I grasped onto the only thing that made sense. “You’re seventeen!”
“Not for too much longer,” he said and his voice was deep. Because he was leering.
Instead of focusing on that, I said, “I don’t need a bear.”
“Deer?” he asked.
I shook my head because the idea of him dragging a dead deer out of the forest and leaving it on the front lawn made me queasy.
“You should put your shirt back on,” I said.
He squinted at me. “Why?”
“Because of… you know. All of that.” I waved my hand at his entire being.
Then he grinned. And it was evil. “All of this?” He flexed his chest. Unfairly.
I managed to say, “Yes. To all of that.”
He took a step toward me. “We could… ah. You know.” He waggled his eyebrows at me and I thought, fuck.
I took a step back. “Or we could wait until you’re eighteen.”
Now he glared. There was a bit of wolf in it. “That’s not how this works.”
“Yeah, because you know how this works. With all the courting you’ve done.”
“I can’t wait until I’m Alpha so I can tell you what to do all the time.”
“I’m going to tell your dad you only want to be Alpha so you can get in my pants.”
He groaned. “Don’t talk about my dad while I’m trying to seduce you.”
“Stop talking,” I begged him. “Please.”
And then, of course, Carter and Kelly appeared, on their run.
They stopped and stared at us.
We stared back. I felt guilty. Because their underage brother was shirtless and it probably smelled like a whorehouse where we stood.
Kelly said, “This is awkward.”
I said, “Nothing happened!”
Carter said, “Oh my god, it stinks like sex.”
Joe said, “I’m going to kill him a bear.”
There was more staring.
Kelly said, “I am so uncomfortable right now.”
I said, “Put your clothes back on.”
Carter said, “It’s like I’m drowning in pheromones and boners.”
Joe said, “Or maybe a deer.”