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Scout is coming out of Gus’s room next door at the same time.
He looks over and gives me a wry smile. “Well, that was pretty unexpected.”
“It was something,” I tell him, reminding myself that Gus was the one who was right all along.
Maybe if I’d listened to him when he told us Scarlett wasn’t ours, things would be a little different right now. Maybe this was the way they had to happen.
Regardless, I don’t think Rueben is going to be pleased about what this means. Gus might be the only one with a smile on his face until our mate is ready to forgive the rest of us.
“What is it?” Scout asks, frowning at me.
“Gus might have been right about Scarlett.”
He blinks at me. “What? I don’t understand.”
“We’ll have to wait for our mate to wake up to get the full story, so let’s leave it at that. Will you make sure these two don’t wake up and go looking for each other?” I ask as I head back toward the staircase. “I want to be sure they’re feeling … like themselves before they make any life changing decisions.”
“You want me to stand guard?” He raises an eyebrow. “Seriously?”
“Seriously,” I tell him. “They might still be under the influence of the fates when they wake up.”
“You really think so?”
“I don’t know, but we don’t need any more surprises right now.”
“Fine,” he says. “I’ll stay out here and yell if anything weird starts to happen.”
He sits down on the landing floor, opposite the wall that’s between the bedroom doors.
I retreat to the kitchen, where Rueben is probably making a bigger mess instead of cleaning up.
Chapter sixty-one
Rueben
I can’t believe that just happened. Our mate kissed Gus. Gus! Of all the guys in this house she could have made out with this week, she picked that grumpy asshole.
First Scout upsets her, and now Gus is completely changing his mind about her.
Well, maybe. Not really, though.
He kept yelling that she isn’t Scarlett.
Denial, like Scout thinks, or perhaps something stranger?
Oh, yeah, and she’s an Omega. That reveal was way crazier than the last one on Alpha Island.
The sweet, citrusy scent that filled the air was like a little taste of what heaven must feel like.
It’s faded now, but there are still traces of it on the air making me take in deep breaths and let out satisfied sighs on the exhale.
Our true mate is an Omega, and she might not be who we think she is.
What a wild way for this day to start. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
I clean up the coffee from the table and dry it off with a towel, and I’m moving away from the table when I notice Scarlett left her purse hanging over the back of the chair she was sitting in.
Tossing the towel toward the sink, I get an impulsive thought.
