Chapter 16


    Missy soon got up and charged at me but I ducked out of the way at thest second and she punched


    the lockers behind me and I kicked her in the back which forced her further into the lockers. She turned


    around with blood pouring out of her face and she was growling and I could see fur starting to sprout on


    her arms, she was getting ready to shift in the middle of the hallway at school. This bitch was crazier


    than I thought.


    But then Alpha Jackson came running down the hall with other faculty members and he managed to


    grab control of her and orders her under Alphamand to calm down and not shift. Being a werewolf,


    she had to obey. She didn’t have a choice. She had no control over it.


    And she started turning back to normal.


    “What the fuck is going on here?” Alpha Jackson yelled as he let go of Missy.


    “You’re little slut there attacked me.” Missy yelled. And I stood there and crossed my arms and rolled


    my eyes.


    “Did you attack her?” Alpha Jackson asked.


    Only because she called me a slut because she assumed that us two are sleeping together.” I say to


    him looking him directly in the eye. Which I haven’t seen anyone else in this pack do yet.


    Alright. I am setting the record straight right now. Taylor is staying at the packhouse. In a spare room. I


    have dozens of spare rooms. We have not and will not be sleeping together.” Alpha Jackson yelled for


    everyone to hear and they all backed away from the anger that was in his voice. He then turned his


    attention to Missy and ordered her to the nurse’s office and then she was to report to his office. And he


    ordered everyone else to leave except for me.


    So Parker gave me my books back and everyone took off so it was just Alpha Jackson and I left in the


    hallway.


    You can’t use violence like that against your own pack members.” Alpha Jackson says leaning up


    against the lockers while I was still standing there with my arms crossed.


    “Believe me, that shit with Missy has been going on a lot longer thank you’ve been here.” I say.


    “Well, it needs to end. I will be talking to her after she sees the nurse and I will make sure that it ends. I


    know that you were just reacting to what she said, but we know that it’s not true.” He says looking


    directly at me.


    “I’m not a slut and I am not going to be used of being a slut just like my fucking mother.” I snapped


    out at him which took him by surprise.


    “What’s that supposed to mean?” He asked pushing off from the lockers. Nothing. I have to get to


    ss.” I say starting to walk away, but he grabbed my arm and it zapped me again. Sorry.” He says


    pulling his hand away.


    “Would you stop doing that?” I asked as I started walking away.


    I got to my first ss and everyone was staring at me but I sat at the back next to Parker and Emily


    was on the other side of me but I ignored her. She did look at me and tried to smile to me but I just


    shook my head and opened my book.


    When ss was over I stood up and grabbed my books and Emily stood in front of me with Aria.


    “Listen, I’m sorry about this morning. I heard what I heard and I just assumed that it was true.” Emily


    says.


    You’re my fucking friend. You should have known toe to me first and talk to me before believing


    some stupid rumour. I thought we knew each other better than that.” I snapped at her.


    “We do. And that’s why I’m sorry. I didn’t know that you were staying at the packhouse. No one would


    have known that.” She says.


    Why are you staying there?” Parker asked and I looked at him trying to figure out how I was going to


    exin this to them.


    “Because I can’t go home right now. My mother and I had a fight and I am not interested in talking to


    her right now. She screwed up. Big time.” I exined and they all seemed to understand that that’s all I


    was going to give them.


    At lunch time I didn’t want to go to the cafeteria because everyone would be looking at me so I headed


    to the library and I got a head start on my homework from the morning sses. While I was sitting there


    I recognised a scent that was lingering behind me.


    “Does your girlfriend know that you’re here Edward?” I asked.


    “No. Of course not. She’s not here today. “He says walking around so that he was in front of me. So,


    what’s this then? Am I your dirty little secret?” I asked.


    “No. There’s no dirty little secret. I just wanted to make sure that you were alright. After seeing you


    yesterday afternoon and then the rumours this morning.” He says. And I looked up from my books and


    looked him directly in the eye.


    “Do you believe the rumours?” I asked.


    “No. I didn’t believe them when I heard them. The packhouse is there for these specific reasons. When


    someone needs help, there’s a bed waiting for them. So their not sleeping in the woods or on a park


    bench. I wasn’t surprised at all when I heard that you slept at the packhousest night.” He says sitting


    down at the table with me.


    “Yeah, well. At least that’s one person.” I say.


    “I know that you don’t give a crap about titles. You’re not interested in being Luna. You never have


    been. You look at the person, not the position.” He says.


    “Tell that to the rest of the school. Most of these kids have known me my whole life and yet they still


    believed it. I guess being gone for a year, they thought that I turned into some massive slut bag or


    something like that.” I say getting back to my homework.


