Page 33 of Fallen Wolf
“Come on in, Hazel, meet my best friend, Lexi.” I opened the door and extended my arm inviting her in, I closed the door behind her.
“Hi, it’s so nice to meet you. I’m here with Ben, Galen’s friend. He’s currently stuck inside Galen’s basement.” She shrugged. “I guess that’s what happens when you date a vampire who can only come out at night.”
She had briefly told me that there were two types of vampires, ones who could walk the day like Galen and the others who were stuck with the whole night thing. Something to do with a witch and spell or maybe I’d dreamed that part? Oh god, I think I fell asleep with her still talking to me last night.Shit.I hope I didn’t. That would have been so rude.
She moved over to the bed, “I was told I could come here and help out and… I don’t know. I’d love to make a friend who’s also dating a vampire. Until this morning, I didn’t know any other women who had a vampire boyfriend. And I guess really, up until two weeks ago, I didn’t even know they existed.”
She placed the yummy food on the bed and pulled out a chocolate bar from her pocket and handed it to Lexi.
“Okay, you brought me chocolate, we can be friends.” Lexi smiled at the older woman. I laughed.
“Wow, if that was all it took to be your friend, I should have started with that.” I joked with Lexi.
We ate and laughed,and talked… a lot.
“So, do you think Saint was jealous? Do you like Huxley?” Lexi wiggled her brows at me and the two of them started giggling when I glared at them. I tried to act like I was mad but I couldn’t, I started to laugh and rolled onto my back.
“You know they can hear us.” I told them both and they laughed harder. They knew they could.
“You girls are assholes, but I love it. I have never laughed this much in so long.” I truly loved it, they were both feeding off each other and really playing with me. Like in the way true friendships work. And I wasn’t upset at all with them, it was the complete opposite.
“But why choose right? Isn’t that how it works with shifters?” Hazel questioned. I nodded and Lexi grinned. Wiggling her brows again. I was so glad to see her happy, she’d scared me so much last night when she had healed Huxley and collapsed. So it was nice to see this lighter side of her.
“But I’m not sure how it works if they are from different Packs.” Something I’d only just realized.
“I’m just gonna go check on Hux. I’ll be back in a minute.” I rolled off the bed and ran into the bathroom and quickly opened my bag. I had showered and I wanted to look nice. I took out my curling iron and plugged it in. While it was heating, I grabbed my makeup bag.
“Um…Ada, the door is that way.” Lexi called out. I opened my mascara and started applying it.
“Yeah, I know. Just—” I applied some black to the left.”— gotta—” then the right,”— do something. Okay?”
I didn’t want the whole house to know I was putting on make-up after saying I was off to see Huxley. It was bad enough that Lexi had asked if I liked Huxley and he probably heard that. But I wanted to see him again, like badly. Like you know, to make sure he was still okay.
I smiled as I brushed my hair then added a few curls before packing everything up and applying lip gloss.
“We won’t wait up,” Lexi teased me when she saw me leave the bathroom. I smiled and shook my head. I turned to her and stuck my tongue out.
When I was outside the bedroom, I took a deep breath and made my way over to Ranger’s room. I knocked on the open door and peered in. Mason was standing in only his boxers. I stood a little taller and looked around the now empty room.
“Come in, he is just in the shower.” I walked in and Mason smiled. Oh, they had heard us alright, I paced a little on the spot.
“Don’t worry… he doesn’t bite.” He could see my nerves too; I had no idea why I was here now. I was trying hard not to babble. I couldn’t seem to get the words out even if I wanted. It was strange. I was going to ask him about being a shifter and stuff. But nothing.
Maybe I was finally getting better at controlling the nervous talking.
36
Huxley
I had heardthe three of them talking about me, Ada kept muttering for them to shut up and it made me worried. But Mason told me she wasn’t dumb, that she knew we would be listening in. I couldn’t not listen in, and it made me feel like a creeper.
I just wanted to know what she thought of me. Because after the way she reacted to me this morning, I’d had to go take an extra-long shower and the boys had all cleared out of the room. She had my wolf bouncing around wanting to mark her, to claim her so no other could.
But I knew she was interested in Noah, she’d told him she would go to dinner with him. I didn’t hear that, but River told me all about it. How could I compete with him? Noah had spent so much time with her already and she was going on a date with him.
I just hoped that I wasn’t too late… My wolf didn’t want to share her, he didn’t trust Kiba wolves to take care of her like I could. But I was starting to realize I had to consider becoming packmates with someone… like Noah. It wasn’t unheard of, it had happened a few times in the last fifty years.
I could hear Mason in the room now talking with her, then he left. I could sense her still in the room, my wolf was a little on edge. I didn’t want to say the wrong thing. I needed to come up with a plan and that was why I was still in here.
