"Now," he said quietly, his hand sliding from her neck down to her waist, pulling her more firmly against him, "where were we before I had to deal with that... complication on your neck?"
Behind them, four security vehicles that had been following at a discreet distance pulled to the side of the road in synchronized precision, their occupants climbing out and forming a loose perimeter around Kade's car.
The guards exchanged confused glances, clearly sensing that something significant had just occurred, their Alpha's scent had changed, mixed now with an unfamiliar female's in ways that could only mean one thing.
Marcus signaled them sharply to stay back, to maintain distance, and give their Alpha the privacy this moment clearly required. His expression was carefully neutral, but his eyes held questions, so many questions, that he knew better than to voice right now.
