CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
COLLIN’S POV
“I thought you said we were going to be a little rogue,” Xander was clearly angry and who could blame him? I had probably fucked up the one chance we had at getting the information we wanted.

“Just shut the fuck up little wolf, okay?” I said as I walked towards my car. His complaining was not what I needed right now even though I probably deserved it.

“Shut the fuck up? You don’t get to tell me to shut the hell up when you are the one who just got mind twisted by some mortal girl. You pretend to be some big bad alpha but from now on, even the little respect I had for you is gone. I mean, you made me get involved in the kidnapping of a fucking mortal, then I had to remain in my wolf form because you thought I could not handle interrogating some mortal woman. Now look what happened? Just a pair of random panties was enough to change your-“I grabbed the collar of his shirt, lifting him off the ground slightly.

Glaring into his face, I spoke sternly,” You do not get to talk about Nadia like that, ever. One more word and I might just as well snap your neck,” I let go of him, got in my car before driving away from the warehouse.

Fuck! I had not expected she would just come to this town, especially not now. This was not exactly a great time for her to be around here and just out of premonition, this killer, whoever he or she was, may come after her. I should probably not acre because it was just a fucking one night stand and yet the idea of her in danger was enough to spark rage inside me.

“She is right Sasha. That thing right there, is no human being,”

That thing. She called me a fucking thing and claimed I was not human. I should definitely not care yet my hands gripped the steering wheel tighter, trying to control my raging wolf inside me. I had wanted to reach out, tilt her neck then shout on her goddamn distractive face that I was not a thing; that I actually was human.

“Collins. Where have you been man? I was about to-“Danny stated the moment I stepped out of my car once I was at the pack house.

“Later Danny,” I said, walking to my apartment. Luckily he knew that I wanted to be alone and so he did not attempt to follow me.

Stripping into a pair sweatpants with nothing to cover my upper body, I walked into my home gym, wearing my wrist wrap heavy bag boxing gloves. The punching bag was my favorite stress reliever. I took a deep breath, letting her bitter words be my guide as I made the first punch.

“She is right Sasha. That thing right there, is no human being,”

I was fucking human. God! The image of her face as she looked at me like I was a goddamn monster. The fright in her eyes when she stepped away from me and how she had thought I had no humanity left in me, was something so difficult to forget.

“I love the view. It’s so…enticing. It makes me wanna grab-“

“This is not a good time Laila,” I grunted, punching the bag one more time, breathing heavily. The more I punched, the Nadia’s face became clearer in my mind, teasing my emotions. That night in the outskirts of Vegas was what had now taken my brain because it was much easier to focus at that, than what had happened in the warehouse. The image of her body, clinging into mine and how she had seductively told me to take her, was something I could exactly take out of my mind. For what seemed like ages now, I wanted to do so many fucking things on that glorious body that seemed more of a painter’s art than a real woman. Every inch of her curvaceous body had awaken a primal urge to take, inside of me and there was no way I was going to that thirst quenched unless I had her under me, writhing, begging me to take her.

“Come on Collins,” Laila was still here? Her presence was not exactly helping my case right now.

“Look Laila, I’m going to lay it for you so your dumb brain can grasp my words. I do not want to see you right now and you better make yourself scarce,” I said, walking past her into my bathroom.

I got rid of the sweat covered sweatpants, then stepped under the cold shower, letting the stream of water drape my body but trust me, there was nothing cooling about that shower, I could not stop thinking of Nadia wishing she was here with me. That girl had a fucking fiancée and I was not going to be like my ex-wife. Yet, I could almost feel her soft hands on my back, tracing their way seductive maps over it. Wait, I could actually feel her fingers trekking on my back.

“What the fuck are you doing here Laila? I thought I told you to make yourself scarce,” I turned around, pinning her lithe naked body to the bathroom wall.

“You know this right here, with that magnificent body on me, is one of my favorite positions,” she whispered, seductively biting down her bottom lip. For just a split of second, my gaze got drawn to her luscious bottom lip. Well, fuck it!

“I know you want to bend me over right now and fuck off that stress,” she whispered and for a moment, I was tempted to fall prey to the words falling off her lips.