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it for weeks, and even though she was starting to come to terms with the fact that she felt something for Colby, she didn’t want everyone else to know about it. Not yet, at least.
    Once she was standing in front of Colby’s bedroom door, she hesitated on what to do. Should she knock? No, it was too late to knock. If she thought that the sound of her walking down the hallway in the middle of the night was enough to give her away to her pack members, then clearly doing something as disruptive as knocking was out of the question.
    Before she could even decide what to do, though, Colby was flinging his bedroom door open. He met her eyes, a confused look in his.
    “Emma?” he whispered. “What are you doing here?”
    “I need to talk to you,” she replied quietly. “Can I come in?”
    “Of course you can,” he started to say, but then he glanced down at the dinosaur print pajamas he was wearing. “I, uh . . . I didn’t mean for you to see me in these,” he admitted sheepishly.
    “It’s fine. I don’t care what you’re wearing. It’s so dark that I can barely see,” Emma admitted in a low voice as she stepped inside his room and closed the door quietly behind her.
    “You haven’t been able to sleep,” Colby told her.
    She raised an eyebrow at him. “How did you know that?”
    “We know e verything about our mates, Emma,” he replied. “You’ll eventually start to see that you can sense every emotion I feel—as long as you actually try to pay attention to them, that is.”
    “Oh.” She had definitely heard some of his thoughts, but he was right; she really hadn’t tried to pay attention to his emotions up until now. “There’s something I want to tell you.”
    Colby nodded knowingly. “Yeah, I know. You hate having to share a bathroom with a bunch of guys,” he said matter-of-factly.
    Emma’s jaw dropped. She hadn’t meant for him to overhear that.  What else had he overheard? “Even when I try to block you out, it seems like none of my thoughts are private anymore.”
    “Pretty much.” Then, with a grin, he added, “But that means that none of mine are, either.”
    “True.” She gave him a small smile. She thought for a moment about how to confess the way she felt to him. After a few moments of hesitation, she decided that the easiest way would just be to say it. “I have feelings for you, Colby. I think . . . I think I’m falling in love with you.”
    Even in the dark room, she could see that his eyes had lit up a little with her confession. “Really? You really have feelings for me ?”
    She rolled her eyes. “Yes, you dork. And if you’re going to be my mate, you’re going to need to start to get some confidence. Is it really that weird that I could fall in love with you?”
    “Well, the whole mate thing aside. . .” He considered it for a moment before nodding. “Yes. Yes, it is weird.”
    Emma sat down on his bed and wrapped her arms around her legs. She was over talking about how weird this whole thing was. She wanted to hear what his thoughts about her were. Ever so casually, she asked, “Do you think you might feel the same way? About me, I mean?”
    Colby’s blue eyes softened. “Aw, Emma. Of course I have feelings for you! In fact, I have a really embarrassing confession of my own to make.”
    She raised her eyebrows, almost afraid—but also intrigued—to see what it was.
    “I’ve had a crush on you my whole life,” he explained. “I always tried to force myself to not have feelings for you, because . . . let’s face it. What are the chances that you were a werewolf, too? It didn’t seem like we would ever be mates, no matter how strongly I felt for you. So it felt like a waste of time.” Glancing over at her, his eyes flooded with happiness. “I really think, sometimes, that the reason you became a werewolf was because the two of us were really meant to be all along.”
    “Maybe,” Emma replied with a small smile. She still had a hard time coming to