Romance: Dystopian Post Apocalyptic Romance 5: The Alphas: The Alphas Attack (paranomal menage romance wmw) by A.J. Winter Page A

watched Matt stumble off down the driveway through tear-blurred eyes. “He never hurt me, not once, not before I knew, not after. He’s good with the kids too.”
    Damian held an arm out to her and she stepped into the comfort of his embrace. “I know that, Violet. One shove, even one that nearly broke that snivelling brat’s wrists, isn’t enough to condemn a man. If he comes to see you, tell him I’d rather kick out Matt than him. Will you be okay here?”
    She nodded. “I’ll go spend the day with Sue and the kids. I won’t do anything stupid.”
    “Good girl.”
    She looked up at him with eyes that were too wide and bright with tears. “Will he come back?”
    “I don’t know but I hope he does.”

II.
     
    By the time Matt reached the perimeter fence he’d gone through a jumble of emotions. The initial fear and panic of having a fully trained soldier grab him and bark orders in his face gave way to embarrassment when he thought about the way he’d run, snivelling, and with Violet there to watch too. Embarrassment was too painful and it quickly shifted to resentment.
    “It’s not my fault,” he said, kicking a tuft of grass. “They should never have let that freak in here. No one asked me. No one ever listens to me. And now Eddie is some fucking super hero, even when he’s the one who put the entire settlement at risk.”
    He was well on the way to talking his resentment all the way up to anger and he stomped through the trees in the general direction Eddie may have gone.
    “How the hell am I supposed to find him anyways? I can’t run that fast. He could have changed directions at any time. This is a waste of my time. He’s gone and that’s a good thing. They’ll see.”
    He was still crashing about the bushes when movement on the edge of his peripheral vision made him stop and turn. There was nothing but trees.
    He moved on, slower now, and wary. A snapped branch behind him made him spin around but again there was nothing.
    “Eddie, if that’s you, you can stop it. Damian wants you back.”
    There was no answer.
    “If that’s you, crazy mutant lady, Eddie isn’t in the village anymore. You can all just go away.”
    Nothing.
    “Great, I’m going crazy.” He turned to resume his search and screamed. Two young women stood in what had been an unoccupied expanse of bushes not a minute earlier.
    The women were taller than Matt by several inches and they were drop dead gorgeous as far as he was concerned. They were both blonde with slender faces marred only by the smears of dirt on their pale skin. One was wearing a plaid button-down over a tank-top that had seen better days while the other wore a plain long sleeve. Maybe it was shallow but Matt was captivated by them both and like a light switching on, all of his romantic attentions were suddenly focused on these two. All thoughts of Violet vanished.
    “You know Atlanta?” said the one on the right.
    “Maybe,” Matt said, snapping out of his reverie. “I met one of you very briefly; taller than either of you, all leg, no chest, black hair. She wanted Eddie.”
    “Atlanta,” said the one on the left, nodding. “I’m Rebecca and this is my sister Rita.”
    “Are you looking for Eddie?” Rita said.
    “Yeah. Did you see him go by? Did this Atlanta grab him?”
    The girls looked at each other and then back at him. “Are you working with Atlanta?”
    Matt sighed. “I don’t like Eddie, so I sort of told Atlanta where he was. But now he’s not there anymore! God, this is complicated. Aren’t you two with Atlanta?”
    “We don’t want to be. Atlanta and Khan and the other Alphas, they want to find all the Alphas and use them as an army to take over the world. We don’t want to be thugs or soldiers.”
    Matt knew he was in a bind. He couldn’t promise them safety, only Damian could really do that and Matt wasn’t sure Damian would listen, not after what had happened with Eddie. “I may not be your best advocate,” Matt said.