Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
Where are you, Enzo?
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Enzo’s POV
“Our mate is upset we aren’t with her. I can feel it,”
Max whined for the hundredth time.
I knew this already; I could feel her pain as well. But there wasn’t anything I could do about it. I felt like an idiot confessing my love to her like that. I shouldn’t have said anything, but I was acting out of pure impulse and emotions. Not thinking about the consequences following it.
“Going to her would only put her in danger,”
I reminded my wolf. “If my father’s followers knew how important she was to me if they knew she was my mate, they wouldn’t stop hunting her.”
“We can protect her from any and all dangers,”
Max told me in return. “We shouldn’t deprive ourselves of our mate because you fear the worst.”
“This is protecting her. I don’t know how else to do that.”
“Let me loose and I’ll show you,”
Max said in a growl, baring his teeth in my mind’s eye, nearly making me shift without control in the process.
“Max!”
I scolded. “I’m serious. I only want her to be safe and the best way to do that is if we keep our distance. I know you don’t like it, but it’s for the best.”
As I said those words, I wondered if they were true myself. I finally got my father’s followers off her trail, or so I think.
I at least got them to leave.
If they knew of her importance to me, it would only put her in danger, and I can’t let anything happen to her. Remembering what they did to my mother caused my stomach to hurt at the very idea of them doing that to Lila as well.
My mother lives in exile because of them. Until they are no longer an issue, I can’t be with Lila.
My phone went off for what felt like the hundredth time this week. I didn’t need to look at the screen to know who it was.
Lila has been trying to get a hold of me nonstop, and as much as I’d like to answer and go to her, I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
I took my phone and threw it in my desk drawer. I was struggling to resist the urge to contact her and the less I looked at my phone, the better it would be.
But damn I missed her scent.
I shook the thought out of my head just as the memory of my father’s followers resurfaced in my head.
“I’ve been hearing rumors that you were spotted around town with a pretty little number on your arm. She wouldn’t happen to be the Volana we are smelling here, would she?”
“Don’t be stupid, Paul,”
I growled through my teeth. “I would never be caught dead with a Volana wolf. You know above anybody how dangerous they are. You saw what they did to my father. You think I’m dumb enough to fall for their bullshit. My own mother is living in the rogue territory because of what she is…. or was.”
“Just because she doesn’t have abilities, doesn’t mean she’s not a Volana,”
Paul spat.
“The point is, I’m not dumb enough to let a Volana in this pack. So, don’t worry about it.”
I didn’t care what he thought; he was not part of this pack anymore anyway. I already exiled him.
“You better hope for your sake there is or you’ll both pay the price.”
Lila’s POV
“So, what we need to do is come up with a campaign,”
Rachel said as we sat in the student lounge.
It was Sunday, the day before classes began, and a few days after we settled into our new dorms. Rachel and Becca both looked eager as they sat across from me at our usual table.
The lounge wasn’t too busy, but it was still crowded enough that I didn’t want to talk about this too loudly. I didn’t need Sarah to somehow overhear this conversation and use it against me.
There was still the real possibility that she could in fact have powers that she used to get everything she ever wanted and make people do her bidding without a second guess.
I hadn’t told either Rachel or Becca about this because I didn’t want them to worry.
“She’s right, we can’t let Sarah win. She will destroy this school,”
Becca agreed, staring at me intently. “We need you to win, Lila. The school needs you to win.”
“The board would never allow for the school to get destroyed,”
I assured them. “Regardless of who wins, they will protect us.”
I was trying to be positive and reassuring, but they gave one another a strange look that told me they didn’t believe me.
I didn’t believe me either.
If Sarah really did have powers, she would use them to manipulate the board too. I wouldn’t put it past her.
“Everybody in this school already loves Lila,”
Becca added. “So, it’ll be easy to get them on her side.”
“Yeah, but Sarah has her father’s money and can afford a huge campaign,”
Rachel reminded us. “We can’t be too careful. We already know she will do anything to win.”
“That’s true,”
Becca said, leaning back in her seat. “So, what are we thinking?”
“We can do a bake sale,”
I suggested.
“A bake sale isn’t going to win you this election,”
Rachel said, shaking her head.
“Well, no. But regardless of who wins, the committee is going to need some funding for future events and the bake sale was a hit the last time around. We should have another one.”
“Okay, but shouldn’t you be thinking of that after you win the election?”
Rachel asked, seemingly annoyed with the suggestion.
I shrugged.
“I can prove to everybody that I’m worth voting for at any point. But we only have so much time to get enough funding. I don’t want to scramble at the last minute for money when we need it. Plus, the students deserve to have a back-to-school party, regardless of who wins. I’d like to have a bake sale. Not for myself, but for them.”
Becca gave Rachel a wide smile.
“She wouldn’t be Lila if she didn’t care more about the students than herself.”
“True,”
Rachel said, leaning back in her seat. “It’ll also make her look really good. Okay, let’s do a bake sale.”
I smiled at my friends. It was sweet of them to have so much faith in me and help me with this. I don’t know what I would do without them.
“We are going to have to do a lot of baking,”
Becca said, shaking her head. “We don’t exactly have a kitchen. Do you think the school would let us use theirs?”
“I can ask them,”
Rachel shrugged. “I’m cool with some of the lunch ladies.”
I still wanted to go to Enzo’s packhouse before school officially started tomorrow. This could be an excuse for me to go there. Dee would be able to help me with this bake sale, just like she did last time, and I would be able to speak with Enzo.
“I might know somewhere I can bake for this bake sale and someone who can help me bake,”
I told them both.
I wasn’t sure how much I could tell them without revealing that Enzo was my mate.
“Who?”
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