Chapter 5 Esmeralda's Pov

• I have successfully avoided the Alpha for a week. He didn't appear before me or call me up to his room. As relaxing as it is, I feel unnerved for some reason.
• I stir uncomfortably and realize that I had rolled over onto my stomach. Still half asleep, I groan as I feel the stiffness of a troubled night settle into my bones and shooting pains running from my neck to the bottom of my spine. I slowly come to my senses, realizing that it is still pitch dark.
• At some point, after dinner last night, I must have cried myself to sleep or something. I was never one for waking through the night. At least not before I got sold by the people I called family. It left me untrusting of anyone, and I basically became a light sleeper.