Page 67 of Same Thing
“Like any of you minded me in the first place,” Liam barked. “Come on, I gave all of you two days’ notice.”
“And you’re griping at the ones who are on this dumb zoom call,” Tabian said around a toothpick hanging out of his mouth. He seemed to be sitting outside a gas station, on a curb. “Which, by the way, I didn’t even know you knew how to use technology like this.”
“Nory set it up.”
“Where are you, Dodger?” Nory asked, squinting at the blurry sign behind him. It was hard to see details when most of the Pack were in little video windows on Liam’s phone.
“Arkansas,” he muttered.
“Why?” Tabian asked him.
“I don’t know, Tabian! I just started driving. Yesterday I visited one of those drive-through safari places just to see how tempting it would be to chase a zebra. I’m not doing well. Why are you in Wyoming?”
“Because I need to beg a Pack to let me in, and Wyoming has openings,” Tabian answered.
“Well, that…is…actually fair. I don’t have a plan like that,” Dodger grumbled.
He opened a package of chips with his teeth and started pouring it into his mouth when Nate joined the call. Delta was beside him. They seemed to be sitting on the bed in a cheap motel room.
“Dude, you didn’t have to text me thirty times,” Nate growled.
“Who are you talking to?” Liam asked.
“Vic the Dick.”
“No, Vic has a big Dick, get the nickname right—”
Nate smacked his middle finger on his phone a couple times, and his eyes were already glowing gold. “I don’t miss you, you annoying fuck.”
“Can I go now?” Vic asked. “This has been fun, but I would rather be doing literally anything else.”
Dodger was busy crinkling his package of chips as he dug them out. Vic was griping. Bridger had set up his phone looking at a brick wall and wasn’t even in the frame. Nate had also left the frame and left Delta to wave at the others. Tabian was driving and not looking at the phone, and Liam and Nory? Well, they were sitting on a pair of camp chairs they had dragged out to the property. Why? Because they’d decided to camp here tonight. It was freezing cold, and threatening to snow, but this seemed important to Liam to bond with this place. He was going to show her his wolf for the first time tonight.
“Nory did something,” Liam started.
“Break up another Pack? Damn girl, you’re on a roll,” Tabian said sarcastically.
“She got us a home.”
“Y’all are already moving in together?” Delta asked. She wore this little hopeful smile as she said it.
Nate sat back down beside her and had a towel as he was drying off his hands. “Where did you settle?” Nate asked curiously.
“Outside of Coeur d’Alene,” Liam said. “Can you see?” He held out his phone and scanned around the clearing slowly.
“Big property,” Vic said, frowning at the screen. “Nice tent. Nory, I hate to break it to you, but you’ll be bored of camping really quick with Liam. He’s an asshole in the mornings.”
“When have you ever even seen me in the morning?” Liam asked.
Vic shrugged. “I just assume.”
“We are just camping for fun,” Nory said. “I’ve still got my apartment through the end of the month, and the first of the houses is being delivered in three weeks.”
Dodger snorted and crumpled his chip bag into a little wad. “Okay, moneybags, how many houses do you need?”
“That depends,” Liam said.
“On what?” Bridger said, sitting down in the camera frame again.