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“Watching romcoms and sobbing into popcorn is not fun,” Sarah sighed. She grabbed hold of Kayla’s shoulders, looked her in the eye and added, “Please, just do this one thing for me and I promise I will always love you.”
“You will always love me anyway,” Kayla pointed out, sticking her tongue out at her friend. They had been best friends ever since they were tiny pups, their own mothers having been close before them. But their mothers were both gone now, and they only had each other. And their pack, of course, but they had always been the closest.
Otherwise, Kayla liked to keep herself to herself. It was easier that way. Sarah was the only one who had never let her down, never disappeared or died on her, and had always been there for her whenever she needed her.
“Are you really going to make me do this?” Kayla sighed.
Sarah nodded strongly. “Yes.”
“Why did you have to choose the red boots?” Kayla growled. She hated those damned things. She had never been able to walk properly in them. In fact, save for half an hour before she had decided to go barefoot on a night out instead, she had never worn them.
“Because they look killer on you and nobody would be able to mistake you for anyone else in them,” Sarah shrugged, smirking. “They are perfect for a blind date.”
Kayla cringed. Blind dates were mortifying. She had only ever been on one, and it hadn’t ended well. In fact, it had barely even begun at all before the realization that there was absolutely no chemistry there at all.
What if he’s ugly?Kayla thought grimly, though she immediately felt guilty.
As if she had read her mind, Sarah scowled and pointed out, “If his account name is anything to go by, he’s a werewolf, and when have you ever met an unattractive werewolf?”
Kayla had to admit that she did have a point there. Sighing with only slight relief, Kayla said begrudgingly, “Fine, I’ll go, but only for you!”
Playfully, she reached up and tugged on Sarah’s golden blonde hair. Sarah growled back at her and pinched her arm before she yanked her into a tight embrace and said, “I knew I’d get to you in the end.”
Chapter 2 - Lance
The buzzing of Lance’s phone on his desk caused him to jump. He had been so busy going through contract details on his computer screen that he had entirely forgotten he’d placed it there.
“Who is that?”
“None of your business,” Lance grumbled back at his son, who sat in the armchair opposite his desk going through the contract pages Lance had printed not two minutes earlier.
He ignored the way his son eyed him and only glanced at his phone. Seeing that it was a notification from the Supernatural Lovers dating app, he rolled his eyes and decided to ignore it. It was probably from yet another fae, desperate for a man with stamina to satisfy her needs in the bedroom. Those damned fairies were ruthless when it came to sex. But that wasn’t what he had been looking for when he downloaded the app. In fact, he wasn’t even sure what he had been looking for.
Whatever it was, he hadn’t found it, and he was done with the app. He had been for weeks. He just hadn’t gotten around to deleting it yet.
“Go ahead and take it if it’s important,” Lewis insisted, glancing up from the paperwork in his hands with a raised brow.
“It’s nothing,” Lance assured him, reaching out to press the lock button to darken his cellphone screen before he turned his attention back to his computer.
He could still feel his son watching him, but he tried his hardest to concentrate upon his work.
“Would you quit worrying about my phone and get back to work?” Lance snarled at his son. “We have to get those reports ready for Jake.”
“Isn’t that what your hot secretary is for?” Lewis chuckled, glancing over his shoulder. Lance cringed. He was just glad that his office door was closed, though he was almost certain she would be able to hear his son through the door. Lewis had never really been any good at whispering.
“Watch your mouth, boy,” Lance warned him with a low growl in his chest. “You’re at work, not the bar, and even if you were—”
“Yeah, yeah, I get it. Respect.” Lewis growled in his own throat and turned his gaze back down to the papers in hand.
Silence reigned for several minutes while Lewis checked over the paperwork and Lance checked the computer, flicking through e-mails and making sure there were no new alerts.
But several times, Lance found himself glancing at his phone, his fingers itching to pick it up. He didn’t quite know why. It wasn’t the first time he had received a notification from the app. In fact, in the first few weeks of being on it, he had received no end of notifications from women wanting to chat or meet up. All of them had turned out to be a terrible waste of time.
It had been about two weeks since he had last received anything of any interest at all. And yet, somehow, he couldn’t resist the urge to check whatever had just popped up on his screen.
“If it isn’t important then why do you keep glancing at your phone?” Lewis insisted, and before Lance knew it, his son had hopped up from his chair. He zoomed around the desk and grabbed Lance’s phone.
“Don’t you dare, Lewis!” Lance snarled, using his most angry dad voice. But his son wasn’t a child anymore and had long ago outgrown being scared of his father.I think I need to teach him another lesson in respect,Lance thought grimly as he watched his son unlock his phone.
