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or Tony take center stage. That wasn’t the way that an alpha acted, which is why the popular theory and rumors centered on either Eric or Tony being the likely true alpha of the Urban Dwellers. Still, there was something about Kyle that had bonded him to the two other men.
    Kelly knew from looking at Kyle’s files that the three men had been roommates in boarding school. St. Ignacious Preparatory school. It was an elite school for the richest, oldest families in the country. What was so unusual about it was that it had been an integrated school well before anyone even realized that shifters existed. Kelly wasn’t surprised that the old establishment had known about shifters before the general public. That’s kind of the way things seem to go in the world. But St. Ignacious had been a place where everyone, as long as they were rich, were welcome. Kyle’s family seemed to be a bit of an anomaly. Sure his father was a well-known general. But they didn’t seem to have the billions in their bank account like the Carmichaels or the Atwoods did. Maybe that’s what made Kyle so different. Maybe that’s why he was so okay with letting his counterparts take center stage.
    These were just the surface of all the questions that she had about Kyle. It was part her researcher’s mind and part the mind of a woman who was completely invested emotionally in him. She knew that was stupid of her. Shifters tended to like other shifters that way. It was another nugget of information that she had gleaned from her girlfriends’ gossip. So even if she was the slightest bit romantically interested in Kyle, there was no way that he would be interested in the same way. She was just a boring, run-of-the-mill human. A doctor who had poked and prodded him and subjected him to experimental medicine besides. She was amazed he could trust her at all.
    “We’re here,” Kyle finally spoke. The words brought Kelly out of her reverie. She peered out the taxi’s window. The drab brownstone building that they were in front of was unassuming at best. She knew that despite the fact that Kyle might not have started out with a lot of money, his net worth since joining the Urban Dwellers had gone up significantly. But she really wasn’t surprised to see him in such a simple building. It fit him. There was nothing about Kyle that was showy or over-the-top. That just wasn’t who he was.
    He helped her out of the taxi, and she enjoyed being close to him long enough to smell his musky cologne. They climbed the steps in silence. Kelly resisted the urge to say something just to clear the awkward air.
    Kyle unlocked the door and motioned for Kelly to move inside. She paused on the threshold. “You’re not gonna turn around and lock me in again are you?” The question was meant to be flippant, and she tried to put a teasing tone in her voice. The silence now had stretched to the point where it was uncomfortable. She wanted to know what he was thinking. She was surprised to hear Kyle chuckle. It was a sound that was unfamiliar coming from him.
    “I promise to only lock you in if you ask me to.” The words sent a tingle down Kelly’s spine. Was it possible that he was flirting with her? She wouldn’t mind. She stepped into the doorway, and, when Kyle flipped on the lights, she gasped in surprise. She had expected to walk into the foyer of an apartment building. Instead, she was looking at a wide expanse of space in front of her with a modern looking circular staircase at the back.
    “I’ve done a little of renovating to the building.” Kyle seemed to offer the simple explanation as if it wasn’t a big deal.
    Kelly looked around, and she saw that, despite the expansiveness of the room, it was still sparsely furnished. There were a couple of low couches, some seating around a small dining room table, and a flat-screen TV on the wall that made up the living room. She could see an open kitchen with a massive kitchen island that had eight stools around it at