Draco turned back to look at Athena, assessing. “I’ll stay at her place tonight. Make sure they don’t try anything…”
“I’ll have Tuck and Townie ready for the perimeter. Give you backup in case they do,”Case advised, walking away and pulling out his phone.
“She’s your mate, isn’t she?”Leo asked, staring him down.“Your wolf is going apeshit.”
“No. She’s not. She’s Deidra’s best friend. That is all.”
Draco had to close his eyes as he turned to walk away, even his wolf knew he was lying. Athena Chapman was his mate, one that he could not claim.
Chapter
Six
Athena dideverything she could not to notice the man in the seat beside her. Since she and Deidra had taken an Uber to the bar, Draco chose to drive them back to her house.
Which wasn’t the bad part. The bad part was both were staying at her house with her.
She was in fact grateful that her best friend was staying for the weekend. The bad part was that Draco was staying…in her house…on her small ass couch!
“Y-you can take the guest room. Deidra can sleep in my room,” Athena suggested softly, looking back toward Deidra.
“Thank you, but no. I can’t keep an eye on things from there. Deidra can have the guest bedroom.”
“You won’t fit on the couch with how big you are.”
When Deidra coughed to stifle a laugh, she wanted to bang her head against the dashboard. When she replayed her statement back in her head, she wanted a hole to open up and swallow her whole.
“Shit! That sounded wrong. I didn’t mean to imply you were fat. You’re not fat. Probably don’t have an ounce of fat on you.I mean you’re tall and muscley and my couch is really small compared to you. Fuck! Someone just shoot me now.”
Athena covered her face with her hands in horror when she wound up with diarrhea of the mouth trying to explain what she meant. She wanted to flog Deidra when the woman started howling with laughter from the back seat.
“Breathe, Athena. I know you weren’t calling me fat. It’s better for me to stay in the living room so I can head off any potential disasters should they happen. I’ve slept in tighter spaces than your couch. I promise I will be fine.”
Athena relaxed at Draco’s words, just a little, but not much. When she looked back out the window, she realized they were pulling into her driveway, into utter chaos.
Her car had been vandalized worse than ever. Three of her tires were shredded, her windows were all smashed out of the vehicle, the leather seats were shredded to pieces, and her headlights and taillights were smashed in.
Her front door had been kicked in, barely hanging onto the doorframe. The windows in front of the house were all broken and the frames busted up.
She noticed the words “whore”, “pig”, “bitch”, and “cunt” were spray painted on the front of her house, her garage, and her car. They even destroyed her garage.
She was petrified to find out the extent of the damage to the inside of the house. She was so out of it, she never registered Draco or Deidra’s voice as one called the police and the other called their parents.
She started to get out of Draco’s truck when both of them held her back. She could only stare at Draco when he told her to let him check out the house to make sure it was safe before she got out of the truck.
“Y-you can’t go in there alone. What if they are still in there?” Athena asked, panic in her voice.
“I will be fine. I promise. Stay in the truck. Lock it once I get out. Dee, you know what to do.”
Athena could only stare at the man as he got out of his truck, a gun in hand. She hadn’t even realized that he was carrying a gun the whole time.
“Dee, what if h-he gets hurt? What…”
“Hey, breathe. He will be okay, Thena. He does this kind of thing for a living. Have faith in my big brother.”
Several minutes later just as the police and several other cars pulled up to her house, Draco was walking out, looking more pissed than when he went inside. She unlocked the truck doors and jumped out of the truck, running toward her house to see the damage.
She barely registered Draco catching her and pulling her into his arms. She knew from the way he was visibly vibrating that it was bad.
