Chapter 14

Being alone with Alpha Marcus was torture. From the moment I finally agreed to pretend as his Luna, to now on the road at dusk a day later, I was nervous for reasons I also didn't know exactly. I called it torture because the silence was not only deafening, but also painful. It feels like the calm before a storm, and I was fidgety inside the car for some reason, my heart throbbing. I can't understand why I was feeling like this when it was all quiet and calm. Was it because I was already regretting my decision? Or was it the possibility of Alpha Marcus realizing that he chose the wrong person? I guess both were accurate answers, but surprisingly a larger reason of why I was on the edge was because he was silent all the time he was driving while I sat next to him, our eyes only on the road. "You can sleep if you want to," he finally said after quite a while. Maybe he saw how tired my eyes were from lack of sleep. "I'll wake you up later." "Oh no. That would be rude of me to sleep whil