#Chapter 128: Four’s A Crowd

Julian’s POV Seeing Roman again made my blood boil, but finally Rafael’s words from this morning had become abundantly clear. Running into them was no coincidence, despite the way Roman was smiling at Amber and telling her, “Rafael invited me to visit his pack as a show of comradery between our two packs. I had no idea you’d be here.” Everything about that screamed that it was a lie, especially as Rafael had already made that earlier threat against me. He’d been planning on bringing Roman in, just to try to get him between Amber and me. I watched Amber closely, seeing if she would fall for the lie. She seemed as uncomfortable as I felt. “It’s been a while,” she said to him. “Yes,” he replied. “It has been. A while, I mean. But it’s good to see you.” “Yeah,” Amber replied. “It’s nice to see you too.” Roman smiled, but it was a bit awkward. “You mean it?” he seemed like he genuinely couldn’t tell. “I mean…” Amber hesitated, stumbling with her words now that he had calle