Since the Beta had more than awkwardly dumped me in the hospital and ran, I had barely seen him. He had called in each day with a coffee, as promised, but there had always been an excuse as to why he had to head off. Always an urgent pile of paperwork that needed his attention. Or some incident in pack that simply could not be solved without his prescense. In short, it was clear he did not want to be around me. Why he did not just open up and admit that what had happened between us had made him feel uncomfortable I do not know.
It had confused me more than made me uncomfortable. It had felt good to be that close to him, and that scared me. Learning he and I had shared some form of history intrigued me, but nobody seemed willing to elaborate on that history, and I had tried to find out mo
