“Looks like my luck is improving by the second.”
I chuckled. As was mine. “Can I get you a drink?”
Without breaking eye contact, she brought her bottle of beer to her lips, enticing me to watch her swallow.
Perfect.
Amber and I talked for a bit, us both pretending we didn’t know the night would end with me inside her.
She was a regular at the club. Thankfully, she hadn’t been there the night I saved the hunter, but she’d heard about itsoon after. Fearful that I would scare her away, I mostly listened and let her bring it up.
“The humans are drawn to us,” she declared, assuming I’d met the hunter that night. “Like moths to a flame… acolytes to a god. And some of us eat that up—literally, if it’s a good night.” She smiled, running her tongue along her canines.
She ran a hand down my arm, the way she’d done a few times already.
“But wolves got greedy. It’s why the club is so lame tonight.”
I looked over my shoulder at the dance floor. Normally packed with bodies moving and grinding against each other in primal bliss, it was empty by comparison.
“They made it so easy for those fuckers to snare them.”
I faced Amber. “The revolutionaries?” I whispered, spinning my glass by the rim.
Amber confirmed with a slow, cautious nod of her head.
I let my gaze fall and furrowed my brow, the look convincing her I felt the way she did.
She released a sigh of relief. “Now the rest of us are afraid of being recruited for a war we didn’t ask for,” she continued.
“You’re still here,” I pointed out.
“As are you.”
I shrugged. “Prior to this conversation, I didn’t know they were recruiting at the club.”
Amber frowned. “And now that you do…?”
I raised my glass to my lips. “I’m going to finish my drink.”
My words caused the corners of Amber’s soft-looking lips to rise. “Alpha is trying to get fucked up,” she mocked, in the deepened voice of an immature frat boy.
I couldn’t help but laugh, and I ended up choking on my drink.
Amber jumped to her feet, slamming her palm onto my back. “I’m sorry,” she exclaimed through her own laughter. She waited until my coughing ceased to stop pounding, but she didn’t remove her hand. It now teased up and down the length of my back.
With her free hand, she found my chin and lifted my head. She stared into my eyes as she brought her face closer to mine.
“Or,” she whispered, licking a drop of spittle from my lower lip, “is the Alpha just trying to get fucked?”
I grabbed a fistful of her hair and pulled her until her lips slammed onto mine. Her eyes fluttered closed, and a moan escaped her mouth as my tongue slid inside.
She tasted of beer… and blood.
Her hand found my cock, where it began its strain against my jeans. I grabbed her neck, her pulse racing beneath my palm. She stroked my erection through my jeans, pulling her head back and looking down with a grin of surprise on her face.
“Fuck,” she groaned.
I kissed her again. “My Hummer is by the willow tree at the far end of the lot. It’s unlocked.” I dragged my lips down Amber’s neck, loving the way her body shivered against mine. “Wait for me in the back seat.”
