Todos los capítulos de The Alpha's Fated Encounter: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

It was another busy night, and I was helping tend the bar because our normal two bartenders were having trouble keeping up. It was good for me, though. It kept me knowledgeable about cocktails and wine. It was difficult owning a bar without being in the know.I was handing a couple of college kids some beers when Abi nudged me and nodded toward the door. “We got a crew of shifters coming in.”I glanced up and saw the guys she was talking about. You could always tell the shifters from the humans. There was…something about them. I couldn’t even describe it, but it was obvious. I wasn’t a bigot like some people. I’d never had any trouble from shifters and they were welcome at my place. All they wanted was some good bar food and good booze—both of which I could provide.I nodded. “Yep, I see them,” I said.The guys, about a half dozen of them, made their way across the bar to an open table near the jukebox. One of them glanced in my direction and made eye contact. I forced myself not to r

That thought vanished when I pulled us into the parking lot five minutes later. There was only one car there, but the front door was standing ajar and light shone out of the bar onto the pavement outside. It looked like all the lights were still on.“See!” Sebastian shouted. “Told you they’d be open. Drunk food, here we come.”I frowned, but got out of the SUV with everyone else. Sebastian’s chipper mood evaporated as soon as we were outside. The smell. All of us sniffed at the air. Luis and Felipe growled.“Oh shit,” Sebastian said. “Do you guys smell that?”I did. Blood. Not only that, but I smelled humans and shifters. Not the lingering scents of those who’d been gone a while—all three scents were fresh. All three scents were coming from inside the bar. The blood was the prevailing smell, though. Strong, coppery, and thick. I wrinkled my nose at it.“Should we call the cops?” Luis asked.“Someone’s hurt in there. Let’s go.” I didn’t tell him that the blood was calling to me. That I

“Is…uh…Nicolas around? Nico?” I asked, not sure which name he went by. “The doctor said he’s the guy who saved me.”The nurse tossed her soiled gloves in the trash and started washing her hands. She spoke to me over her shoulder as she worked. “Alpha Nico isn’t here right now, miss.” She turned the water off and pulled some paper towels from a dispenser. “He’ll be back soon, though. He said so. Don’t worry.” She gave me a weird look, then left the room.I pulled the top off the pudding cup and ate dessert. Just what the hell was going on? What had that look been about? I finished the pudding and ate half the fruit before my stomach told me it was full. More than full, actually. It had been over twenty-four hours since I’d eaten anything, but I didn’t want to make myself sick.The nurse returned ten minutes later to take the tray. She put it aside and straightened my sheets, then checked my pulse and blood pressure again. “I know you asked about Nico earlier,” she said. “It’s kind of s

That was a good question. One I couldn’t answer. Whatever I said in response had to sound logical. No matter what, I didn’t want to scare Maddy off. I had to figure out what was going on with this weird attraction I felt to her, and I couldn’t do that if she was on the run. “Javi and I are rivals of a sort, if that makes sense. Now that I’ve involved myself, he’ll be gunning for me. I’m sure his guys saw my pack. He’ll know I stopped the attack. We’re connected now. In a sense,” I added quickly. “So I’m offering you the protection of the Lorenzo pack.”“So, you have no idea why? This is a mystery to you, too?” She looked equally confused and irritated.I shrugged a shoulder. “No clue. But like I said, Javi’s pack is after you for some reason. Whatever plan he has, he’ll want to see it through. I fucked those plans up, so now there’s going to be trouble for me. He’ll assume I’m involved somehow. It’s a long story, but we’ve got a bit of history. I need you safe until I can figure out w

He smiled, and the tingling in my body increased. “Whatever you want. I grill a mean steak, and I can make a killer pasta sauce. Grandma’s recipe.”“Not exactly what I meant, but okay.”If someone had told me three days ago that I’d be getting ready to move into a shifter compound, I’d have called them crazy. But all I kept picturing was that other shifter’s face. Him snarling at me that I shouldn’t exist. The way they’d attacked me kept flashing through my mind, like a horror movie where the worst scene is on repeat. I’d come close to dying. Another two or three minutes without Nico and his friends, and I would have been dead. I owed Nico my life. The least I could do was trust him to protect me a little while longer.“Fine,” I said. “It seems it’s in my best interest to take you up on the offer. When will I be moving in?” Once the words were out, I had the feeling that I’d crossed some proverbial Rubicon—the point of no return. Butterflies filled my stomach, but I couldn’t figure ou