THE ALPHA STRADDLE

much as possible not to dwell in his thoughts. He took up his shirt and went out of his bedroom. He walked into the dinning room and could see his mother already waiting

tioned work and his mind drifted off to the lady again. "Son." She called him since she had been waiting for his reply and didn't get any. "Mum's work was fine." He finally said. "Tanner, did something happen at work today?" She asked worriedly. "No mum, nothing happened." He r

you for a favor please?" Astoria asked. "Ok spill it out, what's the favor?" Casey looked attentively at her waiting for her to speak up. "I actually saw a new dance step online," she pulsed and looked at Casey's facial expressions. Casey seemed calm enough and waited to hear what he pointed so she continued. "So I was actually thinking if you

or her before we walked in as I'm also doing the same." Lia said. "Ok I'm doing that already." Leo replied as he continued searching for her. His eyes fell on her at the middle roll of the class and luckily the seat behind her was empty. "Lia over there." Leo pointed to the roll Astori

sed for a while to catch her breath before she continued. "Casey met Lia and her twin Leo, they are my new found friends." Astoria introduced. "Nice to meet you both." Casey smiled at them. "And Lia and Leo meet Casey, my best frie

rtaining if we tagged along, don't you think so Leo?" She asked him. "Yes, sure." Leo just forced a smile. "It's settled then, let's get going." Astoria smiled standing up from her seat as the other joined. Astoria was about walking out of the hall door but her focus was on Casey when she walked into someone. A huge figure at that. "Oh I'm so sorry, I wasn't watching my way." Astoria apologized as she quickly

we still have to train more to be able to defend her at any time." Leo stated. "I know we need to train more but, right now we are still trying our very best to make her trust us and totally accept us as her friends." She pulsed for a while and continued,"So we need to always do what would make her like us and want us always around her so we can protect

"We are really sorry," Lia apologised. "Ok it's fine." Astoria said. "Ok but can you restart so we could see them?" Lia asked. "Ok but what is the time?" Astoria asked and Casey mentioned the time

lecturer when he walked in. But her eyes caught sight of a Greek god in the form of piercing black eyes. Casey is dull at the cute guy that she just caught sight of. She kept glancing at him as he walked o

dn't find him there again. "Wasas I exaggerating?" She said to herself as she didn't see the

even more worried, he thought he would be seeing her just that once and at the coffee shop but

daily and he wasn't really ready to have any mate or to get bonded to any mate either. He just wants to live his life as a normal person. Throughout the lecture his mind wasn't there, so he couldn't grab anything from the lecture until

ally close to the day and Astoria and her friend gathered together and started heading out of the school compound. They have become so close that they always wait for one another before heading out of the school premises. "Astoria, when are we going to have a sleepover?" Leo asked. "

s." Leo said. "Oh then I will give that a thought and work something out." Casey smiled and they all grinned. "We can't just

's up with you and coffee these days?" Casey asked. "Nothing Casey, you and I know I like having coffee." Astoria pointed out. "Yes I know but it's just kind of weird." Casey stated. "There is nothing weird

lips together. "Ok, get going,so you won't be late for you rehearsal." Casey ad

any secrets or family. They never even have time to know more about themselves. Tanner seeing her sign from afar took her usual coffee and went over to her table. "His Astoria." Tanner smiled. "Hey Tanner," s

something to attend to." Astoria pointed out and he just nodded before she l

will find out about her, we need to be at alert." Lia pointed out. "Yes very true, everyone is a suspect, we can trust anyone around her." Leo said. "She is the future of the pack without her, there is no future for us." Lia sighed. "You know I will we could

at every given time, because we don't know when they will strike, so we can't take any chances." Lia

r cell phone and called the Astoria number but her number wasn't going through and her worries increased. "Did anything happen to Astoria?" Was the question that came out of Casey's mouth. "Please do nothing she did to Astoria." She added while paving rou

k worried, where is Astoria?" Lia asked worriedly. "She went for a dance rehearsal since noon and uptill now she hasn't returned, so I thought she was

Leo's room. "Leo ! Leo !! " She screamed his name as she walked towards his bedroom. "Lia

his speech. "We need to go over to Casey place now, she is so worried and we don't have much time to waste we need to go search for Astoria." Lia s

said and they all went out searching. They first went over to the coffee shop but it was already locked but they were able to see one of the workers there that confirmed that she was actually there today but she had left immediately she came. They thanked her and proceeded on their search. On their way to the dance rehearsal s

asn't been too long since I got here." The lady said. "Ok thanks." They thanked her and went on asking others but none of them agreed to have seen her cl