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The wolves were giving us a wide berth. Except for Kyla, who’d just strutted in, a huge grin on her face.
“Well, well, well,” she said. “Look what—” Tobias appeared with a margarita in his hand, holding it out for her.
She took it with a grin, pressing a kiss to his cheek. “Don’t mind if I do. Hey, Virtus. How are you doing?”
They had a private conversation, and he must’ve said something amusing, because she cracked up.
Nathaniel scooted over so she could sit on the floor next to him. We were seated around the coffee table, cards from a drinking game spread out in piles. Danica had insisted on tequila shots for the drinking game, and Nathaniel had put away more tequila than both of us combined. But he didn’t seem to have even the slightest buzz.
“What’s your secret?” I slurred.
“His Alphaness immediately burns off anything his body considers poison,” Kyla informed me, taking a healthy slug of her margarita. “Part of the gig. He can’t protect the pack if he’s stumbling all over the place.”
I pouted. “So I’ll never get to see drunk Nathaniel?”
He leaned over and nuzzled me. Kyla pounded three shots in quick succession.
I gaped at her, and she shrugged. “What? I need to catch up.”
Danica grinned, and her wings appeared. “Oops.” She frowned at them, and they disappeared. Then reappeared.
“If I drank down three bottles of tequila, you’d see drunk Nathaniel,” my mate murmured. “But you’d very quickly have a hungover Alpha on your hands, and no one wants that.”
I wanted that. I wanted Nathaniel at his bestandat his worst. All of him. Forever.
“I feel the same,” he told me, and I realized I’d spoken aloud. Kyla winced, looking embarrassed for me. I just stuck my tongue out at her.
A knock sounded on the door. Tobias strode out from the kitchen before any of us could get up. A few moments later, Samael’s low voice carried into the living room.
“Drink?” Tobias offered.
“No. But thank you.” Samael stepped into the room, took one look at Danica, and his usual I-want-to-kill-someone expression transformed into a grin.
Danica blinked blearily at him from where she was lounging on the floor. One of her wings fluttered in his direction. “What are you doing here?”
“Something told me you were a little impaired.” He tapped his head. “I thought I’d make sure you could get home safely.”
“Shot, shot, shot,” Kyla began chanting. Danica joined her.
Samael had a pained expression on his face. Danica just arched an eyebrow.
“All who enter must pay the toll,” I informed him. Although a hiccup ruined the seriousness I was attempting.
Nathaniel leaned over and kissed the tip of my nose.
Samael sighed, leaned down, and took the shot Danica had just poured from her hand. He tossed it back like it was water.
“Well,” she muttered. “That was anticlimactic.”
Samael leaned down. “You know what’snotanticlimactic?”
“Ewwww,” I gagged.
Danica gave him a lewd wink, and he scooped her up.
“Booo,” I said, but he just shook his head at me. Danica was already closing her eyes and nuzzling into his chest.
“Lightweight,” I taunted. She opened one eye, held up her middle finger, and then twined her arms around her mate.
