MasukDominic jumped to his feet as the door to his office suddenly burst open. Thinking that there must be some sort of emergency, and feeling a spike of fear that something might have happened to Natalie, he walked around the desk toward where Davina, Paul, and Matt stood, scowling. His wolf had snapped to alertness and was pacing within him.“What the hell did you do?” demanded Matt.Surprised by not only the question but also Matt’s insubordinate behavior, Dominic frowned. “What the hell are you talking about?”“Natalie. What did you do to her?”Both Dominic and Drak went still. “What about Natalie?”“You’ve been holed up in here all morning, so you wouldn’t be aware that she’s got the personality of a zombie right now. We can barely get any conversation out of her. She’s not even responding to Grace’s taunts, just looks through her like she’s not even there. That’s not Natalie.”No, it wasn’t, and he had the sudden urge to go see her and find out what was wrong. Instead, he simply shru
Natalie’s heartbeat picked up as she watched the faces of the wolves in front of her. “What’s going on?” she asked.“Follow us,” said Matt as he and Paul made their way out the main door and down the flights of stairs. On reaching the bottom, they led her into the concealed parking lot, where she stopped dead. She couldn’t see what the problem was, but she knew that Dominic, Davina, Talon, Trevor, and Ray were gathered around. She shrugged her way through them and gasped.The doors and windows of her Hyundai were covered in red spray paint. Worse, the red paint very clearly said Go Home West Slut.“Who. Did. This?” Her voice sounded quiet, toneless.“We don’t know,” her mate replied, his voice thick with anger. This was her car. Someone had dared to do this to her property. Raven wanted to surface so that she could hunt them down, but she couldn’t, and it was pissing the hell out of her. “Almost every pack member’s scent is in this lot because everyone uses it. If we had gotten to it
“Well, hello,” Natalie said brightly and marched right past the ass she had mated, striding into Bedrock.“What the hell did you think you were doing leaving pack territory without telling me?” Dominic bellowed as he followed behind her.Slowly, she turned and appraised him from head to toe. Not with fear or even apprehension, but the way someone might scrutinize a bug.“Did you forget to take your pills again?”“I’ve been in my office believing you’re safe, and you’ve been in town hanging out with Talon!”“Yes, and we had a lovely time, thanks.”“If you’d have said you wanted to go somewhere, I’d have taken you! Why sneak off?” When she didn’t answer and simply stared at him blankly, he persisted. “Natalie?”“Oh, sorry. I was just busy picturing a gag in your mouth.”“This is serious! The new Alpha of Mark’s pack hasn’t been here to finalize an alliance, which means there’s still a possibility of retaliation over his death. Then there’s the fact that although your dad might not come
“Is Dominic not your type?”The question from Talon almost set Natalie aback, but when she looked at his face, she saw that his expression was neutral, so she relaxed.“I meant because he’s psychotic,” she said. “Although it’s kind of true that I’ve never been with a guy built like a Highlander before, I don’t have a type. I either like someone or I don’t.”“And you like Dominic.”“To an extent,” she replied with a smile. “Sharon made it clear that I’m not his type.”“Dominic’s always gone for what you females call hourglass figures or something like that.”Noticing that he hadn’t sounded particularly fond of them, she prodded, “You’re not such a fan?”He shrugged. “I wouldn’t say no to one. Plenty of times Dominic and I have shared one of his women—”“Really?”“—but I prefer my women to be more… athletic, I guess. And I have a thing for dark-haired beauties.”“Ooh, please don’t say that line. That was the first thing Mark ever said to me. Makes me shiver even now.”His words were bot
A shiver wracked Natalie’s body as Dominic grazed his teeth over his mark.“Dom, you can’t do that in public. It has an embarrassing effect.”Dominic could sense that his totally wicked laugh made her nervous. But he didn’t care, because he also knew she was enjoying it. So he nipped at her mark. As if deciding on some form of retaliation against him, Dominic felt Natalie grind slightly against his very hard cock, and he groaned against her neck.Dominic knew he could leave now. They had done enough touchy-feely stuff, and she probably still had things to talk about with her friends. He should leave. Her friends were anxious and uncomfortable when he was around, as though they expected him to lunge at them or something. But he couldn’t bring himself to break the contact with Natalie. Instead, he lazed back into his seat and pulled her forward so that she was draped across his chest.“Don’t mind me, you carry on talking. I won’t even be listening. I’m too distracted by your scent.” Ano
Natalie found that she got along pretty well with Matt, which kind of surprised her because, ordinarily, she was tired of flirtatious people. And Matt was extremely flirtatious. When he turned the full force of his huge, impish grin on you, there was no holding back a blush. Maybe it was because he gave some fantastic shoulder massages that the flirtatiousness didn’t bother her. Very possible.She hadn’t realized that he and Paul scratched each other’s itch from time to time until she stumbled upon them having some fun at the lake. Damn, that had been hot, and it had taken all her self-control to leave rather than stay and watch. They had known she was there, as Paul later teased her about it and continued to do so on occasion. Paul was a tease in general. He seemed to get his kicks from making people blush or feel uncomfortable, but as he targeted Sharon and Kelvin a lot, Natalie was totally fine with it.Although Ray didn’t talk much and mostly communicated through grunts, Natalie r







