The Code of The Alpha

Chapter Nine - Picking Fights on Pizza Night

"Like a figment of some horny soccer mom's imagination."

Now it was her turn to laugh.

"You're kidding?" She said. "That good-looking?"

"Yep."

"You need to send me a picture."

I hummed.

"I'll work on it, but for now you'll have to take my word for it."

"Does he have a brother you would want to set me up with?" She asked laughing.

My eyebrows furrowed.

"Carrie?" She asked when I didn't say anything.

"Sorry," I said slowly. "I just... I don't know if he does or not. To be completely honest, I don't know a lot about him other than he knows how to run a pack and workout like he's training for Mr. Universe."

"I'd say you might need to work on that," she said. "It's kind of weird to be living with someone you don't know."

"Tell me about it. I feel like Persephone trapped in the Underworld."

"Except you don't want to escape," she guessed.

I didn't answer her.

"Have you fucked?"

"Mady!"

"What?" She asked defensively. "I've been dying to ask since you answered the phone."

"No," I answered shortly.

"Why?"

"The circumstances haven't exactly allowed for that," I said. "I didn't really choose to be here."

"Oh, whatever," she said. I knew she was rolling her eyes just by hearing her tone of voice.

"Mady, he literally kidnapped me in the dead of night from my own home."

"From what I heard, it sounds like you agreed to go with him," she argued.

"I didn't have a choice not to!"

"Listen, maybe give the guy a chance. It doesn't sound like he's as terrible as you thought he would be. And he is your mate, right?"

I sighed.

"In other news, I got fired today," I said, changing the subject.

"Yeah, Kate, one of my friends from the school, called to ask where you were yesterday. I figured it was gunna happen."

"It sucks," I told her.

"Maybe you can find a teaching job there," she said, offering a little hope.

"Yeah, maybe."

We talked for a few more minutes about the final she had taken for her civil procedure class that morning and the internship she was lining up for the summer in the courthouse to clerk with her dad before she had to hang up.