Challenge the Alpha

Chapter seven - Got It Bad

Indie;

I stood staring at the door, completely dumbfounded. Did that really happen? I've had a weird day. Had it been a whole day ? Dazed, I strolled into the bathroom, the sky was light but the typical dreary weather made it hard to tell how high the sun really was.

My stomach growled and I groaned. I never did eat. I almost felt like I didn't have the effort to go looking when a light knock came from the bedroom.

"Indie?"

"Hey Kim, I'm just here."

She poked her head through the door and shot me a dazzling smile,

"Hey yourself, fave." And she saunted in like we'd been best friends our whole lives.

A sudden pain jolted my gut and I heaved, doubling over.

"Woah, BABE!" Kim jumped towards me, grabbed my hair and gentle rubbed my back with her warm palm. I'd felt fine before, I felt fine now. But the idea of a best friend other than Ben had made me physically sick.

"I'm okay, I think maybe I just need to eat something."

"Well come on, let's brush those teeth, dry those sparkling eyes and grab a steak or something!" She had already started cleaning up my mess for me, handfuls of toilet roll and some disinfectant to do the job.

"Erm," I stopped, this seemed like a weird thing to have to bring up with a Werewolf.

"What's wrong, honey-munch?" Kimberley had an endless list of pet names but that might be the best. I chewed my lip, unsure how to say it.

"I don't eat meat."

She blinked a few times before she seemed to register what I was getting at. By the time she had processed my comment, she had cleared up all evidence of my moment.

"Ever ?? Oh, crickey. We best go have a chat with Reg, he's gonna be thrilled to have a new type of catering to do." She took my hand and pulled me to the sink, handing me a toothbrush and skipping out.

I lathered the brush with the toothpaste and scrubbed hard, spitting some blood. I didn't want to go downstairs. Drown myself in the bath maybe. I kept scrubbing and absent mindedly wondered to the bath and something out the window caught my eye.

Rollo was standing by the edge of the wood dripping wet and butt naked. My jaw dropped and I basically melted into my panties. My heart sped up, my face grew hot and my palms sweaty. His toned back was facing me but his head was pointed to the side, I could just make out the way his hair flopped. My eyes lingered on his waist when suddenly he turned in my direction. Pure panic tore through me and before I really saw much of anything, I threw the toothbrush into the sink, grabbed a towel to wipe my face and made a mad dash out into the bedroom.

Kim wasn't around. I tried to steady myself. The space between my legs was throbbing and I clenched my knees together to try and ease my discomfort. I was fidgeting when the door swung open and Kimberley pranced in.

"Ready to goooo, oh," she pulled a face and then giggled at my stance, "Rollo asked me to keep you company while the boys let the wolves out, didn't happen to catch him leaving did ya?"

My face must have turned beetroot red because she cackled madly at my expression.

"How did you know?? I was trying so hard to keep the situation tucked away." I covered my face, I don't think I'd ever been embarrassed like this over a guy.

"Oh, Indie," she came and tucked a strand of hair behind my ear, "wolves have some insane senses, like smell. I can smell you being turned on and ..well, I just knew it was probably something to do with Rollo."

Smell .. she can SMELL me being turned on ? Oh my days. Earlier with Rollo ..had he smelled me? Oh damn it. I don't know how this could get anyway worse. I slapped my thighs and let out a frustrated grunt. There was not a single secret I could keep in this place with them, every wolf within a few miles was going to be aware of how badly I had it for their Alpha.

"I think I need to leave."

Kim's face turned ashen and a panic flitted through her eyes.

"What ? Why on earth would you.."

"I don't belong here," I cut her off, "I'm not one of you, I'm quite seriously naive with this and I can't live down the corridor from Rollo when you can all apparently smell how I feel when I don't even get it myself yet."

She licked her lips and nodded,

"I genuinely understand where you're coming from Indie but.. don't leave. I've only just met you and I already love having you here. We have plenty humans ..look, just wait for Rollo to get back and you guys can talk."

I dragged my hands through my hair,

"I think when he isn't here is the best time to leave, being around each other, I don't think either of us seem to be able to function correctly. It's like I'm not my normal self when I'm near him. If we talked, he'd get in my head and stop me going."

A piercing howl shook from outside all of a sudden, it sounded close and Kimberley looked away from me.

"Sorry Indie, I had to let him know. He would have been devasted if you didn't even say goodbye."

A loud bang echoed through the house, I thought a train had hit the side of the building but instead, a soaked and very clearly agitated Alpha came soaring into the room, his stare fixed on me like a pray he wasn't letting go of. Floods of dark memories of how Matty had refused to let me leave overwhelmed me and I turned quickly, slamming the bathroom door shut and locking them all out.

I dropped to my knees, my hands were shaking and I felt like my heart was trying to jump up my throat. I felt the pulse in every part of my body and curled forward over my legs. I tried to breathe through my nose and out through my mouth, feeling how cool the air was inhaling compared to the warmed feel on exhale. My hands stroked the hard, smooth floor.

I began whispering 'he wouldn't hurt me' to myself, but my bladder betrayed me and I had to rush to pull my shorts off with unsteady legs while I focused on not wetting myself, especially without a change of clothes.

I sat, shorts round my ankles, leaning back on the toilet. I stared at the ceiling, taking in the off gold colour, some black marks here and there, an occasional cobweb.

