Mated To Magic (Stark Creek Shifters Book 1) by Barb Shuler (novels for teenagers txt) 📗

I was talking about, but I didn’t want the contractor to think that just because I was a woman that he could take advantage of that and try to rip me off. My Alpha would cut him off real quick. When my desk phone rang, I hit the speaker on the dock.

“Bar None, Mia speaking.”

“Ah good, I’ve caught you. Mia, it’s Peter Sinclair. Do you have a minute?”

“That’s about all I have. How can I help you?” I could feel Dalton beginning to tense. He hated this man as much as I did.

“I wanted to see if maybe you had reconsidered my last offer. I’ll double what you paid for the bar and even put it in writing that all the current staff will remain on.”

Rolling my eyes, I was quiet for a minute, trying to phrase my words right.

“Peter, let me make this crystal clear for you. There is no way that I would ever sell this business back to you. You ran it into the ground the first time; what makes me think that you won’t do it again? All of my staff would be out of a job anyway. You can’t throw your money around and get whatever you want. It doesn’t work like that. As it is, I’m talking about expansion plans. You should have thought long and hard before selling, buddy, because nowhere in the contract does it say anything about being able to buy it back if you changed your mind. Now, quit harassing me.”

“Triple. I will give you triple what you paid.” I face-palmed and took a big deep breath. What the fuck was it going to take for me to get it through this guy’s head? I looked at Dalton and I knew. He needed to send someone to pay him a visit.

“No, Peter, and if you call me one more time, I will be sending someone around to make sure you take me seriously.”

“Bitch. Who the hell do you think are? You don’t scare me.”

“No, but friends of mine have been known to scare the piss out of grown men. Do you really want to find out just who I am?”

“This isn’t fair! You get rich off my building then I don’t even get what I pay for to try and run you out of town. Now you’re threatening me?! We’ll see who gets the last laugh.”

Before I could react, the phone went dead and Dalton was out the door. I decided it was better to let him handle it and make good on my promise to Peter. I took the new phone that Dalton had brought me and put in the numbers that I needed that he hadn’t done yet. Then I went back to working on the restaurant for interior designs. I hadn’t decided if I wanted to match this place or give it a fresh look. Did I want to hire an interior designer or did I want to do it all myself? Well, that one I knew the answer to. I’d end up firing anyone I hired, so it would be better for me to just do this alone. I needed to get boards and stuff so I could do this up properly. I made a mental note to grab them before I came into work tomorrow.

19

Dalton

Why was it that the good times in life always had to be interrupted by assholes and shitty people? I was trying to have a few minutes alone with my girl before I’d be needed elsewhere when that asshat, Peter Sinclair, called. There was one thing I wouldn’t stand for and that was someone threatening my girl. The fact that it was him doing the threatening had my wolf prowling toward the surface.

His “I don’t even get what I pay for to try and run you out of town” comment caught my attention. When I met Mia’s gaze, the fire I saw in her eyes pulled me back to my senses. Something had to be done about this man.

I didn’t even let him finish with his threats before I walked out of Mia’s office and moved down the hall. I hit the back door, slamming it open. I needed to figure out what to do. How do I make him back off without killing the bastard outright? I wasn’t sure I could.

“Boss,” Liam called out, following me out the door. I turned to face him.

“The last number on her landline. I want to know where it came from.”

“Sure thing. Give me five minutes.”

I nodded and walked toward my truck. There were ways to make asshats heel, and he was about to learn a few of mine.

I pulled out my cell and hit Angus’s number.

“Angus.”

“Have Nick take Ty’s spot on the door. Tell him to meet me at the truck. Move Chance to the bar where Nick was. Tell him I said yellow level; he’ll know what to tell Simon and Mo. If Mia ventures out into the main area, you follow her close enough that your shadow and hers are one. Got me?”

“Yes. Something I should know?”

I debated not telling him, but he had a right to know.

“Yeah, that son of a bitch Sinclair is threatening her. I have a bad feeling. She and the girls are your main priority. Not one hair out of place.”

“I’ll guard her with my life.”

“Good, because if something happens to her, it ends your life.”

I hit end and tossed my phone onto my truck seat. I pulled my button-down shirt off and put on a black T-shirt in its place. Did I care that I was about to have a face to face with Sinclair? Nope. He was going to explain himself, no matter what I had to do to him.

“Boss, I got it,” Liam said, coming my way.

“What’s up?” Ty said, jogging up.

I turned and met their gazes then nodded to the truck. “Ty, gear up. Liam, where are we going?”

“Johnson and Woodlawn over in Cedar Grove. It’s a