Running From the Vampire Into the Arms of the Wolf: (3 page)

Chapter Two

26
th
September

Hans stared at the new waitress Melody. 
He fucking hated witches. 
Deceitful evil crones the lot of them. 
His wolf snarled at him
.  He ignored his damn wolf.

It was her third shift, he had watched her carefully
for every single one of them and try as he might he couldn’t find fault with her.  She was quick and methodical, and unlike his sisters she didn’t slack off or get orders wrong.  She was the best waitress they ever had and that really pissed him off.

She was friendly to all the customers. 
A little too friendly in his
opinion
.  Men were naturally taken with her wide smile and dark smoky eyes.  They simpered when she came to take their order and practically drooled after her, watching her swinging her hips as she moved from table to table. 

He watched as she laughed and joked with a couple of young humans who worked at the garage.  They were eyeing her lasciviously.  Fuckers, he ought to march over and punch them. 
Wait, no.  Why the hell did he care whether they were looking at her or not?

He
had to admit the moment he first saw her he did find himself attracted to her. 
Very
attracted to her, more than any woman he’d ever met. 
But so what?
  She was an attractive woman, but that didn’t change the fact that she was a witch and therefore the enemy.  His wolf was desperate to get his paws on her but he was resistant.

Just because she had beautiful dark skin, deep sexy eyes and
a gorgeous ass didn’t mean a thing.  Not to mention that divine smell of cherry blossoms.  No way that was perfume, that was all her.  It warmed and aroused him. 
But nope, no way would he touch her. 
Not that she’d want him to.

When he first saw her he could scent her arousal
.  Undoubtedly it was for his younger brother Acksel.  Idiot women flocked to Acksel, he was good looking and easy going.  A couple of words and they practically melted for him.

Hans on the other hand... not so much.  When he needed sexual release he picked up a wolf groupie in Darlington or Alexandria.  There
was any amount of women who just wanted to have sex with a wolf, any wolf, because of the power they exuded.  He didn’t even have to be nice to them, the meaner he was the more turned on they were.

Hans steered clear of the local women, or rather they all steered clear of him. 
They knew him too well.

Acksel
could have any woman he wanted so he should just steer clear of Melody.  Because of the restaurant of course.  If things didn’t work out between them it would be awkward for her to work at the restaurant.  And as much as he hated a witch working there they did actually grudgingly need her.  Not for any other reason of course.  He didn’t want his brother staying away from her because he wanted her. 
Nope, no way.

She leant over to pick up a menu that had fallen to the ground.  He got an amazing view of her heart shaped
rear. 
Fuck it was perfect.
  He groaned as his arousal grew even more and his beast whimpered at him.  He was already semi-hard from working so close to her but now it was becoming unbearable.  The fact that he could scent her own lingering arousal didn’t help.

He furtively used the palm of his hand to push his erection into a more comfortable position.

He heard a delicate cough behind him.  He turned to find her staring at him smirking. 
Fuck did she know what he was doing?
  She pushed an order slip at him.  “Order for Alec’s table.”  His Beta, local Sheriff, and one of the few wolves not afraid of him.

He grunted and took it from her, wolf whining at her nearness.

“You’re welcome.”  She said sarcastically.

He narrowed his eyes at her.  “You really are as sweet as sugar aren’t you?”  He said grumpily.

She snorted and flounced away from him, he watched every undulation of her rear.  Shaking his head he gave himself a mental slap. 
He had to snap out of it.
 

He got to work on the order.  He felt the ripple of power as his Alpha Adam entered the restaurant.  Adam sat at Alec’s table
.  Adam motioned at Hans,
he wanted his usual
.  Hans nodded and added a large steak pizza to the order.

Melody came back to use the coffee machine.
  He was taking a pizza out of the oven and swung round, the burning hot baking sheet missing her by an inch.  She yelped and he dropped the pizza.

With a sour expression he began retrieving the pepperoni pizza from the floor.

Melody’s cheeks reddened.  “You idiot you almost burned me!”

He stood up and looked at her. 
Veins pulsed in his neck as he growled at her.  “The hell I did!  You don’t like the way I work why don’t you hop on your broomstick and get the hell out?!”

Melody gave him a little growl of her own. 
“Screw you fleabag!  You’re not getting rid of me so easily!”

Hans roared at her. 
“Stupid crone!”

“Oh go hump a tree!”

Hans threw the destroyed pizza at her but she ducked.  Turning round she picked up the first thing she could find, which was a large soda.  She threw it towards him and he stepped out of the way.

The drink landed all over a woman she didn’t recognise who had ordered takeaway.  The woman yelped in surprise and loud voices broke out all over the restaurant.  They were silenced by an enormous roar that shook the windows. 
It was the Alpha
.

Hans stood looking at her seething with rage.  God how he wanted to grab her and force her to submit to him, he wanted to kiss her and take her to bed and show her he was in charge. 
His beast was all for that.
  He was embarrassed by his reaction and actually felt himself blush slightly.

Melody shook with discomfort.  Not because of the argument but because of how aroused it had made her.  She felt her panties moisten
and was annoyed at herself.  She wanted to leap over to him and climb him like a tree.  She grabbed the counter to stop herself from doing something so stupid.

Everyone in the restaurant froze.  Adam spoke quickly to his sister Mac who nodded and came over to the soda drenched woman and
escorted her to the back.  Adam strode over to Hans whilst Alec and his mate, and Melody’s friend and fellow witch Liv, went over to Melody.  Gabe, another wolf and Sheriff’s Deputy, tried to encourage the other diners to get back to their meals.

