When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 189

Chapter 189

‘I’m here.” I way when I spot the tricy waiting behind Travis’s sports car. Travis is the file to turn toward me and be

“Hey stranger. You really needed that much sleep?”

“Of course I did.” I fold my arms and feel the blush arrive before I can stop it. It’s not easy fighting Dragon Class”

“Uh, take a look at our upper Dragon Class lu-

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1 widen my eyes at Lolly so fast she catches it immediately and sticks her tongue out, catching herself right at the edge of the word “Luna”

“Lu what Wren asks, looking between us.

“Lolly” Lolly smiles, glancing at Wren and Travis who clearly understand nothing about what almost just happened.

“How many drinks have you had?”

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“I had just a soda-*

“Shall we?” I clap once and Wren and Travis start walking forward, which gives me exactly enough space to pinch Lolly hard on the arm. She yelps quietly. “I swear you’re fired when we get back-

“CEO, CEO -please-”

I chuckle.

“Lolly, think about this. Just after that fight today I already have the most incredible inspiration for what our next launch is going to be.”

“Really?” The dollar signs appear in her eyes instantly. “We’re going to be so booked. Milan, Paris, Morocco..but what’s the idea behind it.”

“Look around you.” I gesture at the campus around us as we move into the crowd of students and she squints, trying to see what I’m seeing. What I see is differentiation….every wolf here carrying something specific, something particular to their bloodline, their abilities, their weakness. Since I arrived at Wolf Arts I’ve seen advanced wolves up close in ways I never had before. The Twin Alphas rising from that river water.., terrifying in the moment but the image alone enough to fuel an entire collection.

My fight with Cassie. The way Anita’s claw entered my spine and the white vision that flooded everything afterward. Even the pain of it belongs somewhere in the work.

“We’re going to have a very busy year.”

It definitely feels like three and a half weeks here. But I feel like I have what I came for already and even more of what wanted. If I said this near Emris, he’d book a flight back to Virginia at once.

“We have what two, three months left.” Lolly does the math. “Anyway, forget the juicy creative stuff. How did the Alpha reward you?”

I pause.

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the best night life of his life. Or our lives.

the sea that good, you have to think aboung?

Poor Travis He doesn’t even know you have a mate” Lolly shakes her head

“He likes me? I ask because I genuinely cannot read it and I don’t want to believe it if it’s true. Whet, other males show affection toward me I genuinely cannot parse it. The only affection I can read clearly is Eraris’s, which has always been impossible to miss

“Yeah he does. We’re gonna go back to our real world eventually and they’re going to find out who you actually are. A Luna Me, the assistant director of Metra, one of the highest art companies in the country. She shakes her head. “It’s going to be a lot I feel bad lying to Wren especially

“I feel the same way but-

Wren looks back at us from where she’s walking next to Travis and her face is completely red….Lolly and I smile back at her and I frown internally, because shit…I forgot she likes Travis too.

Now, they’re walking side by side.

We are in the middle of Ascension night, the party split between inside the building and outside on the campus grounds. There’s bonfire going and students everywhere. I can hear congratulations being called toward me from different directions

as we move.

I’m scanning faces and smiling back when I notice Cassie is nowhere.

“Looks like Cassie left Wolf Arts completely.” Wren holds her phone out and we stop to look. It’s a video of Cassie coming out of the lodge, loading luggage into a taxi and getting in.

“No way, Lolly says.

We’re still looking at it when someone near the bonfire yells and I lift my head to Laura moving toward us through the crowd, walking fast, with a tight expression. Someone puts their hand on her shoulder to stop her and she faces them so sharply that the people nearby take a small step back.

“No..really, look around you. Does it look like I need a mother at this age? And even if I did, I promise you it would not be stepmother

“Whoa” Lolly looks at Travis. “Who is your sister arguing with?”

Travis walks away from us immediately toward Laura and the person she’s facing. I watch Laura curse and turn!

Then her eyes find me but I look away first. I look left only for me to lock eyes with someone else entirely

An older lady who’s got white hair. Not dyed because I can tell the difference now. I know what natural while looks like. The person Laura was speaking to is older. A White Omega, clearly, standing on the landscape.

I look away. Because whatever is happening between Laura and her…tepmother? At the edge of a college party is none is my business tonight.

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