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Devlin scoffed. He folded his thick forearms over his massive chest. “Eleri’s happiness is far more important to me than anything else. Obviously, I don’t want her to lie to me just to inflate my ego. It wouldn’t even hurt my feelings, anyway. If she wants bites from all of you, then I want to know.”
I gestured with my cigarette. “Well, then, Eleri?”
She looked at me in horror, betrayed.
Devlin looked at her, and he read it in her expression, or maybe he finally properly interpreted her scent. His expression registered surprise and then pain. His jaw twitched and he got himself back under control. “But, then, Eleri, why would you say…?”
I smoked.
Everyone else looked at their shoes.
Devlin fixed me with a gaze I would term murderous.
I gave him a crooked little smile of satisfaction.
“I hate you, Sinclair Doyle,” he said in a flat voice.
“Join the club,” I said, blowing out smoke.
Devlin went back into the house. I watched as he disappeared through the living room, and then I heard the front door open.
Moments passed, and then the car outside started and drove off.
I let out a laugh. “He’s such a baby sometimes.”
The other three looked up at me, and their gazes were murderous, too.
“What?” I said. “He needed to know.”
17
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I HAD TO admit it was a dick move, taking the only car and leaving all by himself. I loved Devlin, but I was a little annoyed with him at the moment.
I called the palace and arranged for a car, one with enough room for all of us and with something to haul back Sinclair’s bike, even though he said he wanted to ride it himself. I put my foot down and said I wasn’t letting him run off after this. We were all going back together.
Sinclair wouldn’t have listened if Devlin had tried to tell him what to do, but I scented something when I said we’d be together, and I pushed, knowing he was going to cave. I hadn’t spent a lot of time getting to know Sinclair, but I was realizing Eleri was right about how much pain he was in.
The way he’d reacted when Devlin said he wouldn’t be in the pack?
Yeah, Sinclair wanted to belong.
I got it. I understood the way it felt when Devlin rejected you, after all.
So, we ended up in a van, me and Sinclair in the back seat and Maguire and Eleri in the seat in the middle, the motorcycle dragged on a trailer behind us.
Eleri kept trying Devlin on her phone, but he wasn’t picking up. “What should I text him?” she said, but she was mostly talking to herself.
“Let him be,” said Sinclair.
“No, I can’t do that. It was my fault that he left,” she said.
“It was Sinclair’s fault,” I countered. “But I think Sinclair happens to be right. Leave Devlin be. Let him sulk on his own.”
Sinclair laughed.
“That’s not entirely fair, is it?” said Maguire. “I can see why he was upset. I’ve heard you say it to him a lot of times, Eleri. Especially while I’ve been in bed with you two. You seemed pretty sincere.”
