The Alpha’s Little Rogue (Alessia)

Chapter 150

Raphael's POV I did the right thing. Ending any possibility of a sexual relationship with Daphne was the right thing to do. There's no way that I can bring myself to just walk away from her after touching and having her body pressed against mine. It would kill me. I need to

have her in my bed and know that she's mine to hold whenever I want to.

I might have been able to fuck around for years without getting any feelings mixed in but Daphne is different. Just one night with her and I can tell that my affection for her has grown. Carrying out a sexual relationship with her is just going to leave me emotionally drained. I can't do that to myself.

"What is it this time?" Alex exclaims and I look over to find out what his problem is, only to find him glaring at...me?

My brows furrow in confusion. "What did I do?" I haven't even uttered a word since we started today's border check. "You keep groaning and sighing," he says exasperatedly with his hands flying all over the place. "It's driving me insane." "Sorry," I say with a sigh, realizing my mistake all too late.

"That's it!" Alex growls and lowers himself down on a fallen tree branch. "What happened this time?"

"Nothing," I bite out like a petulant child and cross my arms over my chest. "Let's just check the borders," I suggest, walking ahead of him and wishing that Caden could have joined us. He would have been a good buffer. But Alessias due date is getting closer and Caden has decided to reduce the time he spends away from her as much as he can. That includes cutting back on border checks. So I'm stuck alone with this nosey bastard who doesn't know how to drop something and leave it be.

A tight grip closes around my upper arm and pulls me back. Case in point. He just doesn't know how to take no for an answer.

"Spill it," he growls. Fucking growls at me, all because I want him to get his head out of my business.

I snatch my arm out of his grip and push him back. "Butt out," I hiss. Now isn't the time to pick a fight with him so I close my eyes and try to calm my nerves so I don't rip his head off his shoulders.

He has a child and that poor child doesn't deserve to be fatherless all because her father likes sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. I also happen to find his child very adorable so that is a bonus that's going to work in his favour.

A shove on my chest has my eyes falling open to find Alex glaring at me.

"Fight me," he says, widening his stands as his hands clenched into fists.

My brows furrow together and I look at my best friend like he's insane. He probably is. Is this a result of fatherhood?

While I'm trying to figure out what his issue is, Alex steps forward and gives me a punch across the face. My head whips to the side from the sheer force and a ringing appears in my ears.

I hold my throbbing face as I stare at him in disbelief. "What the hell was that for?!" I holler, feeling my control slightly slip as Ethan, my wolf, decides that he has had enough of Alex's bullshit.

He smirks.

That's the final straw that has me letting out a growl as I pounce on him. We fall to the ground with me on top of him and pinning him to the ground as my fists fly with punch after punch. I pour in the frustration and anger at my week into those punches until all I see is red. It takes me a while to realize that Alex isn't struggling or trying to push me off his person. My vision clears, the anger giving way to clarity.

Alex gives me a bloody smile that turns into a cough as he turns to the side to spit out blood.

"Fuck!" I scramble off him and let out a whine when I see the damage that I've done to his face. "You fool!" My grip on his shirt lifts his upper body from the ground. "Why didn't you fight me back?"

"Do you feel better now?" He asks with a smug smile. A smile that doesn't have the right to be on his face given the way he looks.

"Did you get all of your anger out?"

My hand falls from his shirt and he falls back onto the floor. I don't feel a tinge of guilt when he lets out a groan at the impact. If he wants to offer himself up at my punching bag then he can bear the consequences.

My back hits the bark of the tree behind me as all the emotions that have been curled tightly within me rush out. Al I feel right now is tired.

Alex shuffles to my side and leans against the same tree that I'm using. "Are you ready to talk now? Don't tell me to tell me I took those punches for nothing."

A tiny smile breaks out of me but it goes away as I remember what went down today. I haven't told Alex about the night that I spent at Daphne's place so I start from the very beginning and a few minutes later he's caught up on everything that going wrong with my life. "Why the fuck did you say no to sex with her? Heck, when have you ever said no to sex?" Alex asks incredulously and I roll my eyes.

"She wasn't exactly offering."

Though with the way she was pliant

in my arms, it wouldn't have taken long before had her on her back. "Besides Daphne is different. She isn't someone that I want to just sleep with. I want the whole deal with her not just meaningless sex." It would be meaningless mind-blowing hot sex but meaningless all the same. I might be a bastard but I'm a bastard that deserves more than that.

"Now you've got nothing. You don't have her affection and you don't have her in your bed. Nice going," he says sarcastically.

My brows furrow together. "You think I should have said yes?" For the first time in my life, I used my head up north and not the one down south and he disagrees with the decision that I made. There is just no pleasing these guys. "Yeah. You definitely should have said yes," he states matter of fact.

"And settle for just sex?" I shake my head. "I want more than that."

He scoffs. "Please, tell me how you plan on getting more than that?" He looks at me expectantly and my mouth opens and closes without any words coming out. "That's exactly what I thought," he says with a smirk.

I grit my teeth until I can swear I hear a crack. Taking deep breaths, I remind myself that I've just beaten Alex into a pulp a few minutes ago, and laying my hands on him again wouldn't be nice to do.

"Then when do you propose I do?" I ask, waiting to hear his bright idea.

"Give her enough orgasms to make her decide that she can't spend her life without you in it." He ends his statement with a shrug.

I laugh. "Is that what you did to make Scarlett fall in love with you?" I ask as a joke because there's absolutely no way that his plan would actually work.

His smirk has my smile wiping off my face.

Now I'm asking myself if it's possible to make someone fall in love through sex. I've fucked my way through life and I can boldly say that I've never caught feelings with someone I slept with.

"It isn't just going to be because of the sex. It's going to be the times that you spend together and the conversations that you share. Everything is going to end up becoming more." Another smirk. "Though the sex is going to go a long way in making that happen." Conversations? Time spent together? Do people do those craps after having sex? I just dip and scramble away. Is talking and spending time together after sex actually going to make her fall for me? It seems like a stretch.

"What if it doesn't work out?" I hate how tiny my voice comes out.

"What exactly do you have to lose?"

My sanity.

There's no way that I'm going to be

able to simply walk away after knowing what it feels like to make Daphne mine. There's absolutely way that I let that happen. I'm

no

actually scared that I'm goin?!

do

something horrible like kidnapping

her and tying her up in my room until she finally agrees to be mine.

With a groan, Alex stands up and dusts the dried leaves and dirt off his trousers. "Or you could decide to keep going to her school and following her around like a lost puppy." A shrug. "The choice is yours."

I keep quiet as his words run around

in my head. Then my gaze lands on his face. "What are you going to tell Scarlett?ask, looking at his face

and getting angry at myself for cel

taking out my frustration on him. Sure, he was basically begging for it but I shouldn't have let my emotions taken hold of me.

He shrugs as his hand reaches up to touch his swollen cheek.

"She'll understand." A smile. "Might even throw in a few punches of her own."

I shake my head, amused at the dynamic of their relationship.

Standing up from the ground, I brush off the specks of dirt from my trousers as well and walk in front of him. "Let's finish this border check."