Chapter27: A Wylie One

*Isla* Something is wrong, and by the afternoon, I know it. I just don’t know what to do about it. I know in my heart that Maddox should’ve been back by now. He would’ve told me if he was going to be later, and if something came up, he would’ve sent a message to Beta Seth for me. But when I go to the Beta’s office, he is super busy, and he barely has time to look up at me with the phone resting on his shoulder as he tries to find something with one hand and write something with a pen with the other. Feeling out of place and stupid for standing there, I start to back away, but he motions for me to stop. In a moment, he gets off the phone. “Hi, Isla,” he says. “Sorry. I’m really busy now that Alpha Maddox is out of the office for the day.” “I understand,” I tell him. “I just… wasn’t Ma—uh, Alpha King Maddox supposed to be back by now?” Beta Seth grins at me a bit for my slip up. I’m getting too familiar with the king, obviously. “He said he’d be back a few hours ago, but you just never k