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“I do.”
“Ok, good. I mean, that’s good,” she considered. “I don’t know why you were at that party tonight.”
“Is that a question?”
“Maybe,” she said.
I took another sip of my milkshake, tasting whatever sugary amazing crack they must’ve put into it that made me want to drink the whole thing before I forced myself to pull back. “I was going to the party as a favor for a teammate. I’m on the hockeyteam. One of my friends got himself into a sticky predicament with a girl. I was supposed to save him.”
Instead, I saved someone much more important.
She instead looked worried. “Won’t he be looking for you?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “It’s not do or die. He’ll figure it out.”
It was his mess anyway.
I blinked at my own thoughts. I once jokingly asked my packmate why he somehow got the pack leader spot when I didn’t. This would’ve been a good reason. It wasn’t that I didn’t care about my friends. I did care. When you won my loyalty, you won it forever and it was unbreakable. But also…
I got distracted. I didn’t always follow through.
Now, for this omega—my omega— I was going to have to make sure that was no longer the case.
“Why did you save me?”
“What?” I asked.
Did I hear her wrong? I must have heard her wrong.
“I got those jerk wads away from you because they were too drunk and had no idea what they were doing. And if you think that I would’ve just walked by when I see someone mistreating a woman—” I took a deep breath. “I just wouldn’t. I’m going to call their head of house about it in the morning. They aren’t going to get away with what they did.”
“They didn’t do anything.”Yet, was the missing word.
“It doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have.”
She turned pale at the words. I pushed her milkshake back towards her and immediately she got a little happier again. She was cared for. Safe now.
“Do you go by Jacob or Jake? Did you already answer that? Or say that? I think you did.”
“Either. My friends call me Jake, but I have no real preference.”
“What are you studying?”
“Business,” I said. “Boring, I know.”
She shook her head. “No, it’s not. It’s solid. Practical.”
“It’s the degree you get when you have no idea what else to do with your life, right?” I joked.
Her cheeks flushed. “You’re still one step ahead of me. I don’t have much longer until I need to decide what I’m fully studying, and I just don’t know.”
“What classes do you enjoy?”
“Enjoy? I mean, I like my classes.”
“But don’t you have a picture for yourself? What is your dream-you’s life?”
She paused, eyes wide again when she looked at me.
