Shadow gives me a wry smile. “They probably won’t be too much longer.”
He was always extra observant, which seems to be a thing with Omegas.
They can tell how someone’s feeling as if they’re feeling it for themselves.
Usually, they restrict that empathic behaviour to the people they’re closest to.
We haven’t been in the same room in years, but it’s just as if I last saw him yesterday.
“She’s completely healed,” Owen speaks up from where he’s still leaning against the wall. “So, it won’t take long to see she’s doing fine.”
“Oh!” Shadow exclaims. “Ezra was one of Robin’s doctors.”
He looks over at Ezra. “Hey, Easy, come tell my brother about Robin.”
I glance over at the Alpha in the white coat. Ezra sat down behind the desk when Lana left, and he’s still there now, typing something up on the computer. Ezra, or “Easy” as my brothercalled him, looks over the top of the computer’s screen as he stops typing.
He glances at me before he frowns at Shadow.
“You know I can’t do that. She was a patient. He’s not her family.”
Shadow looks at me and bites his lip.
I know that expression he’s wearing.
He wants to tell, but I shake my head slowly.
“It’s fine. I’m sure Falcon will find out how she is while he’s talking to her.”
I already made the decision to keep the news about Robin being our true mate to myself, at least until I could get the chance to speak to Falcon about it, so I’m not going to let it slip just because my little brother feels like talking.
If I was alone with him, I know he’d already be asking me questions.
That would be a whole different situation.
He lets out a soft sigh, shoulders slumping slightly.
“So, what’s it like living here in the city?” I ask, keen to change the subject.
Shadow perks up a bit at the question. “I’m guessing that means you stuck to your plan of moving to a small town?”
“Yeah, it took us a while to drive out here. We’re close to Silver City back home, and we don’t visit the city too often. This is my first time back in Cressidan City, actually.”
“Small towns get kind of boring,” Shadow admits. “We lived in one of those for a while. The house was nice with a yard and everything, don’t get me wrong, but I wouldn’t go back.”
“Even if it meant you could go shopping more than once a month?”
Owen laughs. “Is that what he told you?”
Shadow shrugs, looking shifty as he runs a hand through his hair.
“It’s not true?” I ask, trying to remember what Pete said.
“Not even close,” Owen tells me. “We take him out whenever he wants, which, believe me, is way more often than any of the rest of us would prefer. The once-a-month thing is his big spree where he can go in as many stores as he wants and buy whatever he wants. The problem is Shadow would live in a mall if he got the chance, and we have too much work to do here to spend every waking moment outside of the academy.”
I can’t help but laugh. “He used to go everywhere with our mom. She was a real shopaholic. I guess she passed that along.”
Shadow’s lips twitch. “Yeah, but she would never buy what I wanted so I used to steal stuff.”
