She tripped over her own feet, forgot how to speak sometimes, and that’s when I knew she was the one for me.”
He could have been talking about me right then and the way I’d been acting around both Wilder and Daxon, but did that make them the ones for me?
“You better get back out there,” Rae said, and I grabbed a cold bottle of water, a glass from the rack, and headed out to where more customers had entered the diner. I delivered the water to Wilder and got back to work.
The next couple of hours were a blur of customers coming and going, and as much as I wished I could have spent more time with Wilder, that wasn’t possible. He watched me the whole time though. I’d never imagined having someone looking at me could be such a confidence booster. Usually, I was trying to run away from attention.
By the time I finally collapsed in a seat to rest, only one customer remained and even Wilder had gone into his office in the back, saying something about paperwork.
“Why did I agree to work a shift on my own again?” I murmured to myself.
In that same moment, Licia and Marcus waltzed into the diner, both of them co-owners of Moonstruck Diner along with Wilder.
Right behind them, Daxon stepped inside too, and I instantly straightened at his arrival. Suddenly, the air in the diner thinned and my heart raced. He wore a black leather jacket over a black shirt and dusty blue jeans that hugged strong thighs. His wind-blown hair sat messily around his handsome face. To say his presence left me overwhelmed in emotions was an understatement. He was a freaking god.
He scanned the place, and then his gaze settled on me. His smile brightened everything, and he strutted over to where I sat, his attention sliding up and down my body. Every part of me tingled with excitement. Wide shoulders tapered down to a narrow waist. He moved more like a lion than a wolf, silent and powerful.
I was on my feet as he reached my side, smiling. “Hey, gorgeous. I was hoping to find you here. I want you to come with me,” he stated without pause.
“Where to?”
“I want to take you to a lookout nearby before we have to be at Miyu’s wedding. It’s the best place to watch the sunset around here.” His fingers reached over and curled around my hand, my fierce infatuation with him consuming me.
He tugged me closer to him, and I stumbled on my feet, savoring the way his breath washed over my face.
“Well lucky for you, my shift ends in about ten minutes…if you’re willing to wait.”
“Do your stuff, and I’ll wait out front.” With a nod of his head, he strolled back out, and only then did I notice that every single person in the diner had been watching us. At seeing me, most quickly turned away as if busy. I belatedly realized that a lot of them had just seen me all over WIlder. And then I’d just done the same with Daxon.
Whoops.
I was ready for this shift to end. I had a customer waving at me, and then I’d close out the cash register for my shift, change my clothes, and leave.
Thirty minutes later, I emerged from the diner, exhausted but excited to find Daxon leaning against the wall near the door, hands deep in the pockets of his jacket, and with the breeze blowing through his hair, he was the epitome of the poster image of James Dean. All that was missing was a cigarette hanging out from the corner of his mouth.
“So where is this gorgeous view you promised me?” I asked, reaching his side.
His arm slid around my waist, and he looped me to swing around so we were face to face, both of us pressed together. My breath caught in my chest, my palms flat against his rock-hard chest.
“Everyone in there watches your every move.”
I glanced back through the glass door to where I noticed a woman staring our way. She quickly jerked her attention away when she spotted me looking.
“Yeah, it seems that way. I guess they have nothing exciting going on in their lives.” I didn’t want to bring up the whole bet thing or any comparison between what I had with the alphas and what Arcadia did. I wanted nothing to do with her. “Come on, let’s get out of here, I’m tired of being watched.”
“Agreed.” But before he let