"Sit down, don't be silly. I'm really scared for you right now. We're all worried," my friend exhaled loudly, her breath catching a little, which was reflected in her voice, which seemed to tremble even more.
"Understand, Kelly has already crossed the line, and not just like that. If she's doing this, then it's clearly to get rid of you once and for all. And it's not clear what else she's capable of, since this bitch has already played out such nonsense with beating you up."
Slowing down, I finally stopped and looked to the right. Somewhere there, our university was. But too far away. You can't even see it from here.
"Do you happen to know where Carter is right now?" I closed my eyes and rubbed my eyelids with my fingertips. One way or another, but I felt that tremor that was going through my whole body.
My situation was already extremely unstable without all this, and the fact that Kelly had so harshly set her boyfriend against me was ruining almost everything at once, but it's okay, I can handle it. Even with this. I have no choice anyway.
"I have no idea," Louise answered. "Maybe he's in the hospital with Kelly right now. Or he's already looking for you. Although… I doubt Carter would do it personally. He has plenty of flunkies for that. But believe me, from what I've heard, he intends to deal with you himself. So, damn it, I repeat – run. Now."
There was one thing Louise didn't know. That I was Carter's best friend's girlfriend. Not many people knew about it yet. For example, Kelly hadn't received this information yet. But the fact was that since I was dating Jad, Carter couldn't do anything to me.
Or had his hatred for me already reached such proportions that he would turn a blind eye to the fact that I was his friend's girlfriend?
"I'll call you back a little later, but if there's any more information, please contact me," I said, pressing the red icon, ending the conversation, because Louise had once again started insisting that I should leave town altogether.
But my friend called me back anyway, and we argued for a few more minutes. She still insisted that I should hide. Now I was begging her to do so, but having somehow convinced her that I would be careful, I interrupted the conversation again.
After that, I went to the car I borrowed from Miranda and, sitting behind the wheel, closed my eyes for a while. About an hour ago, I wrote to my aunt. In general, during my trip, she constantly contacted me and asked how I was feeling.
After all, Miranda still thought that my trip was an extremely bad idea. After all, I had already begun to wake up, and it was unknown when this would happen in full.
What she was going through, I felt in full, but everything that could happen to me is not as critical as what will happen to her when I become a full-fledged Omega. And we both knew it.
Suddenly, the phone in my pocket buzzed. At first I thought it was Louise calling again, but when I looked at the screen I saw Carter's number.
There was just one moment during which my palms trembled and my heart sank somewhere down. After all, I realized that as soon as I answered his call, we would both go to hell. But, again, the lack of choice did not suggest anything else.
"Yes," I pressed the green icon, bringing the phone to my ear.
"It turns out that you, Jones, are even crazier than I could have imagined." Carter's voice was far from what it usually was.
I didn't even recognize it right away, because in that intonation of the alpha, which at first could have been taken for calm, or even indifferent, there was hidden something that echoed through my sense of self-preservation like panic.
"Do you think that because you are Jad's girl, you are allowed to do absolutely everything, and I won't touch you?"
There was some rustling in the background. After that, I heard the following words of the alpha, from which a chill ran down my spine: "No, Jones, now you are finished."
"If you're talking about Kely and her beating, then I didn't touch her. I haven't even seen your girlfriend today," I turned around and looked out the back window at the street. Carter's words made me feel uneasy. I felt that these were not just threats. He was capable of many things, and if Carter said that I was finished, then so it would be. After all, even as a child, I felt the cruelty of this alpha in abundance.
"How primitively you lie. Do you think this can save you?"
"So what? Do you want to tear me to pieces?"
"You guessed it."
Leaning back, I, well, I put my palm on the steering wheel. I squeezed it hard. Great, the leader of the alpha kingdom of our university is thirsting for my torment and death. The most terrible guy. But okay. I'm already at rock bottom. Let him try to get me out of there.
Although I was still afraid of Carter. When it came to him, it couldn't be otherwise.
"Even when we met for the first time on that beach, you recognized me. You knew perfectly well who I was. That I was your girlfriend's main enemy, but I never hid what I did to her. And if I had beaten her up, believe me, I wouldn't have hidden it either. I would have been proud of it, because believe me, sometimes I want to punch Kelly in the face. But, unfortunately, I haven't seen her today."
"I see you like to pick on people," Carter's voice became even heavier, and the panic that had begun to penetrate my sense of self-preservation like needles intensified so much that I even felt a scratching shiver. "Do you want to know all the facets of pain? Well, go ahead, Jones, I'll give you that."