Total pages in book: 49
Estimated words: 47126 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 236(@200wpm)___ 189(@250wpm)___ 157(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47126 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 236(@200wpm)___ 189(@250wpm)___ 157(@300wpm)
“Hey, don’t be like that,” the guy said.
Elle pulled her hand out of the guy’s grip.
“I’m not being like anything. You need to leave. There is nothing important for you here.”
The guy looked at her for several moments. He shrugged and signed the check.
“Whatever, I was just being nice.”
Elle took the guy’s payment. She turned away from the table and was about to leave.
Slap.
The sound echoed throughout the diner. Brandon tensed. The guy had just hit his woman’s ass. Elle’s cheeks were aflame as she looked at him. While he’d been out talking with Elle, most of the diner had vacated. The customers who were left looked toward him shocked by what just happened.
Rage consumed him.
“Oh shit, that guy deserves whatever is about to happen to him,” Darcy said.
****
Elle couldn’t believe one of the customers had slapped her ass. The jerk she’d been serving had been annoying her for most of the day. She’d turned him down flat, and now he was slapping her ass as if he had a right to touch her.
She whirled toward him, ready to kick his ass when a giant roar echoed throughout the diner. The pack froze, and goose-bumps erupted along her arms; and they weren’t the nice kind. Turning around she saw Brandon stalking toward him. His arms looked thicker than she remembered. What had happened to him?
Brandon stroked her cheek. The throb of the slap died away the instant he touched her. She didn’t understand him. Chancing a look in his eyes she saw they looked darker than usual. Glancing away, Brandon growled. No, not Brandon. He wasn’t in there. This was the alpha.
Lewis and Darcy ran to her side. Drake walked slowly behind the rest.
“Take her back to my place. This ends now,” Brandon said.
“What?” she asked, confused. “What ends now? I don’t understand. Brandon, leave it, they’re not worth it.” She tried to pull him to her. Brandon gave her to Lewis and Darcy.
“Take her.”
They held her arms and escorted her out of the diner. Lewis grabbed Layla on the way out. The only people inside the diner were the pack and the human who’d pissed the alpha off.
“I didn’t mean for any of this to happen,” she said.
Layla shook, but they all kept moving toward Brandon’s house. None of the men spoke.
“I’m going to see Layla back home,” Lewis said when Brandon’s house was in view.
“Okay, I’ll take care of our queen.” Darcy tightened his hold on her arm.
She gasped staring down at where he held her.
“I’ll call you,” Layla said, embracing her.
Watching her friend walk away with Lewis hurt her more than she could understand. Brandon had sent her out of the diner. She didn’t even want to think about what was happening there.
“That’s enough,” Darcy said. He opened the door letting them both into Brandon’s home. They walked up the stairs to the room she’d woken up in after Brandon bit her. Darcy let her go but remained by the door and her only chance of escape.
“What’s enough?” she asked, sitting on the edge of the bed.
“I let you watch your friend walk away. I promise you she’s in good hands with Lewis. He won’t do anything to hurt her.”
“He’ll try to sleep with her,” Elle said.
“So, she’ll be brought to many orgasms. Lewis has never had any complaints. I’ve heard women say he’s got the tongue of a god.”
She glared at him folding her arms over her chest. “Are you guys always like this?”
“Like what?”
“Blunt and disgusting.”
Darcy laughed. “We’re honest about ourselves. If that makes us blunt and disgusting then you’d better get used to it, Elle. You’re our queen, and that means you’ve got to deal with all of us.”
She stared down at her hands. “I’ve never seen him react like that before,” she said.
“His beast was taking over. Brandon is the most controlled out of all of us. However, the guy touched what was his, and no one accepts that,” Darcy said. She watched as he grabbed a seat by the door. He sat down staring at her.
“The wolf is always there?” she asked.
“Look at my eyes.”
His eyes turned from piercing blue eyes to bright amber. She jumped back on the bed hugging her knees against her chest.
“To answer your question, the wolf is inside us all the time. There is no getting away from it. The best we can do is try to control it.”
“Have any of you ever lost control?” she asked, thinking about Brandon.
“Regardless of what you think, Elle, Brandon was still in control even though he wanted to rip the bastard apart.”
She shook remembering the roar coming from his lips. The instant she felt the hand on her ass she’d known trouble would come. Brandon was not the type of man to let something like that slide.
“W-what do you think he’s doing?” she asked.