Her Devilish Alpha - Chapter 190

“Did you hear, Mr Ethan’s no longer teaching, I heard he retired this year,” Madeline said to the others.

Briar gasped, “Wait, seriously?”

Madeline nodded, “Yeah, didn’t you know about it?”

Her friend shook her head.

Stephanie added, “I heard he and his wife are going through a nasty divorce.”

Briar placed her hand on her mouth, she liked Mr Ethan. As a professor, of course. Not in that way. That was strictly reserved for someone else.

“Oh my goodness,” Briar said.

[Author’s Note: The reason Briar goes with ‘oh my goodness’ and not ‘oh my luna’ like she usually does is because she’s with her friends. Her normal, human friends that have no idea she’s a werewolf.]

Ruth said, “We should probably change the subject into something less depressing.”

Madeline agreed, “Totally.”

“Would you look at the time? I don’t want this to end,” Briar admitted.

A girl who sat at the far-end of the table chuckled, “Neither do I.”

“Group hug?”

Madeline stared at Stephanie, “Yeah, no.”

Briar stifled a laugh, “Hard pass.”

An hour later, the girls bid each other goodbye. Madeline and Briar exchanged a glance.

“Well that went… well,” Madeline began, breaking the silence between her and Briar as they both entered Madeline’s car.

“Heck yeah it did,” Briar replied, a grin on her face.

“Why are you so happy? Did you not hear what happened to Mr Ethan? I thought you actually liked him as your professor.”

“I do, I do. I’m just particularly happy about something else.”

Madeline raised her brow, “And what’s this something else?”

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“You are so cool, you know that?” Madeline mused, “And did you see the way they were looking at you? It’s like no one else was in that room. The girls were enamoured with you too.”

“Well, that wasn’t really my intention, but…”

“How did you know I was there anyway? Or do you have your ways?”

Xavier admitted, “Briar texted me, she told me it was better if I came to sp–”

He stopped talking. Xavier was about to say, ‘To spook the men that kept defiling you with their dirty gazes.’

He couldn’t stand them, and he hadn’t even been there.

“To what? I didn’t quite catch that.”

“Nothing! Nothing. It’s just…”

“Do I really want to know or do you want to keep it to yourself?” Madeline questioned, narrowing her eyes at him. She asked next, “And what did you say to those guys to make them just run away? They seemed terrified.”

“I just told them to…”

Xavier remembered the exact words he told them, and he winced. How would he tell Madeline what he said?

“I usually don’t like tainting my hands with filthy blood, but I really won’t mind killing you all. If you value your life and do not wish to die in my hands, then I suggest you run away now,” Xavier blurted out.

“What?!”

“What I said, that’s what I told them. Word for word. You told me not to keep anything from you!”

Madeline whipped her head around at him, “Just don’t go around threatening people. What did they do to deserve it anyway?”

Xavier opened his mouth to tell her exactly what they did but chose to keep silent.

“Oh alright,” he mumbled. Then, he thought of a genius idea.

He smirked, and she raised her brow.

“What is it?”

“If I stay here till you fall asleep, would you give me a kiss?”

“Do you even have to ask?” Madeline questioned.

Xavier leaned in and placed a tentative kiss on her lips.

Madeline giggled, “So, since you’re staying here, why don’t we talk about the elephant in the room?”

“Mm, I suppose it’s the perfect time to talk about it. Wait, we are thinking about the same thing, right?” Xavier questioned, to which Madeline nodded.

“We are. It’s about us as an item,” Madeline said. She chuckled, “I want to date you. I want to be your girlfriend, there’s no doubt about that. I just… want things not to go too fast. I want to go with the flow. Besides, we have all the time in the world, don’t we?”

Xavier couldn’t have been happier to hear what Madeline said to him.

“And I want to be your boyfriend. But you’re right, let’s just go with the flow. Have fun, fall more in love with each other.”

Madeline grinned, “It adds up though, Briar looked really smug. I could see why.”

Xavier laughed softly, “I was surprised to receive a text from her. It was simple and short, and mentioned something about guys, and you, and me needing to go over there.”

“Classic Briar,” remarked Madeline.

He began, “And I had something to tell you.”

“Oh, what is it? Does it have something to do with why you look so guilty?”

Madeline fought to stay awake.

“Tomorrow’s the full moon.”

“Ah.”

“You could wait in the cabin if you want.”

Madeline sat up.

“Wait, what?” She asked, sitting there staring at Xavier. Tilting her head to the side in confusion, she questioned, “You trust me enough to have me stay at the cabin alone? Emphasis on alone.”

Xavier raised his brow, “Of course I trust you enough. Why would I not trust you?”

Madeline realised she had just dug a deep hole for herself. Cursing under her breath, she said, “I just… I didn’t expect you to offer that. If you don’t mind me staying there, then… yeah, sure.”

“Then it’s settled.”

Full moons were a tricky situation. Xavier tiptoed around Madeline whenever the full moon came, and Madeline noticed. She could see why, and she didn’t mind it. It wasn’t only him, Briar too.

The only person that seemed to be alright and refused to hide anything from her when it came to full moons was Emilio. Madeline supposed he didn’t want to keep things from her, and she found the sentiment sweet.

“You know I trust you right? I trust you more than–”

Xavier paused, realising Madeline had already fallen asleep. He carefully removed the pillows from the small pile so Madeline could properly lay down.

“Goodnight, pup,” he whispered, before he left as quietly as he could.