Beloved of the Pack by N.J. Lysk

Author:N.J. Lysk [Lysk, N.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: N.J. Lysk
Published: 2017-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter fifteen

There was no reason to be nervous. They were going bowling like two middle-aged men who mostly liked to win and couldn’t quite cope with anything more exhausting—sadly, Ray probably couldn’t.

He liked the give and take a competition allowed them, the teasing and the back and forth where it didn’t quite matter whose quips and jokes landed because it was all about keeping the energy going between them. Keeping the connection between them. It had always been about that. If they were more similar than not, it wasn’t natural inclination, but an inability to let go of that instant kinship they’d found in each other way before they knew what bonds were.

They had called it friendship for lack of a better word, but it had never compared to the casual relationships Ray shared with other members of his pack, or his schoolmates. Maybe he could have said Josh was his only real friend, but now that he had his own pack, he was slowly learning his way around a friendship of sorts with his other alphas—learning who they were and what they needed, revealing parts of himself that he’d always hid and trusting them to care for him when he was vulnerable. That was friendship.

But had things ever been like that with Josh? Had it ever felt less intense than it did now? He didn’t think so, he didn’t think it was hormones talking—either his own or the magical type that had arrived later. He hadn’t always wanted to kiss Josh, but he’d always wanted Josh. His attention, his company, his... He’d wanted to know he was important to him. No, not just important, special.

So hell, maybe there were about a hundred reasons to be nervous about bowling.

“You ready?” Josh asked, startling him enough Ray fumbled his phone.

He was smiling a little smugly when Ray looked up after having caught it by dint of superhuman reflexes. He got up, choosing not to respond to that smile—he couldn’t quite manage to be annoyed and he definitely didn’t want to encourage him by smiling back like a dolt just because... “All set.”

Josh glanced around. “Do you want to...?”

Ray shook his head. This time, he’d planned more carefully. Maybe he couldn’t stop worrying about leaving the pups behind, but at least he could take care of the practical matters on his own. He was an adult and he’d been more responsible than most grown-ups by the time he’d started growing facial hair, he wasn’t going to accept getting catered to like he was sick just because life had thrown him a bit of a curveball.

“I already talked to Iesu and Alec, they are staying in,” he explained and started for the door.

“Iesu and Alec?” Josh asked, sounding puzzled.

Ray shrugged. It was a bit of an odd combination, but he figured the alphas had all found ways to talk to each other—maybe Alec just let Iesu do all the talking and just made noises to signal he was listening—when he wasn’t around. Neither

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