Chapter 61: Catching Him Up

-Roman-

I was away from my mates for 30 minutes or something and I had missed so much. I thought she and Daphne had just hit it off and then she had decided to go find something to drink, but it seemed like so much more had happened. Jackson and Daphne were mates! What the hell? Not that I thought Jackson was a bad person, but like he had been protective of his cousin, I was protective of Daphne.

“What?” Ana asked. “Don’t you like Jackson?”

“I don’t know Jackson that well,” I told her. “But it’s an alpha thing. Daphne is like family to me.”

“Isn’t Jackson sort of family to you too?”

“Now it is beginning to sound like incest,” I said a little jokingly, and Ana rolled her eyes.

“Seriously…” she mumbled and crossed her arms.

“No, but I just… know she has been through a lot. Maybe this is a bit too much for her right now,” I said.

“Actually, I think it was. She took off.”

“She took off?”

I scouted through the crowd, hoping to find her, but Ana quickly brought my attention back to