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“You’re going to want to get tae,” Leith growled, leaning over my shoulder so that his face was closer to the man than I was. “Before I make you.”
“Is there a problem here?” Alexei’s voice cut through the tension like a knife and we all seemed to remember where we were.
Both of the dads were dressed in clean cut suits and a set of matching Seattle Stallions ties—Maxim’s already half-loosened because he couldn’t stand them.
Wiz was hovering just behind Alexei’s shoulder and I realized dazedly that he’d gone to get both of them when he saw what was happening.
There was a heavy silence as Alexei surveyed the situation with ice-filled blue eyes that finally landed on Richter who was still swaying on his feet and glaring at me and Leith.
“Who even is this guy?” Richter grumbled loud enough for everyone to hear, gesturing at Leith.
Finally shaking off the cobwebs of memories that had no business rearing their ugly head right now, I reached up and pointed at Leith. “This? This is my boyfriend. My packmate.”
I’d been nice to Richter, whether out of misplaced guilt for getting drunk at the dads’ wedding and sleeping with him or because he clearly was interested in me in a way that I couldn’t return.
But enough was enough.
Leith’s wash of pride flowed to me through the bond and I had to keep myself from turning and smiling up at him.
I dropped my voice lower so that only he could hear my next words. “You need to leave me alone or else you are going to really get in trouble. I am done being nice.”
Threading my fingers through Leith’s, I turned and pulled him through the crowd, leaving my family behind to handle everything in my wake.
We made it outside and I sucked in a deep lungful of cool air.
“So, I’m your boyfriend then?” Leith asked after a minute, a grin in his voice.
I turned to him with a wry look. “That’s what you got from all of that?”
“I just picked the most important bit,” he said with a shrug.
All of the tension drained out of me and I laughed, resting my head on Leith’s chest.
“What’s funny, mo ròs?” Leith’s hands smoothed up my back before sliding up to cup my face and make our eyes meet.
“You,” I told him with a shake of my head. “You watch what can only amount to an embarrassing interaction with an ex and you ask me about my use of the word boyfriend?”
“I like to think that I’m focusing on what’s most important,” Leith purred before pausing and seeming to catch up with my previous words. “Wait—was he an ex-boyfriend?”
I shook my head and fiddled with the edges of his dark jacket. “Not in the way you’re thinking. We slept together—once—a year ago.”
Leith’s brows drew together. “And he’s still hung up on you even now?”
“What can I say? I guess I’m just that addicting,” I joked, trying to lighten the mood a bit.
Leith’s chuckle was dry. “I suppose I can attest to that. I’ve been addicted to you for years.”
He dropped his mouth to mine in a long, tasting kiss that made me forget all about the people still inside of the aquarium and everything that had just happened.
Breathless, I pulled away from his still-seeking lips. “Do you want to go somewhere else?”
“Where?” he asked, his green eyes hazy with need.
I’d meant for the third and final part of our first date to be a surprise after a night of dancing and drinking champagne, but given who was still back inside of the aquarium I figured it was time to move those plans up.
Slipping a hand into my little tiny purse that I’d brought with me, I pulled out a card and held it up in between us.
“A hotel?”
