“The bears don’t have to know. They never wanted to have anything to do with that witchy deal we made anyway.”
“We all belong to the same twin shifter pack. Don’t ever forget that, Alec. They’re our brothers, and it’s their right to know what happened.”
I shrugged off my shirt, opened the door to the truck and piled all my clothes in the front seat. Rage surged through my veins, and I could feel the beast banging loose. “Do whatever you have to do, Alpha. All I care about is getting Rena back.”
“Belle. This one’s name is Belle,” he corrected. “If we had a fifty-fifty chance to win her over, now it’s one in a million. Well done, bro.”
My fists clenched hard. I hated it when he was right. I fucked up. I knew I did. But I wouldn’t admit it. Not to him.
“At least, tell me you didn’t ruin that one chance and bit her already.”
I slammed the door shut again, scowling at him. “Of course not.”
His stare pinned me down. “You sure? Your face was buried deep in her neck.”
And I nibbled at that. She tasted so fucking good, and holding back was not easy. “I mean…I did bite her but not like that.”
“You motherfucker,” he seethed.
“I did not turn her, Kayden.”
He growled, kicking at the ground. Then he tore at his shirt through the swirl of twigs and leaves he made. His beast was banging loose, too. “Let’s hope for your sake before anyone else’s you didn’t.”
CHAPTER 6
BELLE
A roar I did not recognize, more like a wailing siren, woke me up. It took me a moment of fighting through the headache squashing my skull to realize I was hearing my alarm going off.
The red numbers flared at my half-open eyes. 6:30.
How could it be morning so fast?
I turned it off and was about to press a pillow over my head and go back to sleep when I realized it was my first day at school.
Fuck. I bolted upright and leapt to my feet, my head and eyes screaming and screeching in pain. The bedroom was all sunshine. That never went well with hangovers.
Note to self: bay windows are awesome and everything but buy double sided blackout curtains next time.
I quickly grabbed my gray suit from the closet, set it on the bed and headed to the shower. I wasn’t going to let anything ruin my first day of class. Not my wild adventure last night or this nasty hangover.
I jumped in the shower and let the warm water drift over me. The image of my huge stranger wouldn’t leave me be. Everything we’d done was still fresh in my mind. So vivid. So real.
Even his smell was still on me.
My pussy throbbed, sore yet aching for more Alec.
Who would have thought me, the abused Professor from the Beauty and the Beast case—cheesy, I know. Belle who fell for the beast?— that was all over the news for the past few months, was going to meet a very hot stranger at a club and decide right away to have sex with him in public?
What in the hell had gotten into my head when I dragged Alec to that corner?
That was one intense fuck, though.
I wouldn’t mind if it happened again.
Despite everything, last night was wonderful. I lost myself to my desires, and it felt so good. The ability to make a choice, even if it was a mistake. To take a calculated risk, knowing it could go both ways and accept either result.
No one was forcing me to do anything last night.
