Free Dwyer, Dixie Lynn - SWAT Team Two and Miss Robin Hood [The Men of Five-0 #2] (Siren Publishing LoveXtreme Forever) by Dixie Lynn Dwyer Page B

at him as if he could hurt her.
    “I swear I won’t hurt you. My brothers and I would never cause you harm.”
    She looked to Charlie for reassurance, and he pulled her into another embrace.
    “You will be safest with the Valdamar brothers.”
    “Valdamar?”
    Sunny walked her to the passenger side and helped her get into the car. Then he walked over to the SUV along with his brothers and prepared to follow them home.

    * * * *

    “Why would Bret go after her?” Frankie asked as they followed Logan.
    “He smelled us on her and assumed we were intimate,” Vince suggested.
    “Could be, or he has a thing for her and knew we were interested as well,” Jake added.
    “We can’t let him near her. He’s such a fucking slimeball,” Frankie replied.
    “Charlie may be right and Bret was just jealous. He said that Bret and Melissa went out a couple of times,” Jake stated.
    “I don’t even want to think that he fucked her,” Frankie replied.
    “She’s ours now, so it doesn’t matter who she was with. We have to make her understand about our culture and why we’re here to help the humans,” Sunny added very seriously.
    “Maybe Logan will make some progress with her during the car ride,” Jake stated.

    * * * *

    Melissa felt as if she was having some sort of weird out-of-body experience. She had seen strange things. Perhaps this was some crazy nightmare she would wake up from soon. Then she thought about the entire night. The Valdamar brothers showed up out of nowhere and made her feel horny and ready to jump into an orgy with them. She stripped on stage to help out Lilly, and now she’s some celebrity with the men at the club. Then Bret reserves the private room and requests her for this whole meeting with Carlos and Chico, and it turns out he’s a wolf as well as a man. Their eyes had changed color when they spoke to her and when Carlos handed her the money. Come to think of it, so did Chu’s, and he was the one warning her about men being animals and things not being as they may appear. Did she just enter the Twilight Zone?
    As the information processed in her head, she looked at Logan. The man was the perfect specimen of male, and he also looked aggressive. Not like he could shift into some kind of four-legged beast, but intimidating in a way she wasn’t used to seeing.
    “What are you?” she whispered as she turned her body toward him and pressed her back against the door.
    “I’m not going to lie to you, Melissa.”
    She snorted in disbelief, and he actually gave her an annoyed expression. Her gut told her this guy was important and no one ever questioned him. Tough shit! She was asking every fucking question she wanted, and he was going to give her a straight answer.
    “We’re shifters.”
    “And that means what?”
    “It means that we can shift into wolves whenever we need to.”
    “How does it work?”
    “It’s something we were born into. A family gene passed down from generation to generation. Wolf packs are not uncommon. It’s just that we all keep our abilities hidden from humans.”
    “Because we’d want to destroy you?” she asked, even though it was meant as a statement.
    “You couldn’t if you tried,” he replied confidently, and again she got the chills from the fierceness and truth of his tone.
    She couldn’t help but think about Bret and the way his eyes changed and how he grabbed her. She must have flinched when she closed her eyes because suddenly she felt Logan’s hand take her hand and gently pull her closer to him.
    She was scared, but her instincts told her she didn’t have to be with Logan.
    “Did he hurt you?” he asked. His voice sounded weird.
    She nodded but kept her distance as she looked at her wrist.
    Logan released her hand and softly lifted her jacket sleeve up to see her other wrist.
    “Does it hurt?”
    “I’ll be fine,” she whispered, but the tears rolled down her cheek, and she couldn’t wipe them away fast enough.
    Thank God they arrived at