Red

Chapter Thirteen

A small laugh rumbled in the back of Michael's throat as he raised one of his hands and tucked a loose bit of hair behind my ear. 'You're gorgeous,' he muttered under his breath. 'Absolutely gorgeous.'

I kept my eyes on the piece of material, willing my cheeks to go back to their normal colour. It's like when I'm around him lately their constantly tinged pink from the compliments he gives me.

Stupid Michael.

'Well, you've seen me now. I'm done in like, 10 minutes or so. Go and wait outside,' I instructed him while subtly eyeing Lenny who was talking to Jacob and skeptically glancing my way every few seconds.

Obviously my subtle look was not so subtle, as Michaels head snapped to the direction where my gaze was. A low growl sounded from Michael as he noticed me looking at Lenny, and Lenny looking at me. 'Who the fuck is that anyways?' he huffed.

'A concerned friend,' I said, emphasising the word friend.

'Well he can find someone else to worry about, your mine. Surely he has another friend who he should be concerned about. He lowly growled while shooting daggers at Lenny in the process.

‘Yes, but his other friends more than likely don’t have werewolves coming into their work and harassing a friend, who by the way got him kicked out and banned from the shop, and have the werewolf come back in a week later and be all cosy with the friend that was harassed.’ I stated matter of factly in one large breath.

‘And don’t forget the fact that I was friends with him ling before I knew you.’ I added.

‘Well his pissing me off. I don’t want you talking to him.’ Michael commanded which I scoffed at him as my genius reply.

'Oh grow up will you,' I joked with him while playfully bumping my hip against his. 'Just because you're in the picture doesn't mean I have to stop having male friends.' I kept the same joking tone, but meant the seriousness behind the words.

'I know your only joking here,' he growled lowly, 'but to my wolf that sounds like an order and I don't respond well to those.' He said slowly walking towards me.

I stiffly nodded my head and gulped, taking a step backwards which only made Michael increase his pace to lessen the distance between the two of us. His eyes were slowly starting to turn red meaning his 'wolf' was close to the surface. His eyes bored into mine, and I stared straight back in fascination and slight fear.

Although I’m starting to warm up to Michael, the eyes are still hard to adjust to.

The sound of heavy footsteps snapped me out of the daze and I averted my eyes to where the noise was coming from, while I could feel Michael still pinning me with his gaze. The footsteps were from none other than Lenny, who was quickly stomping his way over to us.

'Sally needs you out back for the rest of your shift.' Lenny told me while staring directly at Michael.

'Maybe you should leave now,' Lenny suggested to Michael. 'Lani won't even be out here anymore.' As the two boys eyed each other up, I could feel the tension grow. More and more with each second passing by.

Slowly, the two boys started etching themselves closer and closer to one another, as if they were trying to be the more dominate man. Before they came close to each other, I stepped in between the two of them and cleared my throat trying to get attention off one another.

My back was pressed firmly to Michael’s front, and his hands went and snaked around my waist telling me I had his attention. Lenny lowered his eyes down to me for a split second before snapping them straight back up to meet what I’m assuming is Michael’s glare. Knowing I had both of their attention I started speaking.