Twenty-Four: Alpha Luca

LUSTRE

“Missed me?” Luca drawled, his signature smirk on his face.

I exhaled and exhaled, my happiness too contagious to be contained. Of course, I missed him, it has been almost two weeks away from him and I couldn’t even remember the last time we stayed away from each other that much. He was like my anchor, my sanity plug, someone that gave me a reason for existing.

“Of course, I’ve missed you, do you have an idea how lonely and scary it is to live among the Feral Blood Pack? I have to go to sleep with one eye opened because who knows when Fleki would…”

“Not now Lustre,” he snapped in a voice that cut my words off, “we don’t have the time for this right now. Sneaking into the feral blood pack isn’t easy and I had to come because this is the only means to communicate with you guys”

You guys? I suddenly remembered the guard that had slipped the note into my hand. Of course, it was the both of us or we were probably even more.

“The guard that gave me the note, who’s here? How did you