Guarded By The Alpha by Heather Hildenbrand

Author:Heather Hildenbrand [Hildenbrand, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adult shifter romance
Published: 2016-10-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Zak marched back to the Jeep, resisting the urge to drag Del along beside him. Or better yet, throw her over his shoulder a second time and carry her off to safety. She was right. He was a caveman at least when it came to protecting his mate. And he wouldn’t apologize for it. At least he didn’t stare at her while she gathered the clothes she’d dropped earlier and slid back into them.

He felt like an idiot. It had taken him too damned long to figure out these coyotes were about something bigger than a land protest. They wanted Del. Or the statue. He’d seen that tattoo although he hadn’t mentioned it—and he knew what it represented from his little perusal of her hidden item still wedged in his Jeep.

He waited to comment on the ink, wanting her to point it out, to admit it all or even some of it. But she hadn’t. He’d been too blinded by his feelings for her to see how big this secret was and now, they were in much deeper than he’d realized.

This wouldn’t stop when they got back to Fort Jericho. Not if the statue was real. And he’d already seen it with his own eyes when she’d gone to order their burgers. It was tiny but definitely legit. Could he really pawn her off on another bodyguard and just walk away? Let someone else be responsible for keeping her alive?

He already knew the answer to that one. Just the thought of it, of seeing her with someone else, already had him itching for another brawl. And he had a feeling he’d get one at this rate. Those coyotes had an annoying knack for finding them at every stop. That pissed him off too.

He made it back across the highway to the Jeep before rounding on another gas station patron and sneering in the man’s face. “What the hell are you looking at?”

“Ack!” The man screeched and scurried away into his car, gunning the engine before peeling out of the lot.

Zak grinned. It gave him a small sense of satisfaction to see the man run scared. Probably didn’t help that he was still naked but he’d long since grown comfortable with his own body thanks to his days the military. If someone else wasn’t, well, that was their problem.

“Are you done scaring the locals?” Del asked. Her raised brow only made him grin wider.

“I needed to do something to cheer myself up,” he said. “But you’re right, I can think of a much better idea.”

He started toward her and she shook her head, backing away. “No way, caveman. You stay on your side of the vehicle.” She slid into the passenger side of the car and shut the door before he could argue.

He went to the trunk and rummaged for a clean pair of pants, slipping them on and then going back for a shirt and boots. The smell of stale fries and burgers reminded him what the interruption of the coyotes had cost him.

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