The Alpha's Daydream ✔️

Chapter 5

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"Luci! What are you doing?" I scramble off my bed and hurry to the window, grabbing onto my friend's leg as she clambers through. "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

She falls to the carpet with a soft thud. "I'm a psycho killer here to kidnap you, what do you think?" She raises a black eyebrow.

"Not funny," I glare at her.

"Sure it's not," she gets up and flops into my bed.

"What did I miss?" A softer voice comes from the window. I roll my eyes. Of course Gabby is here too. Wherever Luci goes, Gabby follows, especially if it's to come visit me.
At midnight.

But I don't mind. Honestly, I could do with the company.
Gabriella and Lucia are like my triplets from another life. We met in middle school, and I'll never forget the boring school dance for which we had to dress up in costumes. I spent weeks making my princess dress, but Gabby looked infinitely more elegant and graceful in an angelic gown complete with wings, her golden hair and fair skin suiting the outfit perfectly. Luci went with a dark and seductive look that made me scared to claim her as friend.

They were both so stunning, I didn't know why every boy wasn't tripping over each other to dance with them. But we three found ourselves by the food table, and have been firm friends ever since. They're the only friends who never make fun of me.

"What in tarnation is this?!"

Well, almost never.

"Give me that!" I snatch my art book from Luci's hands and see she's been gawking at my most recent masterpiece.

"Why are you drawing such hideous creatures? Are you trying to give us all nightmares?" She continued with an angry scowl.

"No, I'm trying to get the nightmares out of my head," I try explaining but Luci doesn't buy it.
She begins flipping through the other scrapbooks I have on my bookshelf while Gabby inspects my picture.

"Does this have anything to do with your misadventure the other night? Are you still hurt? I heard you nearly drowned."
Her genuine concern for me as she clutches my arm and feels my forehead with the back of her hand is almost funny, as if I have contracted a fever from the cold river.

"I'm fine. But how did you hear about it?" I shouldn't be surprised that news travels fast in this pack.

"Your dad was telling a group of us at training this afternoon," Luci explains blandly.

That makes sense. He's probably using me as an example of what not to do if you want to stay out of trouble. Trust the former Beta to teach some sense into the young and overconfident warriors. Ever since Charles handed over full Beta responsibilities to Benjamin, he's had more time to spend with Lexi, work in the garden around our home, teach new warriors, and unofficially patrol the northern border near where we live. Though knocked down by a fair share of heartache, you can't keep a strong Beta down. Our section of the pack is one of the safest, despite my idiocy in wandering over the border and nearly meeting my demise.

"I wanna hear all about it! So spill all the details!" Luci perks up, sitting cross-legged on my bed and pulling me closer. Gabby joins us, clutching my favourite heart shaped pillow to her chest.

"It's nothing big. I just wandered too close to the river bank and Dad had to rescue me. Moral to the story: never walk aimlessly through the forest at night," I play it down.

"Unless you're with a hunky guy to protect you."

"Luci!" Gabby smacks her arm.

There was no denying how boy-crazy the raven-haired beauty was, and I found myself praying she met her mate soon before getting into the wrong kind of trouble.