I am aware that the majority of people forget about it after it’s happened, I’m also aware that people being able to watch the Choosing is a new development and not how it used to be. Which is why I’m surprised that I remember that Neith and the others were a part of it, it’s certainly curious.
I feel Coen’s mind reach for mine, and I allow him access immediately.
“What’s wrong?”I ask sharply, while I remain completely relaxed on the outside.
“Nothing,”Coen replies immediately.“We wanted to let you know that the guys were watching the whole exchange from the van.”
I interrupt,“How? It’s a closed network. They shouldn’t have been able to.”
“Ransom,”Coen says as if that’s an explanation.
I know who they all are, one because of the Choosing, but also because Coen told me about them years ago. I know he trusts them, and honestly, that’s enough for me.
“Okay. What about it?”I ask because he doesn’t continue to explain.
“Sorry. I’m a bit shocked. Ransom has wiped the footage of you telling Neith she smells like Hellfire, since that’s something that no one should know.”
“Understood,”I reply, feeling relieved. The fewer people who know about how special Neith is, the better.
“He’s also altered the footage of when your eyes switched to your hellhound ones and when you freaked out when Neith told you Casimir had already come for her,”he explains.
“I’m sorry, what?”I ask because he can’t have said what I think he just did.
He repeats what he told me.
“You’ve had the same reactions and everything, but you look normal, and he took out the bit where Neith told you to calm down, mainly becauseeveryone would have had a coronary if they’d seen how she handles you,”Coen tells me.
I smirk,“She’s the only one who can.”
“I know,”Coen agrees.“You don’t sound as surprised as I thought you would that Ransom protected your secret.”
Before I can tell him why I’m not and what I have realized, I’m shocked to feel another knock on my mind. Weirdly enough, I know who it is even though I have never spoken to him before.
“River,”I say somewhat curiously.
“River?”Coen asks, sounding justifiably confused.
River’s excited voice comes through next,“Oh my fuck it worked, hey guys, so what are we talking about?”
“River, how the fuck did you do that?”Coen asks.
I grin.
“I don’t know, I just thought of talking to Dimitri like you are and then knocked,”River explains nonchalantly with absolutely no idea just how big a deal it is and what it means.
Although Coen doesn’t realize that either.
My eyebrows rise as I realize something.
“You’re extremely strong even for an alpha, you outrank all of the current known alphas,”I say.
“What?”River asks somewhat cautiously.“How do you know that?”
“It’s just one of the things that I know,”I say vaguely.
“Awesomely vague as always, Dimitri,”Coen says drily.
“You’re welcome,”I retort, making River chuckle.“So, Ransom has hidden the fact that I am not what they think I am from the cameras.”
