Ramsay leaned in and murmured, “So, you and Eric…”
I blushed. “What about us?”
“Did you?” He wiggled his eyebrows.
“I think he’s asking if you’ve had sex with Eric,” Colton offered.
Ramsay groaned. “Heknows, Colt.”
“Sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry. And, um…” My blush deepened. “Yes, actually.”
Ramsay laughed, slapping his knee. “Damn, my man Eric had it in him after all. And so did you, my little chosen one prophecy-owner.”
He kissed my cheek and I chuckled. Despite all my anxiety about the prophecy, Ramsay had made me laugh about it anyway.
“Seriously, though, I know about Neil, but what brought you two here?” I asked.
“Well, kind of the same reason, actually,” Ramsay admitted. “We knew we wanted to talk about it since you’d been staying with Eric for a few days already.”
“And we both got this feeling,” Colton murmured as he rubbed circles across his torso.
“Feeling?” I asked.
“Yes. Like I wanted to be near you.”
“Yeah, I got the same thing,” Ramsay said. “Being apart from you sucks.”
I smiled as a warm, fuzzy feeling burst in my chest. “You guys… I feel the same way. I miss you when you’re not around.”
“Glad that’s settled then.” Ramsay grinned. “Maybe we’ll stick around for a bit. Anyway, we should probably get inside before the lunch monitor starts yelling at us.”
“Agreed,” I said, noticing that Neil was already staring at us with narrowed eyes from inside the glass walls.
* * *
With Crystal still stationed outside,all the alphas and I gathered around the table. An uneasy tension still lingered in the air and I shuffled uncomfortably in my seat. Neil was throwing off the room’s balance with his charged, irritable aura, but he’d already made it obvious that he was here to stay.
Neil cleared his throat. “So, Matheson. Let’s get all the facts straight. What progress have you made so far?”
As everyone turned to face me, I stared at the table. “Um. Well, I was going off what Noro said at the Moon Meeting. About me finding a bond with an alpha from a different pack.”
Neil nodded, but I got the sense he wasn’t truly interested. “Right. Shall we recite the prophecy again?”
“Erm, let me see if I can remember it…”
“Oh,” Colton said. “Hang on.”
He pulled out the book Noro had given him and laid it gently on the table.
“Huh,” Ramsay said. “I was wondering where that thing went.”
“Youstill had it?” Neil growled. He snatched the book. “Did you harm it? Did you get it wet?”
“No,” Colton said a bit sadly. “I would never hurt a book on purpose.”
Ramsay patted him on the back. “Especially not one that important.”
