The Twins

Chapter 10

The wolf hopped up onto the seat that Makayla had left open. I gazed over at him. With his dark hair and dark brown eyes, he resembled Oliver. He jingled the glass lightly in his hand, letting the alcohol swish in it.

“What’s your name?” I asked.

He smirked. “I must’ve not left a good enough impression this morning, if you don’t remember me.”

I sipped my drink and smirked, trying to figure him out. “Must not have.”

He chuckled lowly and shook his head. “You’re…”

“Not what you were expecting?”

“No, not at all.” He gazed over at the crowd. “I’m Ryan.”

I swiveled in my chair so I was leaning against the bar. “So, what do you do in the pack?” I asked.

“He’s a warrior,” Noah said from behind me. He placed a hand on my shoulder, squeezing tightly. Jax appeared in front of me.

I gazed at the two twins, both looking absolutely furious again. It seemed like they were still angry from earlier or maybe for a whole different reason.

Jax nodded his head to Ryan to get him to leave. Ryan tipped his glass at me, smirked, and said, “I’ll have to make a better impression tomorrow. Show you Lycan what I’m really capable of.”

Noah growled as he hopped off of the stool. Just to anger him, because why not, I raised a brow. “I’ll be looking forward to it, Warrior.”

He walked backward toward the crowd and pointed to the twins. “You two have your hands full with her, I can already tell.”

Noah tensed from behind me but stayed silent. His fingers pressed into my shoulder muscle quite harshly. Jax clenched his jaw and stepped back toward him. I grabbed Jax’s wrist before he could follow him and do who knows what to him.

Jax gazed at me. I turned to face both of them. “Why’re you’re so mad? I’m just getting to know the pack. It’s my job.”

“And I suppose your job is also to what… get to know him too the way you decided to get to know us,” Noah said harshly. I raised a brow at him. “Did you plan to let him touch-”

“Ryan is the pack w***e,” Jax cut in. “You shouldn’t talk to him.”

They paused for a moment, talking to each other through that damn link like they always did. Both had scowls on their faces. Their eyes quickly flickered back and forth from their wolves to their humans. Flashing hazel and gold.

I gnawed on the inside of my cheek and took another sip.

They were hiding something.

“The pack w***e?” I gazed through the crowd to see him dancing with a female wolf that I didn’t recognize. Looked like he just wanted to get f****d. But don’t we all?

The tension continued to rise between the brothers until Jax growled, making some of the people in the bar quiet down. “Moon goddess, Noah, go get some air,” Jax finally said, turning back to the bar.

I gazed between the two. Noah gazed at me, his jaw twitching, and stormed off through the crowd. I gazed at his back. “What’s wrong with him?”

Jax took a drink from the bartender and gazed toward the door. He shook his head. “He just… has been hurt before. We don’t want to take any chances with guys like Ryan being around you.”

I sipped my drink again. Man, was this good. Tasted like tea.

I smiled hazily at Jax and placed a hand on his knee. “You should know not to worry.” I didn’t know why I was trying to reassure him that I wouldn’t do anything with anyone else, but I felt myself saying it and not being able to stop. “Business before pleasure, Jax. Business before pleasure.” I placed my empty glass on the bar and gazed over at him. He stared at me with that same intense stare that Noah always gave me.

Mygaze traveled along his face, and I noticed the tattoo behind his ear of a cresent moon.

I drew my finger across it, smiling. “Why me, Jax?”

“Why you?”

“You said that you don’t want to take any chances with me being around Ryan.” Ryan gazed over at me and winked when he heard his name.

Jax saw the exchange and placed a possessive hand on the back of my chair, turning me back to the bar. The intensity in his eyes grew. He searched my face for a few moments then nodded. “You’ve figured that out already, haven’t you?”

A smile stretched across my face when he said those words. I had. I figured it out the moment the twins had followed me to the bathroom, the moment the two notorious alphas insisted to help me unpack in my room, the moment that those two men became obsessed with the smallest comments that I made about them.

Author's Note

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