Page 15 of Torn Mate
Ada
I wasglad I had one other person to speak to about boy problems… Kiara may have been Destiny’s bestie, but she was the only one who I could really talk to about this stuff other than Lexi. I couldn’t exactly tell Destiny about wolf shifters and everything that had happened so it made it hard to ask for advice that she couldn’t really give.
Plus, Kiara was a Rawlins girl and Lexi was Kiba girl. They were two different packs so maybe they had different rules. I didn’t know, but it was good to get advice from both sides.
“Ada… god that guy is a douche. If he really liked you he wouldn’t carry on acting like a five-year-old cub pushing you over in the playground and pulling your pigtails.”
She was right, Saint was doing things that were childish. He didn’t do it to other girls, only me. Why me? He made it clear he didn’t like me many times, I got it. He didn’t need to be doing these things to me. It made no sense.
“You’re right, Kiara. I need to avoid him. It’s hard because when I visit Lexi he might be there, but I think I could pretend he wasn’t there, like walk on by and not look at him.” I could do that, I did it to enough kids teasing me at school. Ignoring him was something I could do easy, because if I didn’t I would end up in the bathroom crying, and I didn’t want Saint to bring me down to that level. Never again.
“Huxley likes you, like so much. I asked Dylan to ask Mason, and Mason said that Hux is totally into you. Has been forever. Plus, hello, how hot is he? He is so cute—ugh.Dylan.”
I started laughing. I flopped on my bed and rolled over onto my stomach. I kept laughing as I heard Dylan complaining playfully about how his mate was thinking Huxley was hot. Dylan’s brother was Mason, so he would know if Hux liked me or not, he was his best friend. Or, like, very close to him. Maybe he was best friends with River. Oh, maybe…shit.
“Kiara, tell Dylan to stop a moment. I have a very important question. Packmates… I only really found out what they were. Like, Ranger and Callum were… I guess they aren’t anymore now that Callum lost the plot and attacked Lexi because he didn’t want to be with her. But Ranger did… and well I never even thought to ask Hux.”
Was that even a thing a human would think to ask a wolf shifter? I wonder how Kiara found out about that. Like, did she start dating Dylan, then he told her that Eli came along, or… So many questions. But it was late and I needed some rest. I took a deep breath and hoped for the best.
“Does Huxley have a packmate? Is it Mason?”Please don’t be River, please don’t be River.He was good looking but, like, too much energy for me. Way too much.
“Oh, shit. I will… oh”—she chuckled—“Dylan can hear everything you say. Didn’t think about that before when we started talking. He shook his head, Huxley doesn’t have a packmate.”
That was a relief. I also wondered why he didn’t. Was it his scars? Because I thought they made him perfect in every way.
“But if you were thinking of having more than one, that just makes it a little easier. You might be able to find another Rawlins guy without a packmate, too. Oh wait, Dylan is saying something… Oh yep, so Mason and River are packmates.Oh my god.Maybe you could date all three and we could be sisters-in-law.”
I laughed and shook my head, not that Kiara could see that, because well, I wasn’t expecting her to say that. And as much as that would be amazing, to be her sister-in-law, I didn’t feel anything for Mason or River. I didn’t even know them. Not like how I felt about Huxley… and Noah.Ugh.
“Okay well, I’ll think about it.” She squealed down the line. I didn’t want to say anything with Dylan listening and then tell his brother I hated him or something. I didn’t know him so I couldn’t say no.
“I gotta go, apparently Dylan doesn’t like girl talk when it involves hot guys that aren’t him.” I could hear Dylan chuckling in the background saying, “That’s right, I’m the hot guy.”
“Okay, sounds like you have your hands full, I’ll chat later. Thanks for helping me tonight.”
After she hung up, I rolled around on my bed a while. I was frustrated that I couldn’t text Huxley. I wanted to tell him… hi. I smiled to myself and grabbed my pillow, hugging it to my chest.
I started to think back to when I was shopping with Lexi. Noah was so adorably cute and I just didn’t know what to do with him.Puppy Dog.
Plus, he bought his mom a pink pig. That was so sweet. I didn’t think boys were like that. I knew I bought my mom things and I made her some things over the years. But he was cute, watching him walk around Walmart with the stuffed toy. He didn’t even care when others looked at him.
I liked that. He didn’t care what others thought of him, and he didn’t judge others. He was a good guy.
