Page 121 of Tempting Fate

Drew pulls a face. Dax’s lips twitch. “Yeah, we tend to do that,” he says.

“He says he’ll talk to the three of us too, whenever we want,” Em continues, and he’s looking at Drew now. “I suppose you all might have got through some issues waiting for us.”

Jamie frowns but doesn’t comment when Drew shrugs. “I guess so,” he says. “I mean, obviously, yeah, come to us with whatever. We’re pack. We’ll help.”

“Thanks,” Jamie says. He sighs and leans against me. “You’re coming back with us tonight, right?”

His scent changes. Desire thumps in my chest, and I get it. We’re through the worst of it. We have a new pack—even if I’m not officially part of it yet, that will all be sorted in the next few days—and we have each other.

“Cate’s going to have to stay,” Em says. “She’s not heading all the way back tonight.”

Across the room, Cate perks up. “I’ll get a hotel,” she calls, proving that she apparently has hearing just as good as any wolf’s.

“No, you won’t,” Sam says with a scowl. “We have plenty of room for you—one of the new flats is still empty.”

Alpha Kieran watches all this from his seat on Lucien’s lap, apparently content to let his second handle things. Cate shrugs even as Em frowns.

“But you—”

“Sounds good to me,” Cate says. “I have like a thousand more questions.”

Sam grins and drops back on the sofa. “Ask away.”

“We’ll have lunch tomorrow,” Cate says to Em. She gives us all a knowing look. “Stress is over, boys. Go have fun.”

“Jesus,” Em mutters. Jamie cackles.

I look at Alpha Kieran. “Do we need—”

“Nothing else tonight, I think,” he says. “We’ll have you all back next week if you want to do your official joining ceremony then? Talk to Nick about the house, too. I’ve no problem with you staying there, but he might want to know how many new housemates he’s going to have.”

“Will do!” Jamie says, and in the next second, he’s the one pulling us both over to the door. “See you all later.”

Their laughs—not cruel, not mocking, but the laughs of people who are genuinely happy for what we’ve found in each other—follow us out into the hall.

“Come on,” Jamie says, “let’s go home.”