Chapter 31: Mate's Appeal

Someone needed to die. Correction. Kyle Wagner needed to die, and he needed to die at Arlin’s hands. What kind of a man hit a woman? Arlin twisted his hands on the steering wheel, his knuckles turning white from the pressure. If he had just arrived a couple of minutes sooner, he would have been able to sink his fangs into Kyle’s weaselly body and put an end to the threat over Eve’s head. It was time to make sure that her ex-lover knew that no meant no.

Once they arrived at Eve’s cabin, Arlin had her call Alanna to come over with her boyfriend, Josh Rayburn, to sit with her. Boyfriend was a very loose term, Eve told Arlin. “The two of them are more like friends with extra, extra benefits who happen to have no one else with the same benefits,” Eve said. “Apparently, Alanna has an issue with titles and roles, preferring everything to remain casual.”