Page 29 of Half Wolf Mate
For a moment, panic seized me, and I couldn’t move. I’d been relieved when he and the older man, Benjamin, had left the diner. I concluded that I was being ridiculous. They weren’t watching me. It seemed I was wrong about one of them. Taking several steps back, I prepared to run because I didn’t stand a chance against the huge man.
“Relax, I’m not here to hurt you,” he said.
“Right, and I’m just going to take your word for it.” I took another retreating step.
“I just want to ask you something.”
I gulped. Let me guess—he was going to ask if I’m a werewolf and then pull out a dagger with that strange symbol like the other guy who tried to kill me. “My aunt always taught me as a kid not to talk to strangers, so…goodbye.” I tried stepping around him, but he blocked my escape.
Crap.
“Really, I mean you no harm. I’m Adam.”
I stared at his outstretched hand as if it was a bomb until he dropped it. No way was I going to touch him and make it easier for him to grab me and haul me off somewhere to end me.
“What do you want?” I asked, searching the sidewalk, hoping someone would pass by. I doubted he’d try anything if there were witnesses.
“Nothing more than information.”
I held his gaze, refusing to show my fear. “About?”
“That man you were so cozy with inside earlier.”
“What man?”
“Dark brown hair, this tall,” he held his hand up to his shoulder, “plaid shirt.”
Benjamin. “I don’t know him. We shook hands after an introduction. I wouldn’t call that cozy.”
Adam’s eyebrows snapped together. “He’s very interested in you.”
I scoffed. “He was just being polite.”
He took a step toward me. “No, I saw him watching you the night before last from outside.”
My heart skipped a beat, and my knees got weak. “Excuse me?”
“He’s been visiting this diner for a week straight.”
“But he just came in for the first time this morning, I swear.”
“I know. He just stares through the window—at you— and then leaves.”
Oh, no. I’d been found. “So, you’ve been watching him? Why?”
Adam’s expression shuttered. “Why does he visit you if you don’t know him? You’re lying to me.”
I started backing away again. “No, I—”
“Get away from her.” The words were spoken in the calmest yet deadliest tone I’d ever heard.
Adam’s shoulders practically rose to his ears. Turning around, he snarled, “Cole.”
My gaze jumped to Cole in surprise.
Chapter 14 Cole
I took a moment to glance at Sydney, whose wide eyes were fixed on me. Then I went back to glowering at Adam Blackwell, the Alpha of a rival pack. His group was a bunch of rebellious misfits who threatened the survival of the entire supernatural world. I didn’t know the man well, but if the werewolves he led were so revolting and reckless, I could only imagine the kind of person he was.