“I’m not here hunting dick.”
He grinned, and the gold outer edges of his eyes flashed brighter. “Foul mouth on you. I like it. Fine, if you aren’t here for dudes, pick a girl for me.”
She let her gaze linger on him for a few seconds to gauge his seriousness before she looked around. There were actually a lot of pretty women in here if he was into humans.
“Hair color preference?” she asked.
“You never introduced yourself.”
“Oh. I’m Lyric.”
“Cool name.”
“So is Vicious, but you went and shortened it and took the coolness from it.”
He chuckled. “My mom shortened it. She didn’t like the long version.”
“Then why did she name you that?”
“She didn’t. My dad did. He badgered her until she gave in.”
“Human parents naming you Vicious. That’s a werewolf name for sure. It’s like they set you up to be Turned.”
“Yeah, they kind of did. It was my dad’s best friend who Turned me.”
“Holy shit,” she muttered. “Why would he do that?”
Vic leaned on his elbow and stared straight into her soul. “Do you want to come to bingo with me?”
“Bingo?”
“Yeah. They have it in the back room. It’s a bunch of old people mostly, but they do a bake sale that’s pretty cool, and you can win twenty bucks a card.”
“You…” She frowned, trying to keep up with this turn in conversation. “You have a meeting here and it’s just bingo with a bunch of old ladies?”
“Oldpeople. Male humans play it too. Sexism isn’t attractive on anyone.”
She snorted at his teasing. This guy was so out of the blue. “I guess I could play bingo, but I thought you were here to pick up women?”
“You’re a female werewolf. You’ll do.”
“Oh, but I’m not looking for anything romantic.”
“I didn’t come here for that.”
“Well, I’m not looking to fuck.”
A smile cracked his handsome face, and he nodded. “Accepted. How about we just have a fun night, and tomorrow,I can bring you some of these contacts, and we can call it friendship.”
“Friendship,” she said, testing out the word. “But we’re from rival Packs.”
“Your Pack was annihilated, and rumor has it y’all are limping in your numbers. I think you won’t be able to attack us for a year or more, and who knows. By that time, the urge for revenge may ease up. Maybe we aren’t destined to be enemies, Lyric.”
“My sister is paired up with the Alpha of the new Pack now.”
“And your sister is Aro’s other daughter?”
She nodded.
