Logan’s face tightened. I knew he was dying to hear her voice.
“No. Her damn phone’s still disconnected.”
Shoulders and biceps bulging further, big enough that they’d need their own zip codes, Logan pumped the extra weights up and down.
“Three Comet scum are here!”someone shouted over the DD mind-link.
T and C’s heads whipped to the right. A heartbeat later, the heavy weights smashed against the floor as the two dashed out.
“I’m sorry, baby, I’ll be back!” I called to my pizza, jogging after them.
The hope of seeing their females, protecting them from our pack members, won over any other feelings. Once at the spot, however, Logan let out a husky sound of displeasure.
Oh, got it. His mate wasn’t there.
But C froze, brows scrunching, mouth dropping.
I clearly heard Callum’s heart accelerate, thenstop. For several dangerous seconds. It literally skipped three beats.
The mate bond was some serious shit.
And the petite female had a similar reaction, except where C paled, she blushed so had that her cheeks could’ve competed with the red of the tomato sauce on my pizza.
Ah. So this was the girl that was going to teach my virgin bro all about sex.
I briefly assessed my twin’s mate with curiosity and realized two things concurrently: one, C and his mate hadn’t stopped staring at each other during this sickly sweet scene; and two, the other female from Comet looked somewhat familiar. Had I slept with her?
Logan narrowed his eyes at the three Comets before he mind-linked the small DD gathering, telling them to piss off and find something else to do.
His attention stayed on them for exactly four extra seconds before he grunted and stalked away.
“Well,Terminator,” the Comet dude mocked. “You’re my best friend’s mate. I guess that’s payback from my past life. No, the past ten lives!”
Hearing that, Logan halted without glancing back, his back to them.
“Are you happy that, thanks to you, she’s been forced to skip her very important classes? Do you know how much damage this could do to her university career? How much she could fallbehind? Huh? Do you? You don’t even read! Okay, maybe you have a manual on taxidermy.”
I’d have to check how to taxidermy him.
My T-man, as immune to insults as he had been to females since meeting his mate, wasn’t in the mood to waste his time on that Comet louse and began to leave again.
“Yeah, yeah. Sure! Just go away.” He flipped off his retreating back, eyes full of liquid resentment. “You aren’t the one who had to cross an entire ocean to get some peace from the betrayal of your own mate!”
At that, Logan stopped again—but this time, his stance was different. His whole body stiffened. The cords in his neck tensed as fists clenched.
“But how would you know? Do you even need to attend exams, or do you just pass automatically, just because you’re you? Huh?”
The disrespect, under normal circumstances, would’ve earned him a black eye or two. But in that moment, Logan was frighteningly calm. Deadly silent. And for those who knew him well, like me, it was a terribly dangerous fact.
Oh, fuck, no.I needed to intervene.
“He passes ‘cause he’s awesome. I bet an ugly ass like you needs to repeat.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted my twin and his mate. They were whispering to each other in their private, newly formed bubble. Callum was watching her, and she was looking back up at him.
Their height difference was noticeable. Cheeks flustered, hands clasped right in front of their drumming chests—it could’ve been the perfect portrait for an artist who wanted to depict what new love looked like.
Unfortunately, things were about to get ugly.
