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“Yeah, don’t do anything that I’m going to have to have an embarrassing chat with Ryan about, all right? I’m not interested in tattling, but I will snitch if you act like fools,” Gavin said. He gave the girls a hard stare for good measure, and they giggled, which was not the response he’d been hoping for.

Ava put up her hand when Devon let out a soft growl. “I promise we’ll behave. We just want to have a drink and dance and have fun. Some of the females from the wolf pack are supposed to be here tonight so we’re looking forward to hanging out with our friends.”

“Sounds good. We’ll be at a table. Let us know if you need anything.”

The line was moderately long in front of the club but moved fast. Shifters were given priority into the club over humans or other supernatural creatures, so they skipped ahead of a handful of people who’d been waiting.

Lykos was owned by the wolf pack and run by Paris, a fallen angel. All the shifter groups in Northern Ohio were welcome in the club. Along with the tigers, led by Alpha Midas and his mate Maya, were bears, wolves, white lions, falcons, and dragons. The groups all had their own territories, but all the alphas were allied to each other as well as to a local Wiccan coven and the vampires who called downtown Cleveland home.

Northern Ohio was a supernatural melting pot and a pretty damn cool place to live.

The club was packed when they made it inside. After waiting at the bar for drinks, he and Devon took their beers and went to look for a seat.

“Hey, you need a place to sit down?” a male hollered over the music.

Gavin looked around until he found the source: Brick, the second in command of the wolf pack. He and Devon left the girls who were already dancing with their she-wolf pals and headed to a table with several males.

“Hey, Brick, thanks for the invite to the table,” Gavin said.

“No problem. You know Solan,” he said, gesturing to the male next to him. “This is Leo and Stewart.”

“Nice to meet you guys,” Gavin said. “This is Devon.”

“S’up,” Devon said.

They settled at the table, arranging themselves so he and Devon could keep an eye on their wards for the night.

“Babysitting?” Solan asked.

“You know it,” Gavin said.

“Us too,” Brick said. “There’s a group of females who like to come here every Friday night, so Adam had me set up a schedule for escorts and he made me put my damn name on the list.”

Gavin chuckled. “Normally Ryan brings his sister and her friend, but he was busy tonight.”

“Maybe,” Devon said. “Or maybe he just wanted a night off from this.”

“That’s entirely possible,” Gavin said with a laugh.

He took a drink of club soda since he was driving and not drinking anything with alcohol and scanned the club. He’d been thinking his tiger was feeling like tonight might be his lucky night when his truemate walked into his life, but he didn’t feeleven a twinge of curiosity at any of the females he saw. His tiger wasn’t even interested in walking around and exploring.

So tonight wouldn’t be a lucky in love sort of night for him and that was okay.

Sort of.

It wasn’t like he could push fate to move any faster.

“I just think we have to keep on our toes.”

Gavin glanced at the table of males, realizing he’d missed half a conversation while he was staring at the dancing crowd. “Keep on your toes about what?”

“The HAS assholes,” Brick said.

“You mean the Humans Against Shifters?”

“Yep.”

“Have you seen them around? Are they bothering the pack?”

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