Page 25 of Same Thing
“Ummm, we also aren’t supposed to be fucking humans,” Nate pointed out.
“Yeah, but that’s a loose law,” Vic said, chewing on a toothpick. “Liam’s house burned down, and he’s got to deal with this shit show. I would fuck a human too if it gave me an escape. Hell, maybe I have.”
“You have not,” Dodger said.
“I might have,” Vic said, his eyebrows arched high.
“Dude, gross. They’re fragile. What if you fucked it to death—”
“Fucked it to death?” Tabian choked out. He looked at Liam. “Can that happen?”
“Why are you asking me?” Liam demanded, grossed out by the turn in conversation.
“Because you’re the human-fucker.”
“Oh my God, I have never fucked a human in my entire life, don’t call me that.”
“You just admitted you’re going to fuck the human,” Tabian pointed out. “Oh my gosh, you could video it and make a million dollars.”
“Is she hot?” Vic asked. “What does she look like?”
Nate opened his mouth to join in the joking, but Liam pointed at him and told him, “If you say she’s a six, I will bust you right in your mouth.”
“Wooo, defensive,” Vic joked.
Delta was looking back down at the table again, but Liam could see a little smile on her face.
“I hate all of you,” he griped as he stood. “I’m leaving, meeting dismissed, I’ll keep you all updated on whatever the Elders come up with for a pairing.”
“Off to see your human?” Tabian sang in a stupid, baiting voice.
“No, I’m not going to see the human I just met literally less than a day ago. I’m going to my den to sift through rubble for a few hours looking for any of my old life that is salvageable, and then I’m going to get some work done. Don’t fight today, please. I don’t want a single text saying so-and-so just got killed for whatever dumb shit you come up with to fight over. I’m tired.”
“Hey, Bridger, want to fight?” Vic called.
“Yes,” Bridger said immediately.
He really would. “First official order, as your Alpha,” Liam said, turning on them. “No fighting today. No fighting,” he said to Bridger. “No fighting,” he said to Vic. He repeated it to each of them but Delta, who could barely muster a whisper to them, so they were all super safe from her wolf starting a fight here.
“Oren would’ve let us fight. I miss him,” he heard Vic say as he left.
Liam rolled his eyes closed and heaved a sigh. There had been a lie infused in Vic’s voice as he’d said that, and Liam knew he was just saying it as a joke, but sometimes he did miss Oren. The old Oren before he went crazy on bloodlust. Liam didn’t miss what he turned out to be.
Pick an Arrangement. Fuck the human.
The bright sunlight hurt his eyes as he made his way across the yard to his truck.
Only one of those things sounded appealing.
Chapter Seven
Nory was over the moon.
It had been two days since she’d gone for coffee with Liam, and when he texted her this morning unexpectedly when she was at work, she’d been so excited.
He’d started off by saying they needed to talk, and she was all for it. As soon as she saw the first three numbers on the caller ID pop up as the three numbers she’d remembered from Liam’s phone, she’d asked who it was just to double-check. He’d answered right away.Liam.
Relief had flooded her as he joked and talked about his day. He’d said he’d been hanging out with his Pack over the last couple of days and hadn’t been getting back to the apartment complex until late at night, and she’d gone all in. She’d even sent him a picture of the cute pair of German Shephard puppies she groomed today. He’d stayed in the conversation and sent her some pictures of some gorgeous woods back, and admitted he’d Changed earlier today, and her crush had grown by the minute. He was being more open now and she loved getting to know him. She’d been distracted all day, and equal parts nervous and excited, because he’d asked her out on a date. That’s what he’d called it. A date at a nice restaurant called Theodore’s. She’d never been there before, but she already knew what she would wear for it. She’d been saving this skintight green dress for the perfect occasion, and tonight was the night.