Page 103 of Caelum

Right.

She hollered something at Frazer who…

I frowned.

Ignored her?

Fuck, more than that. He blanked her. Totally.

Why the hell did she even want to talk to that prick, though? To thank him for helping Nestor? For doing what any soldier at Caelum should have done?

As the thought crossed my mind, she grabbed his arm and tugged. The move was amusing considering she was like five-feet nothing, and he came in at around six-six.

Again, he ignored her. It was like Eve was a mosquito dancing around his head or something. But, to be fair, he’d have given one of those irritating motherfuckers more attention than he gave her.

Seemed like I wasn’t the only one who didn’t think she farted glitter.

“What are you looking at?” Becky demanded with a pout, looking over her shoulder to see where I was staring. When she saw Eve being snubbedby Frazer, she snorted. “Serves the bitch right. You should have seen what she did to Lewis today.”

“What did she do?” I asked, my attention on Eve as she batted big brown eyes at Frazer then shifted around to see Reed. When he spotted her, Reed acted pretty much the way Frazer had—but he turned his back on her.

I saw two expressions on Eve’s face. She was dumbfounded at their treatment, but more than that, she was hurt. It made my stomach churn to see that hurt, and I wanted to pound on the bastards for treating her like that.

Fuck, I knew I didn’t treat her much better, but she was my Pack brother’s woman. Icouldtreat her like that.Theyfucking couldn’t.

And hell, her brow had started to crumple and her mouth began quivering.

Was she going to cry?

Dammit to hell.

In front of everyone?

“Lewis was just having a bit of fun, you know?” Becky whined, buzzing into my thoughts like a fly dancing around shit. “She picked him up by the throat and flung him into the wall and then a glass table. She’s a lunatic.”

I gaped down at her. “Eve did what?”

She shrugged. “Well, I mean, that’s what Louise said. She was there and saw it all.”

Chinese whispers, I figured, but most gossip had a seed of truth to it.

With her shoulders low, I watched as Eve started to make a move out of the room, but then Eren and Stefan appeared and hauled her into their sides. I wasn’t altogether surprised when they tried to make her dance. She was edgy after the way Frazer and Reed had snubbed her, but when Eren hugged her, she didn’t look like she was on the brink of tears anymore. Then, Stefan whispered something in her ear that had her laughing and relaxing into him.

I almost envied them at that moment, but before the green-eyed monster could overtake me—I had way too many monsters inside me without adding another to the mix—I asked Becky, “What did Lewis do?”

I knew that prick. He stirred shit better than my mother had stirred her chocolate mole sauce.

“Was just messing around, you know? It’s not his fault she couldn’t take a joke.”

“Some joke,” I muttered. “He has a foot on her and about eighty pounds.”

“Louise said her Hell Hound came out to play.”

I cocked a brow, interested by that news. Everyone’s souls had a habit of coming out to party in times of trouble, but whatever Lewis had done, it wouldn’t have endangered her. Not on Caelum grounds, at any rate.

For her beast to be close to the surface?

She was strong.

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