“How did it go?” Eli asked me the moment I went back to where Tyler was seated.

I had to fight back a blush as I said, “I’m going to the bonfire.”

“Great,” he flashed me a dazzling smile which did nothing to my butterflies, contrarily to Alex’s scarce smiles.

I chose not to say that I’d be going to the bonfire with the alpha. That would be awkward. Besides, it was complicated enough trying to figure out the man’s motives for what had transpired.

Was I the new ...