Mated To Magic (Stark Creek Shifters Book 1) by Barb Shuler (free ereaders .TXT) 📕

let’s go into your office. Girls, get the music back on and the drinks flowing.” They moved back behind the bar, Angus and Josh having removed the asshole. Jay and I headed to my office. Taking my keys out, I unlocked the door and went in. I looked in the mirror and saw the cut on my left shoulder. His knife must have sliced me as I spun away from him.

“Dalton is going to lose it. He’s already on edge, this is going to send him right over.”

“Where is your first-aid kit?”

“In my bottom drawer.”

“Come and sit your ass down.”

“Bossy much?”

“Do you want me to call D?”

“No. I’m not speaking to him right now.”

“Oh, I don’t think there will be much talking going on, Mia. Come and sit down so we can take care of this.”

“Don’t you have a bar to manage?”

“The girls will be fine without me for a few minutes.” I sighed softly and sat down in my chair. Jay opened the first-aid kit on my desk and stood in front of me. “So what has D done this time?”

“He let me walk away after I told him I loved him when he got jealous over my friendship with Sy.” She made a face when I mentioned his name. Jay bent down to clean the cut with an antiseptic wipe. “Okay, what is it with everyone not liking Sylvester?”

“I just get bad vibes from him. I don’t trust him or his motives. He has a hidden agenda and I don’t like it.” She shrugged her shoulders and took the gauze from the kit. She cut a square big enough to cover my wound, then took the tape out and picked up my scissors. After making four strips, she set the tape and scissors back down.

“Am I the only one who doesn’t see anything wrong with him?”

She stayed quiet as she taped the gauze to my skin. Pulling back once she was done, she looked down at me. “It isn’t our job to tell you who to be friends with and who not to be. You are a good judge of character, Mia; all we ask is that you be careful. He is in love with you. D has a point.” I went to open my mouth, but she cut me off. “While the feelings may not be mutual, they are there for him. Just don’t be so hard on D, okay? Until today, he didn’t know how you felt. You’ve both been skirting over the issue, when really you should have talked about it before we moved here. I love you both, but sitting back and watching this has made me want to knock your heads together.” Cleaning up, she closed the first-aid kit and put it back into my bottom drawer.

“I shouldn’t have walked away.”

“Yes, you should have. You both need to calm down before you talk about this again. Go home tonight, shower, and go to bed. When you wake up tomorrow, then you can talk calmly about it. Words spoken in anger are the ones you will regret, and you can’t take them back.” I nodded and laid my head back against the chair. “Do you want me to get one of the girls to run out and get you some food?”

“No, I’ll be fine.”

“Okay, come get me if you need me. Just sit in here for a bit.”

“Thanks, Jay.”

She kissed my cheek and walked out, shutting the door behind her. Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath. Why the hell did one phone call turn everything to shit? Also, who the hell had let someone into my club with a knife? We had people at the door with wands to scan for this shit.

Sitting up, I pulled my chair in and turned to look at the security cameras. I reversed the feed back to opening and pulled up the main entrance door. Nick and Josh had been on there all night, so one of them hadn’t done their job. Someone would pay for that. When Dalton found out what happened, he was going to want someone dead over this. I wasn’t about to stop him, either. Normally I would call Sy and have it dealt with properly, but I was going to have to distance myself from him for a bit. Jay and Dalton were right. He was in love with me. While I only thought about him as a friend, by not shutting it down sooner, I had partly led him on. That wasn’t fair to him, so it was time to fix things there first. What better present for Dalton than the guy who had hurt me?

I winced. I should probably have someone look at the wound to make sure it wasn’t a deep cut, but I didn’t want the questions. Watching the screen as the night went on, I found the point where he had come in. Nick was with another customer, so I watched Josh. He let the guy in and fist bumped him as he walked past. He didn’t even check him. Nick turned to watch him go in, then spoke to Josh. Josh ignored him and moved to let in another customer. Nick took out his phone and did something on it before carrying on with his job. I checked my phone and saw nothing. I needed to talk to Nick and Angus later. If Nick had messaged anyone, it should have been Angus. He was head of my security, so if there was an issue, it would have been him that he went to. If not, I needed to find out. Josh was about to lose his job and I wanted to have my ducks in a row before I fired the dickhead. I’d ask Dalton if he could source some new guys for me. He’d know how to help me. Switching the cameras back to real time, I checked on the bar. After the incident, the crowd had started to thin out. Oh good, maybe