Brooks nudged my foot with his. “Spoiling you. Remember?”
I flushed and took the money. “Thank you.”
“Hurry back.”
My legs burned as I jogged in the sand to the cart, which was rolling away from us. I grabbed a water bottle and what looked like some kind of orange soda. It was too close to the color my Alpha wore for me to leave it there.
He was still in the water, not currently riding a wave.
“Hi.” I startled as a tall Alpha leaned into my space. “I think you’re more worth watching than the surfers.”
I frowned. “Why?”
A laugh. “Clearly I need to work on my pickup lines. Because I think you’re pretty.”
“Oh. Thanks. And no thank you.”
I started walking back toward my Alphas, and he fell into step beside me. “Come on. Me and my friends can show you a good time.”
“I said no, thank you.”
“And I don’t think it’s fair that you won’t even give me a shot.”
I stopped and turned to him. “Can youfuck off, please?”
All he did was grin and lick his lips. “Feisty. I like that.” He reached toward me, and I didn’t even have time to step away from him. A hand grabbed him by the wrist, stopping him from reaching me.
Aiden now stood behind me as he threw the Alpha’s hand away. I took a tiny step back and pressed my body into his. One hand on my hip soothed my anxiety. “If you want to keep that hand, I recommend you keep it away from my Omega.”
“I didn’t see your name on her, man, my bad.”
Rage tore through my chest. “So when I told you nothree timesit wasn’t enough, but as soon as a man tells you, you back off? Are you fucking serious?”
The man rolled his eyes. “Whatever. You seem like a bitch, anyway.”
I lunged and got nowhere. Aiden had me behind him in a second. The Alpha crumpled forward, and I realized Aiden had punched him in the stomach. Now he held the man by the back of the neck, speaking into his ear. If you didn’t know better, you might think they were having an intimate moment.
Instead, the Alpha went pale and lurched away from us as soon as Aiden released him. Almost running.
Aiden tucked me into his side and walked back with me to our towels, where everyone else was watching closely. “What did you say to him?”
“I told him the truth.”
“Which is?” I cracked the cap on the water bottle. There wasn’t anything like the first sip of cold water on a hot day.
“That if he didn’t stop harassing women and think carefully about his actions, I would find him and take apart his life piece by piece. Still might.”
“I’d really rather you not go to jail.”
Aiden snorted. “No one would ever know.”
“You’re that good?”
He looked back out at the ocean and smirked.
Logan came jogging over to us with his board. The round was over. “Did you make it?” I asked.
“Of course I did,” he said. “You doubt me?”
