Wade nodded. “They’re heading up first thing tomorrow morning. There were a few reporters sniffing around the store this morning, so they decided not to open it just in case. Silas is low on their list, though, because last I heard they still thought Austin was in love with a porn star.”
“No, now it’s a politician.” Bradley rolled his eyes. “I forget his name. He’s supposed to be for omega rights, but there are some rumors about his past.”
“That’s a new one.” For the most part, they’d been trying to pair him with celebrities and porn stars. “Is it someone who might be worth talking to about the omega rights issues?”
That was another reason Austin and Silas had been willing to play up to the cameras. Austin’s goal was to start pointing out the hypocrisy of calling it omega rights when omegas couldn’t even control their sexuality.
I had a feeling the network wasn’t going to know what hit them.
Bradley shrugged. “I thought it sounded like a bunch of conspiracy nonsense, but I guess it’s worth looking into. I’ll call Austin after we’re done and make sure he saw it. I think they’ve been avoiding most of the press, so they might not have seen it.”
“Yeah, they’ve been avoiding it. Austin can’t even go pick up his dry cleaning without being followed. They even followed his new driver home last night because they thought he might be the mysterious new alpha that Austin Johnson is in love with.” It was my turn to roll my eyes. “If this keeps up, his assistant is going to require an assistant.”
Austin wasn’t a complete control freak when it came to most things, but he hated to delegate anything unless he trusted the person who was going to handle it. There had been a few assistants who’d seemed nice up front but had then gone behind his back and sold details of his personal life to the tabloids. Fortunately he’d been careful with the details he’d shared with them, so it had mostly been silly things, but it’d still left a mark.
We’d decided that I’d help him out with anything behind the scenes and if anyone needed to be the face of his brand, then he’d do it or his publicist would. Thankfully, over the past year he’d been more focused on the business side than the attention-whore side, so I’d had less I needed to organize. With all the crazy going on for the past couple of days, that was starting to pick up again.
“One of the paparazzi even followed Marta to the grocery store the other day. It’s getting ridiculous. I can’t wait until it blows over.” Even though Austin was convinced he could keep the media distracted, I didn’t want to risk the club coming out into the open.
Dakota smirked. “Do you really think Austin going on TV is going to help anything blow over?”
“Uh.” I had a feeling it was going to be a long week.
Chapter 2
Graham
Arms wrapped around me, making me jump. Russell chuckled like a kid who’d just made someone squeal. “So how is your naughty little omega doing?”
“He’s not my naughty omega.” Rolling my eyes, I turned around in Russ’s arms. “You’re the only naughty anything in my life.”
His grip tightened on me and he leaned in to give me a slow kiss that had me melting in his arms. He’d been able to turn me into a puddle of goo with just one kiss since high school when we’d first confessed how we’d felt. Releasing my lips, he started nibbling down my neck, whispering wicked things that had my cock jerking.
“But we both know how hard he makes you.” Russ gave a low rough laugh when I squirmed and shook my head. “You get an erection just thinking about him.”
Russ rubbed against my traitorous dick and chuckled. “Yeah, you’ve been thinking about all the things that cutie wants to explore.”
He was evil.
“You’re kissing me.” And biting my neck exactly how he knew I liked it. “Asshole.”
Russ just chuckled again, only hearing what he wanted to. “I think you’ve been picturing kissing the little omega. You want to pin him to the wall and take him just like your fantasy, don’t you?”
He was so lucky I loved him.
“No…I…” He bit down on my neck again, making me shake. “Fucker.”
“This time, yeah.” He licked over the tender skin and I had to fight back the urge to moan. That would just encourage his insanity. “Next time I’ll let you be the fucker.”
Laughter burst out of me. “That’s not sexy at all.”
I could hear the grin in his voice. “Then why are you so hard and needy? Unless it really is Jonah you’ve been thinking about. Is that what you were doing? Imagining all the dirty things you get to talk to him about tomorrow?”
A groan finally escaped as he nibbled on my ear. The dirty images his words were bringing up were too much to fight. Russ chuckled again, clearly smelling victory. “I remember how hard you were when you came back from that meeting when you finally figured out what they were doing. You fucked me into the mattress so good I was walking funny for days.”
I hated it when he was right.
“You’re such…” His tongue was doing indecent things to my ear, making it impossible to think. When he finally went back to nibbling down my neck, I forced the words out. “You’re such an asshole.”
