Page 15 of Marked By the Pack
“Okay…” she said. But it didn’t look like she trusted what I was saying. Her eyes kept darting back and forth between mine.
“Really. I just want you to be happy.” Besides, who was I to tell her what her future should look like when I was so scared of mine? Or my lack of one. I touched the side of my neck where Callum had bitten me.
Zoey grabbed my hand away from my neck and stared at the bite. “I knew it. You’re a vampire.”
I laughed.
“It’s not funny, Emma.” She dropped my hand. “What does this mean? How does it work? Are you okay? We can still hang out just the two of us, right?”
Actually, it was kind of funny how freaked out she was. It was a little fun delaying answering her questions. And she’d seemed fine with this whole thing a few hours ago. “Zoey, you literally were screaming at me to go get my man earlier tonight. And reminding me to not ask so many questions because I might ruin it. Which was great advice, by the way.” I hadn’t completely stuck with it. I’d asked too many questions. Pushed too much. Not about his past though. More about our future.
“Well…I had wine courage.”
“Yeah, I could tell. I thought that was why you deep throated a banana in front of Bennett’s friends, but now I know you do that on the regular.” I smiled.
She just stared at me.
Why was she being so weird right now? “Speaking of wine, I may have broken a wine bottle in the kitchen. Luckily it was empty or that would have been a major party foul.”
Zoey didn’t laugh. She always laughed at party foul jokes.
“Really, Zoey. I’m happy for you. So how many followers do you have on there?”
“They’re subscribers technically. And I’m done talking about this.”
I knew I’d been a little judgy when she first told me. But I was just surprised when I’d seen her go off every day for her personal fitness sessions. It was just reallyout of the blue. Especially because she announced it right after tackling me half-naked with a mask on. I was just on edge. But I probably shouldn’t have told her she needed to settle down. That was completely her choice.
And Callum and I still had a lot to talk about before we were ready to go on double dates. “Zoey, I’m sorry. What else do I need to do to make you forgive me?”
“I’m not upset with you.” Her words didn’t match the expression on her face.
“You should be upset…”
“I’m freaking out because you’re not answering my question!”
“What question?”
“Did Callum turn you?” she asked.
It was probably time to stop messing with her. But I was a little sad that my answer wasn’t different. “Oh. Um. No.”
She just kept staring at me. “How am I supposed to know if you’re telling the truth?”
“Because we’re friends.”
“I don’t think that’s good enough. You need to eat some of this.” She grabbed her abandoned container of garlic powder off the ground.
“I’m not eating that.”
Her eyes narrowed at me.
“I’m trustworthy. I wasn’t the one hiding the fact that I was a cam girl for… Wait, how long have you been doing this?”
Zoey shrugged. “A while.”
“How long is a while?”
“Like ten years or whatever.”
