11 Chapter 11: Stay Away

Emma smiled at Brutus. “Hey. It’s nice to see you.”

He didn’t return the smile. “Why are you here?”

“At the conference? I’m with Lucien. Alpha of the Fang City Pack.”

How come he didn’t know that? He rolled his eyes. She laughed. “That’s not what you meant. Dex and I bumped into each other. We were just catching up. We were talking about that burger place we used to go to.”

“A trip down memory lane? Isn’t that often fraught with pitfalls?”

She hadn’t remembered Brutus being so maudlin. They’d had some good times together. Brutus wasn’t a one-woman wolf so there had been a revolving door of women in his life. Emma never got attached to any of them. Their time was usually short-lived.

“Pitfalls?”

“Yes. Like Dex remembering how you tore out his heart,” Brutus said.

She stepped back from the venom in his voice. “Dex isn’t angry with me. Why are you?”