Chapter 65: Book Two- Her Alpha Savior- Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Seventeen

Josephine

My life has been a nightmare lately. Tiffany won’t leave me alone, I’m glad that Heather has been too busy with Samantha to mess with me too much, when she does mess with me though, she makes it seem like it was just an accident. All that has been going on lately has manage to have a bright side to it at least, Max has been over every day to ‘study’ for his English assignments, he thinks I don’t know what he is doing, but I don’t mind. It gives me a chance to spend time with him. I kind of like it, he has been so sweet.

Heather makes these snarky little comments when he isn’t around like how I am a worthless human and how she can’t figure out what Max sees in me. The comments tend to get to me after a while and I begin to wonder the same thing, my wolf just keeps telling me that it will all make sense soon and to just not let them get to me. It’s hard though when I see how beautiful Heather and Tiffany are and then I see Max spending time with me and hanging out with me when he could have someone so much better. I’m not pretty. He could have his pick of any girl in the pack, and he chooses to spend his time with me. What makes me so special.

What is kind of odd though is the last few days I have been feeling this weird pull towards him. I don’t fully understand what is going on. I have heard from other mated pack members that they feel the tingles when they are with their mate but, my wolf would tell me if he was my mate, right? At least I would hope she would. I kind of hope that he is, he has been so kind to me, even when everyone else has been so mean. He has taken my side on everything that has gone wrong, I don’t fully understand why I feel this way with Max. It’s very confusing.

Max and I have been getting to know each other better and I must say he is nothing like I thought he was, everyone around school makes him seem like he is this self-centered, A-hole who thinks the world must fall at his feet. But, really, he is this sweet, caring, humble guy who really does care about how his pack is run and how everyone is treated. He is going to make a great Alpha when the time comes.

When I hear my alarm go off to signal, I need to get up for school I hit the snooze button and lay there awhile longer thinking about what may happen today.

When I am finally able to pull my tired and sore body from bed this morning, I make my way to my bathroom to take a quick shower before school. I really hope today is better, with my birthday coming up in a couple days I don’t know how much more I can handle.

After I take my shower, I make my way to my closet to see what I can find to wear today and I can’t help but think about Max when I decide what to wear, I wonder which outfit he might like best. I look through my clothes hanging in my closet, my parents still manage to keep me dressed in proper clothing and give me what little they must in order to keep up appearances, they don’t want the Alpha to find out how badly I am really treated, they treat me the way they do and say the things they do to make me feel worthless and stupid. I try to remind myself that I am not any of the things they say I am, but I can’t help the feeling that maybe they are right. When someone tells you how stupid and worthless you are every day, you can’t help but start to believe it after a while, they weren’t always this way, they used to love me and give me everything they could, then when I got my wolf, and she told me that I can’t tell anyone about her yet, I had to keep it a secret, then as I got older, and they thought I didn’t have a wolf that was when things changed. My wolf showed up when I was ten, but here I am two days shy of being eighteen and I still can’t tell anyone about my wolf.

After my parents quite getting me new clothes, I knew that I was going to have to be careful with what I already had, and I am lucky that I haven’t need to buy any new clothes lately. The money that I make from the bookstore in town helps me when I need anything extra that I know my parents refuse to get for me. The owner of the bookstore doesn’t make me work there very often, she pays me well and I feel guilty for the pay that she gives me and the fact that she will only let me work there during the summer, but she still pays me no matter what, she tells me to just look at it like a leave of absence during the school year. She has her son there to help her when I am in school. She always tells me to just focus on school. But my parents have no idea that I work there during the summer, and they give me only what is necessary.

As I stand here in my closet thinking about if I should wear my black skinny jeans with my combat boots and a white tank top and my favorite zip hoodie, or go with a semi short, form fitting dress and my wedge heels and a denim jacket. I think about which one might get Max’s attention better. But that is my secret I will take to my grave; nobody will ever know the reasoning behind why I decided to wear the dress. Well Sarah might figure it out, but I know she would never tell a soul. She is my ride or die. She will always have my back.

Once I am dressed and I grab my phone and book bag, I send Sarah a text to let her know that I will be at school soon, and when I make my way downstairs Heather is in the kitchen making herself something to eat, and when she notices me, she gives me a sneer and decides to make a snooty comment.

“Look at you slut. You think you are going to get the Alpha’s attention wearing that. You look like a cheap hooker.”

I try not to let her comment get to me, but then I look down at what I have on. And I start to wonder if what I am wearing is too much. I start to back track up to my room to go change into the other outfit I was thinking about when the doorbell rings and I make a mad dash for the door to distract myself from Heather’s nasty comment.

When I open the door to see who is there I can’t help but take in a deep breath at who is there standing in all his wonderful, handsome glory and when I slide my eyes up and down to see how handsome he looks in his black ripped jeans and a white t-shirt with a black leather jacket over, and when I make my way up to his face, I see a slight smirk on his face and I can’t help but look back down and give a very small smile and a sweet greeting.

“Good morning, Alpha. What brings you here this morning?”

“Good morning, Josie, you look stunning,”

I can’t help but smile wider at his comment. I’m glad he likes what I decided on this morning I can’t help the blush that comes across my face as I feel his eyes look me up and down a couple times. Then the spell is broken but clacking heels coming from the kitchen.

“Alpha! What bring you by this morning.”

Max keeps his eyes on me and with no emotion in his voice at all he gives me a smile.

“Good morning, Heather, I am here to see if Josephine wanted a ride to school. I figured I could get a refresher course on the way before my English exam this afternoon.”

When I look to Heather, I see a crest fallen look come across her face and I then she looks at me and gives me a sneer and a huff at his explanation to him dropping by. I think she was hoping he would be here for her. Sorry bitch he is here for me. I can’t help but smile at the thought and I give her a sweet smile and I turn back to Max and give him my sweetest smile a tilt of my hip, and I put as much into my voice as I can when I reply to Max.

“Why thank you Alpha, I would love a ride, that is so sweet. Let me grab my bag and I will be right back.”

I step away to the kitchen to grab my bag and I hear Heather and Max sharing little whispers and I can’t help but feel a little jealous at the whispers, it could be nothing but without my wolf letting me hear what is being said I can’t hear anything clear enough. Then I walk back to the door and walk out with Max trailing behind me, and I can’t hide the smile when I feel his eyes trailing all over my body. I picked a good outfit this morning.