Healer For Alpha

Wrong Person

{ Rio }

It's been eight days since Luna left and so far, life sucks. She sent me a message the next day letting me know she was perfectly fine and that was it, she didn't even answer my following texts demanding more information.

Ever since, my wolf has been literally trying to kill me from the inside because he's mad at me for sending her away. Things got so bad between us that I had to start taking inhibitors to put him to sleep. His incessant whining wouldn't let me sleep or even just exist, it was a constant pain.

Since yesterday when I started taking the inhibitors I have been waiting for my sadness to start to go down or go away but it hasn't happened yet. I'm still sad and I think I miss her more today than I did yesterday, it's just so boring without her.

I could say I don't remember what it was like to live before I was with her but I do remember, I used to spend all my time with some i***t named Alex.

But now I don't have anyone.

Laurent seems to think we’re back to normal and he wants to spend time with me like before or invite me to attend to clan stuff with him, but I don't want to. We’re not back to normal, I don't know why he thinks we are. There is still something he is hiding from me and I can't get over it.

Kingsley is barely ever home but when he is he treats me like I'm a dying child and that's so pathetic, but what can I do? I can't be rude to him, I can only run away and spend literally all day in my room preparing my business plan.

So at least I have something to occupy my mind with, although I can't help but think that Lunanci would have better ideas than me, or how much she wanted to see me open my bakery and now she can't.

"Come on, just tell me what it is about," Laurent insists from my bed. He came into my room without permission and has been busting my balls while I get ready to go to the meeting with my grandpa. I'm wearing formal clothes (Laurie's) because my grandpa likes it when we look presentable, "At least tell me a hint?"

"Do you tell me everything? You don't, right? Then I won't either," I spit once I'm ready and I grab my backpack before heading out of the room and out of the apartment to go to the chapel. Walking, of course.

Once I arrive, I sit across from my grandfather sitting at Laurie's desk and then I start explaining everything I have. Possible locations, a draft of a menu with prices, a breakdown of vendor prices and some more boring stuff he asked for.

"I'm surprised, this is much more throughout than I expected," he says once I'm done and hands me back my tablet before pulling out his wallet. He stretches a card to me. Nice, I’m rich again, "Here. You have a green light to start the process as you see fit, save every bill. We'll have meetings every week so you can let me know how it's going, but I'll give you the freedom to do your own thing. Once you're more settled, we'll talk to your parents about everything, okay?"

"Okay," I reply, letting out a breath and giving him a smile, "Thanks, Grandpa. I won't screw it up."

"I hope not, but if you have some problems or questions along the way don't be afraid to ask for help. To anyone in the family, everyone would do anything to help you," he says, looking at me with speculative eyes. I know he has something else to say, "Now, can you tell me why you look so down?"

"Oh, I... I don't…” I try to find a lie, but I know it's pointless because he can smell how I feel, "It’s nothing. Just silly stuff."

"Does it have something to do with your mystery girlfriend?" He asks and I choke on my own saliva as I gasp in panic. My grandfather laughs.

"What? What are you talking about? How do you know that?"

"We all know about your new girlfriend. Oli says he really likes her and she's a lovely girl," he starts, I bring my hands to cover my face, "Your mom is proud, but your dad feels left out. I think you know why."

"Oh my god," I groan. I want to kill my uncle, "What did Uncle Oli tell you guys?"

"Just that you went to visit him with your new girlfriend, he didn't give many details. And I'm telling you this because I really want you to talk to your parents. At least talk to your daddy, you know he worries too much.”

"I want to, I just need a little time to figure out what to say," I reply and get up before he tries to keep getting more information out of me, "Besides, there's no girlfriend anymore, we broke up. So you can tell that to Uncle Oli."

"I’m sorry about that. I'll pass the message on to the whole family. You see, we were all very invested," he teases and I groan again before walking out of there, with his deep laughter in the distance.

I'd love to say I can't believe it, but when has anyone in the family ever kept a secret? I mean, Laurie aside. At least Uncle Oli kept the most sensitive information to himself, but why even talk about a girlfriend at all? Now everyone is going to pressure me to talk about her and the last thing I need is to keep thinking about Lunanci when I know it's over between us for good because she doesn’t even want to be my friend anymore.

And why would he tell my dad? That was a low blow. He must be completely offended about me telling something personal to Oliver before him.

I'm walking back to the building trying to stop thinking about how in trouble I am and how much I'm going to have to beg my dad for forgiveness.

