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I cocked my head at my brother, to try to see what it was that this bag-of-dicks saw in him.

Purely theoretically, I recognized that my brother was an attractive guy, I guess. Like I’m not blind. I can see that his features are all proportional and what-not. He has that square jaw and rugged physique that could be on the cover of any steamy magazine cover. Then again, it was also a biological fact that it was physically impossible to rate a guy’s attractiveness when you watched him grow up in the awkward phase before he discovered how to use deodorant correctly.

“Hey, Titus! Were you looking for me?” He was practically batting his eye-lashes at my brother.

Titus gave me a side-eye, as if to ask me, why does this guy think I would be looking for him?

The alpha raised his hand like he was warding off an attack. “I’m sorry, I had no idea that this was your omega.”

“His omega?” I echoed.

What did he think that I was? A possession? The most delicious and prized cut of the steak. Or some fancy car or something.

“Uhh…” Titus scratched the back of his head, like he knew that he was missing something. “Dorian, this is my sister.”

Dorian turned his face slowly away from Titus to look back at me, and his face went pale. I could imagine him thinking over every word he’d just told me, as the cogs in that thick noggin of his figured out what he’d done.

I gave him a little half-wave as if I was meeting him for the first time. Might as well have been. Figures this guy needed to listen to another man to get introduced to me properly. He’d just tried to mansplain my own family to me.

“It was a good thing you talked with her anyway,” Titus was giving me a calculating look that I did not trust at all.

I narrowed my eyes at him, trying to silently communicate with him that whatever nonsense he had up his sleeve that he better knock it off.Now.

Titus smirked, as he kept going.

“Chloe is going to help me interview the alphas who want to be a part of my pack.”

No.

Nope. Not a chance.

I had too much on my plate already. That wasnotsomething I would…

“I’m glad that we were able to have our little chat then.” Dorian grinned at me, like he and I were in on a little secret together. Like our conversation had gone phenomenally well and all his little Stryker dreams about coming in my brother were about to come true.

Had he even heard himself talk? Did he honestly think that I had a decent impression after all of that?

But before I could correct him, and let him know that my brother was severely misinformed about my willingness to help his stupid cause, Dorian waved as he walked away from our table.

Just a few feet away Dorian was already on his phone,probably texting all the other alphas on campus how well his “interview” went with me. After news like that got out, there was no taking it back.

If what Dorian was saying was true, all the alphas were chomping at the bit to get into Titus’s pack.

I’d done my part to keep a low profile. Not answering all of the questions I knew in class. Not bringing up my background. And just like that, with one short conversation with my brother, and a few text messages, my quiet life at the Institute was irrevocably ruined.

CHAPTER 4

CHLOE

“I’m going to kill you.”I glared at Titus.

“Nah, you love me.”

“You did not just tell him that. People are going to get the wrong idea. Like they are going to have to getmyapproval to get into your stupid pack.”

“No. That’s why it’s a brilliant idea. I trust your judgment.”

I rage bit into my sandwich. Right into that perfect spot. It was still tasty, but it would have been better if everything didn’t look and taste like the little pocket of peace I’d managed to build for myself here was all about to come crumbling down into the dust.