Chapter 18

Two weeks later.

Camp Site

Vergel straightened from where he leaned over the engine of the expensive Harley he’d been restoring and braced his hands on the metal frame, peering across the garage to watch Pearl work.

He'd been trying not to stare all evening to give her space. Pearl's thinking, according to Finn, wasn't precisely the same, and the human, Janet’s thought, kept reappearing. He couldn't blame the human; after all, Pearl was anchoring to the same dimension as her body.

When Finn or Ethan were bored, they would walk into his workshop and talk to him or watch him work. In regards to Ethan, he tracked him down in the human realm and brought him here. The alpha, on the other hand, was not sharing or talking about what happened to him in the mortal world. They respected his decision and gave him space.

Though Vergel knew Pearl felt the same way about her tools and forge when she was in the garage. The old Pearl wasn't any better. Of course, everyone in