Page 6 of His White Moonlight
After rounding the bend so the car was out of sight of the guardhouse, I parked on the shoulder.Leaving my phone behind on the seat, I jogged across the road.The air in the woods was slightly cooler in a nice way.I picked up my pace.
While the other girls at the boarding school hadn’t seen the point in physical education other than to look good, I’d viewed it differently.I’d grown up with people who ran fast without even trying.People who liked to play tricks to make me bleed.I’d known that, if I didn’t want to bleed again when I went home, I would need to be as fast as humanly possible.
However, the boarding school had changed my motivation.I’d learned so much there, including how I needed to be strong and fast to protect myself from more than the people in Alpine Run.
The boarding school had been a test of survival.
And I had survived.
So, I ran through the trees toward the south, where the wall curved in enough to give me cover from the guardhouse.By now, everyone in the family had seen that the car was stopped on the road.What would they do?Probably nothing for a few minutes.They’d likely think I was mad and just sitting there, stewing.
I grinned all the way to the wall.When I reached it, I didn’t stop to try to catch my breath; I ran faster, using the momentum to plant my foot on the wall and leap up.My fingers caught the top stone.I planted my other foot higher, ready to leverage myself up.
A hand gripped my ankle and pulled down hard.
I landed on my back with enough force that I struggled to breathe as I looked up at a familiar mocking face.
Storm, my childhood nemesis, hadn’t changed much.She still looked like she belonged on a fashion week runway with her svelte build and perfect, long blonde hair, which was ornately braided with pearl accents.The thick lashes around her light brown eyes and pouty lips demanded attention, just like their owner.
“If it isn’t our resident normie,” she said with a sneering tilt to her mouth.
I exhaled slowly, then successfully inhaled.
“I heard you’d returned,” she continued.“You should have stayed away.”
“And miss our lovely conversations, Storm?I could never deprive myself of that.”
She stepped onto my shoulder with her sneakered foot and leaned into it.It hurt more than I would have liked to admit.The two girls with her, whom I didn’t recognize, laughed.
Storm sniffed and glared at me.“Why do you smell like Bennett?”
I grinned up at her.“So it’s Bennett you’re head over moon for now?”
She stepped down harder then backed away.I got to my feet and brushed off my butt.
When she opened her mouth to say more, I cut her off.
“Let me save you the trouble.‘Stay away from the Wulf boys, Wrenly.They’re mine.’Still noted, Storm.By the way, did you make any progress during my absence, since I was the only obstacle to your plan for Wulf domination?Did you get Aiden’s number?Did Karter finally cop a feel?We both know nothing happened with Bennett.If you’re not a profit margin, you don’t exist in his world.”
Her pupils dilated, a sign of a pissed-off shifter, and she snarled at me.
“Ah, still have some pent-up sexual frustrations, I see.”
She drew her hand back, but I didn’t back down.Instead, I leaned in tauntingly.
“When the Wulfs see I’m hurt, who do you think they’ll smell on me?”
She snarled and dropped her fist to her side.
“Smart choice,” I said.“If you leave now, we can both go our separate ways with no one the wiser.”
Storm opened her mouth, but then looked in the direction of the road.Her face’s transformation from mean-bitch to one in heat gave me hope.
Please be Aiden,I silently pleaded.
It wasn’t Aiden, Karter, or even the guard I’d spoken to striding through the trees, though.
It was Bennett, and he didnotlook happy.
