- Knox ~

Why is fate tormenting me? I'm meant to be keeping my distance, not watching her dance like a sexy vixen across the dance floor in a knock out dress. A dress that only highlights her red hair even more.

I regret coming, because watching her and not be able to touch her is fucking with my mind.

It doesn't help that her brother, the one that usually lifts even the darkest of soul's spirits, is drinking himself into oblivion. I don't know what is going on with him all of a sudden, as soon as that blonde arrived during the meal...it's like he's had a personality shift. "Another?" He grunts at me as he refills our shot glasses.

"What's up pal?"

"Nothing." He sneers, his eyes darting to the blonde on the dance floor before he downs his shot, refilling it instantly.

He could have fooled me.

Sod this, I'm not going to be the one to babysit a drunken Jace and carry his sad ass home when his legs give way.

I was getting ready to call it a night when the dick Red seems to have allowed herself to become attached to walks into the club...acting like a fucking peacock, as if he owns this place.

Maybe I'll stay for a few more drinks after all.

The girls move off the dance floor, heading to the bar... Red stopping right in front of me. My eyes roam the length of her, she looked good enough to eat tonight. But then again she looks hot in anything. I down my shot, my body oozing coldness...a mask for what I really want.

"Looks like lover boy is coming over." I callously say, as I look over her shoulder. My demeanour is stony, but it's nothing to the steely expression that forms upon her face and the perfected timed reply that stabs at my chest.

"At least he takes what he wants. Perhaps he'll dampen that achey fire between my thighs tonight." Anybody else might be gobsmacked by what she has just said, but not me. She knows how to hit back, and she hits back hard. Just the thought of him in between her legs has me refilling my shot glass.

My hand grasps tightly around the shot glass, any firmer and it will smash in my palm. My jaw tenses at her words, anger flashes from my wolf at the thought of somebody else touching her.

She's watching me for a reaction, this game between us I was currently losing. I take another shot, before biting on the inside of my cheek to stop words leaving my mouth.

He's at her side within seconds, his hands touching her and all I can do is watch on, wanting to break those fingers that brush against her skin.

Each shot that follows burns at the back of my throat, and I welcome the relief from the burning of my eyes.

"She's not that into him you know." Red's friend Maya climbs up on the bar stool next to me, flagging the bartender down to order a drink.

"Who?"

"Oh please, like you haven't been able to keep your eyes off her. Three vodka and oranges..." She orders before moving back to the daughter of the Red Thorn Alpha.

Both females move to talk to Jace but his mood only continues to sour as he downs another shot and moves away from the bar, heading towards Jaxon. I watch on as they exchange heated words, arguing about something. They never argue. Jace tries to move past him as Jaxon tries to talk reason with him, holding him back by his shoulders.novelbin

Looks like my night is over as Jace shoves past Jaxon, flipping him off as he storms through the exit, Jaxon on his tail. I go to move after them, to check out what is going on when my wolf stops my legs from moving.

"No, stay." He orders in my mind, in-between growling. The alcohol consumption hasn't helped with keeping him behind that veil...he had been pushing forward more and more with each shot I drank. Which I haven't notice during until now. Shit.

"Fine, I'll stay but nothing from you." I growl back at him, sitting back on the bar stool, my ride for the night having left through those doors.