The Alpha She Never Saw Coming

Episode 3

        I couldn’t believe how fast I was losing control over everything. I had let too many people become the controllers of my own life. It was time that I took it all back into my hands, and I would start today. I couldn’t gain the courage to call Blake last night. I just hoped the office would be a place of peace today because I could only imagine the voicemails I would be walking into. I finally made it to the building and decided to walk the stairs to my floor. I couldn’t be in an elevator that held so many recent memories. Ones of Greyson, Wyatt, and even Samuel. I was panting once I reached the top stairs to my floor, I didn’t think that plan out too well. I froze when I saw all the lights on in the office! What the hell was going on? I walked into the office weirdly, surprised to see Blake sitting at the reception desk. He darted to a standing position the minute he saw me in the doorway.

“Lily!”

Blake gasped before he rushed over to me, stopping himself before embracing me in a hug.

“What’s going on?” I asked.

Blake didn’t respond. He just took my elbow as he leads me to my office. As he ushered me in, I sat on the couch, and I watched him fidget after closing the door. He wasn’t acting anything like the cool, composed friend I had become accustomed to.

        That could very much be due to trying to have me murdered. We haven’t spoken or seen each other since the compound. I, however, wanted to forget about all of that and just have my best friend back. I scooted to the far side of the couch, hoping he would take the hint to sit. Thankfully he did, and once he was near, I couldn’t help myself. I threw my arms around his neck and sighed at his smell and comfort. Then those god damn tears started to fall again, and I wanted to break something. I was so sick of crying!

“Lily, I am so sorry. Please, if you will, let me explain.”

I released Blake from my hold and looked into his eyes. I had never seen him so haunted before.

“Why?” I gasped.

“There is a prophecy about twin alphas mating one woman. Greyson and Wyatt are the only twin alphas in the supernatural world,” he paused. “Vampires can’t mate wolves, and we can’t have mixed breeds, Lily.”

Blake was starting to rant, and I didn’t want to listen to his panic. I placed a finger over his lips, stopping him before he got into the swing of everything. Thankfully he stopped and dropped his head, making me feel like a horrible friend.

        How were we ever going to get past this? Could I ever forgive him for trying to have me murdered instead of just talking it out? Wasn’t that what we did best, discussed everything going on in our lives. Even though I was the one who allowed him to believe I was still human, it was time to fix that. Maybe fix what’s broken between us.

“Blake, first, you should have talked to me about what was going on. You have no idea that I am even the person in the prophecy.” I paused as I gulped before starting again, “secondly, you were right. I am a vampire.”

Blake jumped up off the couch, and his eyes were black with rage. I knew he would be picturing the scar on my chest when he was at the compound. The lie I plotted with Wyatt and Greyson to teach him a lesson.

“How could you! Do you have any idea how sick I was over what I’d done to you!” Blake shouted.

“You! You are my best friend, and you tried to have me murdered. Best friend or not, vampire or not, that’s f****d up!” I yelled back. “We were both wrong in our actions, but I would like to try and forgive you. If you can try to forgive me as well,” I said calming myself.

Blake rushed to me, gathering me into a tight embrace. I allowed myself to melt into his arms as I wrapped my arms around his waist. Suppose I could only mend all the damage I had done recently this easily. Jax would be the next relationship I mended before moving forward with anything further.

        I tried to back out of Blake’s grasp, so I could ask him what was going on at the practice. He, however, wasn’t ready to let me go. As he clinched me tighter to him, so I allowed him to hold me for a moment longer.

“Well, well. Isn’t this cozy.”

Blake and I both turned to see Samuel standing in my doorway. What the hell was he doing here now?

“We were just,” Blake stopped.

“You don’t have to explain anything to him,” I snapped.

“Lily, don’t,” Blake interjected.

“No, it’s fine. She has every right to hate me. I am fine with that,” Samuel said, cutting Blake off.

Blake squeezed my arm as he gave me a take-it-easy on him look. Well, when the hell did my best friend jump sides to enemy territory? Blake didn’t know anything that Samuel has done, but he must be aware of what type of man he is was. I mean, Blake was a vampire, and I am sure all the supernatural community talked.

        I couldn’t speak as Blake walked out the door, and Samuel shut it behind him. I got up from the couch and slowly walked over to my desk.

“I won’t hurt you,” Samuel said.

“Well, that’s an understatement, don’t you think?” I snapped, “you’ve hurt me plenty already. Your most recent offense only just yesterday.”

“You are kidding me, right! Lily, you are lucky that I put it in a glass!” Samuel snapped, “you looked dead. I was seconds from putting your mouth straight to a vein!”

I instinctively looked at the pulsing vein at Samuel’s neck, then allowing my eyes to glide over his rapidly falling chest. I whipped around, bracing my hands on the desk, not what I should be thinking about. Samuel was behind me before I knew it, running his hands down my arms as he hovered.

“Don’t worry. I will behave. That will all come in its own time.”

I shrugged him off as I walked around my desk. “I’m not sure what you think that is, but I can assure you it will not!”

I wanted to shout at him, but I also was all too aware of where we were. My office had become all too intimate for me, and it felt wrong to have Samuel in here. I took a seat, hoping that it would give me some type of control over this situation.

        Samuel just followed my actions as he rounded the desk, sitting on the corner. All too close to me on the same side, I had hoped he would settle in a chair on the other side.

“Lily, you can hate me for whatever reasons you want to believe, but I do want to help you. It makes me sick to think of seeing you on the floor when I found you.”

Why was he thinking about it at all? I assumed once he left that I wouldn’t be another thought in his mind. It was becoming more and more apparent that he was just as overbearing as Wyatt and Greyson. However, he did have a point about how I had and was taking care of myself.

“You’re right,” I sighed.

“I am sorry, what did you say.”

I looked up to see a smug smile on his face and his extremely large arms crossed over his chest again. I must still be too weak if the sight of Samuel was causing my mouth to water.

“I said you were right. I need to take better care of myself,” I paused. “Meaning I need to stop ignoring my new vampire half.”

I bowed my head to keep from gawking at Samuel any longer. It had to be the vampire inside me that longed for his blood. There was no way that I could be longing for anything other than that from this man!