Alpha by Natasha Knight

Author:Natasha Knight [Knight, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Zane

She’d gotten wet when I’d whipped her.

“Hey, Z, get your head out of your ass and get over here.” Fly interrupted my thoughts. Just as well. I did need to get my head out of my ass. Or out of Aria’s ass.

“Find out anything about the wolves?”

Fly shook his head. “But there’s word of a war brewing. Some of Savage Blood turned up here earlier. I’m telling you Ace is up to no good and working against your father.”

“You know what? That doesn’t concern me anymore.”

“Well, it better fucking start concerning you. Ace is worse than Cain. Cain at least has some remorse.”

“And how do you figure that?”

Fly smiled, wiping spilled beer off the counter. “You figure it, too, kid.”

He hadn’t called me kid in a long time. Not since that first night when I’d shown him I wasn’t a kid. He still wore the scar to prove it.

That same nagging thought came back, the one that said that maybe, just maybe, my father hadn’t been lying. That maybe he had been trying to make amends when he’d sent me to hunt for Bryan. To bring him home. If that were true though, then I’d fucked up even worse than I thought.

But before I could consider it further, a sound caught my attention. From the way Fly jerked his head toward the noise, I knew he heard it, too. Glancing at the office door once, I walked to the front of the bar to greet my new visitors.

“Z,” Fly called before I went out.

I turned to him.

“You need me?”

I shook my head. “Make sure she stays put.”

He nodded, and I walked out the door. There, climbing off their bikes, were six of Rage’s biggest men. I recognized them from their jackets. The only one I knew by name was the one who climbed off last, the largest of them all: Xander Marks. Alpha of Rage, and Aria’s grandfather.

I stood a few feet from the door, my eyes locked on my visitors. Xander’s soldiers watched me, bodies stiff, fists clenching and unclenching, readying for battle while their leader took in the lot, the bikes and trucks parked there as well as the building itself. I saw him pause at the window to my office, but the shutters were still closed. Although he didn’t need to see to know she was there. He would pick up her scent.

He finally turned to me, stepping closer, assessing. He stopped a few feet away. “Zane.”

“Xander.”

“I’ve heard about this place. Seems like you’re doing good business.”

“Business is fine.” He came for one reason and one reason alone: to take back his granddaughter. But I had no intention of giving her back. I realized in that moment, in fact, that I’d fight to keep her.

“How’s your father? Heard you paid him a visit recently.”

Fuck, the man knew. Which meant he also knew about the black rose in Aria’s car.

“You making it your business to keep up with my business, Xander?”

He smiled and adjusted the cuffs on his suit.

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