Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 473: Unexpected Team Of Two

What the hell was she doing?

Adele asked herself that question for the umpteenth time, gripping the wheel a little tighter. Of all the things she imagined doing tonight, driving to Pine Ridge Lodge with Micah of all people wasn’t on the list.

How did they even end up here?

Well... apparently, Micah claimed Alice the seer had called him out of nowhere and told him to find her. Adele would have called that bullshit but judging from her own experience with Mary, this can’t be games. The timing was just strange.

So here they were speeding on the road, heading straight into whatever fresh problem the cardinal alphas and Violet purple had landed themselves in.

Two rescuers were better than one, she supposed.

Still, the silence in the car was suffocating. It was tense and awkward. And unfortunately for Adele, she found herself glancing at Micah more often than she cared to admit.

This was the first time they’d ever been in such close quarters, and it was messing with her.

Demon-blooded or not, Micah was a glorified flirt with questionable morals and a disturbingly close relationship with nearly all the student body. Yet, sitting beside her now, Adele had to admit—grudgingly—that he was unfairly handsome.

Nope. Not going there.

Trying to distract herself, Adele broke the silence.

"I didn’t know you were close to Alice."

Micah didn’t look at her, just shrugged. "I didn’t know about the woman until today. Trust me. If Violet and the alphas were in danger, why send me to find you? Why not just send me directly to them?"

Adele snorted, eyes on the road. "Beats me."

Silence fell again. Then, out of nowhere, he asked.

cardinal alphas

was asked to

of look that said really, you want to argue semantics

exhaled deeply. "I don’t do that

"Oh? What changed?"

then said quietly, "Your uncle’s not the man

low whistle. "That’s a shocker. Someone who doesn’t worship the ground Elijah walks on.

But after a beat, she confessed. "The cardinal alphas, they’re pitiful in a way. They were dragged into a life they didn’t ask for, and given these powers

what I can’t even see, heal every aspect of their fragile soul. You

silenced him for a while. Long enough that Adele started to fidget

snapped, unable to take

his head with a faint smirk. "I think I might’ve misjudged

"Wait,

everybody," he said

"What for?"

give her a real answer. But

"I’m a counselor, remember?"

let it be. They were not close enough to start confessing secrets even though she had said more words to him in a single night than she had ever done since

destination. Fifty meters to Pine Ridge Lodge." The robotic voice of the GPS broke

almost at the location. The road had narrowed

engine," Micah said

blinked, eyes darting to him. "What?

calmly, his tone darkening, "then whoever put them there might be waiting right at the

made a fine point so

the trees. They stepped out, silence stretching thick between them, and began the descent on foot. The woods were eerily quiet, there was no

the lodge came into view, Adele’s instincts confirmed everything Micah had warned her