“I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what it means, but okay. We can pretend to be innocent and saintly if that’s what you want.” He shrugs when I glance at him.
He’s not wrong.
Robin has already made it clear she’s a part of our pack, and I figured that was a good thing, like Harper’s assuming now, too.
But what if it’s not?
There are packs out there who don’t share everything.
Packs with complicated dynamics.
Alphas who claim all their mates, and Betas who only get to be with some of those mates, for a multitude of reasons. I’ve seen it before. I can’t pretend I haven’t.
Falcon and Shayne aren’t the kind of Alphas who would want a splintered pack, but we don’t really know anything about Robin.
What if she’s only into Alphas?
“What?” Harper asks, as if I just spoke.
Right. Yeah. He can feel what I’m feeling.
It’s funny how hard it is to get used to that.
I clear my throat. “Everything’s happening a little fast, that’s all. We haven’t even seen a picture of Robin. All we know is she had a crappy start in life, and Falcon rescued her from that creepy asshole’s house.”
“True,” Harper murmurs.
He doesn’t dig any deeper, so I guess he’s satisfied with that explanation.
I’m not, and I know I won’t be happy until we’ve met her, and we know for sure what we’re going to mean to each other.
Getting closer to the academy, I can’t help thinking the day is going to feel a lot longer than it actually is. It’s barely ten a.m. and I’m going to have to find another way to occupy my thoughts if I don’t want Harper thinking something’s wrong with me the whole time.
I let him make the call to Shayne when we arrive at those golden gates.
He barely gets the words out when they start to open for us.
His grin shows exactly how he’s feeling.
I try to let his enthusiasm sink in.
To let it replace my influx of pessimism.
Driving onto academy grounds, I find my smile as Harper talks excitedly about everything he’s seeing out the windows.
Whatever this is going to be, it’s in fate’s hands now.
Chapter Ninety-Nine
Harper
The academy building is crazy huge. It’s kind of creepy how well the forest around us hides it entirely from sight until we’re on the grounds of the property. The parking lot at the front of the building has a lot of empty spaces, but we’ve passed at least seven security guards, so either a lot of the people who work here live in the city within walking distance, or they live in the academy like the head of the school does, and like we’re about to.
“It’s like a castle.” I stare up at the building as I get out of the car.
The double doors look like heavy wooden castle doors.
The windows have wooden shutters that are pinned open.
