My Secret, My Bully, My Mates (skylar) by Miss l Free novel Chapter 446

“Okay, I didn’t do anything and I am exhausted. You really did this everyday, Bitty?” Oliver and I were sitting out at the patio table with the rest of the guys, Jena and Lil eating dinner and going over what we did for the day.

“Yeah, I don’t do it alone though. Not that you weren’t helpful.” I backtrack quickly. “I just don’t normally do the magic part on my own. It’s a lot. What about you guys? How was Sky training?” I smile at Jena and Lil. “Was Dwight as lippy this morning as he was yesterday?”

“Not after his smug ass was paired with me for the patrol run and then Alpha Jen for the first hour of training.”

“You have got to quit calling me that.” Jena complains. “And yes, that pansy will think long and hard before he says something smartass to a team lead again.

“Technically you are an Alpha, the Alpha of your pack in fact. Why should we not use your title?” Mateo is just stirring the pot. “I still call Alpha Lucas, Alpha and I will call the twins Alpha when it’s their time.” He shrugs like that is the most natural thing.

“But, like this, sitting here at dinner with no other pack members around, you will still refer to them by their title? I know you don’t. You have been friends your whole lives, you use their names in casual settings.”

She is sitting next to me, so when he leans in to whisper in her ear, I can hear everything.

“There is nothing casual about you.” He growls at her and I can feel my own face flush and she gasps low.

I have never seen my brother like this with any girl. He would flirt a little, but he seems to actually be trying here. He’s never given attention to one girl over another. I wonder if he is practicing for his mate. They will be 18 in the spring, maybe his wolf can sense a connection with her even though we have our warrior brands.

“Ugh, stop.” She pushes him away and Lil and I share a smile.

When we are all done and heading upstairs, I grab the girls and bring them with me. We have each been attached to at least one of the guys since we got here and I want a little time alone with my friends. No one questions it, until I shut the guys out of my room and we laugh at their whining protests.

“At least dinner wasn’t interrupted by the banshee and her dad.” Jena says. “It’s really hard to have a conversation with them around. They seem like the kind of people who take words and twist them or they like to spread gossip. I don’t know how your Alpha deals with it or why. It doesn’t make sense for him to just let them roam around the way that they do, and he seems like a pretty strong and authoritative Alpha most of the time. No offense to your Alpha, they just seem to have some underlying control that they shouldn’t.”