Chapter 18

Lily

Seeing all of my rogue friends baking inside Wesley’s kitchen is strange. Tess, Claudia, Jenny, and Juanita are all here. Sophia—Juanita’s two-year-old daughter—is here too. She is currently trying to charm Wesley.

“Why are you so tall?” she asks, her little fingers poking at his jeans.

Wesley turns around, and I’m flabbergasted to see his face softening when Sophia beams up at him. Even Juanita leans forward to completely lean against the kitchen table with a dreamy expression on her face. She is a single mother and refuses to reveal who Sophia’s father is. It’s a well-kept secret only she knows the answer to, but it’s painfully obvious that she wants to bring Wesley home.

“He is so yummy...” she sighs. “Honey, if you weren’t my ride or die, I would steal him away from you in a heartbeat. That ass and those shoulders? Yum.”

I roll my eyes. “Wesley isn’t my boyfriend. He is just the father of my child.”

“And the Alpha of the Luan pack...” Juanita releases another dreamy sigh. “I