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.

on the cardinal alphas for

was asked to watch over them. Not spy on

that said really, you want to argue semantics

exhaled deeply. "I don’t

"Oh? What changed?"

uncle’s not the man I

whistle. "That’s a shocker. Someone who doesn’t

rolled her eyes. But after a beat, she confessed. "The cardinal alphas, they’re pitiful in a way. They were dragged into

supposed to patch what I can’t even see,

a while. Long enough that Adele started to

finally snapped, unable to take

shook his head with a faint smirk. "I think I

blinked. "Wait,

everybody," he

"What for?"

looked like he might give

"I’m a counselor, remember?"

confessing secrets even though she had said more words to

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

at the location. The road had

the engine," Micah

blinked, eyes darting to

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

point so Adele

and began the descent on foot. The woods were eerily quiet, there was no chirping

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