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Devyn nods. “Of course. Thank you again for everything.”
River mumbles a goodbye to me as his fingers play with the sleeve of his jacket. As the detectives drive away, I stay in my driveway, dumbfounded.
They’re going to help me.
But not only that, for the first time in a long time, I have a crush.
On two Alphas.
16
LANDON
River smells like Skylar, all sweet and vanilla, and I fight the urge to growl.
I’m not envious—I like to think I’m above acting like a teenager.
But something is different about him.
I sit in the passenger seat of his car, and the vehicle is nothing but musk and sugar.
Nothing but delicious Omega.
“How was it?” I ask as evenly as I can. “Did she sleep okay?”
He chuckles to himself, a smirk forming on his face. “Yeah. She did.”
“I didn’t expect you to spend the night,” I add.
That gets his attention. “What are you saying?” he asks, suddenly irritated. “Of course I spent the night. She had a fucking concussion.”
I remain silent.
We pull out of the neighborhood, and suddenly it clicks for him. “You think I fucked her?”
I shrug. “It’s not my business if you did.”
It is my business, though. Everything about her is slowly becoming my business.
What the hell is wrong with me?
River yanks the wheel so hard my head jostles. “You piece of shit. You think I would take advantage of her like that?”
“Can you stop throwing a tantrum for two seconds? You’re going to get us both killed!” I yell at him.
He corrects the car and grips the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turn white. “Listen, asshole,” he growls. “Think what you want of me, but I don’t want any harm to come to her. And I sure as shit would never do something like that. To fucking anyone,” he snaps.
I sigh. We may not get along, but I’ve worked with River long enough to know that even if he’s insufferable, he does have morals.
“I’m sorry,” I say honestly. “That was a fucked-up thing for me to say.”
He huffs, then nods. “Sure.”
We drive on in silence until I receive a text.
“Hey, they caught a kid selling O and want us to come talk to him. The location is only forty-five minutes away,” I say.
River sits up straighter. “Just tell me how to get there. I’m ready.”
