Page 66 of Love Bites

They all pulled their devices out and looked at the picture.

“And these women are three of her sisters?” Kai asked dryly.

“Yes,” Curtis confirmed, at the same time Damian said, “No. They’re three of my vampires.”

“Whoever they are, they clearly don’t have mate marks,” Bane said. “Which makes attacking them an act of war.”

He looked back at Curtis.

Kai did too.

Talon was studying the screen closely. A littletooclosely for my comfort.

“I don’t want war,” Curtis growled. “I want?—”

“If you had any right to the woman, you’d have a band around your neck like Hale does. Issue an apology, or go to war with the rest of us,” Talon said flatly, his focus still on his phone’s screen.

Curtis’s face turned beet red. He stood furiously. “Iwillget my female back.”

Bane growled, the sound far more menacing than the wolf’s.

Curt’s red face went a little purple. “But until I do, I apologize for attacking your blood mate.”

“Ten vials of blood enhancement were used to heal injuries after the fight,” Damian said smoothly. “You’ll pay to replace those, as well as my mate’s business equipment and personal items, which your wolves destroyed.”

“There weren’t even ten?—”

“Is this really worth a fight, Curt?” Kai asked.

“Fine,” Curtis bit out. “I’ll have them sent over.”

“You’ll send themoneyover,” Damian corrected. “We have no reason to trust drugs sent by your people at this time.”

Curtis snarled, “You’ll get your money by the end of the day tomorrow. And Iwillget Clementine back.”

He stalked out of the room, and despite the ridiculousness of his words, Iwasa little worried.

His bark might not have mattered, but his bite was dangerous. There were a lot of werewolves. Far more than there were monsters or dragons. They were even with the vampires, but no one knew how many fae there were.

“One of your sisters is named after tiny oranges?” Kai asked, looking at me with a lifted eyebrow.

“I don’t have any sisters,” I reminded him.

His lips quirked upward. “Right.”

“I need a siren,” Talon said, finally looking up from his phone screen and straight at me. “I’ll take the dark-haired one. I can return her when I’m done.”

“If we had extra unmated sirens, which we don’t, do you really think we wouldloan them out?” Damian drawled.

Bane interrupted before Talon could growl at us. “If you have a real need and an offer, you can write it out and send it to Hale’s office.”

Talon scowled. “I’m not wasting time withpaperworkwhen I know he’s not going to do a damn thing about it. I need a fucking siren.”

Kai finally slid off the armrest and sat down on his couch. “If you have a problem, tell us what it is, and we’ll see what we can do to help.”

Talon hesitated for a moment, then finally shook his head.

Without another word, he left the room the same way Curtis had.

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