I hesitate for a second, trying to remember what it was like when I first realized that my mates were in the room. “Um…it felt like…like someone threw a brick at my wolf. But I didn’t know who threw it.”
He bursts out laughing, and then I do too, because I realize it’s ridiculous.
“Clarity, please, Princess,” Ben murmurs, drifting his drink casually through the air in invitation for me to continue.
“Well, like, because it didn’t hurt,” I say, laughing again. “But…I felt it, in my soul, in a very visceral way. A shock, like being hit out of nowhere, to recognize that he was there – it was just Luca at first, and then Jacks a moment later. And I didn’t know who it was yet – just that they were around.”
Ben hums, considering.
“And then,” I say, tilting my head to the side, “it felt like
