Break the silence he had been holding since she walked in. He didn’t. He turned. And followed her out. The evening had been ruined and moments later, as Daniel and I stepped outside the restaurant, the air was colder. Cleaner.
I didn’t realize how tightly I had been holding myself together until I stepped onto the pavement and felt it loosen slightly.
“That was … something,” Daniel said beside me.
“Yes.” I sighed deeply.
“You know them well.” He frowned, but I knew that he knew. Two alphas, living so close to the same town and moving around the same borders, clearly knew each other. It wasn’t a question. I glanced at him.
He wasn’t probing. Not pushing. Just … observing.
“I used to,” I said.
“That didn’t look like ‘used to.’” he frowned. No. It hadn’t.
“There are complications.”
