Page 52 of Brutal Alpha Beast
“Danielle, wait.”
“No, really,” I say, trying to keep my composure together as I avoid his gaze. “It’s fine, there’s just something I need to-”
I’m moving with a frantic pace now, zigzagging through the library until I finally make my way to the door.
But Ellis is faster.
He corners me before I have a chance to pry it open.
“Danielle,” he says, sterner this time. “Look at me.”
I nod, swallowing to calm my shaking, as I dare to gaze up at those burgundy eyes. Ellis looks mad but only a little; for the most part, he looks confused.
He’s looking at me like he’s trying to recall a memory, searching my face for signs. I feel a little of that guilt I felt when I was hugging him before.
I didn’t mean for this to happen. I didn’t know that having sex with him could do this.
“I don’t know what this is,” Ellis says, his voice calm and low. “But you have to tell me what’s going on.”
I stutter. “I p-promise it’s not what you think.”
What does he think? How do I save this?
“You’ve bewitched me,” he accuses.
“What? That’s not even! What are you talking about?”
I cross my arms protectively over my chest.
“You’ve put a spell on me to be into you, but why?”
A spike of anger flares inside me that seemingly has come out of nowhere. I’m furious that he’d even suggest I do something like that. As though I’m that desperate for him.
“No,” I assert, frowning. “No, I have not.”
“You’re the girl from my dream,” he says, as though he’s finally piecing together the discovery now. “I’ve never seen her face before, but I know now that it’s yours. And you were in my hiding spot. How did you get into my dreams?”
“I didn’t mean to get in your dreams, Ellis,” I say with a pleading tone. “I promise. Just let me go.”
He presses his hand to the door before I get a chance to reach.
“We were childhood friends,” he says thoughtfully, and confused. “But how is that possible? You’re a witch. I’d neverhave gotten that close to a witch, especially not when I was younger.”
“Well, there you go,” I say, fighting back the tears that threaten to pool from my eyes. “It’s not possible. Now, let me go.”
I don’t feel threatened by Ellis, just worried about what I might reveal. He knows some things, but not all.
I need to talk to Penelope to figure this out.
Right now, I’m too vulnerable.
“You’re lying,” he says. “What are you hiding, Danielle? Why did you deceive me? I thought that I could trust you... You at least owe me an explanation. I thought that just now...”
His voice trails off.
Just before, we had an experience so surreal that I can’t even make sense of it yet. But it was otherworldly, our connection completely took over.
I forgot about the rules of our world, the divisions between us, our past—it wasn’t important anymore.
