Page 14 of Wolf

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Ifeltthe wind whip across my face, the humid air cool and moist as my tires raced across the pavement. The only protection was the heat wrapped around my back and the arms tight across my wide chest as they failed to meet around mywidth.

Anna was silent behind me, and despite our speed and the loud rush of the wind beside us, she’d usually be giving me as much mouth and sass as she had the day I met her. My mind struggled to think too far beyond anything except her silence, too worried to let my emotions take off during a ride back with my brothers behind me and Anna onmyback.

Instead, the memory of the day I met Anna resurfaced, and my thoughts were subdued by the sound of girls, brothers, and music from over threeyearsago.

“Oi,asshole.”

My hands had paused on Soul’s hips, her white hair flipping over her shoulder as she’d turned to the sound of thevoice.

I’d almost looked straight at her, the small, only just five-foot woman with the full rack that stood behind me. Baby blue eyes narrowed in a harsh glare, short, spiky blonde hair styled in a way that clashed hard with the two-piece dress suit she was wearing. She looked familiar somehow, but then again, I’d fucked a lot ofgirls.

“I think you’re in the wrong place, myshka,” I growled, wanting to get back to the skinny, twenty-something girl practically whining to takemydick.

“I don’t think so,” she growled back, undeterred by my cold welcome, her eyebrow rising as she jabbed her finger over her shoulder to where the door was. “You’re the new president, right? I heard you’re looking for alawyer.”

“Yeah?” I sighed, my once appreciative gaze of her curvy figure now turning into a flat glare. “You here to give asuggestion.”

“Yep,” she popped, her red lips raking over each other. “You’re lookingather.”

I scoffed, my flat mouth turning into a smirk as I looked at the confidence radiating from her baby blue eyes. She was serious. “Babe,” I chuckled, pushing Soul off my lap as I rose from my seat. My height dwarfed her tiny size, even more so than I’d thought, and as my shadow loomed over her, I only saw her glare harden on me. Her reaction to what I said next made sure her eyes weren’t the only thing to harden. “Ain’t no woman going to be a club lawyer, babe. If you wanna play with the big boys, then try parking that ass on my lap, andwe’llplay.”

The girl's hand lunged faster and higher than her reach, wrapping around the collar of my shirt and dragging my tall height down to her level as she shoved her lips against mine. Her red lips forced mine open, her tongue tangling with mine, doing a thing with her tongue that sent shivers down to my dick, making it rise to attention. Heat stirred inside me as I decided it was my turn, but I never got a chance. A sharp sting radiated down my lip as my mouth swelled with the metallic taste ofblood.

The blonde pulled back, her tongue running along her lips as, without letting her eyes leave mine, she said, “I play dirty, you fat bastard, and I let no man tell me what to do. So you’re going to hire me as your lawyer, and you're going to take it with a bucket of salt before I unman you in front of allyourboys.”

I had no idea what she meant until I felt the thin prick of the tiny blade against the bulge of my jeans. “You’re playing a dangerous game here, girl,” Igrowled.

“It’s Anna.” She smirked. “Remember itthistime.”

With that, she tucked the little blade back into whatever crevice it came from, turned, and began to sashay away, leaving me standing there, curious bastards staring at me from all around, listening to the sound of those red boots clicking to the throb of my dick as I watched her round ass walk towardthedoor.

“Hey, bitch,” I yelled, a little annoyance rising as my brain caught up, causing her to stop in the doorway. “I haven’t accepted yourdealyet.”

She turned so slowly that her saccharine smile and lethal baby blue eyes stayed long on my face when she purred, “You’ll come to me soon enough,bigboy.”

Thenshe’dleft.

And comeIhad.

We pulled into the compound; Anna seemed to have sobered up during the ride. Her wind-torn hair was all over the place, and she was trying to smooth it down as she slid off my bike. She took off my jacket and handed it back to me. I put it on, realizing it now smelled like her. She looked down at her clothes andfrowned.

“I need new clothes,” she said, turning to look at the lot before she stopped. “I left my car,” she added on a soft note, her eyes focused on theconcrete.

I turned off the engine before rising from my bike and taking Anna’s wrist in my hand. She didn’t fight me as I guided her in through the club doors and into the bar. I stopped at the edge of the bar, reaching to pluck a spare set of keys for one of the cages we kept in the parking lot from behind it. I threw them at the next unlucky bastard to walk throughthedoor.

Mint caught them out of the air with fast reflexes and looked in the direction they came from, then glancing at the keys before giving me acuriouslook.

I turned back to Anna, pulled her keys out of her hand, and threw them to Mint as well. “Go get Anna’s car,” Icommanded.

Mint nodded, looking for the second unlucky bugger to come with him. He looked at Jax first but quickly settled on Pipe instead, who didn’t bother to bitch as he got up and went with him. Prospects didn’t get to give a shit,afterall.

I headed back toward my room, the only one on the ground floor next to my office, and pushed Anna inside. She stood with a frown as she looked around the room. Her eyes narrowed on the pack of cigarettes and a couple of empty whiskey bottles on the bedside table. She didn’t say anything, though. Her eyes just proceeded to look everywhere andanywhere.

I leaned up against the door, folding my arms against mychest.

“I told you not to look into it,” I said. My voice was hard and rough, and I watched as Anna stilled with uncharacteristic caution. “But you did it anyway. You disobeyed me. And your informant got killed and you almost alongwithhim.”

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