Chapter 104

Alpha Nicholas

“So I get why you changed your mind about talking to anyone, but why were you hiding in the bushes when they all ran? Surely you would have known that you would have been caught?” Shane asks Alberto as I sit back and let him take the reins.

“That’s what I was hoping for,” he grunts.

“What? Why?” Robbie asks, taking the words right out of my mouth.

“I figured that while I couldn’t come to you off my own back if you caught me while we were trying to hide and escape, then it was out of my control.” I’ll give it to him, it wasn’t the smartest move in the world but not the worst either.

“So you hoped that we would find you and bring you here so that you could tell us what was going on? Maybe hoped that we would help you?” Shane asks. Alberto nods, agreeing while shifting himself in his seat, looking uncountable.

“There’s no way that you didn’t think that there was a chance that we would kill you for the betrayal before you could e