#Chapter 177: Say Yes

Alaric’s POV Watching Cara sit with Noel and Colin sent a shred of ugly jealous straight through my chest. I knew I had no reason to be jealous – not really. Despite Noel and Cara’s closeness, nothing between them indicated that they were anything more than friends. Yet… he knew her secret and I didn’t. Also, he was free to go with her wherever she went, while I was tied down to DuskWood and the responsibilities of being Alpha King. Perhaps I had reason to be jealous after all. Seeing them together, chatting, possibly about her secret, made me feel even more left out than I had previously. When Colin left them to approach me, I started to feel that ugliness swirl out of my chest and into the rest of me, even down to the tips of my fingers and toes. “Come on,” Colin said, gesturing me to move farther into the house, away from the glass door that opened to the outside where Colin was coming in, and where behind him I could see Cara and Noel sitting in the patio chairs.