Chapter 778

“You scared me,” he said, shaking his head. “Why are you here?”

“Sorry to scare you,” I tell him, giving him a small smile. “But I’m going to have you sleep in my suite tonight with your father. We are spending the night here. It’s a girl’s night. There’s an extra bedroom in the suite with a TV, so you’ll have space for your gaming.”

Matt frowned.

“I don’t want to leave,” he argued. “Besides, Irene hasn’t come out of her room all day.”

I looked at Nan, who had a worried crease between her brows.

“Well, the boys are heading to my suite as well for a boys’ night. Chester and Erik, I think. Erik is off duty tonight and wanted to hang out, so they are heading there as we speak. I figured you’d want to see them, that’s all.”

Matt’s eyes grew wide; he loved Erik. He was the kind of gamma that Matt aspired to be, and it’s funny because I believed Matt was a better fighter.

“Okay, I’ll go,” Matt said, standing to his feet. “But you owe me.”

I laughed.

“I wouldn’t think otherwise,” I tell him, running my fingers through his brown, shabby hair. “Enjoy your night.”

He grabbed his gaming set and was out there within minutes

what do we do now?” Nan

to drag Irene out of her room,” I say as I head towards Irene’s bedroom. I had a feeling I knew which one was

was lying in bed, beneath the covers, and only the top of her

sleep.

on her back and

up,”

her sleeping face as it appeared once the covers shifted. But then my heart stopped when I saw the old tears on her cheeks and how pale

I say, shaking her again. “Wake up, Irene.

time, and her eyes fluttered open; the pale blues focusing on me for a moment before confusion fell across her face. Her

croak and filled with exhaustion as she lifted

my chest. “It’s not healthy for you to stay in this room all night, wallowing in self-pity when you should be planning for the

shook her head, still

“What time is it?”

her bedside table.

up further, her blonde hair falling across her shoulders. “I

glanced at her luggage that sat on the ground by her bed; Erik and the other gammas were kind enough to bring our things to our rooms, so they were waiting for us by the time we arrived. I spent

“We are only here for a short

you feel better… maybe more organized, if you unpacked a bit,” I tell her. “Come hang out with us. Nan is getting snacks. We can order

out

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