Page 72 of Warlander Beast Cat

She laughed and typed out, Only with freshly-shredded cheddar cheese on the top.

Block of cheddar cheese added to the grocery list. What else makes you horny?

She couldn’t stop smiling, as always when she was texting him. The Crew will like freshly-chopped onions. Maybe some chips. I can make a ranch dip if you get sour cream and ranch seasoning.

Okay, now it’s me who’s turned on.

Hey, I’ve missed you. Send.

A few seconds passed, and then a video came through. It was Kru with the camera facing him as he backed out of a space on the side of the road. She recognized the trees and the hill he was driving down. “I miss you too. And I’ve been thinking, I don’t like having to choose between your place or mine lately. Pick a house, woman. You can decorate however you want. I just don’t want to do the dance anymore, you know?” He asked as he looked behind him and eased onto the road. “I’m patient, so if you’re not ready, that’s okay. For me though? I’m ready.” He grinned at the camera, and whoo, he looked handsome today. His white shirt had dirt-smudges all over the shoulders, and he pulled his hard hat off to set it on the seat beside him. “I have to show you something. Ready?” he asked the camera. He aimed it at the glove box as he opened it, and showed her a tube of her favorite hand lotion and her favorite shade of lip gloss. “And look,” he joked, pulling out the pile of fast-food napkins she’d shoved in there. “I didn’t get rid of your four thousand napkins just in case my truck, I don’t know, explodes.” He shut the glove compartment. “Your lotion and lip-glitter are in there waiting for you. That’s your side of the truck now, woman. You own me.” The camera feed cut, and butterflies flapped around her insides.

God, she loved him.

I’ll be sure to leave four beef sticks and a beer on your side of my car. Send.

Dream girl.

She giggled and took a selfie of her and the box of earthworms. Send.

“I have a question.”

The unfamiliar voice startled her, and Cadence jerked her attention to the woman in the open doorway of the shipping warehouse.

It took a split-second to recognize her, because she’d been so immersed in the conversation with Kru.

Sasha strode in slowly, touching the tops of the boxes that awaited the shipping truck. Today she wore her hair in a tight ponytail, and her eye makeup was dark and shimmery, contrasting with her silver eyes. Her cheekbones were stark, unencumbered by her tresses of long, dark hair.

A snarl rattled her throat, and Cadence slowly stood. “What are you doing here?”

Landon caught her attention across the room. He cast her a quick glance and then slunk out the back door of the warehouse. Thanks a lot for the backup, Landon.

“I’m here to collect a debt,” Sasha murmured.

She wore a cropped black bubble jacket, and skinny jeans painted a second skin against her skinny legs.

“I don’t owe you shit,” Cadence assured her. This bitch had come barking up the wrong tree, but the three giant men who appeared behind her had Cadence lifting her phone.

Wanna fuck? Send.

She tossed the phone back onto the desk and asked, “Why did you approach me here? Scared of my Crew?”

Sasha shrugged. “We aren’t trying to get all of Damon’s Mountains involved. We figured this would be easier.”

“We?”

“Krueger’s Crew.”

“Aaah, you mean Kru’s old Crew? Kru is a Warlander now.”

A couple of the behemoths looked at each other and chuckled.

“You there,” she asked them. “What is your plan? Hurt me? Four against one? Hurt me and then what…Kru will come crawling back to Sasha? You should feel embarrassed.” Oh, she knew she was poking the bear, but she needed to buy time.

Landon had abandoned her. She could hear her phone vibrating with messages, but she couldn’t answer them right now. All of her attention needed to stay on Sasha the saber-toothed tiger and whatever-the-fuck shifters she’d brought with her as backup.

She should’ve known this twat hadn’t given up so easily.

Cadence sized up the men behind Sasha as they approached. Three giants. All smelled of fur and dominance, and all had eyes that were too bright to be human. They were shifters, and big ones, but she couldn’t be certain what their animals were.

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