“Is that a man?”Katy practically yelled.
“What man?Where’s a man?Since when does she have a man?”The questions flew from Maddie’s mouth, each one getting louder, making Lola think she was probably getting closer to the phone.
He smirked at her as if he’d won some secret battle she didn’t even know they were playing.“I’m not rabid either, though ravenous might be a different story.”
“He sounds hot,” Katy blurted, “Is he hot?”
“What’s he look like?”Maddie asked and then there was rustling from the other end of the line.
“Give me my damn phone, you thief,” Lola heard Katy say, and then a shrill yell which had her pulling her phone from her ear.
“I can’t believe you just pushed me off your bed,” Maddie snapped back.“I could have broken my neck.”
“One can only hope,” Katy muttered.“Now, back to the man,” she seemed to refocus on Lola.“You still there, Lo?”
“Nope.I’ve hung up and I’m calling Animal Control to pick up this disease-ridden feline,” she answered dryly.Lola was acting a lot more nonchalant than she felt.
“Put him on the phone,” Katy ordered.“Now or I will hunt you down, and torture the information out of you.”
“This I have to see,” Callon chuckled.“Don’t put me on the phone.I’d like to meet this friend of yours.”He pulled away and began to put his shirt back on,finally.Lola tried not to be sad over the loss of the lovely view, but also, if Katy showed up, the last thing she needed was her BFF slobbering on Callon.
She saw the curiosity in his eyes and Lola felt her ire rise at his interest in Katy.Why in the world she would be jealous of his wanting to meet one of her best friends?She had no idea.Okay, that wasn’t true.Callon washerstalker, dammit, and she didn’t want to share him.“Shut the front door,” Lola hissed.“I’ve jumped off the deep end.I am jealous of my freaking creeper.”Her eyes widened so wide she knew she had to look comical.“I can’t believe I just said that out loud.”
“Creeper?”Katy asked.“Okay Chick, you’re beginning to make me worried, and that’s saying something considering how weird you are.But even this is a bit much for you.Are you telling me the guy with you is a creeper?Do I need to call the 5-O?Or is it more serious?I know a guy who knows a guy.He does some night clean up.”
“Is she offering to have me killed?”Callon asked, his voice full of humor and not the least bit worried.His eyes danced with mischievousness and it was cute as hell.
“Damn straight, Creeper Dude,” Katy yelled.“I will gut you like a dead fish, only you will be very much alive when I do it, and so you’ll flop around like a live fish.Until your entrails pour out of your body.Then you’ll stop flopping.It will be very disturbing.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Maddie said again in the background.“We’ll gather our gear.”
Callon’s face completely changed as a huge grin appeared on his face.He needed to never, ever smile.That crap was lethal.He seemed completely delighted at her friends' very real threats.Her BFF’s were batshit crazy.
“Stop smiling,” she pointed at him with a glare.“Don’t ever smile like that again.”Lola turned her attention back to the phone.“And you don’t have any gear, you two psychos,” Lola sighed.She’d gone from being worried about a stalker, to being attracted to her stalker, to needing to get away from her stalker, being jealous about her stalker– which damn, that is messed up– and now she was talking her friends out of saving her from said stalker.What the actual hell?“A pocket knife on your keyring doesn’t count as gear, Maddie,” she said before her blonde-haired friend could bring up the tiny blade.“Look, I’m fine,” Lola pinched the bridge of her nose.“I’m talking to someone that saw us in the tattoo shop a couple weeks ago.He’s a friend of Kian’s, the guy who drew my tattoo.And no, I haven’t been holding out on you.”She totally had been.Lola hadn’t mentioned a thing to either girl about her feelings of being watched.Katy and Maddie were going to lose their crap.“I’ll call you back in a little bit when I get home.If you don’t hear from me in fifteen minut—”
“Twenty-five,” Callon cut her off.
Lola glared at him.“Fifteen,” she said through gritted teeth.
He tilted his head in that weird animalistic way, “Twenty, or I might show up while you, Katy, and Maddie, are on your way to work to have a chat.”
“Of course, you know who they are,” she huffed.She’d been jealous, and he’d already seen Katy and Maddie when he’d been creeping on her.“Fine, if you don’t hear back from me in twenty minutes, call your people.”
“Umm,” Katy drew out.“You realize that I don’t really have people, right?It’s kind of like the whole gear thing.But,” she quickly added.“I’m sure I can find someone on the internet.There’s got to be a website for that.Hit-Man-R-Us?The internet has everything.”
“Okay, hanging up now,” Lola said.“Talk to you two in twenty.”She ended the call to the shouts of her two best friends telling her to be careful, and use protection.She loved them.She just had to keep telling herself that.
“Now,” Callon stepped close to her again.“Where were we?”
Chapter 10
I Need You To Stop Petting Me.
“Captivating.It’s not a word I use often.I have a feeling it will be a common word in my mind because that is what she is to me.With one look, with one word, with one touch, I am her willing captive.Nothing and no one will ever have the hold she has on me.”~ Callon
Callon couldn’t believe he was standing in front of his mate.He’d been following her for so long that he’d gotten used to being in the background, unable to get too close, let alone touch her.But now, here she was.She smelled better than anything he’d ever scented.Her skin was softer than silk and he wanted to soak up her warmth.It had taken everything in him to drop his hands after he’d cupped her face.
So far, he was sure he hadn’t impressed her in any way.Other than his chest, he inwardly smirked.Judging by the look in her eyes, Lola thought he was completely insane.Unfortunately, she wasn’t too far off the mark.Especially when it came to her.Callon thought he was dangerous before he’d met his mate.Now?Now, he was the most deadly beast, in not only his territory, but probably any kingdom.
