Chapter 27 Jake

• I stand in my office, looking at the closed door, having watched Ruby walk from the room. What had that been? There had been something in that gaze, I am sure of it. And I don’t just mean from her. My heart was racing the moment her chocolatey brown eyes locked with mine. She is beautiful, I knew that the first time I met her back at Crimson Night Pack. But I had not thought of her in any way other than as a friend, especially when I had heard she had lost her mate.
• But I swear that was weird. I can't be thinking anything more than friends anyway. I have a mate now. She may not be here right now, but she will be at some point. All being well. But what the hell was that with Ruby? I know I had to have hurt her feelings last night for her to have put her guards up on her links. I can’t say for definite on the messages and calls. The reasoning she gave for running late and not looking at her phone seems a reasonable one, and I will look into it and mention it to Knox if the guys who are racing around on these bikes are causing a nuisance to other pack members.
• But going off how she had been with me in the office just now, I don’t think she wanted to be around me, and I didn’t like that feeling. She had always been comfortable around me, and for her suddenly to be trying to avoid me quite frankly, felt like shit.