BACK HOME, I WOULD have laughed in the alpha’s face. Here and now, I instead felt like I was tuning into the grand finale of a TV series I’d never before watched while surrounded by the show’s most ardent and devoted fans.
Because there was no way I planned to tie myself permanently to a Greenbriar werewolf when doing so would cut off the most important part of my life—the bond to my home pack. Of course, it would be rude to say as much. Instead, I pasted a polite smile onto my face...and deflected like a pro.
“I didn’t get to tell you about my job earlier,” I started. “But I’ll be working on campus. Baking cupcakes. Well, and other stuff too. Plus manning the coffee bar and taking out the trash. Actually, I’m supposed to start today....”
“You’re babbling,” Chief Greenbriar interrupted
