Jax kissed her cheek and whispered something in her ear, her eyes widened.
“Come on, Mason,” Jax said and Mason followed him, beer in hand, leaving us girls to talk.
“Dream guy is here?” Avery whisper shouted as her eyes widened in shock.
I chewed my lip. “Yeah, super-hot, and super-taken by some other chick.”
She frowned. “Hmm.”
Yeah, I didn’t really want to talk about it. What kind of messed up higher power thought sending me a vision of some gorgeous guy who was already taken, was a good idea? That didn’t happen with mates. When my mom got visions, both of the people were single and the timing was perfect. Damn, I was acting jealous and I didn’t even know him. So stupid.
“Let’s go play games. Screw this dream guy.” I grabbed her hand and she trailed after me. Let Jaxon figure out what was up with this guy. I would be out having a fun night and hoping my heated connection to this guy vanished after tonight.
Crossing through the entrance back into the bar, I hurried inside and turned the corner hoping to avoid getting an eyeful of hottie dream guy.
“Oouf!” I slammed into someone.
Looking up, I saw that it was him. Just my luck. He had his hands on my upper arms to steady me as we stared into each other’s eyes. I felt mine go yellow.‘Mate.’My inner wolf claimed him. What? No! I had to tamp her down so I didn’t scare him. His gaze roamed over my face to my neck tattoo. A slightest amount of fear flashed in his eyes but then it was gone. I inhaled deeply. What the hell? Not a vamp, not a warlock, not a werewolf, but not exactly human. Some special scent lingered on his skin, sage, and sandalwood, supernatural.
“You look familiar,” he stated as his eyes scanned my face again. His warm, rich voice made my stomach heat up and I swear to God I was two seconds from shifting.
‘Mine,’my wolf claimed. Oh, shit. What was going on? Stop it!
“You look familiar as well.” I tried to play it cool, but my voice cracked and his hands finally dropped to his sides after he realized he was still holding me.
Avery was watching us in fascination.
“I’m Avery.” She extended her hand to him. Thank God she was at least trying to bait him into normal conversation. What the hell was I doing? Staring at him like an idiot and trying to keep my wolf from humping his leg.
“Gavin.” He shook her hand but was still looking at me. Avery quickly pulled her hand away.
“You’re burning up,” Avery exclaimed.
He paled, looking embarrassed but recovered swiftly. “Yeah, haven’t been feeling well lately.”
“I’m Anya.” I spit out. Stupid. I was acting too eager. Chill out.
He gave me a dimple-loaded smile. “Anya. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
I could only nod; the way he said my name was making my wolf rise up again.
“You know, Anya hasn’t been feeling well lately either,” Avery said as I stepped on her toe to quiet her.
Gavin’s eyes roamed over my vintage Pac Man t-shirt and skin-tight black jeans with worn holes at the knees and then finally to my faded pink Converse shoes. He gave the barest hint of a smile before his eyes locked on mine once more, his gaze flicked again to my neck tattoo.
“I’m a werewolf,” I blurted. Jesus! Was I twelve around this guy? It was like that awkward stage in middle school all over again.
He smiled. “I figured.”
After an uncomfortably long stretch of silence, he put his hands in his pockets. “Okay, well, it was nice to meet you. I’ll see you around?”
The heat flushed my body and all of a sudden I was burning up, feeling faint. I could only nod as he walked away and back into the crowded bar. My wolf raged inside of me, pushing me to go after him. To turn around and scream his name, but I shook the feelings off.
Avery grabbed my arm. “You said he was hot. THAT is not hot, that’s … that’s ...”
I nodded. “I know. He’s too beautiful, barely real. Way out of my league.”
‘Mate,’my wolf said again, but I shut her up with a growl.
