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We both laughed.
Randy Lowry leaned in close, wiggled his brows and said, “I have a tattoo I’d love to show you.”
About that time, a wall of werewolf butted up against my back. I could smell the bergamot and spice, along with possessive jealousy and anger.
I raised my brows and smiled.Me likey.
“Dr. Smith,” Jacob Lowry said. “Nice to see you.” He gestured just past me. “Did you enjoy lunch, Bethany?”
I shifted my eyes just enough to catch her in my peripheral vision. She was standing near Billy Bob, but not touching him. Good thing too, otherwise there would have been a schoolyard throw down in Blondina’s restaurant, and I didn’t want to create extra work for my friend.
“The food and the company are just divine,” she said.
The sound of her voice made my teeth hurt.I will be a grown up. I will be a grown up.
“Billy Bob has been such a sweetheart, showing me around town.”
Sweethearthad become extremely quiet.
I will not look. I will not look.
Bethany continued. “I think I could really learn to love this place…given the right incentive.”
I could smell her cloying rose and berry perfume as she moved closer.Be calm, sister.
Shut the hell up, Brother Wolf.
As you wish.
Great. I’d gone and hurt my spirit guardian’s feelings.
When Bethany’s hand touched my arm after she looped it past Billy Bob’s elbow. I spun on my heel and faced them both. Billy Bob looked as if he’d swallowed a bug. Bethany looked like the cat that ate the canary.
Quickly, he removed her arm, but all too late. I leaped up on him with an agility I hadn’t felt since my recovery, wrapping my legs around his waist as his hands found their way to my back. I growled, snapping at Bethany once, before turning my heated glare upon my handsome werewolf’s face.
He did not look surprised or upset or even chagrinned. He looked…ready to go. Billy Bob yanked my head down by my hair until my lips were on his, and he crushed me with a kiss that had me whimpering with need. I fisted his silver curls with the same ferocity, delving my tongue between his lips as I staked my claim.My man! I thought.My fucking man.
When the overwhelming desire to take possession of him ebbed a tiny bit, I couldn’t help but notice the entire restaurant had gone completely silent. I reluctantly withdrew from the kiss and slowly pivoted my gaze to take in all the gaping town folk and Jubilee attendees who’d witnessed my brain snapping in two.
I bit my lower lip, my legs still wrapped around Billy Bob’s waist, and glanced down at him. He had a big, goofy grin on his face and a dazed look in his eyes.
No help there.
Suddenly, someone shouted, “Oh my God!”
My BFF Sunny stood just inside the door with Ruth Thompson, and they were both squealing like teenage girls who’d gotten a glimpse of their favorite boy band.
I carefully climbed down Billy Bob, hoping my feet wouldn’t fail me when they hit the floor. I gave Bethany a hard stare, pointed my finger right at her, and said, “There will never be the kind of incentive you want to keep you in town.” I looked up at Billy Bob, who grinned like a jackal, and said with great emphasis, “Never.”
Her lower lips quivered as I brushed past her on my way to the door. The questions on both Ruth’s and Sunny’s faces almost had me turning back around and running in the opposite direction. The grilling I would get from those two ladies when they got me alone was going to be a shitshow of epic proportions.
“Not now,” I told them. “Later.” Much, much later. As I walked out the door of the restaurant, I realized I hadn’t eaten lunch. Hell, I hadn’t even said goodbye to Dom. I was a lousy date.
“Get a room,” Delbert Johnson said, as he walked past me into the Blonde Bear. He laughed.
“How in the hell did you…”
He held up his cell phone and played a video of me making out with the doc. Freaking technology! Nothing was sacred.
