Then he realized that Elian had a crush on his neighbor. Jamie Silverwynd. The omega who had everything Roma wanted—family, status, the kind of name that opened doors without you even having to knock. The kind of name that made people stand up straighter when you walked into a room.
They had a thing together. Elian and Jamie. Roma saw it in the way Elian looked at him, in the way he would drop everything whenever Jamie was around. In the way his whole face changed when Jamie entered a room.
He didn't think much of it and backed off. Elian was clearly smitten, and while Roma thought he was better than Jamie in every way that mattered, he couldn't fight the Silverwynd family. They were untouchable. They had been building this pack since before Roma was born. So he let that dream go.
