eyes to see his chest heaving as he
dragged air into his lungs.
She looked around curious to see where they ended up. It was an old phone
nook. The privacy shield beside them was all that separated them from the front
hallway and the line of people waiting to enter the bar. Missy tried to stifle her
laughter, squirming in his arms. Tad opened his eyes, saw where they were and
spun them to the right so they were both completely hidden.
He lowered her with gentleness to the phone shelf, hands tender as he adjusted
her dress and smoothed her hair. He had such a sweet smile on his face she
couldn’t help running her hand over his cheek, stroking his jaw. Tad turned his
face into her palm and kissed it. He winked at her.
“Thank you, AT&T.”
Chapter Five
Tad tried to look casual and relaxed as he sat and waited for his sister to appear.
Being around large groups of werewolves no longer freaked him out, but now he
was in the midst of the Granite Lake pack elite. Beside him, Keil fidgeted with the
medallion that was the symbol of his new position as they waited for Robyn.
Since Tuesday night and his date with Missy, it felt like Tad had worked twenty-hour days. The rest of the researchers had arrived and were in the process of
establishing camp. Tad flew passengers and ferried supplies as quickly as possible
but each day passed without time for more than a friendly public hello with Missy
when he passed her at the camp where she slept.
The remaining hours he spent alternating between sleeping and taking cold
showers.
He was going to force himself to relax tonight, try to forget big blue eyes, soft
skin and passionate kisses, and celebrate his sister’s wedding…wolf mating…
whatever it was called.
Tad rotated the ice in his drink as he checked out the faces of the men sitting
around him. There were no visible signs they could change into wolves, nothing to
set them apart from the rest of society.
Other than, as Robyn put it, they were all freaking gorgeous.
While he’d been friends with these men for years, the stakes for the evening
were much higher than flying a sightseeing party or back-country adventure
group for Keil’s guiding business. Tonight was invitation-only to celebrate Robyn’s
first shift to her wolf, and the acceptance of Keil and Robyn as the new Alphas for
the Granite pack. Not only had Keil mated with Robyn, the two of them had shut
down an attack on their lives and won the leadership of the pack.
He was never going to let his sister go anywhere alone ever again. Well, Keil
would probably have something to say about it too, but sheesh . She was a danger
to herself.
“She really made them shift?” Tad asked.
“Oh, not only that, she made them stand around and introduce themselves. Butt
naked in the cold. Then they had to apologize to us both for ‘disturbing the
serenity of our honeymoon’. I thought Jack was going to pop a vein when she
suggested he might like to look into purchasing some of the penis enhancers they
advertise online.”
Tad choked on his drink. “My sister?”
Keil exchanged knowing looks with his younger brother TJ. “Oh, yeah. She’s
amazing. Don’t piss her off any more than you usually do. Now that she’s wolf
she’s even more of a handful.” Tad sat back and swallowed hard. Keil grinned at
him. “Wait until she starts ordering you around.”
All of a sudden Keil’s sharp concentration on Tad blurred, his attention turning
toward the door Robyn had disappeared behind. Soft scuffling noises came from
the other side, and Tad realized Robyn and Keil were speaking to each other
through their mate connection.
Another bloody amazing thing werewolves could do. One of the neatest as far as
Tad was concerned, because Robyn had been deaf since she was four. She’d not
only found her partner but she could hear again in a special way. Tad would still
use sign language with her and she could read people’s lips, but to