Alpha Enzo (and Alaria) novel Chapter 67

Alaria:

“Are you sure that you are going to be able to leave so soon, Alaria? You barely managed to stay one night, how are you going to…?”

“Don’t worry about me, Yildez. You know that I have lived alone for far too long to be falling from one small misfortune.” I said, stopping the woman. The last thing that I needed was for her to be questioning me right now. I already had enough on my plate, and with Enzo being in the car, waiting for me with Ashton, I didn’t need her to see him and start the gossips.

“Alright, just be sure to stay safe. And if you ever need anything, don’t hesitate to call me. You are still with a child by your side. He is not going to be able to cope or understand the number of things that you are going through.” She said, reminding me of something that I knew very well.

“Don’t worry, I am going to be fine.” I said, assuring her. She smiled and nodded. I took a step back and walked toward the car with my bags, careful to note that she wasn’t watching before Enzo walked out of the car to put the things inside the trunk.

“You could have gone to the penthouse and I…”

“Stop being stubborn, Alaria.” He said, stopping me. I shook my head at the man before the two of us got inside the car. The idea of living in his place was not something that I wanted, but I knew that it was the best thing that I could get right now. He was right about Yildez and her husband. The man wouldn’t be harming me or my son, I knew that, but he could cause tensions between Yildez and I. That was not something that I wanted.

“Where are we going, mama? Are we going back home?” Ashton asked, and I smiled.

“We are going to a new home, for now.” Enzo said, answering him. Ashton’s eyes lit up as he smiled. The fact that he called him papa made my heart ache. I didn’t expect it to happen, especially since he never did mention the name, but I was more than happy to know that he had accepted him as a father. He didn’t know the conflicts that we had, and that only made me proud of myself as I didn’t fill him with the greed, hate, or anger that most other women might have done.

“Are you going to stay with us? Is Alonso going to stay with us?” He asked, smiling brightly. Enzo tensed, and I frowned.

“Your father is going to be coming every once and a while, and I am sure that Alonso would too.” I said, choosing my words carefully as I noticed that Enzo didn’t speak. I took his hand in mine, squeezing it gently as I snapped him out of whatever he was thinking of. To my surprise, instead of pulling it away, he intertwined our fingers as he kept his eyes on the road.

“Is everything alright?” I asked, whispering my question. I knew that he could easily hear me being an Alpha. He didn’t say a word and instead, when he stopped at the traffic light, I frowned when I saw that his eyes had darkened as his wolf made himself known.

“Enzo…”

“I don’t want any topics opened in front of Ashton. Is that clear?”

“We didn’t even open a topic, Enzo. But he was curious and he asked.” I said, reminding him to calm down. He stayed quiet for a moment before he nodded, choosing to remind himself to be calm. I had to take a deep breath, fearing that he might do something that would hurt him or our child without his knowing or understanding at this point.

“We are here.” He said, and I nodded, watching as he stopped the car in front of a tower. “Just let me park the car. I am going to inform security that you are going to be staying here from now on…”

I put a glass of water on top of the coffee table in front of Enzo.

The man has been quiet since we entered the house, and though he did his best to try and engage with Ashton in his conversations, I could tell that a lot was bothering him.

“Ashton went to take his nap.” I said, and he nodded, looking at me for a moment before he took a sip of the water that was in front of him. “Enzo, are you sure about what you told me? About her, I mean?”

“I wish that I wasn’t.” He said, looking down at the glass. “Alonso’s maid told me about it. She locked her son inside the room before pouring oil on the carpet. The woman wanted to accuse you and had burned the area between your and his room. Alonso would have died had it not been for the firefighters arriving on time.”

“No mother would do that, Enzo. Why would she…”

“I am trying to find an explanation, I can’t seem to do so.” He said, shaking his head. “The idea of her being involved in this, it just doesn’t make sense to me. I married her believing that she wasn’t the type of woman who would hurt a child. She took care of Alonso by herself for years. And yet…”

He looked down at the armrest for a moment. “I accused you of something that I knew that you wouldn’t have done.”

“You did it because you didn’t want to believe that…”

“I did it because I was stupid.” He said, stopping me. “I wanted to believe something to stop another. Hell, I would have hoped that you did it.”

“Am I that bad of an influence?” I asked, shaking my head and he shook my head.

“I wish,” he said, and I took a deep breath. “Sometimes, I truly do wish that you were a bad person. It would make the regret that I feel about leaving…”

“Enzo, now is not the time for the two of us to talk about this.” I said, stopping him. He scoffed before getting up. “Enzo…”

“I don’t know whether to feel sorry for the way things are going or to judge you. Either way, I will not treat you as others have.” She said, making my eyes darken as my wolf made himself known. However, my wolf calmed himself down when he saw that it was her. The one person who he never thought of attacking, no matter the number of times that we argued. “You are angry at yourself, I understand that, and you are frustrated, I respect that. No one deserves to live through what you are going through, but you do not have to look at me as if it was my fault, because it is not.”

“Yes, you are the angel sent from above, and I the demon.” I said, and she shook her head.

“It is how you want to see it. But you are neither the demon, nor an I an angel. I am kind, but it does not mean that I do not know how to slit one’s throat if I have to. You are impulsive, and you act without thought.” She said, making me growl. “It was always like that, even when we were married, but then again, you rarely ever took responsibility of anything. It was me who was doing so, and you benefited in your own way. You got your peace of mind and I showed you off as the Alpha and boss who you enjoyed being around.”

“You saw the difference when another woman, one who forced you to take care of things, entered your life.” She said, glaring back at me.

“Enough.”

“Why? You can’t take the truth? You are the one mistaken here. You took so many chances which were against you. You left what you called as your own peace to find yourself stuck in this tornado. Why is it painful for you to see the damn truth of things?” She asked, angering me more than I already was.

“If your aim is to throw salt on the wound…

“My point is to show you that you have been taken for a fool. One who I know you not to be.” She said, stopping me. “You are no fool, Alpha Enzo, wake up from this bullshit act that you are in.”

“THE WOMAN THAT I AM MARRIED TO BURNED MY PACK HOUSE AND LOCKED MY SON INSIDE!” I said, stopping her, bursting out as my anger got the best of me. Thankfully, the walls were soundproof and I hoped that Ashton wouldn’t hear us. “Do you want me to be seen for a fucking fool? Then fucking be it. I am going to be seen for a fool because no man with two fucking working brain cells would think that a mother would lock her son inside his bedroom before burning it to accuse another woman out of jealousy! If this is a woman’s thing, then you can voice it out loud. But no one with LOGIC would have though that to be possible.”

“And yet you chose to believe that I was the one who burned the house down instead? You found that as more logical…” I wrapped my arms around her waist, pulling her to me before connecting my lips with hers as I stopped her. Alaria didn’t kiss me back for a moment, but I deepened the kiss before pinning her against the glass door behind her, moving from her lips to her neck as I found my anger getting the best of me. I sucked on her sweet spot only to force myself to stop when a low moan escaped her lips.

I punched the glass behind her, heaving in deep breaths as I tried to calm myself down as I rested my forehead against hers. Both our chests rose and fell with each breath that we took and I cleared my throat.

“I said it once, but if you want to hear it again, so be it.” I whispered. “If I believed, deep down, that you did it, your head would have been the cost of it then and there.”

I walked toward the door, opening it. “I am going to the hospital. The house keys are on the coffee table, you can stay here for as long as you want..”