"Indie .." Rollo’s gruff but caring voice through the door and I shut my eyes, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. Kim told me you were freaking out and talking about leaving and my wolf was already in control at the time."

"Matty used to say he couldn't help himself a lot."

Silence. Tense silence. I don't know what I expected by saying it or why I was so blunt about it. But I was being honest, my fight or flight kicked in and I stood no chance against him. I sniffed, pushing back any threat of crying.

Another painful minute of us both refusing to cave,

"Can you open the door please?"

"I don't know." My voice cracked and I covered my mouth with both hands to stifen the sob. I knew I shouldn't be terrified of Rollo, my body just remembered Matty and I couldn't shake it. He'd ruined me.

"I have no intention of forcing you to stay here but.. we made a deal remember, I tell you what's going on and you don't immediately run .."

"And you haven't told me everything, have you Rollo!" I shouted back. Yes, I'd agreed to not run but I wasn't an i***t, I knew he was giving me the bare minimum amount of information.

"We haven't spent a lot of time together and you haven't even eaten yet .." there was a light thud that I am pretty sure was his head against the door, "please come and eat something and we can talk?"

I hated that he was right. I hated that I was hungry. I especially hated that the sound of his voice got to me like it did. If he told me to lie on my back and spread my legs, I was probably going to oblige just because of that voice.

"Give me 40 seconds to calm down."

"40 seconds and I'm coming in."

That bastard. I bet he was about to count. I wiped myself as I started going through numbers in my head. Pulled my shorts up and went to sit on the windowsill, it was fairly high for me but I did alright, I'd done a few wolf runs in my time but I'm sure it was nothing to keep up with these lot. I sat with my legs dangling off the edge, into the bath.

32, 33, 34,

I heard a latch click, early might I point out.

37, 38,

The door opened,

"You're two seconds early." I'd unconsciously wrapped my arms around my middle.

Rollo edged his way into the room, looking like a lost child that's gone shy and doesn't want to say hello. He was topless and I instantly felt that made this whole situation a little unfair. My eyes casting down his chiseled body, he had a some fairly tamed hair leading down towards the top of his shorts, f**k, I licked my lips and looked away remembering he would be able to smell me being horny for him. My cheeks felt hot and I stroked the ledge by where I sat, tracing the flecks with my finger.

"I'm not.. " Rollo started but it was like he decided to leave that statement, as if it wouldn't help or he didn't want to upset me. His alluring voice was strained, his tongue poking the side of his mouth. I could tell he was frustrated and trying hard to rein it in.

"I know you're not Matty." I finished it for him. I did know, but wounds inflicted by Matty were still very fresh and hard to ignore.

He nodded, seeming to understand my feeling. There seemed to be so much unspoken between us lingering in the air. Neither knew how to start the conversation or how to express ourselves. I continued tracing the pattern on the windowsill trying to ease my anxiety.

"I really wish you'd stay."

I looked up and he was staring at me, his dark eyes begging me not to go. For an Alpha wolf, he had one hell of a puppy dog face. My heart ached looking at him and I had to blink back tears.

"It's just a lot. I've been through a lot, then this whole place, finding out what I know and us on top," I didn't know how to explain myself, I knew I was being ridiculous but I honestly couldn't help it, "I need to take Ben home to his Mum. I need .."

I froze. I had nearly let something slip I wasn't ready to tell him. This is all just too much.

"You said you wanted a doctor to check me over?" I asked,

He nodded,

"Can you arrange that for like, as soon as? When would they be able to see me?"

"Well. They're kinda on hand and will come when I say, but you need to eat."

"Take me to the doctor and I'll eat straight after."

He pondered a moment, he seemed to grasp I wouldn't budge on this and nodded again,

"Okay," he stepped forward and held out a hand to help me down. I stayed put and just stared at him, I was trying to forget his perfect naked form from earlier and I was scared if he touched me with those giant man hands, I'd throw myself at him.

"If you can wait outside the bedroom, I just want to get changed into something fresh first."

His tongue did the annoyed thing. This wolf clearly got his way a lot and I was testing his patience.

"Fine," he huffed as he turned to walk out,

After I heard the bedroom door click, I jumped down into the tub and climbed out. Trying out this bath was a decent reason to stay, I thought to myself. I headed to the wardrobe and browsed the selection. Leggings, playsuits, baggy tops, lounge wear. It's as if I'd picked everything out myself. I settled on some grey leggings and an oversized 'a day to remember' jumper. I had to roll the sleeves up and probably looked ridiculous but it was cosy, not to mention smelled incredible. Plus they're one of my favourite bands. I couldn't find much in the way of shoes but found some slipper boots that would suffice. I gave my hair a quick brush and made my way out the bedroom.

I found Rollo looking out the window by the reading corner. He turned when he heard me and his face instantly broke out into an enormous, panty-dropping smile.

"WHAT??" I started checking myself for holes, sticky up hair and anything else that would cause someone to snicker at me.

Rollo saunted over, brushed my hair back and leant down to whisper in my ear,

"That's my favourite jumper you picked out." Before turning and heading down the corridor. Urg. Having his breathe against my neck made my thighs clench and my heart race. I was rooted to the spot for a moment before I found my feet to eventually follow.