Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 135

"Oni," Krys screams at him, nearly running into him on her way in. She does a double take between the two betas. "Are you guys still fighting?"

Ethel looks flustered. "I'm not fighting anyone. He won't leave me alone."

"Well to be fair, you started this," Krys mutters under her breath.

"Whose side are you on?" Ethel asks.

She gives him a flat look. "You ran into his and Onai's classroom screaming Aiden's calling the ambulance. Let's go. Whose side do you think I'm on?"

Michael doesn't pay them any mind, not even Brittany who's directly talking to him. His eyes just shift between the brothers, painstakingly slow-from Aiden to Axel to Carson, then back to Aiden again. Thankfully Carson's completely off the bed by now, but I don't think that helps the situation that much. There's no plausible explanation as to why I'm alone with three men. Again. Not a good explanation anyway.

"What the hell is going on in here?" Michael's eyes look over the room again and again, like he's afraid he's missed something. Like none of this is quite making sense. At first I think he might be asking me, or Aiden, or Carson, or Axel, or even the nurse, but then I realize it's just a general question. A rhetorical one. He doesn't wait for an answer. He walks forward in my direction with a look in his eyes I've only seen three times before.

The third was when he dealt with guitar boy. The second was a family incident. And the first, that was when I almost died. It's one of those stories I know not because I remember it myself, but because people have told it so many times it's like I lived it myself. I see myself lying there unconscious. I fell to the ground out of the blue, hitting my head on the table in the process. No warning. I was fine and then I wasn't.

At the time, Mom and Dad weren't home, and I was barely breathing. It was just Michael, Megan, and Charlie at home. They didn't think the ambulance was gonna make it. They thought I was dead.

That's when Michael decided to get his license. After that day.

"Michael-" I start.

He gives me a hard look while getting closer. "I'm taking you to the hospital."

Aiden doesn't move out of the way though.

Carson sighs, reluctantly walking towards Michael and the others. "What's the point of having betas, again? They can't do anything."

Brittany shoves him a little and he shoves her back. She nearly tackles him.

Axel shakes his head staring at the chaos before us. "Don't worry. We'll figure something out." He gives me a reassuring glance, but it's not all that reassuring. Then he goes with his brothers.

I try not to focus too much on what's going on. I need to get up so that I can diffuse the situation when need be and get Michael out of here. They wouldn't do anything to him, right? Of course not. I'd kill them.

Carson stands confidently, squarely in front of Michael and looks him in the eyes. "Alright so here's what happened."

Aiden and Axel look apprehensive, along with the rest of the betas and Krys. Brittany on the other hand looks like she has the utmost faith in him, now that he's doing something at least.