We ended up pressed against the corner of the house, our bodies close together as a guard with a flashlight approached.
My heart rate sped up—I couldn’t afford to get caught with him, not like this. There would be no way to explain it without raising suspicion.
I was extremely frustrated. It was ridiculous that I, the daughter of the Alpha, had to sneak around in my own yard, hiding from my own guards.
Why couldn’t Alexander have just contacted me like a normal person? But deep down, I knew why—we had to keep the fact that we knew each other as secret as possible.
I glanced around, desperate for anywhere we could run to without being seen, but suddenly the guard stopped walking and turned his back to us. I breathed a small sigh of relief as the beam of the flashlight shif