"Rio!" Someone suddenly shouts, snapping me out of my thoughts. I stop walking to see who it is and I see a random guy coming at me from across the street. He's wearing an academy uniform so I can imagine what this is about, but he looks completely pissed off and determined as he approaches me, "I've been trying to talk to you all f*****g day. I need you to stop acting like this! Stop running away from me!"

Huh?

"Hey, dude," I start, trying not to look as confused as I feel. I know this has to do with Laurie and even though I hate him I still don't want to ruin whatever is going on, but this guy looks like he has some personal beef with me, with the way he's walking towards me. He's clearly an alpha, older and bigger than me. And pretty pissed off for some reason. Oh, s**t. I think he wants to fight, "Calm down. I don't want any trouble..."

"Well, I do," he growls and he's not stopping, so I have no choice but to clasp my hands and get ready to fight.

Except his attack comes in a way I've never seen before. He grabs my face before I can stop him because I wasn't expecting it and before I know it, his lips are on mine and he's f*****g kissing me. His filthy tongue is trying to enter my mouth with all its might.

Never before in my life have I ever felt so violated and downright sexually assaulted before. I'm so flabbergasted that for a couple of seconds I can't even move, but I quickly react and push this motherfucker until his ass hits the ground.

"What the f**k are you doing?!" I yell, lifting up my shirt to wipe my mouth, "Do that again and I'm going to have you arrested, do you know who my cousin is? You picked the wrong guy to assault in the middle of the street!"

Instead of continuing to try inappropriate things with me, the random guy stays on the ground, his eyes examining me from head to toe slowly before returning to my face, looking confused.

"You know what? I think I do have the wrong guy," he mutters with a look of complete shock on his face, "Is your name Rio?"

"Duh," I roll my eyes, "But why the f**k are you trying to kiss me, bro? Are you sick in the head? You're lucky I'm laid back or I'd be kicking your ass right now."

More like he's lucky my wolf is asleep. And that he's so depressed that he probably wouldn't even care much about his assault.

The guy gets up off the floor with a completely impressive ninja move and looks at me with narrowed eyes as he approaches me again. I don't think he wants to assault me again, right? No one would be that stupid. But it looks like he is because he grabs the collar of my shirt and pulls it until he rips open several buttons to stare at my chest like a f*****g p*****t.

"That's it," I growl and put an arm against his chest to push him against the wall. Surprisingly, he doesn't do much to defend himself, "What the f**k is your problem?!"

"You're not the Rio I know," he mutters, extremely confused, "You don't have the tattoo so you can't be him. But how many Rios that look the same can there be in the world?"

My whole body goes ice cold.

In that second, I know exactly what's going on. Absolutely everything makes sense with those few words.

Why I never found Alex in that human city. Why Laurie suddenly became so caged and secretive. The way he didn't want me to return to the clan. His need for my identity. Why he needed me to pretend to be in the academy.

"Are you okay?" The rando asks me as I'm having a turmoil inside me. I let him go and shake my head, trying to contain everything inside.

I'm lucky Alex isn't here because I would’ve beat him up. Omega or not, I know I would. f**k him. He wants to get away from me so badly he created this whole f*****g circus? f**k him. Fuuuuck him. He's not my twin anymore, he can be whoever he wants to be and do whatever he wants to do. I’m done.

"The guy you're looking for, his real name is Alex and he's my twin. I'm the only Rio," I manage to say. Rando Guy frowns and looks down, "And in case you don't know, he's an omega. I’m not.”

"Well, I know that," he mutters and I look back at him. I look him up and down. I have so many questions, "I was so focused on getting to him I didn't notice you weren't him. f**k, that’s gross. I'm sorry I kissed you. Please don't tell... Alex."

Oh, no. Not this guy. He can’t be messing around with Alex, right? How old is he? He doesn't look our age at all. And was he planning to grab Alex in the middle of the street and attack him like he did me?

"If you ever do anything to hurt my little brother I'm going to kill you and eat the remains of your body, I’m not even kidding," I threaten, but then I remind myself I don’t have a twin to care about anymore, "But I hate him, so I don’t care who he f***s. Don't tell him you saw me. Let's both pretend this never happened.”

"Wait," he grabs my arm to stop me, "Explain what's going on. Why do you hate him? Why is he pretending to be you?"

"Because he's a liar and a f*****g asshole. I don't want to see him ever again, he's dead to me. But I swear if you do anything to him, you'll be dead for real."

"Dude," he pulls me as I try to leave again, "Just tell me..."

"Oh, for god's sake, stop touching me you f*****g weirdo," I growl, pushing his hand away from me and walking fast so he doesn't want to follow me.

Fucking Alex. f*****g Laurent. f*****g random assaulter guy. I hate them all.