Page 95 of Marked By the Pack
“We can be alone. Just…within distance. The guys are downstairs. They know I’m talking to you.”
“So being with the same woman is because…you have to. Not because you want to?”
“I like being with you alone, Zoey. But I like the other stuff too.”
“You do?”
He smiled. “Don’t you?” He tugged my hand, pulling me onto his lap.
I straddled him.
He traced my lower lip with his thumb. “Answer me, Zoey. You like it too, don’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Then nothing has changed.”
“Otto, everything has changed.”
“Why? You liked Bennett touching you, didn’t you?”
That’s not what I was talking about. Although…“Titan vetoed me or something.”
“He’ll come around.”
I shook my head. “I wasn’t even talking about adding more guys into the equation. I’m talking about the fact that you’re a werecat.”
“I’m still me. We’re still us.” He pressed one of his hands against the center of my chest.
I took a deep breath. “Us?”
“I couldn’t ask you to be my girlfriend before Bennett got back. He usually decides these things.”
Ace and Huxley had told me that.
“But now? Aren’t you? My girlfriend?”
“Is that why you were sneaking around with me? Because you didn’t want to be caught? I thought I embarrassed you.”
He lowered his eyebrows. “Never. I needed to tell Bennett in person. You saw how he was tonight. He’s a dick when he’s out of the loop.”
Yeah, I’d heard some of what Bennett had been saying. But I’d been a little distracted by his fingers.
“And apparently you told him a bunch of times that you only like casual hookups,” Otto said. “You weren’t helping my case.”
“Well, I didn’t know that something like this arrangement was possible. If I did, I wouldn’t be single anymore.”
“So…are you not single anymore?”
I put my hands on his shoulders. “You’re a werecat.”
“That doesn’t answer my question.”
It should have. But he was right, it didn’t. Because right here right now we were just Otto and Zoey. “If I say yes, what does that mean exactly?” I couldn’t believe I was actually asking him this. “That I’m just your girlfriend or…”
“No. If you say yes, you’ll be dating all of us.”
“Don’t I need to go talk to all of your friends first?”
