Page 5 of Knot Dead Yet

Girl power!

Except there wasn’t a spare tire. Not even a jack. I slammed shut the trunk. “What the fuck? Isn’t the rental company supposed to have everything in case of an emergency?”

If I had to go back to Winnipeg and sit another month in the hotel room, I would sue the hell out of the company. I grumbled and walked around to the passenger side. Opening the door, I pushed aside my treats to grab my phone. But like the spare tire, it wasn’t there.

Not on the seat, under it, or in the back. I checked everywhere a dozen times. Did I bring it into the gas station and forget it there? “Fuck!”

The darkness didn’t care how angry I was. It didn’t even give me an echo of my cry.

I cursed again and looked back the way I’d come. I was not doing the walk of shame back to the city. No way.

A few cars zoomed by on the other side of the road. I could hitchhike, but it wasn’t the cold night air that gave me the shivers. It didn’t matter that I was an Omega, hitching was dangerous for anyone.

But what choice did I have?

It was dark and cold. Walking even to one of the little towns along the highway would be horrible. On top of that, I wasn’t even sure how close I was to anything as I didn’t have my phone.

Maybe I shouldn’t have left the arena and waited in the office for my dad. I would have been warm and safe and had wifi. I groaned and kicked the flat tire. The universe was conspiring against me.

“This sucks!” I shouted and kicked the tire again, and earned a few honks from cars going down the opposite side of the road.

I tipped back my head and breathed in the crisp night air. There was walking ahead of me.Just see it as an adventure, Kienna. You’re like those cute little hobbits with your pockets full of snacks and the whole world breathing down your neck.

A car coming along my side of the road drove past and slowed to a stop ahead. My heart started thumping hard for several new reasons. This could be a good samaritan and my ride south, or at least part way there. Or this might be a creep who sees a young female stranded and is thinking she owes him something for rescuing her. I couldn’t see much about the man at all except he was wearing glasses.

So focused on the stopped car and its single occupant, I didn’t notice the SUV coming up behind me until the gravelcrunched as it pulled onto the shoulder of the road and skidded to a stop. I spun around, my eyes going wide at seeing there were five guys exiting the vehicle.

Five really big guys.

Oh no.

The possible good samaritan in front of me pulled onto the road and drove away.

Shit! Five men were way worse than just one.

Fear wanted me to run and flee into the darkness. But I didn’t know what the hell was out there. Muddy fields? I was quick and sneaky, but could I outrun these guys?

Instead, I dove into the car and slammed the door shut. My hands shook as I locked all the doors. There was no calling for help as I didn’t have my phone, but I had pepper spray in my purse. If the locked doors didn’t deter them, it was my only line of defense.

“I’m so fucked,” I moaned as I dug out the spray, cringing back against the center of the dashboard as five huge shadows loomed over the car.

CHAPTER THREE - Kane

I spotted her first, but even as I started to point her out to Tiergan, he was slamming on the brakes and pulling over behind her car. There wasn’t a single person in the province with pink hair like that. I never questioned who it was even from a glimpse in the headlights.

The new owner’s daughter. The most incredibly gorgeous female on the planet.

And she needed rescuing.

We would have stopped to help anyone on the side of the road with a flat, but every Alpha instinct had me flying out of the door even before the SUV stopped. Maddox was only a few steps behind me, but my attention was fully on the Omega who dove into her car.

The poor girl. Stranded in the middle of Manitoba… Alone. Why the hell didn’t she have a chaperon? I furrowed my brows and stared at her through the back window as we walked to the car. Her eyes were wide and her face pale, and she gripped some canister in her hands. Fuck, she was terrified.

My heart pounded, demanding I make the world right for her. I held up my hand to the guys. “Hold on. We don’t want to scare her any more than she already is.”

“That’s Birk’s daughter, isn’t it?” Ewan rounded the car to the rear passenger door. “Holy shit, it is.” He grinned and knocked on the glass. “Hey girl, want to party? Come on out!”

A growl rose in my throat as the Omega inched back further, hands shaking. Maddox grabbed the back of Ewan’s jacket and yanked him away with a vicious snarl. For a second, I thought Maddox might slam the Beta into the ground. “Stop that.”

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