He looked unsure of himself or if he had said too much.
“I’m not going to say anything to Grant,” I tried to reassure him, but my mind was racing with what he said. Was Grant going to try and bring me into the pack? What was he going to do?
He pulled me close when a slow song began, and I leaned against his chest. I could feel the heat emanating from his chest.
“Tiana,” he began, and I lifted my head off his chest to look at him. I felt super comfortable with him.
“Yes?”
“Don’t,” he said.
Alarm bells rang in my head. “Don’t what?”
“Don’t get too attached to me.”
Well,excuse me?
“I’m not. What the hell are you talking about?” I said defiantly, pulling my hands out of his grasp. “I just met you.”
“What’s going on here?” Grant demanded. He turned to Tony, his face visibly angry. “Remember what I said.”
Chapter 8
Grant
“Grant,man,what’syourproblem?” demanded Tony. I knew he was rightly pissed at me.
Tiana’s eyes flicked back and forth between us.
“I’m leaving,” said Tiana. “I don’t need this drama in my life right now.”
I watched as she stalked away angrily from us.
“Why the fuck are you dancing with her?” I asked. “Wesley is over there doing his job. Why can’t you follow orders?”
“It was just a dance,” sighed Tony, looking up at the sky in exasperation. “You can’t expect us alphas to ignore an omega on the ship with us. I was curious about her, that’s all.”
“I saw how she got comfortable with you. We can’t allow her to get attached to us,” I said in a low growl.
“You’re fighting it. You want her,” accused Tony, looking straight into my face.
My jaw clenched in anger. I wanted to punch him. But he was right.
A million percent right.
I looked back at her, seeing her mingle with her blond friend and the captain. The wind made her hair and dress fly around wildly. She looked so innocent and vulnerable. But my heart couldn’t go there.
She was for another pack.
“We made a deal with the Lustfur pack,” I said. “It needs to be done, and we’ll bring her to them. I called Sam, and he’ll be here tonight with his boat.”
“So tonight we take her with us,” said Tony, his eyes downcast. “I don’t like this one bit.”
I swallowed hard, my heart beating painfully slow. I didn’t like it either. My inner alpha was growling in rage at the thought of handing her off to another pack. Especially to the Lustfur Pack. Any other pack was better.
“When she’s mated with them and happily bonded, we’ll forget about her. I assure you, Tony,” I said, but I was comforting myself more with the thought.
“What if she’s unhappy with them and wants to mate with us instead?”