My resistant Alpha

Him from before

Cold air pricked my skin as I trekked through the woods close to the pack house, I regretted dropping my sweater to fight; I regretted accepting the challenge in the first place and now the one thing I hated and was ashamed of came to bite me in the back.

The sky was getting dark, and I didn’t care much although I never liked the cover of the night; no one chased after me, not that I cared but the tears threatening to fall reminded me that I did.

Asher’s expression kept flashing through my mind and the tears finally streamed down slowly, I really want to go home and see my family; the ones who will always love and protect me, they never judged or mocked me for my inability to shift at all. I was trained by them so that I could always defend myself against any harm but a measly sneak attack made their effort look wasted.

And Ari? I honestly couldn’t judge her, I had known her for barely twelve hours and I already thought she was a friend. I might have acted the same way if I was in her shoes, who wants the lowest of the low as a friend? Maybe I should run away, at least to the place where I feel loved.

I missed home, I missed having a friend, and I missed Reene.

I was leaning against a large tree when I heard the snapping of twigs behind me. The hair at the back of my neck rose and I slowly reached for the stone beside me, I had dropped my knife at the training ground and was currently defenseless, I turned slowly to meet my intruder. To my surprise, it was the ‘dirt’ guy from Asher’s study.

How did he find me? My hand tightened instantly, this man was strangely everywhere and although he didn’t seem malicious, I did not want to be around someone I couldn’t get a grasp of.

“What are you doing here?” I tried to speak calmly but unknown irritation crept through my voice, the reason quite unknown.

“I thought this was a free space or wasn’t it?” he looked at me innocently, like I should believe anything he says.

I didn’t say anything but just leaned right back on the tree, my hand still not letting go of the stone. I knew it was pointless as he had passed through my hands back then or was he a figment of my imagination?

I looked at him, he sat at the next tree; hopefully he wasn’t from my head, I was yet to identify as crazy. He wasn’t leaning on the tree but just sat there looking at the night sky.

“You shouldn’t let irrelevancies like that bother you, there’s more to think about in life than why I am here or who I am,” he spoke crisply “after all I did intent to introduce myself.”

I shook my head, “You are clearly mistaken as I couldn’t care less about who you are, just don’t show up in front of me, interrupting my train of thoughts.” I got up, intending to head back the way I came, I wanted to be away from this man as far as I could.

“Do I annoy you? I didn’t mean to do that, I just-” I pretended like I couldn’t hear him and continued walking away and he rushed to catch up with me.

I stood there with a frown on my face, “what do you want?” I felt a little guilty for being kind of rude to him but I didn’t see any reason to be polite to him after all I have known him for as long as I have known Ari but here I am, all alone.

“I can help you;” seeing as I didn’t move, he went on “Don’t you want to become stronger? I can help you achieve that.”

“I already told you,” I inched closer to him, “I don’t want to have anything to do with you or do I need to be more direct with you?” I spoke through gritted teeth before turning away from him.

“I watched your fight; I can help you overcome your weakness- shifting”

My chest vibrated with anger as I reached for his neck, I could swear on anything that I heard a growl come from me, “Help me shift? You think I have been playing for the past ten years of my life? Or do you also think I’m a joke like all the rest here do?”

My voice was strong, much stronger than the anger I was feeling. How dare he say that? Is today a ruin-your-neighbor’s day? I wasn’t taking any s**t from anyone. He should be glad my hands couldn’t grasp his neck; I would have shown him how much strength I had without being able to shift.

He looked at me in shock for a moment as I said those words and he took a few steps back, “I didn’t mean it like that, and I really want to help you.”

“Oh yeah? Tell me about it.” I instructed, trying my best to not sound too irritated, it was already dark and the woods felt erring at this time of the night, I didn’t want to run into a rogue.

His face visibly relaxed as I gave him a go-ahead, he probably wasn’t expecting me to say yes soon as he kept silent for a few seconds before telling me his plan.

“I am going to train you or rather I would get a friend to train you, you just have to come visit me, there’s a lot to say.” He spoke hurriedly.

I rolled my eyes at that, I didn’t want to go see a weird guy whose name and identity I didn’t know just because he said he could train me, “ Alright then, where do I meet you?” my mouth betraying my thoughts.

“When the time is right I’ll come to you, don’t just trust anyone here and wait for me.” With that he dissipated into thin air right in front of me.

Seven minutes. He appeared for just seven minutes, scare the science out of me then disappear. Who exactly was this man? I didn’t like him but for some reason, I was curious about what he had in stock for me.

It would do me no harm to get associated with him and find out what he wanted from me, or would it?