Myra's Mate

"You've got to be kidding!" Colin McGrath said, glancing back and forth between his buddies, Sasha and Liam. Okay, they might be pack, and he had known them since they were teenagers, but they had both clearly lost their minds. Sad.

"Oh, come on, man," Sasha said, really pouring on the alpha charm. "Myra's a really nice girl. She needs a good man to settle with, is all."

"Yeah. She really, really does." Liam was doing earnest and kinda desperate, instead of suave like Sasha. That Irish accent made even needy as fuck sound good.

"Uh-huh. It's not my fault that Jenny won't move in with you until she finds someone for Myra."

Jenny was Sasha and Liam's chick. Both of theirs. That in and of itself was odd, but even odder was Jenny's refusal to kinda marry the two of them until they found her roommate, Myra, a new living situation.

"You could at least go out with her," Sasha said, crowding in on Colin's left side.

Liam pressed in on his right, squashing him between their two big bodies. Bastards. They were trying to intimidate him, and it was a good thing he'd never shown his belly or throat to either of them in his youth. Colin could hold his own with pretty much anyone in the pack but the current alpha, Kamen.

"Look, I'm sure she's a perfectly nice girl. She's not one of us, though. Not pack." Colin tilted his head, listening to them growl over that. "Look what happened to Steve when he went out with her."

"You don't know the whole story on that," Liam said, sounding pretty growly. "That was mostly Steve's fault."

"Sure." Sighing, Colin turned off the hiking path and headed down the steps cut into the rock next to Seven Falls, trekking back to the parking lot. Might as well, as his hike was pretty much ruined when the double-headed monster found him. "The answer is still no."

Sasha and Liam both looked so crestfallen that he laughed out loud, and managed to do it without malice.

"Can't you at least come to supper?" Liam asked. "You can meet her and see if any of the new pack guys you know might want to give her a try."

Tilting his head, Colin sniffed for that tiny flash of heat and sweat that would tell him Liam was lying, just trying to set him up. Nothing came across on the breeze, so Colin nodded. "As long as Sasha doesn't cook, I'll come," he said.

Sasha snorted, but Liam elbowed the man in the ribs. The whoosh of breath from Sasha took away the man's ability to speak. Thank God.

"We'll make lamb," Liam said. "We'll see you at Jenny's place around six?"

Trotting down the last few steps, Colin clapped Liam on the back before turning and baring his teeth at Sasha. "I'll be there," he said. "I don't trust either of you as far as I can throw you, but I'll be there."

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