“They are! I don’t even know what’s going on in the pack. I haven’t talked to anyone for five years. I come back and there’s all of this political scandal happening, and now my best friends are accusing me of being a spy or something.” This is too much. I rise from my stool. “You know what, I’m gonna pass on dinner. Thanks, though. You have a lovely home.”
“Don’t be like that,” Hannah huffs.
Ryan holds up a plate. “But it just got done.”
I stop at the kitchen door. “Why do you even want me in your house if I’m so suspicious?”
“Because you’re our friend, dummy.” Ryan puts the plate on the island. “But you’ve been gone for five years. You’re out of practice.”
“Out of practice?”
“The pack is a different now. If we don’t know who to trust, you don’t, either. And one stray word…” Hannah’s
