James was embarrassed at the fact that Petra, Zack, and Erik noticed they were being followed, yet he didn't. No matter how buzzed he was from beer, and how much fun he had, as the future Alpha of the Red Moon pack, he should catch onto these things before others.
James cursed internally. Things like these will make him look incompetent. If his father gets a wind of this, James will get punished and probably his training regime will increase.
The situation became worse when James realized that the woman didn't have a wolf, which meant that his three friends were protecting him from a human. This was definitely a new low from him.
He should be the one standing in front of whatever was coming and confidently telling the intruder to scram or face the consequences, but when his eyes met Cornelia's, James found himself dumbstruck. He never saw a woman more beautiful in his life, and the way his wolf stirred told James that they agreed on this point.
