Page 11 of Beginning Fate

I gave him the sign for “fuck you" causing Kylie to nearly spit out the water she’d just sipped from her bottle.

The others cracked up.

“No need to interpret that one,” Jett said.

“Yeah, we understood that one clearly,” Troy added.

“Sorry,” I apologized to Kylie, but once she recovered, she seemed more humored by it than anything, though I did try to explain he was one of my fraternity brothers. I didn't know how to sign fraternity though and resorted to spelling it out instead. “F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-Y.”

She quickly showed me the sign for that word.

“Okay. Kylie's schooling me over here on new words.”

“He's a very good student,” Kevin said slyly, alluding to something untoward.

Normally, he wouldn't be wrong. Kylie was a beautiful girl, and she was absolutely my type. But for some reason, I felt ridiculously protective of her and did not like his insinuation.

The look on my face must have told him as much, too.

Kylie waved to get my attention and asked what was wrong.

“Asshole,” I signed to her and then pointed to him.

She took a step away and shot him an uneasy look that made me laugh.

“Asshole to me, not you,” I corrected. There was certainly no need for her to fear Kevin. It felt like a good time to change the subject, so I did. “Are you all excited to be here?” I asked aloud while continuing to sign to her.

“Sure.”

“Yeah.”

“Whatever.”

Kylie bobbed her fist back and forth telling me she was excited too.

I looked around, not seeing anyone else heading our way. It pissed me off a little that Kylie's family had just abandoned her here.

“Does anyone have any family coming?”

“Nope. My parents aren't exactly happy with me right now, so I convinced them to let me come up alone for this week and they'll move my stuff in next weekend,” Oscar informed me.

“And Autumn and I came with him. Our parents will be here next weekend, too,” Jett told me.

“Yeah, with Kevin coming along with us, they all thought it would be fine,” Autumn explained.

“It's cool,” I assured them. “How about you guys?”

“Our dad can't really travel, and our mom stayed home to take care of him,” Will said.

“But Will drove out here with me and our older brother will be here next weekend. He's riding up with Oscar’s parents,” Troy added.

“My parents didn't come, but my Alpha did,” Mark said with a huge grin on his face.

“Your Alpha? Are you serious? Damon's here? Where?” No one had told me he was in town. Hell, I'd just talked to him two days ago. There's no way he didn't know he was coming. He was probably even on his way. Asshole.

I looked around and spotted him across the way as he smiled and waved.

I shook my head then moved in to meet him in a big bro-hug.

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