Grizzly Rim 02 - Surrender the Chase by Mia West

Author:Mia West
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Mac glared at Thierry when they walked in. In fact, the bar was full tonight, and two by two, all eyes fell on the young wolf.

But Dmitri didn’t have to nudge him forward. Thierry crossed to the brewer and held out his hand. “I’m sorry that I destroyed your door.”

Mac scowled at his hand for a moment before taking it.

“Dmitri said that you are waiting for hardware?”

Mac’s glance slid to Dmitri. “The hinges broke. It’s on temps ’til the right ones come in.”

“Will you tell me when they arrive? I will install them.”

“It’s fine.”

“It is the least I can do.”

“Are you any good?”

“I’m very good,” Thierry said with a hint of suggestiveness in his voice.

Mac’s frown deepened. “With tools,” he growled.

“I am,” Thierry nodded, serious again. “I do construction in the summers.”

Mac picked up a towel. “Okay. I’ll let you know. It won’t be ’til next week or the week after.” He looked at Dmitri again.

So did Thierry.

“He’ll be around,” Dmitri said.

For which Thierry beamed at him.

Shit, he was blushing again. He’d never blushed so much in his life as in the past two days.

“Good to meet you, I guess.”

Thierry smiled at Mac. “Very good to meet you. You’re a brewer?”

“Yeah, I do a bit.”

“Dmitri has told me. You have a stout?”

Mac’s eyebrows rose in what Dmitri had come to recognize as grudging respect. “I do.”

“I’ll take a stout.” He turned to Dmitri. “What would you like? My treat.”

Dmitri nodded to Mac. “Usual.”

Thierry watched Mac pour, eying Dmitri’s choice. “What’s your usual?”

“Red ale.”

“Red ale? Will you be figure-skating later?”

Mac chuckled, then caught himself and moved down the bar.

“Very funny.”

Thierry held up his pint glass and kept it there until Dmitri raised his and looked him in the eye.

“Santé.”

“Santé.” Thierry sipped around his smirk.

Dmitri watched the rise and fall of his throat as he swallowed. A thin line of the stout’s head limned his upper lip for a few seconds before he licked it away. Dmitri took a swig of his own beer.

“So what is to be done here?”

The question could have meant so many things, Dmitri hesitated.

“In Grizzly Rim,” Thierry specified. What he did to the R’s was almost obscene.

“Uh, you’re lookin’ at it.”

“Come to the tavern?” Thierry nodded. “All right. But in the wilderness? Don’t you explore it?”

“Sure.”

“As a human?”

“Well, not as much as I do as a wolf. But other people do.”

Voices sounded behind them, the Casey brothers calling out to Nate, who’d just come in from outside. Nate waved and turned toward the bar. His step hitched slightly when he caught sight of Thierry. He leveled a baleful eye at him as he rounded the bar, grabbed a glass, and poured himself a water.

“D.”

“Nate.”

The otter came back around the bar. As he walked past Thierry, he muttered, “Stranger Danger.”

Thierry’s attention snapped to Nate. His dark-roast eyes narrowed, assessing.

Nate settled on Dmitri’s other side, wisely putting a body between himself and Marrou, who topped him by a head and a couple dozen pounds.

But Thierry wasn’t one to back down.

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