Page 15 of Alpha Ruined

She needs to get out of here. Her five minutes are up.

“I don’t know.” Bree does her best to keep her voice even as his scent slowly invades the stale air. “That’s what I’m trying to figure out.”

“Hmm.”

Goosebumps raise on her arms. He won’t stoplookingat her.

She doesn’t like it. She doesn’t like his attractiveness, or how good he smells, or how he just showed up out of nowhere in a thousand dollar wardrobe.

But to leave, she has to walk past him and through a long stretch of hallway.

In short, she’s fucked.

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

An alarm sounds in her ears, and she jumps. He simply chuckles.

“Augh! What the hell is that?” she yells, covering her ears.

“I would assume that’s the alarm,” he says, loud enough that she can him hear over the shrill noise. “You should probably leave before the sheriff shows up. I doubt they’ll be as understanding as I am.”

She scowls at his arrogance.

“I can show you the way, if you’d like.”

The noise doesn’t seem to bother him at all, and she catches him laughing as she scrunches her face in displeasure.

“I know how to get out of here, thanks,” she snaps, and rushes past him, holding her breath.

She doesn’t want to smell him again.

“Of course, the trespasser knows her way out,” he calls after her, as she hurries down the hall. “What was I thinking?”

She breaks into a run, not caring if he sees. She races up the hallway and bursts through the double doors in the lobby, then hurries to her car in the parking lot.

Her hands don’t stop shaking as she drives back to the cabin. After locking the door, she runs upstairs to the bedroom. She pants as she sits on the mattress, adrenaline coursing through her.

“What the hell,” she gasps. “What the actualhell?”

That Alpha was terrifying. He looked at her as if he knewher.

He lookedhungry.

Suddenly, drunk Eugene isn’t as scary anymore.

She has a feeling she just encountered someone much worse.

Her mating gland still burns, and she takes off her sweater to pat at it gently. She hisses at the contact and decides to take another shower to calm herself.

But as she undresses, a pit of dread pools in her stomach.

Her panties are soaking wet.

And the worst part is that he’s the best smelling Alpha she’s ever encountered.

It’s the scent she hoped her mate would have.

CHAPTER 6