Ali’s POV
Stopping just outside the door to the dining hall, I take a second to lean against the wall, flip my hair over my shoulder and steel myself to enter into the suffocating crowd again.
What I really want to do is to just grab Ralph’s hand and drag him away and escape to our room together.
Well, maybe not our bedroom…not yet.
Who knows what Ella and Beta Cory are doing in there right now.
Making a mental note to ask Bertha to change my bedsheets, I finally step around the corner and almost collide with Beta Chris.
Luckily, he is a Lycan and avoids me by smoothly stepping aside, looking past me down the hall as he does so.
“Oh, whoops, sorry.”
His eyes flick down at me.
“Congratulations, Luna Ali.”
“Thanks, Beta Chris.”
He looks past me again, almost as if he is searching
