The Adopted Alpha

Bestie goals

"Hello~ My Super rich friend." Clare greeted with a grin as she got into Hunter's car.

"Good morning." Hunter said without taking his eyes off the road, stepping on the gas straight away.

Clare pursed her lips at his infuriating poker face. Couldn't he just smile once? Or cry? Or frown.

Now that she thought of it, she could not tell what was going on in his head or his life. Their relationship was sort of one sided in a way that he was forever helping her and it seemed like there was nothing she could do to help.

By the way, he still hadn't responded to her text.

"I texted you over the weekend, and you didn't reply me."

Hunter's eyes flickered to her. "I saw it, but thought it was a wrong number so... you could have called."

Oh, that's true. She didn't put her name in there. All she texted was hi. Apparently, Hunter didn't reply to numbers he did not recognize.

"I did not want to disturb you if you were busy, that's why I texted instead." She paused to see if he would volunteer any information about his weekend, but of course, the car just became silent.

"So, did you have fun during the weekend?" She pried hoping he would not ignore her.

He raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow "Doing what?"

She shrugged "I don't know, you tell me. What to rich teenagers do for fun?"

He sighed and finally looked at her "Are you trying to pry into my life, Clare?"

She gave him an innocent look that could fool Santa Clause, and that jolly, old, round bellied man knows everything about kids. "No, I don't know what you are talking about."

Hunter tsked shaking his head and return his attention to the road. "You would never change." He muttered

Clare saw that he was clearly not falling for her tricks so she decided to go all in "Okay, you got me. Now tell me what you were doing during the weekends?"

He rolled his eyes at her. "Do you have to know?"

"Of course, we are friends. I have to know what you like to do, your favorite color or if you are a potter head or twihard?"

"And what might those be?" He wrinkled his brow in confusion.

Clare stared at him like he had grown a second head. " Those are fans of The Harry Potter and The Twilight Saga series. God, are depressing books the only thing you read?"

Hunter glared at her through the rearview mirror but did not grace her last question with an answer.

"And knowing my preference between this books will help you get to know me better, how?"

"I'll know if you are more of a thrill seeker or a romantic, obviously. " She replied with a duh tone.

"Okay?" He said but it was more of a question. He drove into the school and found a spot to park in.

"This things are important deets among best friends."

Hunter turned off the ignition and turned to her. "Ah... we are best friends now?"

"You are my best and only friend." She deadpanned.

Hunter stared at her a moment longer before exiting the car abruptly and headed for the school.

Clare jumped out after him "Hey, Rich kid! It's like someone saying I love you, it's rude not to say it back."

"Then it's a good thing that I'm not polite. By the way, what has got you in such a good mood?"

Clare smile grew broadly, he noticed her good mood. That was another thing to check off her bucket list.

Best Friend's Telepathic Connections!!!

You can't tell her otherwise, by the way.

"It's a secret, and a shocker too." She whispered as they entered the school hall though no one was paying attention to what they were saying, more like staring at Hunter for their daily fix of hottie addiction.

But it was fun to be whispering about something with a someone for once.

Best Friend Goals item 6, ☑

"I doubt there is a thing you can say that would shock me."

Clare smirked at him, he was never going to believe her. "I talked with the Moon goddess."

She intentionally forgo the dream part of it to get the best reaction out of him and true enough, his eyes widened in astonishment making her grin broadly.

"What? No way!" His poker face slipped on in a second. "...is what I would say if I was surprised."

He hurried up the stairs and left her there fuming in indignation at the bottom.

"What do you want to be in future?" Clare asked once she had thrown her bag in the backseat.

Hunter was exasperated at this point. She had not stopped bugging him all day with her incessant questions. He definitely could not tell her who he was.

Best case scenario, she would not believe him and laugh it off and the other option was that she believes him and ran for the hills. Either way, nothing tangible achieved.

Moreover, it might lead to some questions that he was not at liberty to share with her yet, she was not yet ready for that phase of her life and with all that was at risk, they could not afford to mess anything up.

He was merely another pawn in this game and he had to choose his moves wisely or Clare could lose it all....

Including herself.

"Come on," Clare whined bringing him back to the present "You have to give me something, anything!. Tell me just one thing you like doing, and I'll leave you —for now."

"I like listening to you talk about the moon goddess." He replied dryly leaving the school premises.

Clare knew he was just trying to distract her but she had done enough prying for the day anyway, and it was not getting her anywhere.

Also, she had been dying to tell him about her encounter with the mother of the moon.

"That was oddly specific, but since you asked so desperately..."

Hunter smirked to himself smugly, she was so easily distracted and a chatter box, it was why they got along so well.

It was why THEY got along so well.

Her excited voice took him back to the past —or the future, whichever way you look at it. SHE would talk all day about how SHE won against one of HER sisters, or a beautiful item SHE had made or even something as simple as the weather.

Yeah, SHE was the only person that could talk all day without getting tired, said it kept HER and others around HER sane.

"...That's cool, isn't it." Clare finished with a big smile.

Hunter shook his head in disbelief. "How are you not worried about the consequences Selene warned you about?"

Clare rolled her eyes, "You see when she told me she is playful too, I think it was a clue. The shedding of blood is probably during my next menstrual flow. Brilliant, right?!"

Hunter grimaced from the TMI. "I think it was a warning, Clare, not a heads-up."

Clare rolled her eyes. "You want to know what I think?"

"If I say no, will you keep your opinions to yourself?"

She ignored him " I think it's just that you like raining on my parade. You are no fun." She scoffed and looked out of the window.

"My idea of fun and yours are two quite different things, my friend."

Clare focused her attention back on him, wiggling her eyebrows, clearly interested. She could not help baiting him when he was practically begging to be baited. "So what is you idea of fun, bestie."

Hunter groaned "I walked right into that one, didn't I?"

She giggled leaning back into her seat. You did, Hunter Pyrros."