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““Do you think he even wants to be friends?” I finally asked them. “Rocco, I mean. Dude Rocco, not Wolfie here.” I patted the wolf’s head awkwardly. “He has you guys. That’s plenty of friendship for one guy, I’d think. And I’m,” I waved a hand toward all of me. “Weird.”
Dax and Elliot both shot me raised eyebrows, and didn’t reply right away.
My face reddened. “Guess that’s a no.”
“Rocco’s never met someone he didn’t want to be friends with,” Elliot said, shaking his head. “It’s not a no. He gets along with everybody.”
Except me, probably. He hadn’t even wanted to look at me, or say hi to me, the first time we met so it was probably safe to assume that he wasn’t interested in being friends.
“Hmm.” I made a noise that I hoped didn’t portray my feelings on the matter.
“Mates almost always find that their personalities fit together perfectly. I’m sure you guys will hit it off,” Elliot added.
I already knew that “almost” was the key word in those two sentences, especially as they applied to me.
“Maybe,” I said, not wanting to let myself hope for something unlikely.
Zed stepped into the doorway, leaning up against the wall with an impact driver dangling from his fingers. “You’re going to have to build your own bed frame,” he drawled to me. “There’s no way I can do it without making it smell like me—which will piss off Furry over there.”
Damn.
He must’ve been listening, and heard how awkward shit was getting.
My freakin’ hero.
“Yeah, I want to learn how to use an impact driver anyway,” I said quickly, standing up. Wolf-Rocco stood with me, of course. “In case I buy more furniture or decide to decorate or something.”
“The walls are pretty bare,” Elliot agreed, flashing me a grin that said he knew what I was doing and wasn’t offended.
These guys needed to be careful, or I was going to start to actually like spending time with them.
“They’re completely bare,” I corrected him, crossing the room.
“You seem like a girl who’d like a colorful place.” Elliot was still grinning.
“If by colorful you mean multiple shades of black, then yes.” I tossed him a grin of my own as wolf-Rocco and I crossed the hall behind Zed.
