Total pages in book: 33
Estimated words: 29882 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 149(@200wpm)___ 120(@250wpm)___ 100(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 29882 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 149(@200wpm)___ 120(@250wpm)___ 100(@300wpm)
Damien took the force and moved with it so it was on Robert now. The other male stumbled back, but came forward again swinging. His actions were slow and sloppy, a result of him drinking all night and his anger. Damien brought his fist up, clipping Robert under the chin.
He stumbled back again, blood immediately spilling from his mouth. Damien could have easily taken this fucker out without even blinking, but this was more fun. Robert turned his head and spit out a mouthful of blood.
Damien was pumped with adrenaline and endorphins, and his lion wanted out. It snapped and growled, clawing to be released. The fight was half the fun, half the rush. Damien sensed a few people close by, but he didn’t pay them any attention.
The shadows claimed most of the alleyway, and he wasn’t about to stop this because there were people watching.
Robert had a crazed expression on his face, but something inside of Damien snapped, and his lion pushed forward even more. He wrapped his hand around Robert’s neck and growled, hoping to have the little asshole piss himself.
“You fucked with my mate, my woman. You dared to lay a hand on her and think you could take something from her that isn’t yours.” He slammed his fist harder and faster into Robert’s face.
“You lion shifting fucker.”
He slammed his knuckles into Robert’s face, heard the bone break, and felt the blood spray on his neck. “I don’t want to even think about all of the females you have taken advantage of, but this will be your last time.” Damien tossed him across the cement. Robert tried to get up, but he was bloody, had broken bones, and his strength was gone. He felt no sympathy for the man that thought hurting a woman made him superior. Damien walked over to him, and said in a low voice only Robert could hear, “If you even think about my woman again, or I find out you ever did this to any other female, I’ll hunt you down and kill you.”
He kicked Robert hard enough that his body skidded across the pavement. Damien turned, kept to the shadows, and saw a man and woman stop to see what was going on.
They couldn’t see him, and he doubted they could see the bastard on the floor either, not unless they wanted to come deeper into the shadows. He left and headed back home.
He needed to shift and run this extra energy out of his body, because right now he was so fucking dangerous he even scared himself.
11
“Good, Hayden,” she said without any interest in the fact the asshole that had attacked her at the part just seven days ago was now lying in the hospital because someone had kicked his ass. “He probably deserved what he got.”
“Danika, the guy is near death lying in a hospital bed,” Hayden said through the receiver. “And you and I both know you don’t think violence solves anything.”
“I doubt he is near death.” She braced the phone between her shoulder and ear, and stuffed a change of clothes into her backpack.
She was heading over to Damien’s after work, and although it had only been a week since he had told her what she was to him, and even less than that since they had told her father, things were going as smoothly as if it was always meant to go this way.
She stopped what she was doing and thought about what Hayden was telling her. “So someone beat the shit out of the asshole that attacked me at the party,” she stated without forming it as a question. “And why would I care, Hayden? The guy probably pissed off someone’s boyfriend. Serves his ass right.”
“I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m saying.”
She knew exactly what Hayden was saying, and she didn’t care one bit that the prick was lying in a hospital room beat to hell. “I understand. I just don’t care because the guy was a royal asshole.”
“A witness said it was a shifter that beat him up.”
That had everything in Danika stilling. “A shifter?”
“Yeah, a lion shifter more accurately, and one that kept talking
about never putting a hand on his mate again or he’d make sure the guy was buried in the ground where no one would find him.”
She had spoken to Hayden about Damien, nothing in-depth, but enough that her friend knew Damien was her mate, pretty hardcore when it came to the mate thing, and that for the first time in her life she felt like she belonged somewhere with a man. “You think it was Damien?”
“I don’t know, because I don’t really know the guy. But I would bet it was given the fact you’re his mate, he’s a lion shifter, and the guy that just happened to get beat up was the one that fucked with you last week.”