Of course, Davey already knew him.
“Titus. Come in,” I said, lifting the bar flap.
“Oh, shit,” Doug mumbled, but he didn’t truly seem surprised to realize he was looking at our Alpha. Whom he’d clearly never met.
“Titus!” My sister dashed around me and into the dining area, where she threw her arms around the Alpha like an older brother home from college. Which no one else who wasn’t related to him by blood or marriage would havedaredto do. “It’s been so long!”
She’d never once greeted me with that kind of enthusiasm.
“Hey, Davey.” He returned her hug, patting her back, and over his shoulder I saw a large, gorgeous gentleman with a blond man-bun leaning against a black Mercedes SUV in the parking lot, both arms crossed over his jacket.
Lochlan Hayes, one of Titus’s enforcers.
“Are you staying for lunch?” Davey backed toward the bar again. “I can have Billy make—”
“Not this time,” Titus said. “Your sister and I have some business to take care of.”
Davey spun to scowl at me, silently scolding me for not telling her that he was coming. “I can send a couple of burgers to your office?”
“Thanks, but we’re actually going to be in the field today,” Titus said, his gaze still trained on me. “In a manner of speaking.” The man could say more with a single look than I usually managed in ten minutes of conversation. “I’ll have your sister back to you in an hour, though.”
“Just a second.” I leaned over the bar to pluck my cell phone from the charger cord. “Vance and Tucker will be here any minute.” I couldn’t leave Davey alone in a bar full of shifters.
“Loch will stay with her, as well.” Titus turned to rap one knuckle on the window, beckoning the enforcer with a wave.
“God, he’s pretty…” Davey breathed as she watched him approach through the glass door.
“Everyone in here can hear you,” I teased. “Hell, they can practically hear your thoughts.”
Davey flipped me off, just as Loch pushed the door open.
“I need you to hang with Davey and keep an eye on the place until we get back,” Titus said.
“Of course.” Lochlan pulled his man bun loose, and I swear to god, he shook his hair out like there was a goddamn spotlight shining on him. I thought Davey was going to melt right into the floor, and I couldn’t really blame her.
“Don’t forget to call the beef distributer,” I said as I backed toward the door.
“Beef. On it…” Davey mumbled, still staring at Loch.
Titus chuckled as he held the door open for me.
“That is not funny,” I snapped as it swung shut behind us.
“The hell it’s not. Also, it happens everywhere he goes.”
“Yeah, well, Davey needs to think shifter men are the kind who belch their beer breath at her from across the bar, not the kind that just stepped off the catwalk. No pun intended. Next time, can you bring someone…uglier?”
Titus gave me an amused look, his shoes crunching on gravel. “Who would you suggest?”
Fair point. All his enforcers were attractive.
“What are you doing here, anyway? When I asked for backup, I assumed you’d send Jace. He lives, like, two hours closer.”
Titus pulled open the passenger side door of an SUV that cost more than my net worth, but he didn’t answer my question until he’d settled behind the wheel. “Jace and Abby are at my house for the party.”
“What party?”
“Kaci’s turning twenty-two, and she has family in town for a few days,” Titus explained as he turned left out of the parking lot. I could hardly feel the potholes, in his fancy billionaire-mobile, and there was no road noise to speak of. “They’re basically Jace’s family too, so…”
