“I’m his guard.”
“So you’re pack. Savage or Lawless?”
“Savage, of course.”
“Good, good,” Gran said. “Enjoy yourself, Vicki. And have Sean call me. He owes that poor girl an explanation for disappearing the way he did. No wonder she bit him. Idiot,” she muttered and disconnected.
Vicki stared at the phone in shock.
“What’s wrong? She seemed nice.” Dom finished up his steak and swallowed it down with a glass of milk Rule handed him.
“That wasn’t my Gran. I don’t know who that was, but it wasn’t Victoria Morely.”
“Hey, you dialed the number.”
“I know, but…” How to explain that Gran didn’t think anyone was good enough for Vicki.
The stubborn woman had taken a determined interest in her daughter and each subsequent female relative with her name. Gran insisted on choosing husbands for her female relatives, and with her instinctive ability to read people, no one argued with the family matriarch. But in Vicki’s case, Gran grew more and more intolerant. Hell, Vicki couldn’t even date without an interrogation anymore, and Sean wondered why she didn’t go out. Gran simply didn’t think any man Vicki brought home measured up.
But she’d been pleased when talking with Dom. What the hell was the old girl up to now?
Chapter Seventeen
Sean chose that moment to enter the kitchen. He glared at everyone, including the women with him.
Dom said in a quiet voice, “Diana, Kate, this is Vicki, Eric’s consort.”
Supposedly, Eric had informed everyone in the clan about her yesterday morning. She wondered why Dom felt the need to do so again with Diana and Kate.
The women nodded at her. Diana seemed a bit more friendly, though she focused most of her attention on Sean. Kate glared at her when Dom wasn’t looking. Her venom spoke volumes.Definitely not a fan of mine.Good. Maybe I can use that.
Vicki nodded back. “Sean, that’s Rule.” She pointed at Rule hovering by the counter. “The cook.”
“The only one whocancook,” Rule said with an arrogant sniff that made Diana and Kate smile.
To Sean, Diana said in a loving voice, “Sit down, honey, I’ll get you something to eat.”
Rule and Dom stared at her in shock, and even Kate blinked in surprise.
“No thanks,” Sean said with icy politeness. “I want to see the prime.Now.”
Vicki knew better to argue with Sean in this mood. It seemed even Diana sensed there’d be no reasoning with him. Using her inner sight to look at his aura, Vicki was dismayed to see it clouded with fatigue, uncertainty, and that same undeniable hunger that still raced inside her.
“Cut it out,” he growled at her, which had Dom and Rule, oddly enough, coming to her defense.
“Watch how you talk to Vicki,” Rule rumbled.
“Unless you want to lose your tongue and the head that goes with it,” Dom added. To her unease, he seemed to grow larger and hairier as he stared down at her cousin.
Sean stared into Dom’s eyes a minute too long, because Dom’s nails and teeth grew razor sharp. Diana took a step forward, seething with worry.
As if he realized he’d pushed as hard as he dared, Sean glanced away. “Sorry.”
He didn’t sound sorry, but he’d said it. Diana’s sigh of relief mirrored her own.
Vicki socked him hard on the arm.
“Ow.”