Ilse
came out of the back office and gave her son a disapproving glance before scooting round to the kitchen and started to pick up the orders.  Alec gently rebuked Melody for her actions whilst Adam harangued Hans over his. 

Mac came out of the back with the freshly cleaned woman wearing a Pizza Moon t-shirt.  Melody went over to her.

“I’m so sorry, honestly I was trying to get him.”  She whispered and motioned her head in Hans direction.

“I gathered that.” 
Said the woman dryly.  She shook her head, “no harm done.”

Melody let out a breath of relief.  “Thank
you, I’m Melody James by the way.”  Not the best introduction.

The woman smiled.  “
Rosalee Bennett.”

Melody raised her eyebrows. 
“Iris’ granddaughter?”

Rosalee
looked at her in surprise.  “Yes, you knew her?”

“A little, I’m kind of new here but we were part of the same Circle.”
 
Iris had been murdered by Emerald Cole...

Mac came over and placed a takeaway pizza box in
Rosalee’s hands, she winked at Rosalee and smirked at Melody,

Rosalee
gave a half-laugh.  “Well, nice to meet you both... sort of.  See you around.”

Rosalee
gave them a wave as she headed out the door.

Adam
had become increasingly loud and irate as Hans looked more and more pissed off.  Hans, instead of listening to his Alpha, was trying to catch glimpses of Melody.  She caught him looking and glowered at him.  Adam was about ready to punch Hans when he stopped talking mid-sentence.

The Alpha sniffed the air and looked at the door
Rosalee had left through.  He bolted after her, with Alec and Mac shouting after him.

Hans snorted
and gave one last growl in Melody’s direction before he went back to the kitchen.  Melody shrugged and picked up her order pad. 
Time to get back to work
.

The pack mates watched them wonderingly as they acted like nothing had happened.  Feeling like it was resolved they sat back down and waited for their order, eventually Adam came back into the restaurant and joined them
.  He was a little subdued.

Hans spent the rest of his shift flicking glances in Melody’s direction,
superficially to make sure she wasn’t gearing up to throw anything else at him. 
His permanent state of arousal and prowling wolf said otherwise.

Melody avoided eye contact for the rest of the evening, fearing she might spontaneously combust if she got any hotter.

At the end of the night they mumbled their goodbyes and rushed back to their respective homes.  Each seeking out their showers. 
After the events of the day a little hot water coupled with a little manual stimulation were just what they needed.

*

28
th
September

Melody half listened to
Kayleigh’s excited chatter.  Kayleigh was moving in with her boyfriend of four months, Greg a mechanic at the local garage. 
Just as soon as they found a decent apartment.
  Greg and Dena were sat with them having a drink in the local pack run bar called Bar Luna.

Kayleigh
was naturally bubbly and could talk for hours, Dena on the other hand was pretty sullen and chose to ignore Kayleigh.  Greg had his arm around Kayleigh but was surreptitiously checking out other women in the bar.  Melody wanted to punch him.

Melody tried to focus on her friend,
Kayleigh was lovely really, and ordinarily Melody would be listening except... Hans was sat at the other end of the bar.

He was glaring at her.  The way his deep eyes pierced into her made her feel naked.  She shivered at her reaction, but not wanting to let him know that she jutted her chin and glared right back at him.

Hans was sitting with his brother Acksel and the two wolf Deputies Gabe and Jake.  The other three wolves were drinking beer, laughing and chatting.  Hans was gripping a beer tightly in his fist but ignoring them in favour of annoying her.

She didn’t know why he was staring at
her, presumably he was trying to intimidate her because he hated witches. 
Hah!  Fat chance!
  She’d been threatened and stalked by the master, one little wolf was nothing to her.

Melody noted that the Alpha was there with
Rosalee.  He was practically drooling over her. 
Not obvious much
.  They were there with Mac as well as a red wolf shifter she didn’t recognise, who was leering at the amazon like wolf Kim, the manager of Bar Luna.

She scanned the rest of the bar, when she could force herself to look away from Hans
that is.  There were quite a few good looking wolves there.  They were just a bit too clean cut for her,
nothing exciting about a single one of them.

“Mel you want a drink?” 
Kayleigh’s chirpy voice broke through her reverie.

Melody blinked a couple of times.  “Yes, but I’ll get it, my round.  Anyone else want?”

They each asked for a beer and Melody went up to the bar, she gave her order to a very grumpy bear bartender.

She thrummed her fingers on the bar waiting.  She felt the hairs on her neck stand up as someone came and stood by her side.  She turned to
find a young wolf called Jimmy next to her, he was a regular at Pizza Moon. 
And regularly leered at her ass
.

“Hey Melody.”
  He grinned at her.

“Oh hey Jimmy.”

Jimmy raked his fingers through his dark hair watching her closely.  “I’ve never seen you in here.”

“No, I’ve never been in before.”  Witches were wary of pack owned businesses until
Liv had mated with a wolf.  Now relations between wolves and witches were becoming more cordial.

“Nice to see you out of uniform.”
  His appraised her lasciviously.  “Can I get you a drink?”

“No I already ordered one.”

He continued leering at her unfazed.  “Why don’t you come over and join me and my friends?”

She scowled at him.  “I’m already with my friends...”

“Aww come on... don’t you wanna go out with me?”