Chapter 27

RUBY.

I didn't know whether to feel happy or annoyed that he came looking for me. And the jealousy brewing in those ocean-blue eyes—what was it for? For a moment, I was stunned, watching him fight his wolf off as though he wanted nothing more than to transform and beat the hell out of the Alpha of the Meadowdale pack—who I had come to know as Liam, Alpha Liam.

Then he claimed me as his, and after a little exchange between him and Alpha Liam, he announced that I was his girlfriend. Was I surprised? No. Shocked? Yes!

Even though I had somehow come to the conclusion that he was sort of interested in me—sort of like I said, maybe it was only for a fleeting moment—I didn’t think he could lie about us in public like that. In fact, there was no us. There was just him and me, two different individuals who were talking to each other because I found myself in his pack, which, up to this moment, I didn’t know how possible it was. Fine, I had run out of the Oakwood pack that night and ended up in