I mean, Midnight is weird and sometimes mean - but god, she’s certainly brave and spirited and…kind of hilarious.“Yeah, Mids!” Jesse says, exasperated. “You should be loyal to me, and to Juniper the Rat! Because we’re your family now and we’d never betray you!”“And to me, please,” Anton says, lean
“All right, all right, no tears,” Jesse says while he laughs, sitting and wrapping an arm around Midnight’s shoulders and tugging her close. “So, we’re doing this? Fortune telling or…whatever?”Orion sighs, looking around and then heaving a big shrug of his wide shoulders. “I mean, if you’re all goo
“Oh, you’re just being nice because June’s upset,” Anton sighs. I turn to glare at him, but he just shrugs, unwilling to budge from this point.“Seriously, Jesse,” Orion says, leaning forward with interest. “If you heard, without Juniper there, that she was engaged to this guy – what would your impr
“Quiet,” Laila breathes, her voice a hush. “Let me concentrate.”Even as the six of us lean forward to get a better look at the map and the divination tools scattered across it, we remain very quiet, waiting, barely daring to breathe lest we disturb something.Laila looks left and then right at both
Jesse whips his head to Anton in shock and then turns towards Orion with a snarl, his canines extending. “If you fucking touch any of my baby sisters –““Whoa,” Orion says, his hands snapping up in a plea for mercy. “Whoa, whoa – all of this is news to me, okay?”Anton and I go still as Jesse contin
“Oh, go away Jesse,” I snarl, smacking at him in turn.“Okay, we’ll do that,” Midnight says, reaching out for Jesse’s arm. “Let’s go, boy.”Jesse skitters away from his mate with a gasp, staying out of her reach. “What!? No! We’re staying!”“We have to go home!” Midnight sighs, reaching again.“No,
“Okay,” Jesse says, putting a hand on Midnight’s shoulder, noticing her discomfort. “Nice to meet you, Laila and Orion. And I love you, June and Tony. I’ll see you tom-“But Midnight doesn’t let him finish, looking excitedly around at all of her presents and vanishing them away, eager to get them ho
But I just wait for Anton to reply, unwilling to let the slightly awkward silence get to me. Because I’m not letting him distract or joke his way out of the question this time.“Come on, Anton,” I say, holding his gaze. “You know every detail of my romantic life and you refuse to tell me anything ab