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.

spying on the cardinal alphas for

"I was asked to watch over them. Not

a brow. The kind of look that said really,

exhaled deeply. "I don’t do

"Oh? What changed?"

said quietly, "Your uncle’s not the man I thought

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

rolled her eyes. 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 that wasn’t even

more than physical wounds. I’m supposed to patch what I can’t even see, heal every aspect of their fragile

a while. Long

finally snapped, unable

a faint smirk. "I think I

"Wait,

everybody," he said

"What for?"

a heartbeat, it looked like he might give her a real

"I’m a counselor, remember?"

to start confessing secrets even though she had said more words to him in a single night than

to Pine Ridge Lodge." The robotic voice of the GPS broke the silence like a

body tensed.They were almost at the location. The road had narrowed

the engine," Micah said

blinked, eyes darting to him.

in trouble," Micah replied calmly, his tone darkening, "then whoever

point so

pocket of darkness under the trees. They stepped out, silence stretching thick between them, and began

trees parted and the lodge came into view, Adele’s instincts confirmed everything Micah had warned