Chapter 54

Chapter 54.

Alsa’s POV Caden grips my arm, ripping me out of lake’s hold and pulling me into his cheat I stand still, my head finding it difficult is wrap around what just happened. I also hoping that might have dreamt about it but the number of wat hul gazes trained on me lets me know that is he came “Alpha, I didn’t know she was your mate would have never dared to lay a hand on her if we I d Jake’s head is bowed so I can’t see the expression on his face but is he being serious now?

Did be just say that he doesn’t know Caden is my mate? My brows furrow together in confule linee hi eves hift to meet mine. I figure it out This was his plan. He asked to spar with me, knowing that it would make Caden lose his coolan And like the predictable a s s h o l e that Caden is, he fell for it. H o o k, line, and sinker.

I close my eyes, holding in a groan as Caden drags me away from the training ground.

Jake has created such a mess. He might have meant well but the repercussions of this are gome The rumors were already too much to handle. I can’t imagine how things are going to go now tat ponde have found out that we’re fated mate. It’s going to be a huge cluster and I’m not looking forward t avigating through it.

I jerk my hand out of his tight grip once we get into the woods and away from onlookers.

“Why did you do that?!” I yell because I can and because I f u c k i n g deserve to yell out loud.

When Caden had first told me that we were going to be hiding our relationship, I admit that my feeling were a bit bruised. But after staying in the pack house for more than a month and figuring out how, The dynamic works, I’m more than grateful to Caden for wanting to keep us a secret. Now every

and out in the open.

Caden blinks at me and then his face tightens in anger. “This isn’t my fault. I wasn’t the one waymatra another male arms in the presence of my mate.”

I roll my eyes, pinching the bridge of my nose as my head starts a full throb. I thought we couldn’t get headaches.

“It wasn’t my fault either I start. “Besides, you don’t see me acreaming out to everyone that, we 35- when you have your arms wrapped around f u c k i n g Julianna Her name tastes like acid on a we grimace at the offending memories

“Julianna?” His brows draw together. “What about her?”

get I huff and cross my armover my chest “Like you didn’t notice that she was doing everything to gợi hơi hands on you.”

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We’re getting off track here but I don’t know how to reel the conversation back in. Thankfully, Caden de

He shakes his head. “That doesn’t matter right now. We have an issue at hand here.” A pause.

“Why did you have to spar with him? I’m always your sparring partner. You should have come to ask me.”

My reason for not doing that now seems stupi d in light of our imploded world. I bite the inside of my check. “You left me alone,” I whisper, refusing to meet his gaze.

“I left you alone?” Her forehead clenches in confusion. “I don’t understand what you mean.”

I sigh heavily, knowing that I’m going to have to spell it out for him. “I woke up alone in your weren’t there. You left me alone in your room.”

bed. You

Caden brows lift in surprise, nearly entering into his hairline. “I left you only because I thought you needed more sleep. I didn’t want you to train when you were feeling fatigued.”

Well, you

can’t blame me if that wasn’t the first conclusion I came to. I thought that you were running away from me, I’m kicking lazily at an innocent rock wedged in the ground. “That is your default response and I told you the same thing was happening again.”

Caden sighs and his shoulders fall, the fight visibly draining out of him.. “I wasn’t running away.” Another sigh.

“What are we going to do now?” I ask, drawing closer to him as though

pulled by some magnetic force.

He shrugs. “We’ll ignore them. Like we’ve always done. They’re bound to find out things to entertain their selves with when we don’t give them the time of the day.”

Somehow, we both know that it won’t be the case here. People will never let it go until we address it. But then again, Address may just add more fuel to the fire. We’re at a cul-de-sac with nowhere to go except to stand still.

Caden walks over to me and places a hand on my shoulder, squeezing softer. “It isn’t going to be all that bad.”

Won’t it? I nod though, putting on a false sense of bravado, Besides, the only thing that people are going to do is talk and I’d like to think that I’m past the point of letting hateful words get to me.

“Let’s go back to the training grounds,” Caden suggests and I open my mouth to reject the offer but think

twice.

Won’t running away make it worse? The best thing to do is to face this issue hard on and pray that we aren’t eaten up whole..

“Ok.” I nod. “Let’s go back there.”

When we get there the atmosphere is stiff with tension and there is a lull in all the conversations going on around us. Everyone is looking at us but thankfully no one makes any move to approach us. I wonder how

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long that will last