“Yeah. Whatever. Those.”
“Yo! You guys ready?” Nash’s voice boomed through the cabin, echoing against every honeyed plank.
My laughter dried up, and the blush drained from Niall’s face.
“Nikki’s getting dressed!” He turned and padded toward the living room.
I started to close my door when Adalyn strode down the narrow hallway, white-blonde hair swinging like twin blades beside her ears.
She walked into my bedroom and plopped down on my bed, but then sniffed the air and bounded off as though it were a crime scene. “Someone’s been busy . . .”
“Says the unreachable best friend.”
“Grams put out her hip, so it’s been cray-cray atcasaReeves.”
“Crap. Sorry, Ads. I’m guessing she’s not running tonight?”
“Nope. Not even crawling. Should’ve heard her rail at Darren when he shot her up with Sillin. I swear Doc was quaking in his boots.” She smirked.
I pulled on leggings and a T-shirt—without underwear since I’d be in fur in less than an hour.
“Do you realize this is my last run as a single woman?”
I rolled my eyes. “You haven’t been single for a while now.”
“True.” She smiled, which made her blue eyes glitter like the pond’s surface. “Nineteen more days. It feels both light years away and like tomorrow.”
In less than three weeks, I’d get a sister.
And possibly a mating bond, if Lycaon decided to bestow one upon me this solstice.
I decided to focus on the sister part, because the latter was upsetting my stomach. Especially when I ran the list of eligible bachelors in the pack through my mind and not a single one made my heart flutter. Of course, it could be a human or someone from another pack.
“Girls, come on!” Nash’s tone smacked of impatience and nerves, whisking us away from contemplations of the future and slamming us back into the present.
Adalyn and I exchanged a wary glance as I tied up my hair at record speed and left the sanctuary of my bedroom. I put on my boots and grabbed my jacket, then hightailed it toward Nash’s SUV, which was already purring. Ads and I piled into the backseat. We’d barely shut the door before my brother gunned the car out of the short driveway and up the road, past my parents’ house, which was eerily dark.
Pulses pounded so loudly in the car that they overpowered the heavy bass drifting from the stereo.
“Can’t believe I’m finally going to meet the rest of the OBs tonight,” I said, mostly to fill up the silence.
Niall spun around to face me. “Shit. I forgot you still haven’t met them all.”
“There are some really hot single ones.” Adalyn clung to the grab handle as our fast and furious driver shot onto the main road, spraying snow and salt.
“Oh, really?” Nash’s gaze locked on hers in the rearview mirror.
I tried to muster a little excitement at the prospect of meeting potential mates, but between Liam’s scent that clung to my skin like lotion and Nash flooring the gas pedal, I couldn’t muster a single ounce.
“Have you forgotten you’re taken, Miss Reeves?” Nash added pleasantly.
She laughed, which was such a welcomed sound. “How could I forget when you keep me on such a tight leash?”
Niall made some loud gagging sounds.
“I was just reminding Nikki about keeping an open mind and an open eye.”
A beat of silence resonated through the car.
