Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

433-Coming Inside.

“You didn’t answer me,” I repeated my question and waited for him to respond to me. He looked a little lost before he rolled his eyes at me to dismiss my emotions.

“It wasn’t Val! I mean, it was her, but it was some office work,” he said to himself in the same sentence and then walked past me to rush into the mansion.

“Sorry! I forgot you are —,” he said, stopping just as he was about to enter and turned to offer me his hand. I stared at his hand for a second before I didn’t accept it and strolled past him to the inside. I know he was busy somewhere, but that he didn’t even care about me as his friend had surprised me a lot.

Although there were no expectations left after that night, I was willing to stay silent until I found a way out of this town. Maybe I can try to leave with Oswin. I remember he had told me that he could offer one person the chance to live as a rogue with him, and Corbin might not be able to do anything about it because Oswin was a fighter, a hero now.

“Why don’t you rest a bit while I make a quick run to the office?” Lazlo helped me settle down in the bed first before sliding in the request. He sounded very low when talking about leaving this time. I noticed how he avoided eye contact and kept rubbing his hands.

“You have work to do at this time.” I frowned, watching him nod his head instead of answering me with words.

“You think you will be fine?” he asked, focusing on the blanket more than me.

was hurting from being low on energy. I bet I had a

stayed in bed for a few minutes, feeling a little weird about Lazlo and his late night meetings. I remembered asking one of the colleagues, and he was as surprised as I was. Nobody knew about these meetings, so who was he meeting,

to him. I haven’t

dialed his number for the next few minutes, but it seemed like he had turned off his

squirmed uncomfortably, touching my forehead and feeling this weird uneasiness

just close my eyes and—-,” As soon as I closed my eyes, the earth shook and the power cut

gasp and a hard tremble were all I could remember. I felt an

was that?” I asked myself, looking around in the dark and

is happening?” A loud thud on all the windows made me let out a yelp before I jumped off the bed and started pointing my phone’s

uttered, feeling a light headache once again. It had to be because of the instant movements. But the earthquake and the power cuts

started calling Lazlo’s number, but he didn’t pick up. He has expressed his disagreement with me for taking over the matter. I would have still done my research if I had my wolf with me. Being a human

to speak to Lazlo and inspect what is going on. The instant I was out of the mansion, I was surprised

asked them, realizing what might have caused them to leave

to get in,”