Bite Me Harder (Guardians of the Deep 2)

Sylvia felt Coby’s chest flex against the hand she had rested there and saw his jaw tighten. She gripped his forearm and dug her nails into it, trying to bring his attention to something other than the man sitting in front of them. She knew it was only a matter of seconds before he got angry. She’d seen what happened when he exploded. He’d damn near beat the shit out of Thane and Thane was a fucking shark. This guy was merely a human.

“Our friend,” Kalina corrected Kane. “Poet was our friend.”

“Maybe we should go,” Rafe said. “This place is kind of boring anyway.”

“By a great white with a scar on his face,” Coby said, ignoring Rafe. “Nice scar you’ve got there on your face, Cop.”

Kane shrugged and smirked as he tilted his head slightly to the side as if to say it was a hell of a coincidence. He didn’t seem afraid of Coby. Sylvia couldn’t believe her eyes. How could anyone not be afraid of her man?

“You got something you want to say to me?” Kane aske

d. “You might want to think carefully about your answer, Shark Boy.”

“Coby, please, can we go?” Sylvia begged.

“You know a lot about sharks,” Coby replied.

“It’s my business to know about ‘em,” Kane said. “Just like it’s my business to kill any of ‘em I see fit.”

“On second thought,” Coby said, “Maybe it wasn’t you who killed my brother. I heard that shark wasn’t a pussy.”

Kane’s hand began to shake around the shot glass he gripped so tightly in his hand his knuckles had turned white.

“Sylvia,” Rafe said with a nod of his head toward the door.

She got the hint and tugged on Coby’s arm.

“You were taking me home, remember?” she asked.

“Yes,” he said. “And then I will go find this shark, the one who killed my brother. And I’ll snap it’s fucking neck…in the water…where real alphas play. I’ll leave the bar stools to the pussies in uniform.”

“That so?” Kane asked, his teeth clenched so tight Sylvia thought she might hear them shatter.

Coby only nodded and walked away with Sylvia on his arm.

Chapter 17 – Rafe

“Stop!” Rafe ordered, not that he had any right to order Kane to do anything. “What do you think you’re going to accomplish following him out there? You’re a human fucking being, dude. He’s a great white shark! You gonna chase him around in a boat and hope you get the chance to shoot him? This isn’t fucking Jaws, man!”

Kane had bloodied his hand on the bar after slamming his shot glass against it so many times it shattered, the glass splintering and stabbing into him as he continued to slam it three more times. The man seemed to feel no pain. After that, he’d walked out of the bar and was now halfway through the parking lot with Rafe and Kalina following close behind.

“Kane,” Kalina said. “He’s dangerous.”

“I’m dangerous,” Kane replied.

“He’s hurt and angry and…he lost his brother,” Kalina said.

“Like I lost my sister?” Kane asked, spinning on his heels to jab a finger in the air at Rafe’s girlfriend.

“Calm down,” Rafe said.

“Fuck you,” Kane shot back.

“You’ve had too much to drink and you need to sleep it off,” Rafe said. “If you’re still this mad in the morning, I’ll go with you to find him. We can all talk it over.”

“In what?” Kane asked. “The boat you lost?”

Rafe threw up his hands. He couldn’t say much in his own defense.