She hated him. No, she didn’t hate him. Disliked him, a little. Maybe more than a little. It didn’t matter.
Like aside, she shouldn’t be aroused by him, not even a tiny little bit. The guy was a monster, but that didn’t stop her from imagining him doing all kinds of wicked things to her body. Making her crave him. Calling out his name as she came and panicking in case someone heard her.
She didn’t want anyone to hear her moan anything.
“Greg, hi. You haven’t been waiting long, have you?” she asked.
“What? No. I only just got here.” He pointed at her. “Wow, you look amazing, Poppy.”
She glanced down at herself and smiled. “Thank you.”
“No, thank you. I mean, wow.”
This wasn’t a date. She was about to tell him as such when the doorbell rang. Poppy didn’t like it as he opened the door.
In fact, it pissed her off just a little.
He didn’t live here. He had no right to open her front door.
“Klaus,” Greg said.
Her heart started to race.
Klaus was here.
“Hey, I thought, seeing as I’ve been showing you the ropes today, we could, like, you know, er, head into town together.”
“Oh,” Greg said.
“You know, that sounds like an awesome idea,” Poppy said.
She walked toward the door, grabbing hold of it and pulling it open. She had this impulsive need to see Klaus. “We can all walk into town together,” she said.
No one spoke.
She looked from Greg to Klaus, then back again. Klaus’s eyes had seemed to take on an amber hue.
His wolf was close.
This wasn’t good.
She quickly stepped forward, brushing her body against Klaus’s as she nudged him out of the way of the door.
He somehow cupped her hip, drawing her a little closer. She pulled out of his touch and grabbed the door as Greg joined them.
Coughing quickly, she turned to Greg and Klaus. Touching her mate first, who was not her mate, she then grabbed Greg’s arm, but not so delicately.
She had to get them moving toward the town, where no one was paying attention to either of them.
Greg tried to grab her hand, and Klaus put a possessive hand on her hip, which surprised her. She wanted Greg to stop touching her, and Klaus, well, it was like she’d not had an orgasm an hour before. This was a nightmare.
It didn’t help that they entered a town full of people. Full of pack.
She immediately stepped away from the two men and got lost in the crowd. There had to be space between her and Klaus.
Poppy couldn’t think, and her thoughts were dominated by all that was Klaus.
The bully Klaus. The same bully who was her mate.