Page 34 of Savage Cravings

“Hi.”

The brothers shared a look with each other briefly before they turned back to her, not saying anything.

I cringed inwardly as she shifted on her feet and let out a small, nervous laugh.

“Um, my friends and I couldn’t help but notice you guys the second you walked in. We were wondering if you would like to join us… all of you.”

Silas was the one who broke the silence first, considering she had her eyes trained on him. “And what would we be doing if we joined you?”

There was a slight smirk on his lips that I couldn’t be sure was arrogance or mockery.

Perhaps a little bit of both.

“Anything you want,” she said huskily.

I blinked in surprise at the sudden change in her voice.

“No,” Silas answered. His voice wasn’t mean or cold. It wasn’t nice or sympathetic either. It wasn’t really anything.

“What?” she asked in surprise, as if she couldn’t believe he would say no to her.

“No,” he repeated. Then his eyes moved past her and aimed directly at me.

I froze.

I had been so invested in how everything was going to play out that I wasn’t ready when he suddenly took me in, as if he was the devil coming for my soul.

“I have plans.”

Not if those plans included me, he didn’t. As if he could read the defiance on my face and knew it was directed at him, he smiled.

I narrowed my gaze at him.

“Well, maybe not tonight?—”

“I have plans tonight, and every other night from now on.”

What the fuck was that supposed to mean, and was there a way I could get him to stop smiling at me so…creepily?

I didn’t say anything when Annette looked back at me. Her glare seemed to burn a hole in my skin.

“I think perhaps it's time you give us our check,” said the brunette, the only one at the table who had been nice to me.

I nodded.

“And just charge it all to one bill,” she added before I could ask.

I quickly walked away, not bothering to look back at the girls at the table, and certainly not at the men at the table next to theirs.

My hands shook as I printed the check. It felt like my life had just irrevocably changed, and I was powerless to stop it.

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SILAS

The little clubprincess was so much more than I had been expecting.

I watched as she rushed to the back, behind a small wall that probably led to the kitchen, taking her completely away from my sight.

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