“Yes, yes I am.”
“I saw you fight once; you were incredible.” Carried gushed in admiration. Cain could scent her arousal, and his bear snarled at him to end this.
“Uh thanks.” Cain surveyed her carefully. “So, are you familiar with the local wolf pack?”
The blonde’s eyes flickered for a few seconds. “Yes, I suppose so.”
The bear surged with hope but kept his tone casual. “Oh. I was actually sort of looking for one of the members. I was at a bar the other night, and she dropped her… ah scarf. I came here to give it back to her.” The bear applauded him for his relatively quick thinking.
She raised her thin eyebrows. “A scarf? You came to Rose to return a scarf?”
Cain bristled at her scornful tone. “Well, I have friends here too, so…”
“So why don’t you just ask them who she is?”
Okay, clearly he hadn’t given her enough credit, she wasn’t a total pushover. Time for a different tactic... Cain flexed his biceps and was pleased to note her eyes dilated a little at the sight. “My friends aren’t sweet to talk to like you.”
Her doubt melted a little, and she looked satisfied with the compliment. With her looks, she unquestionably garnered a lot of male attention. She probably had a sufficient ego never really to wonder why a man would want to talk to her.
Carrie placed a manicured hand on his arm, and gently rubbed. “Well, what’s her name?”
“Uhhh I don’t know. All I know is…”
He was cut short by Kira depositing his numerous plates in front of him. The small wolf folded her arms. “Carrie isn’t that your boyfriend stood outside?”
Carrie quickly snatched her hand away. “Ah, shit I better go. See you around Cain.”
The woman hotfooted outside. Cain saw her drape herself over a burly and rough looking wolf, who was scowling at an even bigger wolf, which Cain recognized as the Alpha, Adam. Adam already looked pissed off but when Carrie joined them, he looked like he was going to have a fit.
Cain turned back and started digging into his food. Whatever the drama was with those wolves, he wasn’t interested. There was only one wolf that interested him, and he was determined to find her.
Chapter Five
Cain impatiently rapped on the door. He could hear movement inside; he knew someone was home.
After talking to Carrie at the Diner, he hadn’t bothered trying to get information from anyone else. Kira was already giving him the stink eye for flirting with one of her pack mates girlfriends; he didn’t want to piss off anyone else. Well, truthfully he didn’t really care, but he figured when he mated with his she-wolf, he would be living here full time, so it was best not to get too many people’s backs up just yet.
He knocked on the door more forcefully. Finally, an irate looking human woman with a blue rinse answered it. She looked him up and down, and without an ounce of nervousness asked him what the hell he wanted.
He looked past her hopefully and sniffed. He couldn’t see or scent any evidence that wolves lived here, but you never knew. “I want to know who lives in your house.”
The woman looked at him like he was an escaped mental patient. “What?”
Cain grunted as his bear growled impatiently. “I’m looking for someone. Who else other than you lives here?”
He’d decided the best way to find his mate was to work methodically. He would visit every single house in Rose until he found her. Easy peasy . However, after visiting only four houses, he was already furious at the lack of progress.
At the first house, he had been arrested by the vision of a nude, elderly bull shifter answering the door. Other than being impressed by the size of the old man’s testicles, he was next to useless. The next door he tried was opened by an attractive bear shifter. He scented a she-wolf at her house and grew hopeful that the bear would have some