The Alpha King's Heart
The Alpha King’s Heart – Chapter 135

Kate fidgeted irritably but couldn’t feel any strength reaching her arms and legs. How is it that she couldn’t compel him? This had never happened before. She bit down her plump lips in thought, eyeing the handsome man.

He positioned her one more time and invaded her lips in a quick attempt. “Stop fighting and just apologize,”

She let out a scream of frustration to which he responded with a deliberate smile. She mumbled a few words which were lost immediately in her audible breaths.

“I couldn’t quite hear you, ma’am,” he mocked.

“Alright…” she breathed finally. “I won’t try to compel you again,”

“That wasn’t an apology. I would take it that you don’t say sorry very often,”

She g*****d with annoyance.

“Calm down,” he said, “Am going to let you go, just don’t punch my teeth out.” He released her slowly and she breathed, she stepped away immediately to locate her jacket and boots.

A human weakness, one that had never manifested had just assailed her. She picked up her boots, panicking, and started to the door without a word. She had to leave this place, to go away from him to find meaning to whatever just happened.

“You have beautiful eyes,” he told her plainly, stopping her with the sound of his voice before she exited the door.

In an impulse, she could only say, “I have to go. It was nice meeting you, Ethan West.” Those words were the ones that sealed her destiny. This moment would be engraved in the deepest part of her soul, now and forever.

…

“Let’s go through this one more time Mr. West. You say someone has been stalking you?”

“Yes, officer. Every night for the past four days”

“And this person knows where you live”

“As I said earlier, I see someone watching me from a couple of yards away, and every time I open the door outside, the person disappears in the shade of trees.”

“Do you have anyone in mind? Anyone you can think of who might be doing this?”

He thought, almost lingering pensively on thought but dismissed it right away.

“No, officer, I can’t think of anyone”

“You think this might be connected to the missing person, this… um,” he flipped a page in his file on the desk to arrive at some profile, ” this Danielle Hawthorne?” he finished.

“Yes, absolutely, I think it has everything to do with her.”

“Tell me your connection with this woman,” he asked him absently as he jotted down the details.

“She is my assistant at work and a good friend of mine,”

The officer looked up from his file, “so you have been in contact with her in the incidents leading to her missing?”

“The night before, yes…. I went to her house in the evening after we met at the office”

The telephone rang on the table next to the officer and he took a moment to answer it right away. He listened to the voice on the line compliantly. It was possibly his superior. He hung up and went around the table to Ethan’s chair.

“Come with me, Mr. West”

“Is there a problem officer?”

“Come with me please” he repeated more forcefully this time. He ushered him out of the room and through the hallway of the precinct to what seemed to be an interrogation room. It had a large one-way mirror on one side and two steel chairs

sitting opposite a large table.

“Wait here,” he directed and left.

He settled down and waited. Five minutes passed and then the door opened. Detective Bradley Burke came in and Ethan got on his feet.

“So am being interrogated by you now, as if you haven’t done that already.”

“Listen, mate, I don’t like you very much either, and frankly if it was up to me, I’d lock you up for the trouble you’ve put Danielle through,” he said. “But right now, I just want to get the facts straight because she’s out there and she’s in trouble”

“I care about Danielle in more ways than you can understand. But am not saying another word to you until I speak to my lawyer,”

“Are you sure you want to push me like that I will bring the full force of the law to rain down on your little attitude. Just tell me what I need to know so that I can go and find her,”

Ethan said nothing.

“Alright, have it your way.” He stormed out of the room, scowling.

Ethan was released not long afterward. He got in his car and rushed home. A good time of careful thought might help him realize Danielle’s possible location.

When evening came, he was again aware of the likelihood of being watched, like the nights before. Vigilantly he drew the shades and time after time he would afford

himself quick peaks from the side of the curtains of the environment outside. A night like this one, a moonless night, would allow the perfect field for a good murder.

Such a cruel world was never meant for innocence such as that of Danielle.

Ethan stepped outside on the porch. In a matter of hours, he was going to drive out and search for her in all the places she would go and all the places she ever thought of going. Any attempt to find her would be better than feeling this helpless.

There were trees standing yards away from his doorstep. These were part of the maze formed by the many pine trees through which the lonely misty road snaked through. A whole shadow of a person could be seen, standing, watching him attentively. This was the one that had been stalking him.

Ethan, seeing this, launched from the porch and began running towards his enemy and somewhere along the way, he lost his vision, blinking, and his enemy, one who had been standing right there, was gone.

He halted near the place where his stalker stood, wondering if any of it was real.

Then, suddenly, a car engine started and two tail lights appeared deep inside the mist, and in no time the car took off.