brown hair where Alex’s paintball had gotten him. “One of us has this leadership thing wrong, and I really have no idea which one of us it is.”

Alex sat on the rocky ground and let his legs dangle over the edge of the cliff. After a few minutes, he looked up at the Alpha. “Honestly? If one of us has it figured out, I put my dibs on you.”

Jericho gave a small smile and took a seat beside his friend. “I’m starting to doubt that.”

Troubled, Alex gave him a serious look. “What’s bothering you? Is it the fact that I’m not afraid of bullets? I’ve felt enough of them that…” At the Alpha’s look, his words died away.

“Alex, I don’t get it.” Jericho ran his fingers through his messed hair and looked at the yellow paint that streaked his hand. “I tried to do what you do. I knew you were in the bushes and if I made a sound, you would shoot me. I knew that your pack was ahead, and the only way to even get a little payback was to bring down their Alpha.”

“Which you did,” Alex pointed out.

Jericho nodded. “I did, but it went against everything.”

Alex knew then what the Alpha was getting at. He ran his fingers across the rough edge of the rock he sat on and said, “Self-preservation doesn’t seem to be one of my strong points.”

“That’s not it,” Jericho replied. “You gave your pack a winning battle plan and you hid, knowing I would come after you; you wanted to survive, or else you would have waited in the open.”

“Jer, it’s paintball,” Alex began, but the Alpha cut him off.

“You know as well as I do that wasn’t a game. Paint might make up for blood, but when it comes down to it, stepping on that leaf was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I knew it would bring you into the open for my pack to kill, but I also knew I would die doing it.”

“Yet, you did it,” Alex replied softly. He didn’t look at the Alpha when he continued, “What makes us so different?”

Jericho picked up a stone and threw it. They both watched the rock plummet into the lake. Rings in the disturbed water grew from where the rock disappeared. They moved in larger and larger circles out to the shore.

“Did you hesitate?” Jericho asked when the rings subsided.

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