“Is she your mate?”

"Zoe, you're fourteen years old. You should be used to people referring to each other as siblings even if they are not biological relatives."

"I don't care. Where is Alan?" Lolly smiled at her while Zoe ignored her. These people thought she was rude because of what she had been through, but why then was Zoe also rude?

"He promised to return soon. Why do you inquire of him?"

"She looked to be smitten with him. He was perhaps the first to grin at her. I'm pretty sure they were the only people who smiled at her besides Andy."

"Eleanor is going to murder her!" Lolly chuckled as she made a joke about it.

 

"But who is this Andy guy? He also appears to be familiar! Was he an uncle?" She knew he wasn't her uncle but she didn't know how to ask that.

The man didn't smell like a werewolf, but he was attractive; any woman around her mother's age would no doubt admire him.