Chapter 062
ASHER
"She's alive!"
I said it more to myself than to my father who was sitting in front of the desk. He was glaring at me like I had just said I had just handed the pack to someone else.
I still couldn't believe it even after all those hours when I had seen Hannah, spoken to her hell even touched her.
I swear my heart stopped the moment I saw her walking into the cafeteria flanked by those Wallace assholes. It was all I could do to stop myself from passing out after holding my breath for so long. At first, I had thought I was seeing a ghost but Julia's reaction and everyone else's in the cafeteria had assured me I was not.
"What do you mean. Hannah Baker is alive?" my father said slowly.
"She is. She was at school today."
A whimper and a sob came from the figure sunk into the chair on my right.
"My hair," Julia wailed. "She ruined my hair. She- she was laughing. I saw her." She held out her arm which like most of her body was heavily bandaged to my father. He gave it and her only a cursory glance. She looked like someone who had been beat up in a riot and then embalmed like a mummy. "Alpha, she did something to my skin to. And my hair!" she repeated as though she couldn't get over that one.
"Shut up!" I turned to her, made a vicious gesture with my hands. "Shut up or I'll make it worse for you. Everything is not about your stupid hair. We're talking about more important stuff here."
Weeping softly, she buried her face in her hands and sank further into the chair.
My father called her name. She sat up at once. She started to say something but my father silenced her with her a flick of his fingers.
"I thought you said you poisoned Hannah with wolfsbane," he said, turning those pierce eyes on her. "Care to explain to me how she is still alive? Or were you lying to me?"
"A-alpha," she stuttered and shivered. "I- I-"
The rest of her words were lost in a jumble of incoherent nonsense.
"Speak up, girl!" my father hissed, his fingers clenching and unclenching themselves on the edge of the table.
Then she just burst into tears. I looked at her in disgust. She was the one who had started all this shit in the first place, now she was just going to go to pieces like this? She sure needed a hiding. That would give her something to cry about.
"According to Hannah, the doctor who treated her said Julia gave her adulterated wolfsbane." I threw a glare at Julia. "The bitch had just one job to do. One job and she couldn't even do it right."
"How did you know exactly what Hannah said?"
The question turned me cold.
Damn! In the heat of the moment, I had let my mouth run away with me. If I told my father about my conversation with Hannah, I would be putting myself in trouble. My father would never look at me the same. He was always obsessing about the pack's dignity and pride. The man would disown me if he knew I had been nested by a girl, a weak, pathetic girl who couldn't even shift. To him it would be intolerable that Hannah had overpowered me and forced me to accept her rejection.
The memory of that humiliating moment in school made me angrier than I had ever been in my life. Thank goodness no one had been a witness to it. My arm still smarted and ached from all the twisting she had given it.
"Well?" My father sounded impatient now. Not a good sign at all. He looked about ready to blow his top. "Answer the question. Someone here had better start answering my questions and fast."
"I took her aside to talk to her," I lied. "I was surprised to see her. I wanted to know how she was still alive and if the triplets had lied about the poisoning. I knew you would have wanted me to get to the bottom of things."
He stared at me with eyes flashing and burning. He didn't acknowledge or refute my last statement. I forced myself to meet his gaze to keep mine steady. He raised one brow. "Well? And what was the result of this investigation of yours?"
"She really was poisoned. She even looked a little er- weak." On the contrary, she hadn't looked weak at all. And where had all that strength come from? I gave my head a little shake. There would be time to think of that later. "But it turns out Julia had botched the whole thing. Because of her dumb decision, we're at a loss."
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