Free The Loneliest Alpha (The MacKellen Alphas) by T. A. Grey Page A

that much grief.
    And
where had Gavin gone? She’d heard him enter the house. Was he upstairs, and if
so, what was he doing? Hell, why do you care, she questioned herself. I
really don’t , she assured herself .
    Jo
strode forward, his boots landing like thunderclaps on the floor. “Listen here,
Alicia Clarkson. My cuz deserves a solid woman. A woman who will treat him like
a fuckin’ king for once. If you’re not her, then get the hell out of here now.”
    She
took a few things out of what he said. One, he and Gavin were cousins. Two,
apparently women treated Gavin like shit. And three, he was under the wrong
misconception about her position in the pack.
    “Listen,
I’ve asked to go home, I’ve begged to go home, and I just tried to escape. Do
you really think that if not for Gavin keeping me here, I wouldn’t be gone?”
    The
frown around his lips deepened as her words sunk in. She almost smirked because
she knew she was right and now he knew it too.
    He
leaned down, his face getting too close to be comfortable. That’s when she
caught a flash of metal hanging in his ears. “No, you listen to me, little
girl.” She bristled at the ‘little’ even if it was true. “Gavin deserves a
fuckin’ queen. A woman who will bow down every morning and suck his dick like
it’s her job, because it fuckin’ is. He deserves a good woman’s respect and
admiration. If you don’t have that for him, then don’t string him along. You
got that?”
    Anger
made her flush. At least that’s what she told herself. It couldn’t be his crude
words or the erotic images they painted in her mind. “That’s some of the most misogynistic
crap I’ve ever heard. Where are you going after this? Off to your women-beating
club to clap the other guys on the back for smacking their mates real good?”
Whoa. She was breathing hard, not real sure where all that came from. All she
knew was the man made her mad with his archaic bullshit.
    His
eyes widened. Then he leaned a few inches closer until she could feel his
breath blow across her. “You have no idea what you’re talking about.”
    With
that, he opened the front door and slammed it as he left. She winced as the
loud clap of wood reverberated in her eardrums like a ping pong ball.
    She
heard voices outside. Curiosity got the best of her and she went to a window in
the living room and pulled back a white gauzy curtain to see outside. Another
man had pulled up in a truck.
    Kaity
rushed forward and the man caught her in his arms. She broke down into sobs. “I
just heard about Emma. Oh, Hart, I can’t believe it. Who could have killed her?”
She choked on her words, the sounds muffled as she buried her face in his
chest. Alicia felt a tingle in her nose and sniffled.
    The
man named Hart had to be a cousin or brother because he looked very much like
Gavin in the physical sense. Tall, big, and strong. Hart wasn’t quite as tall
though and he looked thicker around the chest, but didn’t have the tall body
and sinewy muscle like Gavin. He had darker hair than the rest of them but the
same good looking face and blue eyes. Made her wonder if this is what Gavin
looked like—at least in some way.
    “There,
there, little sis. I’m working on it. You know I’ll find whoever did this. I’m
bringing Elizabeth in on it. You know she’s the best damn detective we got on
the force, woman or not.” He laughed to ease the tension and Kaity laughed with
him.
    “Yeah,
right. Better than you?”
    He
pulled back and grinned down at her. “All right, maybe not that good.”
    Kaity
laughed and hugged him around the waist. “You’ll find who did this. I trust you.”
    The
man named Hart wrapped his arm around his sister then swung his gaze straight
to Alicia in her spot from the window. Suddenly, she felt like a deer in the
headlights. Her eyes popped wide.
     Alicia
wrapped her arms around herself, suddenly aware that she was the only
non-family member here and that she was creeping on a