ALEX POV
Beside me, Alice jumped, her cheeks flushing with embarrassment as Max and Val stepped out from the dense foliage, their figures gradually coming into view and their grins widening as they approached.
The position we found ourselves in left little room for misinterpretation; Val surely had suspicions brewing from the night before, but I had just served up the evidence on a silver platter. Alice was attempting to extricate herself from my embrace with little success. Neither Leo nor I were willing to lose physical contact with her; she was in the safest place in the world, nestled between my arms, and there was no reason to try to leave.
"Well, this is quite the sight," Max chuckled, breaking the tension "Didn't mean to interrupt, but it looks like Alice got caught by a wolf", h
