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“My watch must be off. Sorry, Kenny. I really did hope to give you time to deal with your affairs, but my hounds are looking to play tonight. Will you run for them?”
Another eerie howl filled the air, and Kenneth’s eyes widened as my beasts appeared.
“Time to go, Kenny. It was a pleasure doing business with you!” I shouted at his retreating back as he tried to run. They always did, but they never got far.
TALON
MEET AT THE CLUB.
Four words,and like the puppy dog I was, I was waiting. I would always wait for her. And she knew it.
The beast inside of me should’ve been embarrassed how much of a simp I was for her. Everything about me was Alpha, but when it came to Aida, I rolled over and bared my belly every time.
And it was easy to see why.
The door swung open, and she stepped in, practically glowing despite the dimmed lighting. Every eye in the joint turned to her like she was the light at the end of their sad, pathetic tunnels.
I didn’t bother to ask why she wanted to meet here. It wasn’t her usual haunt being that her vessel was a formerly young family member of the De Lucas. She wasn’t well-known to the famiglia. This allowed her to float in and out of the chaos the De Luca brothers were wrecking in Chicago. But it also made her an asset to them.
I suspected our meeting here was about that—the famiglia and the human masks they wore to exist here.
Someone dog whistled at her, and a growl erupted from my throat as I rose quickly, shoving the chair I’d been lounging in back so hard it tumbled over. Her eyes met mine as an amused smile crossed her beautiful, deceptively angelic face.
“Need a seat, sugar? I’ve got a cushion you can sit on.” My head snapped in the direction of the jackass speaking, my gaze honing in on him before I took the three steps to cross the room and grab his throat.
A choking gag slithered out between his slimy smile, and I squeezed harder. “I should pluck your eyes out for even looking at her, let alone thinking you have anything she wants to sit on.” I squeezed harder. “Apologize.” He gave a gargled reply, so I squeezed harder and shook him. “I said fucking apologize before I show you what your dick looks like turned inside out.”
“Talon.” Sharp nails stroked my cheek, sending a shiver down my spine and right to my cock. It hardened like it was competing in a bodybuilding contest and wanted to show off its muscle. “He’s not worth it, pet.”
And then I purred. I fucking purred like a goddamn cat, which was the furthest thing from what I truly was. But this is what Aida did to me.
Simpering fucking mess.
“Let me kill him then. He deserves nothing less for disrespecting you.”
“I know, pet. I know.” She stroked me again, and my cock lurched toward her, needing her touch there instead of my face. “But I suspect we’ve been called here because they have something else for you to play with.”
I was intrigued. Being Aida’s bodyguard left me at her side more often than not. I rarely retrieved souls anymore. I was handed the bigger things to deal with—shifters, vampires, fae, and the like. Humans were small prey.
I gave the man one last squeeze, letting my nails shift out as they sunk into flesh and tore through vocal cords. He gagged and gasped on air and blood before slipping off the seat he was perched on.
“Whoopsie.” I grinned at Aida, yanking my hand quickly out and bringing the flesh with me. I dropped it on the back of his body before turning to her. “Where you lead, I will follow, mistress.”
Amusement fluttered across her face as she shook her head with a playful smile. “Come.”
She turned on her heel and made her way through the club as I followed behind, her constant shadow. At least now, if she were to darken the doorway of this place without me, word would spread that she was to be left alone.
Aida made her way to the doors of the executive offices, waiting for me to open it for her. There was little Aida did for herself, but that was just her nature. She swept past me, letting her hip brush against my aching cock like she knew what she was doing to me. I could practically smell the smirk on her face.
Her heels clicked up the stairs leading her into the offices the De Luca brothers claimed. “Don’t knock,” she instructed as she paused long enough at the door for me to reach around her and push it open. Her body brushed against mine for a fleeting moment, and I had to swallow the whimper rumbling through my body.
Mate.
The same word was in my mind from the moment she claimed me as the leader of her pack. The same word that filled my entire body the minute I saw her. This was why she could reduce me to a puddle of goo, and I went willingly.
Anything for her.
Anything.
