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Emily appears when she steps back into the kitchen, pulling a face and calling Orion something unsavory in ASL. She’s opening her mouth when Cora yanks her back into the kitchen, and I tug the door closed with relieved sigh.
I can’t imagine what Orion was thinking when he walked into the kitchen, but I doubt he expected this less than welcoming reception. I hate to think what Emily was about to blurt out before Cora saved us all from that outburst.
Turning back around to face the Alpha’s youngest son, I see he’s wearing a bemused smile.
He’s not sure what to think of my co-workers. Neither am I right now.
I feel a little better knowing we’re not about to be rudely interrupted, now that the door is closed, but I’m alone in a secluded spot with one of the Alpha’s sons so I’m not exactly relaxed.
Those butterflies he had me feeling before aren’t around, and I can’t help wondering if I’ve lost my mind. I felt more than just butterflies when I dreamt of those beautiful monsters last night, and my heart pounds a harder just thinking about them.
I seriously need to forget that dream.
There’s no way a mortal shifter can compare to those god-like men.
They make Orion look pathetic in comparison, and he’s one of the four guys my age in town that every woman in her late teens and early twenties wants to win as their mate.
I’d be considered lucky if he wanted to date me.
I don’t even know what he came here for.
All we’re doing so far is staring at each other.
I guess we can’t really talk.
He doesn’t know ASL.
I check my apron’s pockets and find out I left my notepad in the kitchen.
I look up at him, folding my arms. I might not be able to communicate too well without ASL or my notepad, but he can tell me why he decided to break the rules to come see me.
All he needs to do is start talking.
He runs a hand through his hair and looks around as if he’s really interested in what it looks like back here. It’s so adorably awkward. It’s almost as if he doesn’t know how to talk to girls.
I know that can’t be true. All four of the Masters’ brothers have been inundated with female attention for years.
Almost every teenager, and most of the twenty-somethings, are completely obsessed with them.
They’re the guys every boy wants to be, and every girl wants to be on the arm of.
I was always on the outside of that whole thing. The home-schooled girl who can’t communicate the same way everyone else does watches what’s going on but is never a part of it.
“You can read my lips, right?” he asks, finally.
I nod, and he sighs before he smiles again.
“Good. I learned a little ASL, but all of it flew out of my head the second I got out here with you.”
I give a knowing nod. Everyone always says it’s hard to learn.
I’m happy when someone tries. It’s sweet when they care enough to want to try.
“I feel like …” he starts, frowning a little. “Didn’t you used to talk, too?”
I nod again, kind of wishing for my notepad.
Then again, if I had it, I might feel compelled to explain myself, and I shouldn’t have to.
