Page 147 of Marked By the Pack
Chapter 38
Thursday
Zoey
I couldn’t stop smiling as I walked home. They’d forgiven me. And I was pretty sure I was also dating Titan now. No, he hadn’t officially asked me to be his girlfriend or anything. But he’d referred to us all as awe. He’d called me beautiful. He’d stopped staring at me like I was the scum of the earth. I knew there was a heart of gold somewhere underneath his scowling exterior.
God, I couldn’t wait to tell Emma everything. I’d been so torn up about all of it, and now I was on top of the world. Which had me second guessing everything we were about to do.
I unlocked my door.
Emma and Kebe were already in their skin-tight black leathers. Although for some reason, Emma had an oversized black hoodie on top of the hot outfit I’d picked out for her.
“You’re late,” Emma said. “I thought maybe you’d changed your mind.”
Honestly…I think maybe I have changed my mind.“Sorry, I was coming clean to the guys about my camming.”
“Yeah? How did it go? I can’t tell if you’re happy or about to burst into tears right now.”
“Well…I might cry.” I did a fake sniffle.
“Oh no.” Emma hurried over to me and awkwardly gave me a one armed hug. She kept her other hand in her hoodie. And I was a little worried she had brought an actual gun for the heist or something.
“What’s going on with your hand?” I asked.
“Me?” She stopped hugging me. “Nothing. Are you okay?”
I couldn’t even pretend any longer. “I’m going to be fine.”
“Yeah?”
I nodded. “I’m going to cry…happy tears. Because I’m still dating them! All five of them now, actually.”
Emma squealed. “You really had me going.” She slapped my shoulder with her hand that wasn’t…holding a revolver in her pocket?
“That’s fantastic,” Kebe said. “And they were all cool with the camming thing? I’m impressed, I thought they all had really bad tempers.”
I’d never said my boyfriends had bad tempers. And why had she not reacted at all to the fact that I was camming in the first place?Oh.She’d probably just heard me doing it. Still…weird. “Yeah. I mean, no. Not at all. They’re all very possessive.” I smiled. I loved that about them. “So I’m giving it up.”
“Like right away?” Kebe asked. “Cold turkey? Don’t you need to like say goodbye to everyone you talk to in private sessions?”
“Why do you know so much about camming?”
Kebe laughed. “I only know stuff from movies.”
I squinted at her.
She laughed again. “Forget I said anything. So none of them lost control and shifted when you told them?”
“No.” I stared at her. “I’m sorry, how do you know that they shift when they lose control?”
“Didn’t you tell me that the other night when we were all drinking?”
Maybe. I honestly couldn’t remember.
She waved her hand through the air. “Either way, I was chatting with my daddy last night and he mentioned something about that from all his research as an anthropologist.”
Emma and I both looked at each other.
