When they touch me (Shelagh Milano) novel Chapter 114

Chapter 114
Artemisia

I kick my legs nervously as I’m sitting on my little couch, waiting for Ramona to finish changing into her pjs.

She leaves my en-suite with a deep sigh and comes to sit down next to me. “Wow, your mates are totally nice. I really enjoyed dinner. It was so much fun.”

“Yeah, we really have a wrong picture of them where we come from,” I chuckle but she scrunches her nose.

“Nah, I think that they are being so friendly because of you. I guess they would have been ripped me apart just for looking at them the wrong way,” she grins at me, and I laugh, taking a package of sour gums from the small couch table.

“So, let’s see,” she chews on a gummy bear as she takes out her phone. “The witch told you to be wary about who is close to you. Tell me then, who is close to you? Well, except the heartless one.”

“Aren’t you impossible,” I groan, slapping her knee playfully as she cackles.

“But there is no one who could do that to me…”

She rolls her eyes, rummaging through the bag of candy, “You are just too nice…”

“No, really, I-” I start, but she interrupts me, pointing a gummy worm into my face.

“If that thing…” she swings around the worm, making me distort my face in disgust, “Was originally meant to keep you from feeling cheated on, and it kept getting fed, what does that tell us?”

I sigh deeply, throwing my head into my neck, “What, Ramona?”

“It’s obvious! That someone was trying to hide his cheating like Alpha Rick did back then.”

Lifting my head, I look right back at her as she shrugs one of her shoulders. “Didn’t you ever think about it?”

“What?! No!” I shout, standing up. “They would never.”

“Like Giorgio wouldn’t play Bestie with your ex?” she asks me, biting into the sourworm.

I hug myself, caressing my arms as I look at my feet.

“Babes, let’s just brainstorm. Like… It wouldn’t hurt to sort it out, right?”

She throws her hands into the air, and I take another deep breath.

“Not Cayden,” I whisper, and she claps her hands.

“Okay, babes. Not the Alpha.” Taking up her phone she types into it, “What about the brute?”

“There was a girl named Harper. They had something before I came into the picture,” I sigh, while she digits her name into her notes.

“Okay, so, on a scale from one to ten, how close is Harper to you?”

“She isn’t close to me at all,” I groan, sitting back down.

“How is her relationship with the Omegas? Could she make someone from the kitchen staff poison your food?”

“Argh, I really don’t know.” I slump back against the backrest.

She waves her hand back and forth, “Don’t worry. Fynn could get them to if he wanted to be with Harper, right?”

“I just can’t see-”

“Ah, ah, ah!” she interrupts me, lifting her index. “Next up. Logan.”

She giggles to herself as she takes notes, “I’ve always liked that name. So, sexy.”

Looking up, her expression morphs as she must be taken aback by my aghast expression. “Oh, no. What did he do?”

I lift a shoulder, rubbing my cheek as I hum, “Well, not much. He just kissed another girl after he marked me by force.”

“You are fucking kidding me,” she gasps, and I shake my head.