Page 18 of Ruby's Strength

Eleven

Rett

“Beautiful girl if you don’t get your ass out here we’re going to be late,” I call from the kitchen where I just did the dishes while Ruby got ready for our night out with her family. The woman takes forever to get ready and our room ends up looking like a tornado tore through it when she’s done. We’ve been together for over two weeks, and I haven’t left since. After I got out of work on Monday afternoon, I dropped by my room at the motel and grabbed my things at Ruby’s insistence and promptly checked out. We go to work and even met up with her family last weekend for a family dinner, but I’ve spent every night in her bed.

“What did you say?” She asks wearing a skintight long sleeve black t-shirt that is pushing her tits up and showing off way too much cleavage. She’s also got on a pair of jeans that look as though they’ve been painted on.

“Go change.”

“No.”

“Get your ass back in that room and change into something else,” I say knowing she isn’t going to listen to me.

“I’m wearing this. There’s nothing wrong with it.”

“Have it your way, but don’t hold me responsible for what happens when a man hits on you tonight.”

Walking up to her, I pull her in close with my hand at her waist. I lean down and get close to her ear, so close my lips brush against it when I speak. “And trust me love, dressed like that they aren’t going to care if you have a man attached to you.” I suck her earlobe into my mouth and nibble it before I release her.

“You changing?”

She shakes her head no. Fuck, I swear she wants to see me hand some guy their ass. Earlier this week when we were grocery shopping I lost my shit when I came back from grabbing some cereal and found some guy standing entirely too close to her while she was picking out tomatoes and talking to her. She thought it was funny that I got pissed until I shoved her into the family bathroom at the store and fucked her until my cum was dripping down her thighs and marking her as mine. Since then I think she’s been trying to make me jealous to see what I’ll do.

When we arrive at Remy’s everyone is already there, even Gabe who seems to be spending a lot of time alone. The distance he’s been putting between him and Ruby is hurting her, even though she won’t talk about it.

We find them in the back shooting pool.

“Hey, guys,” Ruby says hugging Aubree and then Maura.

Cole greets me by shaking my hand, then I shake Slates, and finally, Gabe’s. When one of the waitresses walks by I order Ruby and me something to drink. We start a new game of pool, with Cole and I on one team and Maura and Slate on the other. Ruby, Gabe, and Aubree sit at a table next to us talking while we play.

We’re having a great time until a group of three guys enter the building. The whole atmosphere in Remy’s changes immediately. Everyone in the bar stops to stare at the men who have danger wafting off of them in waves. The more I look at them and the closer they get I realize I know one of the guys. He’s someone I worked with years ago while I was in the Air Force. I can’t remember his name, but I remember the guy was an asshole.

The guys zero in on us as if they are here to find our group. When they start heading in our direction, we close in around the girls, stand close and in front of them.

They aren’t twenty feet away when Cole snarls and his fists clench at his sides. “It’s them.”

The guy leading them toward us smiles evilly at Cole.

“What the fuck do you want?” Cole asks in a deadly voice.

“Just letting you and yours know there’s a new pack in town. We just bought land in town. We’re officially neighbors.”

“What were you expecting? Should we roll out the fucking red carpet for a bunch of murderers? Fuck that.” Cole says low as to not attract attention.

“If your alpha would have agreed to leave town that wouldn’t have happened. We challenged him for land rights, and he lost.”

“It doesn’t count if you sick five wolves against one bear you fucking asshole.”

“He refused to go down, we needed to make our point.”

Cole lunges at the man speaking and grabs him by the shirt and smashes his head into the green of the billiards table. “What is your fucking name you cocksucking son of a bitch?”

The other two guys he’s with growl and step to get closer, but Slate and Gabe shove them back not letting them pass and get to their guy. The one pressed to the table laughs. Cole punches him in the face causing blood to spill on the table and all over his face. “Your fucking name.”

“Collin.” He growls.

“Who is your fucking alpha?”

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