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Video chat showed his face to the rest of us. He’d let his beard grow a little longer, though it was still well-trimmed.
I filled him in on our conversation with Will.
“So you believe it wasn’t him?” Adrian asked.
Maddox and Duncan both nodded. I did, too.
If the informant had been Will, it didn’t make sense, unless he was in communication with someone and having them act on his behalf.
Even still, what was the point? Will had sounded completely worn out and full of remorse and defeat.
“Yeah,” I said. “I believed him. But I still don’t like the lingering threat. If it wasn’t Will, then who was it? And how do they know about The Pact?”
“And will they stop their pathetic attempts now once the new paperwork is drafted?” Duncan added.
Adrian frowned. “Are you sure we contacted everyone who ever signed it?”
“Does it matter?” Maddox asked.
“You heard Will,” I said. “One of the other fraters out there is on his bandwagon. They’re out to get us forfalling in love.”
“I haven’t fallen in love with anyone,” Maddox said.
He’d taken the backseat and leaned his forearm against Duncan’s seat in front of him. “I’m not too worried. And Duncan isn’t about to let anyone have any say in his life except himself.”
“Ulrich, River, Knox, Hunter,” I mused, ignoring Duncan shoving Maddox’s arm off the seat and making him nearly hit his chin.
I skimmed through which of the guys had been on for the meeting. “Sean, Grey.”
“Wesley bailed without signing,” Duncan added. “So I don’t think we’ll have to worry about him.”
“Smart move,” I said.
“Who are we missing?” Adrian asked.
“What about Scarlet?” I peered at Maddox.
He rubbed a hand behind his neck. “Of course, you’d think of her.”
“You and Ulrich had it bad for her,” I said, remembering the way they both staked a crazy claim on her.
She’d messed around with other guys, too, but they were the only ones she went back to repeatedly.
“She signed it, too,” Maddox said after several long moments.
“You can’t really think Scarlet would do anything to hurt anyone,” Adrian said through the phone. “She was a big flirt and liked to get whatever she could from whoever she could?—”
Maddox grunted.
I wondered if he did have feelings for her. There had beensome words and fists between him and Ulrich over her a time or two.
As the fraternity sweetheart, she’d signed The Pact along with the guys, pledging she’d never fall in love, either.
“I can’t see her hurting anyone,” Maddox said.
“I can,” Duncan grunted. “We weren’t all her favorites.”
“You weren’t anyone’s favorite.”
