Wolf Untamed (SWAT - Special Wolf Alpha Team #11) - Paige Tyler Page 0,93
from him. I wanted the idiot arrested, but a restraining order was the most Bree would agree to.”
“Is Bree okay?” Trey asked as the elevator started up. “You could have stayed home with her instead of coming with us on the next leg of the Ernest Hobbs wild-goose chase. You know that, right?”
Diego nodded. A part of him had wanted to do exactly that. Not because Bree was traumatized or anything, but simply so he could spend the day with her and Brandon in case Dave showed up. “She’s fine. I stayed at her place last night, and we talked for a long time. As much as he hates me, she doesn’t think Dave will try to hurt her or Brandon. I’m not sure I agree, but she insisted on going to work. Her sister is working from home today so she’s with Brandon.”
The elevator came to a stop, and the doors opened onto the Dallas Daily Star’s bullpen, a bunch of cubicles that reminded him of a rat’s maze, with people running everywhere and the noise level only slightly below bedlam. They’d been here twice yesterday to talk to Hobbs, but he’d been out of the office. Gage’s wife, Mackenzie, who was also a reporter for the Star had called them that morning and said Hobbs was in today, though she had no idea how long he’d be hanging around.
Mackenzie must have been waiting for them because she met them the moment they stepped off the elevator. Tall and slender with long, dark hair and blue eyes, she tried to look casual as she filled them in on where Hobbs’s desk was.
“Hobbs was still at his desk a few minutes ago, and I haven’t seen him leave, so let’s hope he didn’t take off.”
Diego thanked her as she headed off in the opposite direction, reading something on the cell phone in her hand.
“You and Bree spent the night together?” Hale asked, picking up their earlier conversation where they’d left off.
Diego sighed in frustration. Out of everything he’d told his pack mates, the part about spending the night was the only thing Hale had picked up on?
“Sounds like things are going well with the relationship,” Trey remarked, sounding like a talk-show host halfway between Doctor Phil and Jerry Springer. “Dinner and a movie, then a hit-it-and-quit-it booty call, now a stay-over.”
Diego didn’t know if he’d describe the first time he and Bree made love as a hit-it-and-quit-it booty call, but he didn’t correct his pack mate because he was too busy picking up Hobbs’s scent to see if the man was still there. He was.
A few people looked their way curiously as he and his teammates headed around the outside of the cubicles, but no one paid much attention since they seemed to know where they were going.
“Things are going well,” Diego admitted, glancing at Trey. “And for the record, don’t use slang like that in front of me. You sound like my stepfather trying to be cool. It’s creepy.”
Hale chuckled before peeling off and heading down a center aisle through the maze so he could cut off Hobbs if the reporter tried to make a run for it. Hale’s nose might be crap, but he made up for it with his other senses.
Trey ignored the jab about sounding like an uncool old man. “Since things are going well, that means you talked to her about The One, right?”
Damn, the guy was like a broken record.
“No, we haven’t talked about her being The One for me,” Diego ground out, his nose telling him to take a left and almost running Trey into a cubicle wall.
“Why not?” Trey asked, waving an apology to the cubicle gopher who popped his head up at the noise. “Is it because you don’t think she’s The One for you?”
Diego shook his head. “She’s definitely The One, I’m sure of it.”
Trey frowned, eyeing Diego like he’d grown two heads and a beak. “You’re not making any sense. If she’s The One, talking about it should be easy.”
“Unfortunately, it isn’t easy because Bree has this thing about free will.”
Trey looked more baffled. “Okay, now I’m really confused.”
“Bree married Dave right out of high school,” Diego explained. “Or more precisely, she let him and her family talk her into marrying him. Then she let him talk her into moving away from family and having a kid before she was ready. Other than Brandon—which is the one thing she wouldn’t go back and change—she has a whole laundry list