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“Exactly, I won’t stop singing until she agrees to go out with me.” An evil smile spreads across his face.
I snicker at him. “Okay, but how do we get them to a bar that we’re at to make it happen.”
His face falls. “I’m still working on that.”
We climb into his car and head back to the packhouse. My parents moved to the packhouse after I got my wolf and we realized he had a Guardian spirit. Anders. parents wanted to keep me close and protected, while fostering a continued relationship with their son. A couple of years ago, my parents went on vacation and the plane crashed over the ocean. They were never found. Afterward, my room was moved to the Alpha floor so I could be closer to Anders, and we’ve basically been raised as brothers ever since.
When we get back to the packhouse, we split off to change for training. I’m excited because I’ll get to see Lily again. Hopefully, this time I won’t get distracted by her eyes and I can have an intelligent conversation. Anders and I run morning training, while his father, Alpha Patrick and Patrick’s Beta, Calvin, run afternoon training.
I get there early, hoping to catch Lily before training begins. When I arrive, she’s not there yet, so I begin warming up. Other warriors begin surrounding me and warming up with me, but when I see her, I pull away and jog up to her.
“Lily.”
I watch as she rolls her eyes. “Clint. I thought my note was sufficient.”
I’m trying hard not to take it personally that she really wants nothing to do with me. My mate wants nothing to do with me. It’s a huge blow to my ego.
“Well. I wasn’t planning to ask you to sleep with me. I wanted to know if would like to go on a date with me on Friday.” you
She frowns at me. I don’t date. I don’t need to take a girl out to get laid. And since I have no inclination to build a relationship with anyone but my mate, I’ve never bothered to put much effort into dating or even getting to know more than a name.
“Actually,” she says as Lucas walks by. She grabs his arm. “Lucas and I are already going out on Friday night, right Lucas?” She looks at him and I can tell by the way she’s looking at him, that this wasn’t exactly planned. However, Lucas, the dipshit, seems all too willing to oblige.
“That’s right. We talked about it earlier today.”
“Right.” Lily says, dropping his arm. “And tomorrow we battle for who gets the check.’
I can’t help the growl that escapes. First, this asshole is taking my mate on a date and now he might not even buy her dinner? And she prefers that to going out with me? I thought I had a pretty strong ego, but this is insulting.
I turn to Lucas. “You’re taking Lily out and you don’t plan to pay for dinner?” I watch as his face pales. I step toward him. “Perhaps you don’t deserve to take someone like Lily out if you can’t be bothered to even pay for the meal.”
Lily steps up to me. “I’m perfectly capable of paying for my own dinner, thank you very much and it’s none of your business.”
I haven’t taken my eyes off Lucas. I watch his Adam’s apple bob in this throat. “It was my way of getting her to go out with me. I have every intention of paying for dinner.”
“Is that so?” I turn my attention to Lily. “So I have to defeat you in a sparring match to get you to go out with me?”
She scoffs. “I’m not stupid enough to go up against you, Guardian.” Oh, this little spitfire is getting under my skin.
“Afraid you can’t take me?” If she wants to be a warrior, chances are good that she’s competitive. I’m hoping I can use that to my advantage.
“You’re a Guardian.” She turns and spreads her arm to include every warrior on the training ground. “If anyone here can take you, you aren’t worthy of the title.”
And once again, she turns on her heel and walks away from me. This time, I don’t even bother trying to hide my growl of annoyance.
The nerve of this guy. I’ve told him I’m not sleeping with him, basically kicked him to the curb and he still wants to try to intimidate Lucas for asking me out. Okay, I hadn’t planned on going out with Lucas. His approach was lame, but I needed a quick excuse, and he presented one when he walked by.
I hear Clint growling as I walk away. Take a hint buddy and then you won’t keep getting turned down.
I walk over to where others are warming up and begin stretching, preparing for training. Alpha Patrick and Beta Calvin call us to order. We’re to start running 5 miles before begining the team obstacle course. We all take off and I get into my groove. I enjoy running. It’s my time to clear my head or would be if I didn’t have someone interrupting my peaceful time with the annoying buzz of their voice.
“What will it take Lily bug?”
“Lily bug?”
He gives me his cocky smile. “You need a good pet name. Would you prefer Lady bug? Little Lils? Lily of the Valley? That one is awfully long. I think I prefer Lily bug.”
“Lily is just fine.” I say, my voice clipped in my annoyance.
“How about Lily bud? Ohhh, that would work well with your name. Lily bud it is.”
I huff and increase my pace. I needn’t have bothered, he just increased his as well.
“So, Lily bud, what do I need to do to get you to go out with me?”
“I thought my note was very clear Clint. I have no intention of sleeping with you. and since we both know that’s the only reason you’re pursuing me, drop it.”
“I told you, you have the wrong idea about me. I don’t want to sleep with you. Okay, of course I want to sleep with you. You’re gorgeous, sexy as hell, strong and smart. But that’s not why I want to go out with you. As I said, I want to get to know you.”
I stop and turn toward him, other warriors passing us by. “To what end?”
“Why can’t I just want to get to know you and you can get to know me. You don’t seem to like me, and I think you should give me an opportunity to show you that there is more to me than just a guy trying to get in your pants.”
I squint my eyes at him before raising my voice so everyone nearby could hear
3/2 me. “Does anyone here believe that Clint Nelson wants anything more than to sleep with me?”
A chorus of nope’s and no’s answer my question. I give him a fake smile and start running again.
“Okay, I admit my history doesn’t make it seem that I’m looking for something other than a good time, but how will you know for sure if you don’t give me a chance.”
“Not my problem. But if you figure something out, let me know.”
We finish our run and it’s time for the obstacle course. We can run two at a time and Clint makes sure that he’s up beside me. It only takes a minute to see that he is going to push me and try to beat me, but I’m not having it. I’m a good warrior, and while I know that he should be able to beat me, I can’t help myself. I begin pushing myself harder. I can see him smirking from the corner of my eye and he starts pushing harder as well.
We’re swinging on rope swings, climbing rock walls, crawling under rope nets. through the dirt and running over elevated stumps requiring balance. As we’ve continued to go through the course, we’ve started pushing faster and faster, everyone else getting out of our way until the sprint at the end. We race to the finish, grabbing the pole at the same time.
We’re both laughing as we collapse to the ground, sucking in air. Okay, that was fun.
Clint gets up first and extends his hand. He’s smiling down at me and I feel my heart flutter. In that instant, I know exactly why and how he can get any woman he wants in his bed. That smile is a panty-dropper. Even I am not immune to his smile as I feel heat going straight to my core.
I take his hand and when he pulls me up, I’m captivated by his beautiful emerald. green eyes. Or at least I am until one of his conquests comes up and brings me crashing back to reality.