Page 23 of Vegas Baby!

“Butshecould.”

I grabbed his face in my hands. “Stop. She chose Bryce and Jesse. You need to live with that.”

“I don’t want to.”

Luke was fucking pissed, and I watched the chaos, much more of a glass half full kind of guy. Ava might have bonded my packmate and the stranger she had brought with her, but that didn’t mean she wouldn’t want me too, and there was no way in hell I was going to let Luke fuck that up for either of us.

Sure, a bond complicated things, but Ava was still our scent match either way. He had history with her, and I had a healthy curiosity.

“I’m going to need you to face some hard facts.”

Luke frowned but didn’t say anything, so I continued.

“Ava doesn’t owe you shit. If you wanted to be with her, you should’ve gone back for her, or at least kept up communication.”

“I know that.”

“You sure aren’t acting like it. My advice would be to start making it up to her, and fast. Bryce has first bond and if you’re going to be a jackass about it, odds are higher she’ll leave you behind than push him out.”

My words hit like bullets, Luke flinching at the truth of my statement.

“And dude, I love you, but I am not letting you fuck up a scent match for me. I’ll follow them to New York if I have to for a chance with Ava.”

“You really think she would leave me behind?”

I shrugged. “You left her.”

“I didn’t know we were scent matches,” he hissed. “And I didn’t leaveher, I left a shit situation.”

“Sounds like a conversation you should be having with her.”

I messaged Jesse while Luke was brooding.

Micah:

How is she?

Jesse:

Resting

Micah:

When are you guys coming back to the apartment?

Jesse:

Whenever you can guarantee that Luke is going to be a reasonable person

That cemented it, then. I knew Luke would come around, but I needed him to do it faster than he might like.

Micah:

Can I still see her without him?

Jesse:

She says yes

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