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drink.”
    “Good. I’m going to need it.”
    Once he was gone, I tried to busy myself with watching the night sky. There’s nothing prettier than a mid-Michigan horizon as the seasons are about to change.
    Unfortunately, I didn’t get to enjoy my solitude for very long.
    “Zoe?”
    I glanced up and internally cringed when my eyes fel l on Will, my ex-boyfriend. We had grown up together and dated for four years – and yet now, looking at him for the first time in months, I couldn’t help but feel as though I’d never really known him. “Hey, Will,” I greeted him stiffly.
    “What are you doing here?” Will looked around n ervously. I wasn’t exactly the favorite party guest at Alpha Chi. I’d been known to cause a scene or two (or three or four) in the past.
    “I’m here with Aric,” I replied simply.
    Will’s eyes darkened. Even though we were broken up for almost a year now, he wasn’t exactly thrilled about my dating Aric. They hadn’t gotten along before I came into the picture. Now that things had shaken out the way they had, things had only gotten progressively worse. “You’re still with him?”
    “I am.”
    “So you couldn’t date me because I was a werewolf but you can date him and he’s an even bigger werewolf?” Will looked like he was spoiling for a fight.
    “There’s a little bit of a difference,” I reminded him. “F irst, I haven’t known Aric for years and he never lied to me about what he was.”
    Will’s face colored with shame.
    “And second,” I continued. “Aric was never willing to sacrifice me to save himself.”
    “That’s not what happened,” Will protested.
    Thinking back to the night when I found out what Will was – and the secret the fraternity was protecting – I couldn’t help but see things differently. “Well, I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.”
    “He’s not what he pretends to be,” Will warned.
    “And you are?”
    “All my secrets are out,” Will countered. “Can you honestly say that about Aric?”
    “That’s not really your concern now, is it?” Something about the edge to Will’s words was bothering me, though. It was like he knew something specific.
    “Just because we’re not together anymore … that doe sn’t mean I still don’t care,” Will said earnestly. Maybe it was nostalgia. Maybe it was the memories of kayaking and camping. Something in me wanted to believe him.
    “Well, thanks for that,” I said. “It’s too late, though. Too much has happened. You’re too different. I don’t even know you anymore.”
    “You know me better than you know Aric.”
    “I don’t think I do.”
    “You don’t think you do what?”
    Will and I both jumped when Brittany suddenly appeared. I couldn’t help but want to smack her. I swear she has the worst sense of timing ever.
    “Hey, Brittany,” Will smiled at her warmly.
    “Hey, Will,” Brittany smiled back prettily. “It’s so good to see you. How was your summer?”
    Will glanced at me before answering. “Uneventful.”
    “Oh, well, that’s good,” Brittany said, clearly not picking up on the tense vibe roiling around the bonfire. “I worked at the Detroit Institute of Arts all summer. It was great.”
    “That sounds cool,” Will said enthusiastically while I rolled my eyes. Brittany had made her interest in Will fairly obvious to everyone. It didn’t bother her that he was my ex-boyfriend, or that he had been part of the werewolf cabal that had been willing to kill her as part of a sacrifice. He was good-looking and in a fraternity.
    That’s all she cared about.
    “Oh, it really was,” Brittany bubbled on.
    “Yeah, I’m sure it was fascinating,” I replied sarcastically.
    “What’s your problem?” Brittany queried in a voice that I could only associate with my mother when she asked a question to which she already knew the answer.
    “Nothing,” I sighed.
    Brittany turned to Will suspiciously. “What’s wrong with her?”
    Will shrugged