Page 39 of This Pack of Ours

“That’s not even his real last name,” he muttered.

“It’s thepackname, so I?—”

“Travis,” Jhin said loudly, reclaiming his attention. “Whywere you about to call me?”

“So, are they both with you, or…?” Travis asked, and Jhin gave a littleahemthat somehow managed to be menacing.

“Oh. Right, yeah, so there’s been a bit of an incident,” said Travis, looking back at Jhin. “Trevor and me were muckin’ around a bit and… well, turns out the sprinklers don’ like being hit.”

Jhin rubbed his forehead.

“Let me in, Travis,” his voice was tired and flat.

“Jus’ don’ worry—” Travis started, but Jhin pushed the door open and he scurried back. The apartment was flooded.

“Oh shit,” Ez said as we stared at the puddles of water covering most of the floor.

“You fuckingmorons,” Vander snarled, and Travis took two large steps back.

“Look, we’re gonna sort it, right?” said Travis, looking very pale. “Tyler’s on it already, he’s making some calls.”

“Travis,” Jhin said, his voice flat. “Please go fetch your pack lead. Immediately.”

“Yeh, okay.” Travis splashed through the apartment, coming back with a huge, very angry looking alpha.

Jhin pulled him to the side, and they started talking in low voices. Vander had stalked off towards one of the rooms, muttering a string of curses as he went. Ez took off his shoes and socks, and splashed loudly into one of the back rooms. He came back with a tiny purple figure that he proudly presented to Kit.

Adrian was still holding my hand. Perhaps he’d forgotten about it.

Vander came back out of the room he’d disappeared into, holding a backpack and looking murderously around. He saw Travis and started stalking towards him, but the other alpha let out a yelp and dived into another room with a splash. There was a click as he turned the lock.

Kit and Ez were still enthusiastically nerding over the figurine when Jhin came back over.

“So. Tyler and his pack will sort all of this out. I’m going to write them a list of how to follow up and see if we have insurance, and get someone to clean this up. Obviously, we can’t stay here tonight, so everyone please go and pack an overnight bag and we’ll find a hotel,” he said.

“Hey! You guys should stay at ours tonight!” Kit piped up.

Ez brightened.

“No," said me and Vander at the same time.

“Oh, come on, we’d love to host you!” said Kit, sidling over to me, and tugging me to the side, out of Adrian’s hand.

I fixed him with my sternest stare.

“Kit, we only have two rooms.”

“Come on, Juni. You know my room’s essentially a spare room cuz I nest with you anyway. We even have a dryer they can use!”

“We barely know them!”

“We know Vander saved your life yesterday,” he said, raising his eyebrows.

Oof.

“And Vander said no!”

“Ignore him," said Ez loudly.

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