The alpha stood unmoved, waiting for a shrilled scream piercing through the hushed morning air of the jungle but nothing came. Rather the heartbeat of Scarlett was ringing in his ears, leaving the air he had claimed to be calmed no more at silence. He could feel his fingers pulsing at the same beat he felt the girl's heart besting under his hand. What was happening? It was a reaction, the response the alpha had waited for thousands of years to be invoked in his body. His body was reacting to the touches of someone else.
However, he wasn't pleased as the confusion and bewilderment were lurking around the edge of his subconsciousness. Also, it wasn't possible. An alpha could never react to a human. In a point of fact, he didn't know who the girl actually was.
