Page 56 of Fated Surrender

Connor had to admit he was right. It seemed like everyone was in the diner for lunch. Rebecca and Aleks sat with Ashby, Nic, and Gabriel at one table. Kate, Bran, and Caleb were chatting with Liam, Sebastian, and Kent at another table. Rian and Damian seemed to flitting from table to table talking to everyone.

A lot of the pack and pride had come in for his ma’s meat loaf. Everyone was excited about the town Thanksgiving dinner. Rebecca, being Rebecca, had created and started passing around a volunteer sign-up sheet. It was already filled. God, he loved this town.

Out of nowhere a wave of panic and terror washed over him. On the other side of the counter, Doc had dropped to his knees, clutching his chest.

“Doc?” Kate asked. Everyone got quiet staring at their doctor.

In the distance a loud, inhuman roar reverberated through the diner.

Rebecca jumped up excitedly.

“Yes! Yes! He did it!” She ran from the diner.

Connor and Aleks were frozen in shock when a second roar catapulted them forward.

Connor ran across the street and headed to the clinic. When he got to the building he skidded to a halt, half of the town behind him.

“What the fuck!” Aleks yelled.

Rebecca was jumping up and down. Sebastian was doing fist pumps in the air. Doc looked at the large reptile and turned milky white.

“Felix?” he whispered.

Connor stared at the dinosaur that was chewing on a screaming man.

“Is that? Is that a severed arm between your teeth!” Doc demanded, his voice going up an octave.

Felix ignored him.

Connor edged past Felix looking for Madison. He spotted her trying to step through the rubble. He ran over and lifted her over most of the large debris.

“Spit him out this instant!” Doc ordered, his finger pointing to the ground imperiously.

“I want a ride, come on Felix, you promised me if you ever mastered a T-Rex, I would get a ride,” Rebecca begged, trying to climb up Felix’s back leg to secure a spot for her piggy back ride.

Connor watched as his elder brother started to lose his mind.

“Becca, get down!” Aleks screamed, trying to pull his mate down.

“You are going to have people breath! Do you hear what I am saying? Can you hear what you have me saying! How are you going to floss arms out of your teeth, Felix?!” Doc’s face was now flushed red, and his breathing was erratic.

“Becca, you get your cute ass down here now! You are on a freaking dinosaur!” Aleks screamed, beginning to hyperventilate.

Rebecca whooped and cheered from Felix’s back, her tiny arm wrapped around the large lizard’s throat.

Connor looked over to the crowd. Liam was waving his arms at his mate. “No! No fucking way! I am not waking up next to a fucking T-Rex baby. Don’t even think about it.” Liam clutched at his mate’s arms as Sebastian sniffled. Kent was steadily trying to calm both his mates down.

Rian was taking pictures of Felix with his smartphone. His head looked over to where Liam was confronting Sebastian.

“Oh hell no! You would squish Liam. Enough with the scary shit, Sebastian, you are not eating my ass!” he declared loudly.

Aleks and Doc paused for a moment to stare at Rian, who surprised everyone by turning slightly pink. “Okay, that didn’t come out quite right, but you know what I mean.”

“How about a velociraptor? They’re smaller?” Sebastian asked.

“No!” Rian and Liam shouted.

“Look at the clinic!” Doc covered his face with his hands as Felix continued to chew on the intruder.

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