Page 39 of Trust No Alpha
You’re so rude.
Mathias:
Not kidding, dude. My cock was hard just being around him. He’s dangerous. I wanted to do things…
Trigg:
To your own brother? Mathias!
Mathias:
I thought I was having another Burn. Maybe it was a good thing we have him here. He’s nobody now, a non-person. He could be kept around to be used as we need him.
Trigg:
Such a jerk! Cutting you off now…
But later, I saw more messages between them.
Trigg:
Mathias! Did you leave Kris’s door unlocked.
Mathias:
Uh, no way, dude.
Trigg:
I found the door unlocked. I can’t find him!
Mathias:
Don’t tell anyone! After I drop Father at the farm, I’m coming straight home!
So they’d finally found out I wasn’t there. I looked at the time stamp. That last barrage of messages was only an hour old. Took them long enough to discover I was gone.
I got up from my bed and went to find Thorne. He was in the kitchen by the oven. It was on and something inside smelled delicious.
His head turned and his dark eyes seemed to see right through me. “Have a good nap?”
“No.” I waved my tablet. “I just spied on my brothers. They only found out I was missing an hour ago. And Father is in the Burn.”
Thorne’s eyebrows came together as a sheen passed over his gaze. “So no one missed you all day.”
“No. And the servants, if they noticed anything, would report to Mathias. They’re loyal to Father, so they won’t say anything without his permission.”
“I’m sorry.”
“For what? Father wouldn’t let my brothers near me these past couple months. It makes sense they wouldn’t notice or care about me.” My stomach churned. I might have felt a little disappointed that they didn’t notice I was gone, but more I was mad. At them for being so shallow. At myself for never having seen it clearly until now. If I never saw my family again it would be too soon.
“They must care about you, they’re… your litter-mates.”
“I thought so. Trigg maybe does. And my little brothers always looked up to me. I haven’t seen them in weeks, not since before I was locked away. I probably will never see them again.”
Thorne sighed. “It’s been only a day. Not all problems get solved in such short a time.”
Frustrated, I took a seat on a stool by the kitchen’s island. “I should tell you because you deserve to know. This problem won’t be solved in a day, a year or forever. So I’m not looking for solutions.”
