Filed to story: Luna Lovette and Alpha Kodak Story
He grinned. “Pizza definitely sounds good. Let me just tell Dante we’ll be out for a while.”
She hadn’t realized just how much she had missed her Hyundai until she was driving it en-route to town five minutes later. Tao, apparently not content enough with being her bodyguard, had wanted to play chauffeur too, but she easily got her way because he was smart enough to know that she wouldn’t give in.
“Did your friends buy the act?” asked Tao about fifteen minutes into the journey.
She shrugged. “They’ve accepted it, but I don’t think anything will ever completely convince them.”
“They don’t think you and Kodak fit?”
“It’s not so much that. They saw how close Joey and I were, and then they watched me deal with his death pretty badly. For me to suddenly claim that Joey was nothing but my best friend…” She let the sentence trail, knowing he’d see her point. “I think if it had been anyone other than Kodak, I might have had more luck with getting them to accept it.”
“Kodak’s not your type?”
“I meant because he’s psychotic. Although it’s true that I’ve never been with a guy built like a highlander before, but I don’t really have a type. I either like someone or I don’t.”
“And you like Kodak.”
“To an extent,” she said with a smile. “Selma made it clear that I’m not his type.”
“Kodak’s always gone for, what do you females call them, hourglass figures or something like that?”
Noticing he hadn’t sounded so fond of them, she prodded, “You’re not such a fan?”
He shrugged. “I wouldn’t say no to one. Plenty of times Kodak and I have shared one of his women -“
“Really?”
“- but I prefer my women to be more…athletic, I guess. And I have a thing for blondes.”
“Ooh, please don’t say that line – that was the first thing Roscoe ever said to me. Makes me shiver even now.”
His words were both consoling and sympathetic. “It has to have pissed you off that you had two guys wanting to mate with you but neither really wanted you for you.”
“Yeah, but I don’t think I’ll make a good mate anyway.”
“Why?”
“My natural reaction is to hold back from people, especially guys. It’s something I honestly can’t control. When Joey and my mom died, I had this big hole and it’s as if when I taped it up, I did it too tight. I don’t know if I could ever really make myself completely vulnerable to another person again. And when you mate with someone, really mate with someone, there can’t be protective walls.”
Tao’s smile was a little sad. “The right wolf will hammer them down.”
“It might take more than a hammer. Anyway, let’s talk about something more interesting. What’s this thing about you and Kodak sharing women?” M?nages weren’t exactly unusual among shifters, but she wouldn’t have had Kodak down for someone who shared.
“Before you, Kodak’s never been possessive with women. Plenty of times we’ve shared. The invite was always open to Dante, but he just likes to watch with Marcus, Trick, Ryan, and Dominic.”
“They watch?” she chuckled, not finding it difficult to believe, especially since many shifters had voyeuristic tendencies.
“Oh yeah, if Kodak’s feeling in a good mood he doesn’t mind. You ever participated in a m?nage?”
She snorted. It was hard enough making things work out with one guy, let alone two. “Having a sex life isn’t as easy for an alpha female as you might think.”
“In what way?”
“Guys say they like a woman who’ll take charge in the bedroom but most of the time they’re talking out of their ass.” Finally they pulled up in the parking lot of the pizza place and Lovette couldn’t stop a joyous smile from taking over her face. She really had missed the taste of pepperoni pizza.
“But most alpha males would be hard at just the thought of battling an alpha female for dominance in the bedroom.”
“Yeah but that erection often disappears when the male realizes that it’s not as easy as they thought to win that battle. Most of the time they’ve originally thought that if they just chase us around and tire us out we’ll surrender or something. Then there are the males who confuse dominance with bullying. When it comes to alpha females, submission has to be earned, not taken. You’ve never been with an alpha female?”
“Not yet.” Most likely in response to her baffled expression, he said, “What’s wrong?”
She gestured to the pizza delivery guy who was exiting the restaurant with a pile of boxes. “I’ve just never worked out why they put pizza in a square box.”
Intending to seem as though he was only leaving his office to refill his coffee mug, Kodak left the room and began walking toward the kitchen, wanting to discreetly check on Lovette. Two things quickly became apparent. One, it was a lot quieter than usual. Two, although Lovette’s scent was everywhere he turned, it was faint…as if it was simply what lingered in the air.
In the kitchen Dante, Greta, Marcus, Trick, Grace, Lydia, Selma and Hope sat at the table, laughing and joking. It looked as though Selma and Hope were having a separate conversation, unsurprisingly. They had made themselves pretty unpopular with their refusal to accept Lovette. After refilling his mug Kodak asked, ensuring his voice was casual, “Where’s Lovette?”
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