Blaze & Ajax (Alpha’s Rejects #3)

Aiden and I jumped out of our skin when someone pounded loudly on my door. I hadn’t expected anyone, but who else would it be but my friends? It was Sunday, so they probably came by to drag me to skate, which I hadn’t done since before my manic episode.

I opened the door, and I was suddenly gobbled up in a swarm of hands, arms, and chests. They were all here—all of them. Even Stone, Cueball, and Alpha were there, but they had hung back since they didn’t really do the hugging thing. I reached around my friends—my family—and tried to hug them all back as best as I could as the emotional surge hit me, reminding me how much I was loved and that they’d never leave me.

“Are you okay?”

“How do you feel?”