Big Bad Alphas

"Yeah." Caroline scoots closer to me. "You kinda did."

   Eric sighs and runs a hand through his hair, then looks to me. "You're alright?"

   "Alright? She's the one that just tackled him to the ground," Caroline dramatically motions to me, though I am right beside her. "You literally charged at him like a bull."

   I shrug. "I just got infuriated, really quickly. He deserved it."

   "Hell yeah he did," she chuckles.

   "Alright," Eric grabs our attention. "Besides attacking Landon, did you two need anything?"

"Isabella just asked me to show her where the training grounds were, but I know the reason now." She smirks at me, and I swiftly take Eric's attention away from her, already feeling my cheeks warm up.

"I just wanted to learn where everything is," I lie. I can lie as much as I want, but the look on Eric's face tells me that he knows why too. Thankfully, he does not call me out on wanting to see him. If that happened, I do not know what color my face would turn, but it would be something beyond the brightest shade of red. "I remembered that you said you were going to be here, and I wanted to talk, I mean, if you have the time."

"I have time."

I do not know if he expected me to start talking, but I turned to Caroline who is still standing with us. Apparently, she did not catch the hint. Awkwardly, I clear my throat, and her face is smeared with realization. "You want me to go?"

I nod, and my eyes practically push her away. Once she is far enough, they focus back on Eric who seems to be rather amused. "Okay, what did you want to talk about?" He asks me smoothly, his voice sending chills down my spine.

"It's actually about your father—"

"It's still on your mind?"

things," I murmur, worried about how he may react. What if he thinks

"Couldn't wait until

thought you were the one who did this," I motion to

and briefly clenches

feel so in the dark, and if this issue comes between us—which it has—then I want to solve

  He shakes his head at a leisurely pace. "It's

father was making based on your mother. I'm not going to push my way into your family problems, but I don't want this problem to become an obstacle for us, a-as

I try to maneuver the fact into my web as if

did you think you caused the

got on top of him and began to choke him out of instinct. Voices were yelling at me, but I couldn't hear them anymore, everything around me shut off as I stared down at him. My hands just kept squeezing tighter as I saw the pleading in

without an urge to

for my reaction to your marks because I thought somehow I did to you as I did to him." He pauses. "I would never hurt you,

hands fall helplessly to my sides, and I

moron, then Olivia would not have followed me, she would not have hurt me, and

were not wrong to question," he tells me

confidently. "I don't want any more secrets to be kept between

looks at me, interested. "So, you're going to tell me all

I did not think too much about that part, though, I

Do I?

suppose so, but I don't have

if he is slowly moving closer. "I think

"Are you taunting me?"

night, you can tell me something that no one