Alpha’s Mistake Chapter 06
I looked down at her coldly and pulled my leg free.
“Quit the act, Nicole. This little performance might fool them, but it doesn’t fool me.”
Nicole panicked for a second. I pulled my leg free and turned to leave.
The second I dragged my suitcase out of the hotel, I felt light. Completely free.
I pulled out my phone and called a rideshare to the station.
The car came fast.
I put my suitcase in the trunk and climbed in.
“Natalie! Stop!”
The car was just about to move when Hugo burst out of the hotel.
He ran to the car and grabbed my door handle, pulling hard.
The driver jumped, his foot slipping off the brake.
“Miss…?” The driver looked back at me, unsure.
Hugo’s tie was crooked. Sweat beaded on his forehead. That smug, superior look was gone.
“What do you want?” I asked.
Hugo stared at me, chest heaving.
“You think you can just take that Elite Academy letter and run? You’re leaving the Whites to clean up your mess. Do you even care about their feelings?”
I leaned back and looked at him. “I paid them back. I signed the declaration. They could live or die. Doesn’t matter to me.”
“How can you say that? They’re your parents!”
“My parents?” I laughed. “Real parents stand by and watch someone tamper with their daughter’s future? Real parents kick their own kid into a storage closet for some stray?”
I looked him straight in the eye.
carly labor while he toasted his mistress. He declined her call….
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“Hugo, you’re not pissed because I hurt them. You’re pissed because you can’t control me
anymore.”
His face went white. Like I’d hit a nerve. His lips trembled. “That’s not true… I just don’t want to see you throw your life away…”
“Sticking around you people is throwing my life away. Let go of the door.”
He didn’t let go. He gripped the window frame, and his voice suddenly softened. Almost
begging.
“Natalie, I messed up-okay? I didn’t think through the whole application thing. You getting into Elite Academy is a good thing. Tomorrow I’ll have someone find you the best apartment near the base. Alright?”
“The necklace thing was wrong too. I’ll buy you a better one. I’ll talk to Nicole. She won’t make things hard for you anymore—”
I watched him grovel and felt nothing but disgust.
“I don’t want your stuff anymore. And don’t call me Natalie. It makes me sick.”
I turned to the driver. “Sir. Please drive.”
He hit the gas. Hugo had to let go and stumble back two steps.
In the rearview mirror, I saw him standing alone outside the hotel, staring after the car like a kid who just lost his favorite toy.
I rolled up the window. My own reflection stared back at me, calm.
Natalie’s new life had just started.
