Her Devilish Alpha - Chapter 204

Madeline began, “It’s my turn to read.”

She had to read something, or she’d fall asleep. Being in Xavier’s presence was calming – calming enough to make her sleepy. It wasn’t even evening yet. It was still quite early in the afternoon and a couple hours till dinner.

“You sure?” Xavier questioned, noticing her yawning several times.

“Mhm, definitely sure,” Madeline said.

“If you say so,” he said, eyeing her warily.

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“What do you have in mind for dinner?” Xavier questioned.

Madeline sat up and shook her head.

“I chose lunch. You get to choose dinner. We eat whatever you want.”

“Whatever you say, pup.”

He got up, straightening his clothes before he helped Madeline up, helping her with the bag of books before they went and found the nearest mall directory.

“Let’s go with this restaurant,” he decided.

Madeline felt a tinge of sadness in her heart, knowing that the date was coming to an end. Momentarily, she wondered how Briar, Adrian and Lawrence were doing back at Eudora. She hoped things were going smoothly and without a hitch.

Perhaps… they could do this again.

At the same time, Lawrence couldn’t just stay at Eudora forever. He too had a duty to his own pack. It was selfish of her to think of something like that. Staring at her shoes, she wondered how she could possibly think of such a thing.

She wanted to smack herself and curse.

‘I shouldn’t be so selfish,’ she told herself as she and Xavier headed towards the restaurant of Xavier’s choice.

“I don’t want this day to end,” he admitted.

Madeline shared the exact same sentiment, but chose not to sulk about it too much. She smiled reassuringly, “On the bright side, we got to spend time with each other. A whole day of uninterrupted bliss. Breakfast excluded.”

“I suppose you’re right,” Xavier said.

If he was being honest, he was wondering what life would have been like if he weren’t the alpha of his pack. If he were still a beta.

For some reason, he wondered what his and Madeline’s relationship would have been like if Emilio knew he had a daughter all this time, and he stayed alpha of Eudora. Eudora’s beta and alpha’s daughter as a pair, Emilio certainly would have disagreed with it. But what else would be different?

Xavier’s eyes lingered on a couple walking together, beginning to imagine life if he and Madeline were just like any other couple. Correction, like any other human couple.

A life where he didn’t have a pack to lead and protect, and a life where Madeline wasn’t Cornelia and Emilio’s daughter. A normal life where they were two humans in love with each other, going out on a date to a mall. One where they wouldn’t have to separate from each other every full moon, and one where they got to experience what being human was like.

‘Well, I was human. At one point,’ Xavier reminded himself, before he heard someone calling his name.

“Xavier? You there?” Madeline questioned when she noticed Xavier spacing out.

“Mhm,” Xavier answered.

All it took was seeing the look on Xavier’s face to get Madeline worried.

“There’s something wrong, isn’t there?” Madeline questioned.

Xavier was taken aback. Did he really make it obvious?

“I was just wondering what life would be like if we… were human, or led lives like them. We could be like that couple,” Xavier said, gesturing at the couple that was now in one of the mall’s shops with a look of longing.

Madeline inhaled. Was that what he was thinking?

“We shouldn’t compare ourselves to others, especially to other couples,” she began.

Xavier turned to look at her, eyes fixed at her.

“I know,” he said quietly.

Madeline continued, “We’re way different than them. It’d be unfair to compare ourselves to them in the first place. Besides, you’re the alpha of a powerful pack. When you met me, you thought I was human. Well, in all fairness, so did I. But that’s besides the point, don’t you think it’s a pretty cool thing that we ended up together? I mean, who would’ve thought?”

He laughed softly, “When you put it that way, I suppose we are pretty damn cool.”

Xavier froze.

“What is it?” Madeline questioned.

He broke into laughter, “I think we went in the wrong direction, we must have been distracted by our conversation to have noticed.”

They had just walked straight.

Madeline doubled down in laughter. She hadn’t even noticed it until Xavier had pointed it out. They had walked far away from where the restaurant they had chosen was.

They asked in unison, “What do we do now?”

After they simmered down, they decided to go to the nearest restaurant they could find. Their original plan was to go to a sushi restaurant but it was far away from where they currently were.

“I’m famished,” Madeline admitted once she and him were seated.

“So am I,” Xavier admitted, opening the menu to see what the restaurant had to offer.

A waiter came over to take their order. Once he received their orders, he repeated it for them to listen to.

“Yep, that’ll be all, thanks,” Xavier said.

The waiter nodded, and left.

Madeline whispered over to Xavier, “Do you have any idea what we’re going to do next?”

Xavier inquired, whispering back to her, “No, I have no idea what to do next. And also, why are we whispering?”

She shrugged, “I don’t know.”

Blinking, Xavier remembered something he had meant to tell Madeline.

“Magic,” he blurted.

“Come again?”

“There were traces of magic found around the area where the ferals had appeared.”

Madeline’s eyes widened. Her hand flew to her mouth, and her facial expression turned deadly serious.

“Someone’s behind it. Someone’s really behind it,” she spoke. Her eyes darkened, “Tell me everything.”

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Author’s Note: So I’m thinking of doing an event which will go on till the end of the month.. For every 20 GT this book receives, I’ll post an extra chapter (I’ll add BONUS CHAPTER to the chapter title to signify which chapters are bonuses).