The Alpha's First Love

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n a chance, I would swap place

of everything, of

licia brought her friends over, I would be the topic of discussion for hours. I could fee

d be feeling l

was going to do something worse to me, and then my stepmother would do the finishing touches by star

ar the echoes of laughter reverberating throughout the grand hal

My eyes were already stinging with unshed tears, and I wished for this life of suffering to

keep the tray gently on the table, and turn around." I

stray hair out of my face with my shoulder.

by the shoulder last week because I serv

ff making me look more

myself e

as not my responsibility

p peacefully at night, I would rather do all they asked of me gl

n my father's house, a tool at her whim as she and her mother h

diately as I pushed open the heav

e atmosphere, irritating me like a thousand needles. She was sitting too close to some

the usual girly laughter and chatt

uld avoid eye contact and keep my

hift. There was something very different about the air tha

ressive, and my chest was making it difficult for me to breat

ed to pulse through the room, and for a mo

ch with her back straight and talking animatedly, laughing and ge

had never seen before an

e duff friends.

rk hair was carefully combed into place and he wore a s

ealth and authority that was evident aroun

aves cascading down her shoulders and sat next to him, s

r smile as piercing and cunning as the diamond nec

ed at the second man. He sat with a calm almost re

and lips pressed into a firm, dispassionate line. His lips were thin

nd his face was framed by his dark tousled

n, a weight fell on my chest.

s my hands trembled just a little bit

. "Please come in and meet my friend, Vicky." Then she turned again to

thing wa

ble. What happened to those c

ew

e they weren't here. If not, I could have started re

people Alicia usu

ere a far cry from her typical group of sycop

rcing gaze fixed on me since I e

ward, feeling as if the room itself w

ne watching me as I got closer and t

weeping her hand haphaz

Lucas, his cousin Caleb, and

ounded in my head

on the coffee

ice that was hardly

t," Alicia added sarcastically her word

ound trying to maintain what little dignity

w much her cruelty hurt me and

t her to know that

pted abruptly, quietly and authoritatively, a

talk to her i

appened. The smell. It swept over me lik

ething wild and uncontrolla

ir destroying my senses. I couldn't keep

. With the magnetic pull of his gaze, everything va

just the

I could stop myself, the soun

unreadable flickered across hi

y raised above

flickered, and I stood there star

e pierced me and drew

s struggling to l

nd realized everyone

ld go." I

king tone." Can you imagine this omega running away fr

nough," L

e said nothing, her lips press

hest I turned and left the ro

ed shut behind me, I was feeling as though

just ha

e Lucas's intense gaze and hear his

l I knew was that I was in deep trou

scuss him with her