The Alpha's Gamble by Eliot Grayson

Author:Eliot Grayson [Grayson, Eliot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Smoking Teacup Books
Published: 2023-01-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I’m Going to Eat You

Declan opened his mouth, probably to say something snide about how he’d told me to stay in the Morrigan. And then I would’ve had to argue back that I was on the Morrigan’s property, thank you very much, not even all the way out the door, after which he might have reminded me that I’d been attacked on the Morrigan’s property already, and then I’d have had to say something about how Walter was a lying little bitch…

Yeah, I didn’t want to go there.

So I cut him off with, “If you were watching me enough to know where I was going, why didn’t you message back?” Another thought hit me. “And how the hell did you get out here before I did? Do you have a teleporter, for fuck’s sake?”

Declan shoved off the pillar with his shoulder, hands still in his pockets, his smile quirking higher. “You can’t expect me to give away all my secrets, Blake. Or expect me to get distracted by your bullshit from the fact that I’m pretty sure I gave you a couple of very simple instructions to follow. Do you remember what those were?”

For a second, I saw red. His tone had veered perilously close to “reasoning with a toddler” territory.

“I haven’t left the Morrigan,” I hissed, taking a step of my own, fists balling at my sides. “And as for your other rules—”

“You were playing blackjack. And you’re in the process of leaving the Morrigan. Don’t get cute with me.”

“You told me not to try to play on credit, and I didn’t! I played that hundred you left me, and I won, by the way, so you need to take back what you said about me being shit at counting cards!”

I broke off, breathing hard, as I realized my mistake.

Declan sauntered another step nearer, still with that casual attitude that made me want to punch him right in the smirk. No alpha glow, no sign at all that I’d so much as annoyed him, let alone worried him with the message about the guy watching me or with the possibility that leaving the Morrigan might endanger me.

Even without him trying to be imposing, though, his sheer presence still blocked out everything else: people getting out of a car a few feet away, someone yelling in the parking lot. The smells of exhaust and cigarette smoke and of the sun baking the asphalt, hot and pungent despite the year winding down to late fall.

Declan eclipsed all of it, with his broad shoulders and the weight of his dark gaze, alpha magic and pheromones rolling off of him in waves despite how unmoved he seemed to be.

“So what you’re telling me,” he said, his voice a low rumble, “is that you took the hundred dollars I left you and used it to cheat. Here, at my casino. And then, once you’d collected your ill-gotten gains—”

“Card-counting is not illegal—”

“—you tried to leave!” he went on, raising his voice enough to run right over my protest.

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