Cricket (Cricket Kendall Book 1) by Willow Hadley

Author:Willow Hadley [Hadley, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Willow Hadley
Published: 2020-11-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Theo

I’ve been running around with my dad and Hawthorne all afternoon. We got back to Hawthorne’s house a little while ago, and we’re finishing dinner. Cricket just texted me saying Hollis is taking her home. My phone rings in my pocket, and my heart speeds up, thinking it’s her. God, I miss her so much already. I’m grinning my ass off as I go to answer it. She must have missed me too if she’s calling me so soon after getting home.

But then I see Hollis’s name instead of Cricket’s. I’m annoyed and disappointed. I swear to fucking god, if he’s calling to brag about his afternoon with Cricket, or if he’s going to pull the same shit that Cas did earlier, trying to convince me to let him fuck her...

“What? What is it?” I know my voice sounds harsh, but I can’t get the image of Cricket and Hollis together out of my head.

“Theo, I...” Hollis sounds choked up.

“What’s wrong? Is Cricket okay? What happened?”

Hawthorne and my dad stop talking, and their focus turns to me.

“I think I fucked up...” Hollis mumbles.

I’m about to lose my fucking shit. I breathe angrily out of my nose, trying desperately to rein in my panic and anger. “Hollis, I swear to fucking god, if she’s hurt...”

“She’s fine! I mean, physically, but she’s really...fuck.”

“What did you do?” I snarl.

“She asked about mates, and I told her you’re an alpha. She could barely fucking look at me when I dropped her off. I think she’s really upset. I didn’t mean to upset her.”

Hawthorne grabs the phone out of my hand and tells Hollis to meet us here at his house. Without another word, he hangs up the phone and slips it into his pocket.

“Give me back my phone!” I snarl. “I need to talk to her.”

He narrows his eyes at me. “Do you really think that’s a good idea right now? You need to find out exactly what Hollis said and what upset her.”

The next ten minutes are absolute torture as I stand by the window and wait for Hollis to pull up. I tap my fingers nervously against my leg. Cricket knows I’m an alpha. That’s okay. She would have found out eventually, anyway. She can’t be upset about that, right? It has to be the mate thing.

Hollis arrives, and he takes his sweet fucking time getting out of his truck. Hawthorne puts his hand on my shoulder and commands me to stay right where I am. The rational part of my brain knows that’s probably a good idea. I’m so rattled, I would probably shift and push Hollis into a fight the moment I stepped outside.

As soon as Hollis walks in, he winces. “Theo, I didn’t mean—”

“Let’s step into my office and talk about this,” Hawthorne cuts him off.

Once we’re in Hawthorne’s office, he sits behind his desk and calmly waits for the rest of us. My dad brings in another chair to scoot in between me and Hollis.

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