Nine

My heart pounded according to the footsteps I heard thundering up the stairs. I was frozen in place. I didn’t know whether I should run, hide, or stay. Why did his father even care who was in his room anyway? Oh God. What if he asked me who I was in Alpha command? I’d tell him and he would find a way to make my life miserable for having the audacity to come anywhere near his son. Oh God, oh God, oh God!

The door flew open and there he was, a furious Alpha Roman. And behind him, an even more furious Louis.

“Well, well, if it isn’t the...