Bounty Hunter Bear: Crossroads 1 (Grizzly Cove Book 11) by Bianca D'Arc

Author:Bianca D'Arc [D'Arc, Bianca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

When Thea entered the roadhouse out by the highway, she scented right away that the whole place was full of shifters. Wolves. Glassy-eyed wolves. Damn.

Nevertheless, she allowed Ezra to escort her to a table, where they were waited on by a shifter waitress. She was some kind of bird, if Thea’s nose was accurate. The woman took their orders then casually added that everyone present was a shifter, so they could talk freely unless some humans showed up for lunch.

“Interesting,” was Ezra’s only comment. He took a rather obvious look around for himself and seemed to evaluate what he saw. “Mostly wolves,” he stated to Thea

They both knew that the others could hear every word, if they wished to eavesdrop. Judging by the low conversations and lack of smiles on anyone’s faces, Thea figured most of them were listening. This was not a happy crowd. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

Ezra kept talk general, mentioning the concert they’d seen the night before and then the modifications he was supposedly going to have made to his bike. Thea knew the phantom modifications were just a ruse they were using for him to keep returning to the bike shop to talk with the bear brothers. She told him a few harmless anecdotes about her family’s reaction to her buying her bike, and the lunch passed in a pleasant enough way, even if they were being watched by almost every set of eyes in the place.

Eventually, when they were enjoying coffee after their meal, the waitress returned to their table with the check and a message. “The White Oaks Alpha would like to talk to you before you go. He’s over there in the corner booth.”

Ezra thanked the woman and gave her a wad of cash to cover both the meal and a generous tip. He then stood and politely assisted Thea before speaking.

“Do you want to go pay our respects?” he asked. She knew he was setting a scene, appearing reluctant when talking to the visiting Alpha was exactly why they had come here. This couldn’t have worked out better had they planned it.

“Sure. I like wolves,” she told him with a gamine grin.

They both knew she liked one wolf in particular—the woman who had helped save Thea and those other women from Bolivar, Margo Mahigan of the Stony Ridge Pack out of Canada. She’d made a real impression on Thea, and she admired the woman greatly.

They walked together over to the corner booth where the wolf Alpha sat with two others who looked like high-ranking Pack members. They were arranged one on either side of the Alpha, like some sort of honor guard.

Ezra walked right up to the table and said hello. The wolves saw him coming and stopped their own conversation to look him over. The two subordinates remained quiet while the Alpha wolf took a good long look at the bears in front of him.

“Forgive me for not standing, but I’m sort of stuck in the booth,” the man said, with a friendly grin.

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