Claimed by My Bully Alpha
Chapter 77
Caleb’s POV
Shane took one look at me and his eyes widened in surprise.
“You know…” he whispered through swollen lips.
I nodded, debating on how to handle the situation. Even if he had acted out of anger and resentment for Aurora hitting a nerve close to home, he had crossed several boundaries and he had to face punishment for them accordingly. If going to this camp in New York helped him become a better person, in te
He was pretty beat up. Now that it was broad daylight, I could see that his entire face was pretty badly messed up. I had gone too far as well in my anger, I hadn’t acted very rationally as a future Alpha should.
“I’m sorry, for hitting you like this.” I told him, because I didn’t want him to leave on a bad note either. Shane had been my friend since we were little and he had already gotten his punishment. What was the point of me adding salt to his injuries?
“I deserved it.” He said now, lowering his head. “I shouldn’t have acted like a jerk all this time. I shouldn’t have let it all get to my head. But I guess it’s too late to say all this shit now, isn’t it?”
“Why?” I had to ask him. “You knew there would be consequences if you messed with a Human. Yet you did it anyway and you did that in front of all of us! Why, Shane? It’s like…you wanted to get into trouble…on purpose.”
Shit! The realization made me stand up straighter as I turned to look at Shane, who, despite his fucked up face, had a smirk forming at the side of his lips.
“Fuck! You’ve gotta be kidding me!”
“I wish 1 was.” He whispered, but that smirk stayed on. “You’re right, I wanted this. Being send to New York as a punishment is probably the best fucking thing that can happen to me.”
“But…why? Shane!” I held onto his shoulders, shaking it lightly. “I heard that the training there is grueling. Why would you want that?”
“Because I’m fucking tired of this, Caleb!” He snapped at me, his eyes wild with a kind of fury I hadn’t seen before. “I’m fucking tired of my parents looking at me like I’m a fucking disappointment! I’m tired of having to cover up my bruises and I’m fucking tired of having to live up to my parent’s expectations even though I don’t want to.”
I was a little startled at his sudden outburst at the end, but then again, what he said was right. It was hard living up to our parent’s expectations, and being a wolf didn’t exempt up from any of the normal teenage bull any other human would face. And Shane was a proud person; borderline arrogant and conceited. I bet it took a lot for him to admit what he just did. But that didn’t mean I was going to forgive him.
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