Page 16 of My Bad Boy Alpha

I crossed my arms, wanting to delay this for as long as possible.“No.”

“Great.”Then, Stone said to James, “We’ll see everyone at six.”

“What?No!”I exclaimed, twirling back around to see Stone inches from me now.

He took another step toward me, pushing me back with his large body, his dark eyes gazing so deep into my fucking soul that I swore he could steal it if he were the Devil.

“You’re lucky today, mate.Earned yourself a couple more hours.”

“B—”

Before I could protest—tobeg—for more time, he scooped me up and threw me over his shoulder like I weighed nothing to him and marched toward the edge of his property.“We’re heading to Durnbone for the day to pamper you.”

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After an hour massage that Stone had to sit in on—to make sure the masseur didn’ttouchme in any way that he didn’t like—and some time at Durnbone’s most luxurious salon, Stone brought me to shop for clothes.

I ambled around the stores with jealousy running through me.All the women stared at us—or to be more specific, at Stone.Yet he was more interested in the sluttiest clothes that he could find me to wear than some stares.

When we approached the cashier, he had picked out five outfits that were more like bikinis that he must’ve thought I was actually going to wear.Joke was on him because I had never swum in my entire life and there was no way inhellthat I’d put those on.

“We’ll take these,” he said to the cashier.

She rang up the clothes and gazed behind us when the bell on the door clattered.I followed her gaze, spotting two women about my age walking into the shop, giggling with each other.Stone curled his arm around my waist.

“Do you know them?”I asked.

“Maxine and Sina,” Stone said.“Maxine is the queen of demons, and Sina is …”

“What?”I asked.

He paused for a moment.“She’s exceptionally strong and a human turned wolf, mated to four warriors east of Durnbone.”He took my hand and squeezed it softly.“You don’t need to worry about her.”

“Did you date her?”I asked, jealousy pooling in my stomach.

“Fuck no,” he growled.

“Then, why’d you say it like that?”

“Like what?”

“Like you’re not telling me the whole truth.”

“Because I don’t want you getting messed up with Sina.She has powers that can be uncontrollable, and I can’t let her hurt you.I’d start a world fucking war in Durnbone if anything happened to you.”

My eyes widened slightly.“What kind of power?—”

Before another word could leave my mouth, a blade whizzed through the air in the middle of the shop.Stone reached out his hand and caught the knife mid-throw, his palm wrapping around the metal and splitting open.

A shadowy figure stood behind the girls, leaning against the doorframe with one hand stuffed into his pocket and the other gripping a variety of knives.

Stone curled his lips into a smirk, tossing the knife into the air as blood dripped down his palm.“It’s been a long time,brother.”

CHAPTERTWELVE

STONE

“Is this Dirt?”Zuri whispered, tugging on my sleeve once I paid for her clothes.

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