Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
“That doesn’t sound much better,”
Drake growled, shaking his head again.
“Eloise…”
Sophie said calmly, stepping toward the prophet. “What do you propose we do?”
Eloise thought about it for a moment and then her eyes widened.
“Lila needs to learn to fight the impossible,”
she said again. “She needs to stay alive; I believe she must carry a light inside of her that is strong enough to defeat this darkness. If she didn’t, then the prophet wouldn’t be accurate. She wouldn’t be the uprise of our nation. Lila needs to stay alive.”
“And how can we be sure she stays alive if we can’t warn her?”
“I might have an idea, but I don’t know how well it’ll work and I’m afraid it’s a risk,”
Eloise said hesitantly. “But I propose someone goes there and trains her.”
“Darkness will be able to get into our heads if we do that; you said so yourself,”
Sophie said, furrowing her brows together.
“I know of a spell that can help. It’s a mind-bound spell,”
Eloise explained. “A mind-bound spell will lock away a person’s mind so it can’t easily be read. If darkness truly tried, it could certainly get into their mind. It’s a powerful force and even my magic isn’t strong enough to hold it back. But the spell will at least make it so it would have no reason to dig any deeper than the surface. With the mind-bound spell, it won’t pick up on anything sketchy, so we’d be able to train her without it being suspicious.”
“That’s perfect,”
Drake said, stepping closer like he was about to volunteer his services.
“However, darkness can still be heard so if anything is spoken about out loud while darkness is present, it will hear it,”
Eloise continued.“Then cast the spell on me; I’ll go,”
Drake said urgently. “We can’t waste any more time. I’ll come up with an excuse as to why I need to train with Lila. I’m a friend, they trust me. I’ll make sure darkness isn’t suspicious of my presence.”
“My magic doesn’t work on you, Alpha,”
she said, shaking her head. “You know it’s limited. It doesn’t work on Alpha’s.”
Drake opened his mouth to speak, but Xander cut in.
“Then, I’ll go,”
he said, much to Camilla’s dismay.
She gasped at his words and grabbed his arm.
“Xander, no! It’s too dangerous.”
“If I don’t go, we are all doomed. Including you and I can’t let anything happen to you,”
Xander told her gently, touching the side of her face.
“Xander…”
Sophie breathed, surprised by this.
“I am the best fighter that you have, Alpha,”
Xander said, looking at Drake. “Allow me to do this for our pack. I will find an excuse to train with her and I will get her ready for the fight of her life. My main priority is to make sure she stays alive so that vessel is never created.”
“You cannot tell her what pack you are from and who sent you,”
Eloise told him firmly. “You cannot give them any reason to search deep into your mind. Or give darkness a trail to this pack.”
“I would never put this pack in danger,”
Xander said firmly.
“Xander… please don’t do this,”
Camilla sobbed. “I can’t lose you…”
Xander wrapped his arms around his mate and held her close.
“You will never lose me,”
he breathed. “I’m doing this to protect you. If I don’t… then we are all in danger and I couldn’t live with myself if I let that happen.”
She cried into his broad chest.
“Are you sure about this, Xander?”
Drake asked, stepping toward him. “They don’t know you, so trusting you will be hard.”
“They don’t need to trust me,”
Xander said, glaring at his Alpha. “I need to make sure Lila is prepared and stays alive. That’s my only job.”
“Lila goes to the Higala school for shifters,”
Sophie said softly. “She’s in the shifting and combat class with Alpha Enzo. You might be able to co-teach that class. That will give you probable cause to train her.”
“I’ll speak with the headmaster when I get to that region,”
Xander said nodding. “I might know a couple of them on the board, so getting a job will be easy.”
“I will go over everything you need to train her on,”
Eloise said, peering up at him. “I will inform you of the entire battle as I remember it and all the mistakes she’s made that caused her death. That way you can train her properly and truly prepare her for this battle that will soon happen.”
Drake placed a hand on Xander’s shoulder.
“You’re a good Gamma, Xander,”
he said, nodding his head.
“I have faith that you can do this with ease and return to us safely. Return to your mate safely,”
Sophie said gently.
Camilla sobbed again.
Xander turned to Eloise.
“Cast the spell on me… I’ll do it.”
Lila’s POV
I was shoved back into the cell like I was an animal. I couldn’t even begin to process what I was just told.
I was pregnant?
With twins??
I couldn’t be pregnant. Could I?
I was on the pill, but I knew those weren’t 100% effective. But they were supposed to be close to it. At least I thought so. I tried to always remember to take my pill in the morning, but with everything going on these last few weeks, it’s possible I could have forgotten.
How long have I been pregnant for?
I stared down at my bare belly; I was still naked. They didn’t give me any clothes and I felt incredibly exposed. I placed my hands on my belly, frowning. I didn’t feel pregnant, but I suppose if I was early on, I wouldn’t feel anything yet.
My body trembled as I ran my fingers across my skin; if she was telling me the truth, that meant my body was no longer my own. I was fighting for the three of us now.
Twins.
Holy shit.
Enzo was going to lose his mind. How was I going to keep this a hidden, and secret from everyone now? They’d be wondering who the father is. Not that it matters right now anyway, but assuming I’m getting out of here, and everything will return to normal, there’s no way I’ll be able to hide this from the school board.
Tiffany Prescott was going to lose her shit.
There was a lot I wanted to do before I had any children; I at least wanted to be finished with school first. I still had a couple of years before graduation. Would I be able to still graduate and have these pups?
I guess I didn’t have a choice now; regardless, these pups were coming, and I had to do everything in my power to keep them safe.