The Alpha Who Saved Me

Chapter 53

Emery

I don't remember sweating this much whenever I prac- ticed my magic back at school. Now, the sweat is just pouring down my face and I'm constantly wiping it away. Miss Beat- rice stayed overnight wanting to get a practice in before me and my mates take on the tedious task of taking out a whole species, well, their magic anyway.

"Good, you're doing great, Emery. Actually, you're doing better than you ever did at school!" She cackles, "Must be those hottie mates of yours."

"Oh Goddess, please don't ever refer to them as my hottie.

mates." I chuckle.

"Why, afraid I will steal them from you?" The witch asks. deviously.

"Oh, hell no. It's just that the word hottie sounds so wrong coming out of your mouth." I laugh this time.

"I hate to break it to you, Luna, but that word started back in my time, so I'm allowed to say it anytime I want. You young pups think that just because we are older, or how I like to refer to aging as, experienced, that we are not allowed to use cer- tain words. Just so you know, your generation all sound hideous and lazy when you only use part of a word."

"Whatevs..."

"See, right there! It's whatever, not whatevs." She shakes

her head and I shrug.

"Let's just agree to disagree." I chuckle.

"Finally! We at least agree on something."

"Can I ask you something, Miss Beatrice?"

"You can, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to answer." She grins.

"Is Colin really your nephew?"

sadly, "Unfortunately,

If you don't

chuckles, "There really isn't much to tell; I didn't have the same beliefs that my father did, so as soon as I turned seventeen, which is the legal age with the Shikari, I made a run for

run for it?" I

comment about Colin's harem did you

skips a beat, "Oh

father planned on giving me to Marko, your grandfather.

that's why he sent me to you for training?" I think I start

apple of our father's eye and she was so impatient for her seventeenth birthday because

my cheek. "It's funny how the Hunters label us, shifters, as abominations but they are the ones that

agree with

you ever meet my grandmother, Brianna Grego- ry?" I'm

came through with a beau- tiful woman but he was telling her that she had to be very qui- et, that they were only there long enough to pick something up and then he was taking her to their home. I remember her smiling at me when she saw me playing, and I smiled back. I never saw her again, though."

their children are visiting for a few days because it's my grandmother's birth- day, so we are throwing a big feast here. Dad just

head back then, sc I'm not in the way." She states with

the family." I bump her with my shoulder, "My Uncle Brent will be

She gasps, "I am not looking for a man!"

Tara, and could use some

would love to join, if nobody else

three hours, so don't be late. My mates are

laughs, "Maybe you better tell yourself not to be late." She winks at me and then she's gone in a blink of an eye.

make them work for what they are going to get from us, 'Lis- ten here you little hussy! I know you want them to have their way with us, but I want them to earn it.

tight because I'm going to...' Kiki skids to a halt as soon as Ghost magically appears right in

go wolf!'

then submits by

easily, Kiki?" Ghost chuckles.

a little hussy and can never get enough

place..." Blaze jokes as they begin to circle