KAIRA

He still held the door open and gave way for me to pass through first.

I walked past him and as I did, I caught it from the corner of my eye. A flash of red across his eyes, quick and gone before I could properly look at it.

It was probably just his body reacting to the rain. Alphas were like that sometimes, their eyes doing things in response to shifts in the environment, the cold, the pressure in the air, the particular kind of tension that came with a heavy downpour. I had read about it once, somewhere. I filed it away and kept walking.

"Straight down,"...