Free Hale: Love Me Harder - Alien Paranormal Romance by Serena Simpson

they are going to kill him. Please send help, ask his brothers to come, we are downtown in an alley.” Her words tumbled over each other as she tried to give directions to where they were.
    “Calm down, Tori. I doubt six humans can take Hale down.”
    Lorali called for Sergey then there was total silence on her end of the phone.
    “Tori, are you still there?”
    “Yes.”
    “Are they coming?”
    “Yeah, they said to tell you to hold on they will be there for clean-up. They don’t want to ruin Hale’s fun, or make him think they don’t trust his abilities. It might look a little scary, but trust Hale, he can handle this.”
    They were all crazy and that included the females. How had she gotten hooked up with them?
    The hand that covered her mouth and wrapped around her waist had her trying to scream and kick the same time. The deep voice in her ear was relaxing her even as she tried to resist. Her heart picked up as her body went slack, none of this was making sense.
    She looked up to see Dante. He released her waist and placed a finger in front of his lips.
    “I wanted to see the fight.” He spoke to her softly.
    “Are you going to help Hale?’
    His head shook no. “Believe me he doesn’t need help, and he’s about to prove it to his brothers.”
    The man who had offered him a deal charged at Hale with a yell. He had a huge blade in his hand and was intent on cutting Hale. Hale side stepped it and tripped him.
    “You will need to do better than that.” He put his hand in front of his mouth and yawned.
    Two of the others came after him. Not charging this time they approached wearily. When they got close enough they began to circle him making him move to keep them both in sight.
    The man on the ground jumped up and went for Hale’s back grabbing him around the neck as one of the two went low for his legs. Hale flipped the guy on his back over and used him to hit the guy going for his legs.
    Then he dove for the ground and picked up the discarded knife and flung it at assailant number two who was pointing a gun at him. The knife hit him in the chest making him fall to the ground with a heavy thud.
    “And then there were five.” Hale said in the voice of an announcer reporting the facts.
    Tori was screaming, not that anyone could hear her. Dante’s hand covering her mouth muffled all sound.
    “Tori, you don’t want to take his attention off of his assailants. As long as you’re quiet he knows you’re fine, I’m the only one who can get behind him. He needs you to know he can take care of you. Let’s say it has something to with his other side.”
    She nodded her head. It made sense that if she screamed he would be concerned about her and miss the guy who was trying to sneak up on him as he looked at the two men on the ground.
    “Never say I am not the better male. I will allow everyone who has not attacked me to leave, no hard feelings,” Hale said as he watched the two on the ground groan in pain.
    “What about those two?” The one sneaking up asked, pointing to the two on the ground.
    “They’re mine.”
    “No deal. I suggest you fight,” the assailant said, presumably to the two on the ground as he came for Hale.
    The two on the ground pulled themselves up and attacked when the other two did. Four against one, they intended to kill him.
    Tori bit her tongue when she saw Dante look at her. She refused to scream, she could always cry later.
    Someone got in a kick to Hale’s gut causing him to bend over missing the knife that was aimed at his back. The assailant in front of him fell with a knife sticking out of his throat. Killed by another assailant.
    Hale laughed and dispatched the other three without breaking a sweat.
    “Then there was one. What do you choose? To run and tell your employer to cut his losses or do you prefer to die with your crew?”
    The last assailant was perched against the wall with his arms over his chest in a lazy stance. He stood silently tucking his long black