Page 23 of Drown My Sorrow

He throws the empty bottle at the wall and lets out a wild whoop. I echo him with my own undulating call. Keagan lets out a crow that rings through the night. The sound of us hunting.

The locals will go to ground pretending they don’t see anything. We might hunt them occasionally, but we protect them just as fiercely. Do no wrong and no wrong will come to you.

I get on my motorbike and start it, loving the feel of throbbing power between my legs. Tonight, we need to be powerful.

Tonight, we ride to bring the Raines pack to their knees because I’m not losing her.

The air is crisp tonight but not warm either. It’s a moonless night. Shale peels off to go get things ready.

We get to the hotel and walk in.

Barty throws us the key, his twitchy eyes looking left and right. I snag it out of the air and continue down the hallway to room seven.

It’s a good number. A solid number.

I smile and bite my lip hard enough to hurt. God, I want to laugh. This might be the craziest thing I’ve ever done.

The door opens easily, and I find the three alphas passed out. Their dinner was laced with a healthy dose of sleeping tablets from Muriel, who owes us a favour.

There’s a huge bed, two alphas are slumped on it, but Kelly is on the floor. The dim lighting might stop anyone else, but I know this room like the back of my hand. Gran used to clean the hotel every night.

I walk over and kick Kelly hard in the guts.

“That was for making her cry.”

I miss Ezy rising up and lunging for me but spin when Keagan laughs. He’s pressed against Ezy’s back with a chunky knife held to the alpha’s throat.

“Oh, baby, I knew you were going to be the fun one.”

I kick Kelly and turn to Gael.

“Wake up and get up or we’ll make Ezy smile permanently.”

Kelly’s eyes snap open with no trace of sleepiness. Interesting. I smile as I wait for the pair of them to slowly get to their feet.

“Let him go,” Kelly barks.

I shudder as the alpha bark rolls over me, making my toes curl with delicious pleasure.

“Ooh, do it again,” I laugh maniacally and fist bump Shale as he slinks in.

Kelly looks like he’s going to be sick.

“Now, come on, we just want to have a wee little chat with you,” I tease and pinch his cheeks.

“Where are we going?” Gael asks and swallows hard, stepping back from Shale.

“There’s a beach a couple clicks from here that will offer us the privacy to get to know each other.”

They blanch. I shake my head in disgust and smack the back of Kelly’s head.

“Get your head out of the gutter! I’m not going to rape you, fucking hell.”

Kelly looks suspicious, but Gael just points at the door.

“That way, right?”

I point at the alpha, who leaves the room. “What’s his deal?”

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