I Forgot I Loved You Alpha (Ellie and Nolan) novel Chapter 44

Chapter 44

“What?! No!”

“He sounds pretty serious about that,” Rae said thoughtfully.

“So you really don’t like cheaters?” I asked skeptically.

“Of course not,” Lance responded. “There’s nothing worse than somebody who would betray your trust like that.”

“How’d you like to prove that?” Rae gave me a curious look I smiled as I caught on to her idea.

“How would I do that?” Lance asked.

“Help us expose this cheater before our friend ends up married to him,” I suggested.

“It’s a great idea!” Rae said excitedly. “If we can find some kind of proof, then Steph won’t go through with it!”

“You want me to help expose your friend’s cheating fiancé o prove that I’m not a cheater?” Lance asked incredulously.

I shrugged. “Yeah, you got a problem with that?”

“Your logic doesn’t make any sense,” Lance said, shaking his head. “But if this guy is really a scumbag who’s cheating on his fiancée, then he deserves to be exposed. Som in.”

Rae made a little excited noise and clapped her hands. “Awesome! I don’t think I could handle two of my best friends being married to cheating bastards. Oh-no offense Lance.”

“No, my brother is a cheating bastard,” Lance replied with a slight smirk. “Don’t worry about insulting him in front of me.”

That made me laugh out loud, and the laughter rippled through the room, the three of us sharing a rare moment

of camaraderie.

“Seems like we actually have something in common after all,” I said, smiling at Lance.

He seemed to freeze for a moment before returning the smile.

“Yeah… I guess we actually do.”

Third Person POV

The sound of laughter coming from the living room was unexpected, mainly because of the addition of Lance’s voice.

The staff and betas in the pack house had grown accustomed to Rae and Ellie spending their afternoons together, eating lunch or talking in hushed tones. Their voices were beginning to blend into the background.

But Lance’s voice still gave them pause.

It was so strange to everyone who worked for Nolan that Lance was spending so much time around his brother. It was well known that he couldn’t stand him. The fact that Lance was now apparently voluntarily spending time in the pack house was already cause for speculation.

And now… hearing him laughing with Ellie?

It was almost too much.

One of the betas stood just outside the doorway, listening as the three of them talked. He couldn’t quite follow what they were saying-something about some drama with one of Ellie’s friends-but it was the way the three of

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them spoke that concerned him.

It sounded… friendly.

Not like they were faking being polite. And it lacked all the tension that used to exist whenever Lance and Ellie were in the same room together.

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