Alex's POV
I couldn’t settle down.
I’d been pacing the length of my dorm room for the better part of an hour, my thoughts looping in a tight, maddening circle. Every time I thought I was ready to drop it, that stupid line Dorian had said earlier, you have more to lose than I do, came back, and my brain went right back to chewing on it.
It wasn’t like I hadn’t asked him what he meant. I had. The second the words left his mouth, I’d stopped dead and asked him to explain. He’d just laughed, like it was nothing, and told me I was overthinking it.
His exact words were, “You’re just way more passionate about being an alpha candidate than I am about becoming a Beta,” he’d said with that easy shrug of his. “I’m laid-back about the whole thing, while you take it seriously. That’s all I meant.”
