David cursed silently as the idiot trustee, and one of the wealthiest benefactors the hospital ever had, introduced him and Nurse Madison as if the two of them were an item!
The she-Wolf was a damn nuisance! She clung to his arm in her ridiculously low-cut gown like a parasite. The flowery perfume she wore made him want to scrub his nostrils! How the hell did she breathe with that crap on?
Movement to his right had him turning his head. Oh fuck no. Cassiopeia. His Cassie had seen his entrance and heard what this ass-wipe had said! She would think the absolute worst! For fuck’s sake!
He moved to chase her, but the she-Wolf tightened her hold and smiled up at him, motioning for him to walk towards the microphone.
“Thank you, ladies and gents, I want to welcome you all here tonight. Please enjoy yourself and remember to drink and drive responsibly! I am sorry, if you will excuse me a moment, I think my real date just walked out the door. Cassie!”
Cassie got down the stairs without injury, but after five minutes with ice and snow covering her high heeled feet and her skirt up around her thighs, she regretted her decision to walk out.
“I should have called an Uber!” She muttered to herself and ignored the faint sound of someone calling her name. Great. Now, she was hallucinating. No doubt, the cold was affecting her mind!
She walked on through the snow, shivering as her exposed skin made contact with the heavy fluff falling from the sky. She could have sworn she heard her name being called again. Wishful thinking, Cass.
She was no heroine, and her life was certainly no romance novel where the big, muscular hero swept her off her feet and professed undying love after a huge misunderstanding! Ha! She wouldn’t even buy that book! Liar. You own dozens just like it.
“Oh, shut up,” she muttered to herself.
“Cassie!”
Wait. That was her name. Someone was calling after. Cassie froze and turned around. Her eyes narrowed. She did the only thing she could think of. She bent down and grabbed a handful of icy snow and threw it in a perfect arc towards her pursuer.
“Ouch! Cassie!” David wiped snow out of his eyes and she reloaded and flung another one at him. This one hit him square in the chest of his otherwise immaculate tuxedo.
“You bastard!”
“Cassie, please, there’s been a mistake,” he tried to speak, but she was on a roll. He dodged two more snowballs, but the third clipped him in the ear.
“Ow! Fuck, that’s cold, Cassie, please, just hear me out,” he begged, hands held up in surrender.
He looked delicious in his tux. It was clearly tailored to his tall, wide-shouldered, muscular body, the thing fit like a glove. His blonde hair was damp with snow and his eyes glowed gold as he looked her over from head to toe.
“You look beautiful,” he said, eyes eating her up where she stood. She shivered, but ignored the cold, caught in his stare.
“Oh really? And how about your date, did you tell her how good she looked too? What were the two of you dating before we met? Explains why she flipped out and warned me off you at the hospital!”
“What? When did she do that?” he growled.
“What does it matter? Clearly you two have a thing! I made a mistake, now just leave me alone,” she turned to go, but found herself swept up in a pair of warm muscular arms.
“Put me down!”
“No.”
“What do you mean no? You can’t do this!”
“You and I are going to talk dammit, and we’re going to do it someplace warm and quiet,” his long, powerful legs ate through the snow quickly.
Soon, they were both encased safely in the warmth of his Mercedes. David turned around and grabbed something from the backseat.
“Here, put this on,” he said and handed her a coat. Cassie was too cold to refuse, so she shrugged into the soft leather jacket and had to bite her lip to keep from sighing. It smelled just like him.
“David-”
“Not till we get inside,” he said in a clipped voice.
Cassie fumed in her seat. Oh, he was mad, was he? Well fuck him! The jerk! Who did he think he was anyway? Just because he was a doctor, gorgeous, rich, and educated, oh, and the fact that he fucks-like-a-god, didn’t mean he was better than her! He was a cheater and a liar!
That last part did not sit well with her. He’d been so kind and open. Well, except for not telling her his whole ‘I’m a Werewolf’ secret.
She tried to pretend that didn’t bother her. But the truth was, it did. He’d lied by omission. Cassie quickly wiped her eyes before he’d notice she was crying over his stupid ass.
Her heart squeezed in her chest as David pulled into his driveway. Oh God, not here.
“Look, I’m not going in there with you-”