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Clicking the phone off, I handed it back to Jack.

“There is no way that invitation arrived the same day it was mailed in a state that’s over a thousand miles away,” I spoke directly to my pet.

Albert gave a happy oink.

“And you just happened to have it right when I was wondering what my next step should be?” I narrowed my eyes at him.

Albert’s only response was to stretch his tiny front legs and flop down on the mattress to sleep.

Rez and Zon tossed out their ‘I told you so’s,’ while Jack laughed at me for being suspicious of Albert. But I ignored his teasing and continued to watch my beloved pet long after the guys had drifted off to sleep.

Unable to stop myself, I whispered, “Albert Einswine, you are just a pig. Right?”

Albert’s eyes opened instantly. While he’d always been a smart cookie, there was an inhuman intelligence shimmering in those depths, which made no sense. If he were a mate, why wouldn’t he shift?

My cheeks grew hot as I thought back to the nights he’d watched me cry into a pint of ice cream while watching my favorite chick flicks. I’d confided all my secret worries and fears to him, thinking he couldn’t understand.

And horror of all horrors… had he watched me use my pocket pleaser to take care of certain biological needs? I’d always shut him out of the room, but now that I thought back on it… there were more than a few times he managed to get through closed doors.

I was tired and overreacting. Right?

We stared, neither of us blinking. Just as I told myself I was being silly, Albert winked before going back to sleep.

Maybe the dinos had been onto something when it came to pigs…

Why did I get the feeling nothing in my life would ever be normal again?