Teasing My 7 Hot Alpha Stepbrothers at the Royal Academy novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Finalist
"Then that's where you'll say it," I said.
She looked down through the long window at the dark ice.
"He'll know something's wrong if I miss practice."
"Then don't miss practice," Nero said from the door. "Sit in the stands. Hold his phone. Smile."
"For two weeks?"
"Seventeen days," I said. "I'm counting."
She nodded once, wiped her face with both hands and went down the metal stairs without saying goodbye.
Nero dropped onto the couch beside me.
"You were terrifying," he said.
"I was polite."
"That's what was terrifying."
On Monday at nine, the board posted the finalists in the brass frame beside the selection slot.
I wasn't allowed on the ward. Nobody had said a word about the lobby.
Half the infirmary had found a reason to be in it.
Three cards behind the glass.
An alpha surgeon from the Palace infirmary.
A beta physician from the Delacorte pack's own clinic.
And mine. They'd typed it straight off my application.
"Romilly Tenley, M.D. Wolf: pending."
Somebody behind me read it out loud and laughed, and then stopped, because nobody else did.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Teasing My 7 Hot Alpha Stepbrothers at the Royal Academy are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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