“She…” Angelique looks unsure for a second. She smells nervous, “She didn’t like it when I was with Dario. I think she likes you.”I feel like someone lifted a weight off me and now I can finally breathe. But I also want to shake Angelique for making me feel so many damn things in such a short time. It's not normal and it's not pleasant. My head is a fucking mess, my emotions don't know what the fuck is going on.I can't take so much, I'm going to explode. "Then why did you say that?" I demand, unable to control myself, "Do you know how that made me feel? I think I got an ulcer. Damn it, Angelique. You're... you're so...""I don't know how you feel, because you never tell me anything!" she exclaims, "I'm sorry, okay? I know I was wrong. Everything I said was just to hurt you, but when I saw that it did hurt you...""I wasn’t that hurt,” I try to defend myself, even though it's obvious I'm lying."When I saw that you were extremely hurt, I felt really bad. And I don't like feeling bad
I don’t know who the fuck is that, but the name rings a bell. I dwell on it for a few seconds."Marea Alicat?" I ask, Angie nods a lot, "Oh, right. The General informed me that she would be arriving today. Your father asked as a favor for her to come into the program even though we were halfway through. Do you know her?""Know her?" She snorts, "She's my best friend. And by 'best friend' I mean she's the biggest bitch ever and I hate her. She's the reason for all my sorrows. She's the reason I made that human die. She's the reason I'm here again.""Okay, first of all, we need to calm down,” I put my hands on her shoulders and shake her a little. Her body is extremely tense and her face is turning red, "I won't let her near you if that's your problem. You won't fall for whatever that girl makes you do again because I trust you, I know you've changed. You're not the same girl who killed a human, okay? And I’m glad you’re back.”"Okay… just don't let me be alone with her," she asks, then
"Explain what?" I ask, playing dumb. I do regret a tiny bit how I lost my shit like that in front of him. It wasn't very wise of me.Elliot steps back to close the door before walking closer, without taking his eyes off me. Oh, god. Here we go. "Why do you even care if that ugly alien slept with your ex," he spits, and I almost laugh, but I control it."Because she's my best friend. Fake and all, but still my best friend, and she knew Dario was sacred because he's my first love... my only love before you," I explain, trying to make it as clear as possible so he doesn't get mad, but failing. His eyes narrow even more and he moves closer to me, his scent getting heavy, like when he gets jealous, "Not that I'm still in love with Dario or anything, because I'm not. But he's still mine and...""He’s not yours anymore, Angie,” he interrupts, gluing his body to mine and getting his hand in my hair to pull on it. Now I have look at his angry face directly. I hate it how wet I get when he mi
{ Elliot }I swallow to moisten my dry throat and, once I'm able to move, I grab the box I came for in the first place. The effort of carrying this huge, heavy box is welcomed. My arms feel like they're going to give out, but I've already wasted too much time, so I just carry it until I get back to the group. I half expected Angelique to be hiding somewhere avoiding me, but instead she is talking normally with Eva and Xavier while the alien watches them from afar with anger in her eyes. I decide not to say anything and drop the box at Luc's feet."What took you so long, champ, you need to lift more?" Luc taunts, punching my chest. I try to smile at him but I don’t think I succeed. "Man, I think we better leave the shooting for tomorrow. I'm not really focused, my mind is completely elsewhere," I say quietly and Luc just shrugs as if it's okay, "We'll do it tomorrow, I swear.""I hear you, it's fine," he nods at me and starts giving different orders than we had planned.We march fo
With that in my mind, I walk over to Luc's bed and grab Angie's broken phone. I plug it into my charger and once it turns on, I put my name as her password once again.Angelique has a thousand apps and they drive me crazy. I want to arrange them all by color in folders but I don't. She has a lot of pictures and a lot of texts from a lot of people. I start looking at her pictures, which was not a great idea because there is almost fifty selfies of her with Dario. Laughing, making stupid faces, sticking out their tongues, and... kissing."Damn it," I mutter, gritting my teeth again because this is the last thing I'd want to see. The last thing I needed to see today when I feel so on the verge of losing my shit over anything.I'm trying to stay calm when the door opens and my favorite omega walks in. I forget about the pictures I just saw and immediately stand up, my heart pounding wildly in my chest.I knew she would come back. I knew she would change her mind."Just came for my stuff,
“Okay, let’s create something. Put that evil mind to work,” Marea says, suddenly looking excited. "I’m trying," I mutter and close my eyes. I know I need to focus all this negative energy I feel into a plan against him, but my mind is blank. I probably can't think of anything because I don't really want to hurt him. Love really made me weak, that’s embarrassing. “I’m sure you can use yourself to hurt him, just play around. Pull him in, then push him away. Drive him insane that way. Alphas are so fucking stupid, he’ll never know what hit him,” she opines but I can’t do that because… maybe that’s what I’ve been doing this whole time, “It would work because I think he actually likes you. Like, for real. He even said he’s unavailable when I tried to come on to him.”"What?” I ask, my amusement gone. Marea lifts her hands in case she has to defend herself. And it’s a good idea because I want to slap her again, “What the fuck did you do, Marea?” "Don't get mad, I just tried something. I
{ Angelique }I know I’m acting psychotic again, but I don't care.Elliot on the other hand clearly cares A LOT, because he overreacts a bit. He forces us to do a continuous plank. That might sound easy, but it’s hell after five minutes and we have to do that shit for two hours with just a few minutes to rest here and there. My upper body has never felt this tired. But that’s not all because for lunch we get served paste. Of course, Marea has a hard time keeping it down, but I’m used to it by this point. I just swallow it and drink a lot of water. I tell Marea to do the same because she really needs to eat something, but she can't force more than three spoonfuls down her throat when she is throwing it up. Unfortunately for her, Elliot decided to join us in the cafeteria so he demands Marea to keep eating. He’s being unusually cruel, so much so he reminds me of his father. "You know what the punishment is for someone who hides, don't you, Monroe?" He asks when we get in formation af
"Thank you for your sweet words, Elliot, but I’m dead serious. I don't want to be with you anymore,” I say. Elliot sighs and ignores my words, he moves his hand until it's cradling the back of my neck and he pulls our foreheads together, "I'm emotionally exhausted. I can't take it anymore.""But we haven't even started, Angie," he complains. As usual, oblivious to the facts."That's the problem. You've ruined me and you’re not even my boyfriend, do you have any idea how damaged you left me?" my voice starts to rise but I restrain myself at the end. I don’t want to fight, I just want him to disappear, "Seriously, just leave.""I won't," he denies, getting even closer to me until his legs are tangled with mine and I can feel all of him. His breath smells minty he's not wearing his uniform so this feels even more intimate, "Please just shut up for a second and let me say this. It's kind of hard for me.""Ugh, fine. But then you’ll go,” I accept. Elliot takes a deep breath like he's prepa