Free Wolf Among Sheep: A Paranormal Werewolf Romance (Roadside Angels Motorcycle Club Book 1) by Kathryn Thomas

who they really have to fear, no?”
     
    She knew she had got his full attention by the time she got to the dog fighting, and she waited to hear what he would say.
     
    “Where’d you get all this?” he asked, his voice neutral.
     
    She didn’t know what he was thinking, and she strove to keep her own voice even. “I was talking to William, the clerk downstairs, and he said there were rumors about dog fights being run outside of town by motorcycle gangs. I did a little searching on Google…” she watched his brows shoot up in shock and smiled. “You’d be surprised what you can ferret out on Google if you know how to search. Anyway, though nothing was said directly, there’s enough to make it look like there’s truth to the rumor. It wouldn’t be too hard to make the folks here begin to look twice at them. I just have to word it right, without making any outright accusations.”
     
    “That could be very dangerous, Tamara,” he said, his voice low.
     
    “I laugh in the face of danger! Hahaha!” she said flippantly, quoting Nala in The Lion King . When he didn’t laugh with her, she sobered quickly and said, “Come on Lex. I’ll be very careful. And if you’re helping me, how much trouble can I get into, huh? One look at you and people back off!”
     
    She still wanted him to smile, to lighten the mood, and this time he relented, one side of his mouth looping upward in a half smile.
     
    “Okay, I’ll see what I can do for you.” He stopped to stare at her for a second then went on, “So, be ready by seven. Dress up.” He reached across the space between them and touched his thumb to her cheek. “Later.”
     
    Then, he drove away, and as she went through the door, her insides were heaving, as though she were aboard a ship on a storm-tossed sea. Eventually, she would learn how to be calm around men like him. As she only had another day here, shortly she wouldn’t have to worry about how he left her feeling off-balance every time. The thought of leaving him filled her with such an ache that she absently rubbed her chest to relieve it. She had gotten her wish; he was going to give her some answers. She’d better get some questions ready.
     

 
    CHAPTER FIVE
     
    “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”--Unknown
     
    The sound of bikes roaring past woke Tammie just as the sun began to slide down the sky, and she hopped out of bed to catch a glimpse of them. There were about half a dozen or so, all black and chrome, and despite the noise, they passed at a modest pace. She wondered where they were headed, as she went to shower and change for her date. The thought of dinner with the man who had been seemingly the bane of her existence in the town was making her hand shake so much she had to steady it to apply eye makeup. She found him incredibly attractive, and she wondered how she had managed to reach the ripe old age of twenty-five without ever meeting anyone even a little bit as sensual as Lex. Everything about him screamed possession, hard fucking, and romantic lovemaking. And everything in her was unable to stem her craving for all that he had to offer.
     
    He had said to dress up, and though she didn’t have the best dress she owned in her suitcase, she did have a dressy royal blue business suit—a subtly sexy pencil skirt and a feminine jacket accented by a delicate scallop-necked silk shell—and strappy sandals. She swept her hair up on top of her head, letting the few stray tendrils whisper down her cheeks. Since it would be dark soon, she wore a deeper shade of lip color and then sat in nervous anticipation of Lex’s knock on her door. When it came a minute later, her body jolted up as though she had been electrocuted. Taking deep calming breaths, she picked up her purse and went to answer the door.
     
    Lex’s eyes registered admiration when she opened the door to him. He smiled, and her knees trembled. He looked as different from the