Page 373 of Flirting with Darkness

I bared my teeth at them in a snarl. “How did you even get in here? We have a strict no supernaturals policy.”

Cooper barked a laugh. “Ironic for a supernaturally led club.”

“We have the rule for a reason. Your kind and others like you,” I gripped the dagger in my hand so tight that it bit into my skin. “Have taken advantage of our powers throughout time and we won’t be used by you again.”

Cooper stood and placed his hands in his pockets, walking slowly toward me but keeping space between us. “We understand your reluctance -”

“Oh, you do, do you?” I snorted and glowered at them. “Why come to me? Don’t you mutts all fuck each other anyway?”

Jax was on me in a second, his hand wrapped around my throat and his jaws half transformed to bare his sharpened teeth at me. “Watch your mouth, witch.”

“Watch your dick,dick,” I croaked out, the point of my dagger pressing into the soft underside of his balls.

“Jax,” Cooper said.

One word and that was all that the wolf needed to back off. We obviously knew who was in charge now.

“Let’s start over, shall we?” Cooper offered with an arch of his brow.

“Great,” I grunted, rubbing my throat with my spare hand while shooting a glare at Jax.

“We are from the Crescent Moon Pack and are here to request your services in helping us find our sister.”

My brow rose. “Huh?”

“You see,” Duke jumped in with a small smile. “Our sister has gone missing and well that would be fine and all - well not fine we’d still like to find her - but anyway we are kind of on a timeline cause she’s gonna get us all fucked with her taking off.”

“Duke, quiet.” Cooper shot a look at the younger of the three. His gaze locked back onto me as he explained with a somber expression. “Our sister is promised to mate the alpha of the Black Moon Pack on the next full moon, which is -”

“Three weeks away,” I interjected. Witches were attuned with the moon as much as the weres were. We had to be for the majority of our rituals.

“Precisely,” Cooper inclined his head. “And if we do not present our sister at that time then the Black Moon Pack will see that as an insult and a war will start between our packs.”

“And…my part in all this?” I crossed my arms over my chest and popped my hip out. “I don’t know anything about finding anyone. You need a locator spell or a seer. I’m just a shapeshifter. I can do glamours and other basic charms but you’re barking up the wrong stripper if you think I can find your sister.”

“We have someone working on that part,” Cooper explained, agreeing with my assessment. “The problem remains that our sister is missing and we do not want the rest of the pack to panic.”

“That’s where you come in!” Duke practically bounced on his feet. “We want to hire you to pretend to be Laurie while we search for her.”

My brows furrowed at his words. “And how long will this take? I work by the hour…”

I didn’t know why I was even considering this. I’d been on the end of this kind of deal before. It was just supposed to be an easy job, hanging around a big mansion, pretending to clean, while a bunch of hot vampires ogled me. Next thing I knew I was covered in vampire gunk and traumatized for life. Never again. Fuck the Durands.

“However long it takes and money is not an issue,” Cooper held the wad of cash up once more. “This is just for tonight. We will set up daily deposits after we come to an agreement.”

I stepped forward, my hand itched to take the money. There was so much I could do with that kind of money. I could bring my grandma home and get round the clock care for her at least for a while.

“To be clear it would only be until we found our sister or until the full moon. Whichever comes first.” Cooper offered the cash out to me, probably seeing the greedy look in my eyes. It was hard to turn down that kind of money.

“And I wouldn’t be having sex with any of you…” I arched my brow a bit worried this was a trap.

“Not unless you want to,” Duke grinned and flexed his muscles. “But that would just be an added job perk.”

My lips twitch at the wolf. He was just so cute. Pulling my gaze away from Duke, I forced myself to think about how this could all blow up in my face. How could this end up with me hurt, fucked, or worse dead?

Coming up with nothing, I snatched the money out of Cooper’s hand and shoved it into my g-string. “Deal.”

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