Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
I found myself saying quickly. “We all thought Rachel was in her dorm room. We had no idea she left.”
“It’s your advisor’s job to know these things,”
Alpha Jonathan said, narrowing his eyes at me.
“We think she snuck out the window,”
Becca chimed in, wiping her face of her tears.
“We will investigate and find out exactly what happened,”
Alpha Jonathan said firmly.
I turned to my father and dropped my voice to a whisper for only his ears.
“It wasn’t her fault,”
I said to him. “Please make sure everyone knows that.”
I would hate if Eilleen Carter got in trouble for this. I’m not sure what happened and how Rachel escaped or why she was even in the vampire den in the first place, but I know none of this was Miss Carter’s fault.
Miss Carter looked so distraught and destroyed when she told us that Rachel got hurt. She loved this job more than anything and she loved her students. If she could have prevented this, I know she would have.
“I’m going to do what I can to find answers,”
my father said gently. “Go with Alpha Enzo to the hospital and be with your friend.”
I nodded, wiping my eyes with the back of my hand as I took hold of Becca’s arm and pulled her along with me to Enzo’s car across the parking lot.
….
The hospital always felt so grim whenever I entered the front doors. We were never here for good reasons; the last time I was here it was because Rachel had tried to kill herself after her boyfriend almost died in that fire.
The irony of that situation is they aren’t even together anymore.
We were finally far enough away from the school and away from everyone else that I was finally able to be comforted by my mate. As we sat in the waiting room, he wrapped his arms around me and allowed me to rest against him.
The doctors and nurses explained that Rachel was in surgery, and it would take them a few hours to work on her. We’ve been sitting in the waiting room for about an hour and with each passing moment, I felt even sicker.
“How much longer do you think it’s going to take?”
Becca asked, peering over at me and Enzo from her seat.
There weren’t many in the waiting room and I was glad about that; we needed peace.
“Hopefully not much longer,”
I said, sighing as leaned my head into the side of Enzo’s body.
“I’m going to make a phone call,”
she said, standing to her feet. “I should update Brody.”
I nodded in agreement and watched as Becca made her way outside.
I looked up at Enzo who still had a troubled look in his eyes.
“What happened?”
I asked, sitting up in the chair. “How did this happen?”
He met my eyes and my heart squeezed painfully in my chest.
“He had the same look as Scott did when he confessed to the murders,”
Enzo said, grimly.
I wasn’t prepared to hear that, and it felt like the wind knocked out of me.
“You mean…”
I tried to say, but my words fell short as he nodded.
“I don’t think Rod killed anyone… I don’t think he was himself.”
“So… whatever happened to Scott…”
I began. “Is happening to Roderick.”
Lila’s POV
“Where is my daughter?!”
I heard a growl coming from the front entrance of the hospital.
Enzo stood to his feet quickly as Raymond stalked into the waiting room. As soon as he saw Enzo his eyes darkened, and his tip lip curled up in disgust.
“How dare you not inform me that my daughter was injured when it happened,”
Raymond growled.
“I had other priorities,”
Enzo said, narrowing his eyes at Ray. “Like making sure she didn’t die.”
“Why am I the last to know about this?!”
Raymond asked; glaring at me and then back at Enzo, making my entire body go cold.
“Because you haven’t been in her life in a long time,”
I found myself saying before I could stop myself.
Enzo quickly stepped in front of me, shielding me from Raymond’s wrath.
“What? Are you fucking your professor you little slut?”
Raymond hissed; instantly I felt Enzo growing angry.
“Watch yourself, Ray,”
Enzo said through his teeth.
“Does the board know you’re messing around with your students?”
Ray asked, narrowing his eyes. “Where. Is. My. Daughter?”
“She’s being operated on,”
Enzo said in a low and threatening tone. ”You’re either going to calm yourself down, or I’m going to have them sedate you before I kill you.”
“My daughter was fatally injured, and you want me to calm down?”
Ray asked, laughing bitterly. “That’s certainly coy of you, Alpha.”
“Ray—”
I tried to say but his dagger of eyes stopped me.
“Shut the fuck up,”
he hissed at me. “You’ve been a bitch since I’ve met you. I bet if she wasn’t your friend, this would have never happened.”
It was like a slap in the face; the force of his words made me stagger backward as if it were a fatal wound to my chest.
Enzo growled loudly, lunging toward him in one quick stride. The claws of his wolf burst through his hands and gripped Ray’s collar, practically lifting him off the ground as he revealed his wolf’s canines.
Ray’s eyes widened as he stared down at Enzo who had become more Max than Enzo.
“If you ever speak to her like that again I will tear your throat out, bear,”
he growled. It was obvious that it was Max that was speaking now.
“I just want to see my daughter…”
Ray said in a tone that staggered slightly. “I didn’t mean any disrespect.”
“Apologize to her or I’ll let my wolf do what he pleases to you.”