WHAT ABOUT RYKER?

Keileigh

I was speechless; what could one say to that? At first I wanted to laugh so much that I felt it bubbling up. But quickly enough as it came it also died down.

The realization that Roman, my best friend from my childhood and the only one I could count in, really had meant what he just said, slowly dawned on me.

“Roman…” I said his name and covered my lips with my mouth. What could I say to him.

His eyes stared insistently into me. I could feel the weight of his gaze, burning into me.

“Keileigh, say something. Whatever you want to say, say it and I won’t get upset,” he insisted.

“I don’t know what to say,” I replied. “This is too much. This could get complicated very fast.”

“You mean with the two Alphas,” Roman reasoned, and I didn’t bother to correct him just yet. How else could I tell him it wasn’t just that? My past was also after me - Alpha Jake who I had given my heart to and he had played with it… and how my actions had caused my father’s death, and the destruction of my p