When they touch me (Shelagh Milano) novel Chapter 19

Matthew

Keeping my head low, I try to avoid Cayden’s gaze while I dig in.

It might be my guilty conscience, but I feel like he is suspecting something.

But even if we made the deal that we would be open about anything that might happen, I am set on keeping the last occurrences with Artemisia my dirty little secret.

He isn’t stupid though, and he must have asked himself why I would come to dinner freshly showered if I didn’t train.

“Matty!” Logan’s shouting reaches my ear before I feel the slap on my head.

I growl as my head jerks forward lightly, but I don’t say anything or react as he sits down next to me.

As the youngest of us three, I’m certainly no match for him.

I close my eyes, letting the picture of Missy materialize in front of my inner eye. This way, I can successfully calm myself and my wolf down and can ignore the badgering.

My guts churn as he takes his plate flirtatiously talking to the Omega that is serving the food to him.

She blushes at the pet names he calls her before she scurries away.

‘Asshole,’ my wolf, Ambros, snarls.

“You two don’t have to come tonight,” Logan says nonchalantly as he scoops the first bite of food into his mouth.

Chewing, he gestures to Logan and me with his fork. “You have to work anyway, and you… I don’t even know what you would do there with us.”

“She is my mate. And she asked me to be there. So…” I murmur while Cayden just ignores him, his gaze directed to his phone that keeps flashing up with messages.

Logan hits the table with his fist, making the dishes clink. “You can forget her being your mate right away, as you will be fucking rejecting her anyway.”

“I’m not going to reject her!” I sneer at him.

This remark of his even gets him the attention of our Alpha, who lifts his gaze to look at him. “Logan, it’s not the place to be joking about such things.”

Logan scoffs, shaking his head. “I’m not joking. I just don’t plan to share her.”

“With who? With us or with the other women you have on your hook?” My cheeky remark gets me a loud growl from Aidan resurfacing.

“Don’t you dare, little brother. Don’t have your insolence cost you more than it’s worth it.”

His loud snarl gets even the warriors dining around us to turn around, but I keep my cool, not backing down this time. “If you keep disrespecting my mate, I will dare how much I want.”

As he growls, a few of the higher-ranked warriors stand up, ready to interfere should he try to attack me.

“This is not the time nor the place to discuss such things.” Cayden keeps talking calmly, granting Logan a last chance to calm down.

“Logan! You will listen to me. NOW!” His annoyed growl booms through the dining hall, and enforced by its alpha command it gets even the warriors around us to cover submissively.

Not talking about the Omegas in the room that are already kneeling.