Alpha Hayley's Destined Mate by Andrea Townsend

Chapter 168 She’s Not That Ugly

Benjamin’s POV:

Lawrence could sense Hayley’s scent growing stronger. Combined with the drug’s effects, an overwhelming instinct to mate with her surged within me.

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Fearing I might lose control and misbehave, I gripped the door tightly, ensuring she couldn’t come out.

“Stay in the bathroom! Don’t come out!” I commanded firmly.

Hayley said in frustration, “Benjamin, what do you mean? Open the door!” She pounded against it insistently.

“Lie down in the bathtub and stay there.” I replied with resolve.

She eventually retreated due to her discomfort or realizing she had no choice. The cold water seemed to offer her some relief.

Meanwhile, I clung to my Alpha’s willpower, battling the drug’s pull.

As the drug’s effects peaked, I drove a stick into my thigh multiple times, the pain dulling as my leg went

numb.

After Hayley’s last knock on the door, there was nothing but silence from her side.

It was clear the drug’s impact on her wasn’t minor, yet her ability to resist matched my own as an Alpha.

Hours slipped away, and night had fallen.

The drug’s effects had worn off entirely, but my clothes clung to me, drenched with sweat.

scab–covered skin of my thighs, and my expression darkened as I struggled to ris from the

bathroom door, I rapped on it lightly.

didn’t get her

again, but still no

wait any longer, I opened the door and found Hayley asleep in the

unfamiliar wave of contentment

and called out softly, “Hayley, wake up. You shouldn’t sleep in

in

the water, ignoring the way it drenched my clothes, and carried

out.

wrapping her arms around my

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of my heart pounding was impossible to ignore, and even Lawrence appeared

and grabbed the phone from

waitress.

of cash from my wallet and handed it over. “Please bring her a set of

amount of money, quickly fetched a set of her work clothes. “Alpha, this is all

particular, so I nodded

left. However, the

for alternatives. I moved Hayley to the couch

I realized she wasn’t as plain as I

her features separately, they

Despite this, there was a delicate quality to her

my thoughts, I quickly averted my

grabbed a blanket and set up a temporary

ext to Hav