I cook breakfast for the house the next morning, hoping to make some sort of amends with Cooper without actually having to apologize—something I feel firmly that I should not have to do. Julia, Max, and Dean partake, but Cooper is nowhere to be found.
I start to fear the worst—that he went back to Aidan’s last night after I heard that door slam—and Dean seems to sense it. To my surprise, he gives me a short, sweet kiss after finishing his breakfast and says, “Meet you in the car.”
He’s leaving me alone with the vamps, I realize. To talk freely with them about Cooper.
God, I love him.
“Do you guys know where Coop is?” I ask them carefully.
They exchange a guarded look before Julia speaks. “No, but he’s okay. Texted us this morning that he’d meet us at school. Do you know something we