    Edward stayed there with me and he was talking to me while I was doing my homework and then he


    started acting a little weird. He was getting really ufortable in his chair and really fidgety.


    “What’s wrong?” I asked.


    “The Alpha is staring at us.” He says trying not to move his lips while he spoke. So I turned around and


    looked at the ss windows of the library that showed the hallway outside and he was standing outside


    the library staring at us. So I gave him a wave, but he just walked off without doing anything.


    “That was weird.” I say turning back to Edward.


    “Good. So, it wasn’t just me who thought that was extremely weird.” Edward says rxing a little bit.


    “No. It wasn’t.” I say.


    When I finished school that day I headed back to the packhouse and I went straight to the office and


    the Alpha wasn’t there. So I sat on the couch and I opened theptop and I looked at the first file that I


    needed to start inputting.


    When Alpha Jackson did finally show up in his office he walked over to the drinks cart and poured


    himself a bourbon before he sat down and started going through some paperwork. And he didn’t say


    anything to me.


    “Tough day?” I asked looking at theputer screen.


    “I guess you can say that. The life of an Alpha.” He says.


    “I can imagine.” I say. And I kept working when the cook came in with dinner and ced it down in front


    of both of us. And then he turned around and left.


    So I sat on the floor leaning against the couch and eating while I was working and then I grabbed the


    file for my mother. I opened it and there was a photo of her there so I pulled the photo up on the


    computer and attached it to the file.


    I started reading through the information before I threw the file on the other side of


    the coffee table and I grabbed another file while I was still eating. I would deal with mother’s fileter. I


    looked up and Alpha Jackson was looking at me but I didn’t say anything to him. I just kept working


    while Alpha Jackson got up and got another drink before he went back to his desk.


    When we finished eating dinner the cook came back and took the tes and I saw that Alpha Jackson


    was getting into the alcohol a lot more than usual. I was pretending not to notice but I knew that


    something was bothering him.


    My phone then went off and I looked at it and someone had sent me some photos. I didn’t know who


    the number belonged to but I looked at the photos and they were taken from outside Alpha Jackson’s


    office.


    He is standing in his office with Missy after our altercation and he is leaning against his desk while she


    is standing there talking to him. The next photo showed her getting closer to him and then the next


    photo showed them two kissing.


    I couldn’t believe it. And that bitch had the nerve to call me a slut at school today. And yet she is getting


    it on with the Alpha. I looked up at him and he was staring nkly at the wall with his ss off bourbon


    in his hand.


    “I’m finished for the night. I’m going to bed.” I say closing theptop and closing the file that I was


    currently working on.


    “You’ve barely done anything tonight.” Alpha Jackson says as I grab my bag and I stood up.


    “Maybe you should ask Missy toe over and do it. If you two would even get any work done.” I say


    cing my phone on his desk with the photos showing on the screen and I left his office.


    But instead of walking upstairs, I walked out the front door and took off towards the woods. I heard


    Alpha Jackson calling after me but I ignored him and I blocked off all the links to everyone. Making sure


    to avoid the patrols and I managed to make it to the old swimming hole. I knew that not many people


    ever patrolled around here. This was too far from the packhouse and no one ever attacked out this


    way.


    ‘I can’t believe he would go for someone like Missy.’ Ava says.


    ‘Well, not every guy has the best taste in women. I know the Alpha’s that rule over this pack never do.’ I


    say sitting on the boulder.


    ‘Why do we alwayse here when we’re upset? Edward knows where to find us.’ Ava asked pacing


    in my head.


    ‘Because he is the only one who knows where to find us. No one else does. And if I tell Edward to get


    lost then he will.’ I exined staring at the moon in the water below me.


    ‘What are we going to do? We can’t go home to mom and we can’t go back to the packhouse.’ Ava


    says.


    ‘We can go back to the packhouse. But when we’re ready to. I don’t get it. Why the hell am I getting so


    upset about him and Missy? I don’t understand what is happening to me.’ I say wiping a stray tear off of


    my cheek.


    ‘Because you like Alpha Jackson.’ Ava says and I scoffed at that.


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    ‘He likes you too. More than friends. I know that he does. His wolf told me.’ Ava says.


    ‘Oh yeah. What else did his wolf tell you?’ I asked looking around the woods at where I was.


    ‘That you get away with so much because Alpha Jackson hates punishing you. He wants you close.


    That’s why he offered you that job and a ce to stay when you needed it. He put you in the room


    across from his room. No one usually stays on the Alpha’s floor except for Alpha’s. But you’re there.’


    She exined.


    So, what do we have here?” A voice asked out of the darkness and I jumped to my feet immediately.


    “Who’s there?” I asked. And then a man came into view. I knew that he was a werewolf but he smelt


    off. He smelt rotten. Oh my god. Rogue.