Clear Blindness

Chapter 23

  
   The house buzzed with life as people from different packs came to welcome the twins to the pack and to the world. I was happy. Speaking of good news some friends of mine are expecting. We had a lot to talk about – baby names, genders, ect.

"Hey, what's up with you and him?" Rosie whispered on the down low, raising a brow.

"What're you talking about?" I laughed nervously, giving her an innocent look as I busied myself with shoving food in my mouth.

Her face went blank. Well, one thing was for sure, I could never really hide anything from Rose. We've known each other too long.

"You know exactly who I'm talking about," she said sternly.

I sigh. "We're fine," I try to reassure her. It felt like I was trying to reassure myself more than her, though.

"Hey, bestie," Alice's happy voice, thankfully, sang. "And hey, what's up with you and Mr. In-not-in-the-mood-to-talk?"

"Oh. My. Cheese balls. Does everyone in this damn house know?" I ask incredulously, banging my head on the table and immediately stopped at the headache it was awakening.

"Ah, sweetie, of course everyone noticed," Alice cooes in a supposedly 'sad' voice but by the smile she was flashing at me I got the message: I'm not leaving until I give. "I mean, you guys are inseparable. Then now all of a sudden, you guys are avoiding each other like the plague."

"Hey, Ellie, how ya doin'?" Damon chirped as he walked up and slung an arm around my shoulders. Thank you!

Damon Kane is my ex-mate. At the age of sixteen he rejected me, Bruce and I ran away, three years later I came back, we made up and almost got back together but I caught him cheating again – the first time it was with the High Schools Queen Bee Monica. Hmm, wonder how she's doing with her mate considering we became friends? – then we officially broke it off, and I met Vincent.

Well, to put it more precisely, Vincent came after me and we ended up falling in love. Damon's now mated with a nice girl called Naomi, who lost her mate, and they're living the life.

"I'm doing pretty good. How about yourself? Keeping up with the pack?" I tease, poking his stomach. "I bet you've gained some weight, Kane."

Damon dramatically gasped as if I'd just insulted him. "First of all, I'm awesome so thank you for asking. Secondly, the pack has to keep up with me. Not the other way around. And lastly, do these look I've gained an ounce of weight?" To prove his point Damon lifted his shirt to show a nice looking six pack.

From behind me I could hear wolf whistles that made me boom with laughter. I gotta hand it to the kid, he was hot. Although not as hot, delicious, handsome, charming, cute, and sexy as my mate. A mate that was currently glaring at me but I obviously ignored because I was one step away from chopping him to pieces.

Oh no, I think I'm going psychotic. Who could ever want to destroy a body like that?

Anyways, it's not like Damon and I were serious. We're just playing around.

When I look around I caught sight of Naomi's lustful gaze aimed at her mate. Clearing my throat purposely loud to catch Damon's attention I jerked my head in her direction. He grinned at her and quickly kissed me on the cheek as a goodbye before following his smirking mate out the door.

She winked at me before exiting so I had the pleasure of seeing the way she looked at her mate. Loving yet playful. I'm guessing she likes to play a lot. Especially with Damon's. . . .

Okay, I am so not going there! Gross.

Stacy laughs as she took a seat next to me with Adrian. "Wait until they get more older. Like people say, the older you are, the better experience."