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“Don’t mock me,” Parker said, feeling the abrasiveness of the vampire’s words and actions rubbing his last nerve the wrong way.
“There would be no fun being immortal if I didn’t,” Lex said.
“Not totally immortal,” Parker reminded him. “There are some things you can’t bounce back from.”
“Somebody pulled his fur pants on backwards this morning,” Lex said. “I’ll tell you what, we’ll have a little bet…”
“I heard about your last bet,” Parker said, looking with disbelief at the vampire. He still couldn’t believe the alpha had played along.
Lex’s eyebrows clawed towards his hairline, and he pursed his lips. “Good news travels fast around here.” He already knew that to be true.
“And you summoned a ghost,” Parker said, shaking his head as he went in for another sip of beer.
“And that brought True and Heath together,” Lex said, shrugging. “Call me the matchmaking vampire.”
“I’d rather call you the spanner in the works,” Parker said, dismissing him with a glare. “The bloodsucking fly in the ointment.”
“Well, if you’re going to get personal,” Lex said. “Watch this.”
Parker snapped to attention when the vampire flicked out his claws and scrapped the underside of the bar. Shifter heads lifted and looked in their direction. “Heads up, Parker found his mate, Evie, the one with the child,” he said, loud enough for only the shifters to hear.
Parker groaned as every gaze snapped to Evie, including his. She noticed, doing a double-take, as a large chunk of the customers stared at her with varying degrees of amusement and curiosity. Evie snapped a glare at Parker, and he immediately pointed to Lex.
Lex chuckled. “Wow, throwing me under the bus like that, who’s afraid of the big, bad witch?” He snorted a chuckle, and Parker could hear the pack laughing along with him.
“Wooo-hooo!” One of the pack shouted, and a cheer went up in the bar.
Parker wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole. Now he would be wooing his mate with the whole pack watching.
There were times when he could have killed the vampire, and this was one of those times.
~
Evie walked to Amy, and the witch eyed her with amusement. “Looks like the news is out,” Amy said with a little dollop of sympathy.
“I’m going for a cigarette,” Evie said.
Amy frowned. “You don’t smoke.”
“I’m thinking of taking it up,” Evie replied. “You should always try something new every day.”
“How about getting mated?” Amy replied; that look of sympathy had been replaced by amusement.
“How about bite me?” Evie said.
“Do I sense that you might be regretting your decision to stay?”
“Ya think?” Evie replied, biting down on a few choice curse words that clawed within her to be set free.
“I think it’s too damn late to dwell on what coulda, shoulda, happened. You’ve got a mate; deal with that,” Amy said.
“Gee, I never thought of it like that; thanks for the pep talk,” Evie said.
“Hey,” Amy said, catching Evie’s arm when she went to turn away. “You know I’ve got your back. Think of me as the best man at the wedding with the fast car waiting outside the church.”
Evie took a breath and eased it out again. “All I can think is … Jennifer,” she admitted.
“Jennifer loves wolfies,” Amy said. “She’s not your problem right now.” She nodded to the end of the bar. “He is.”
