Chapter 49: The Crack in the Wall
“Why are you in such a rush to get home?” Gareth’s Beta asked him from the driver’s seat of his car. “As soon as you adjourned the pack meeting, you leaped to your feet and demanded that I take you home. Usually, you want to stick around to chat up all the women who crowd around you and invite one for a drink.”
The two men were stopped at a light, and his Beta looked over at him.
Gareth shifted in the passenger seat and avoided the man’s eyes.
“I want to make it home in time to have dinner with Isabella and Michelle,” Gareth responded. “You know that spending time with my daughters is important to me.”
“Sure.” His Beta flashed him a knowing smile. “It’s just coincidental that you had Mr. Dawson pick up that young tutor in your Rolls-Royce today. She definitely isn’t the reason you’re rushing home, right?” he asked sarcastically.
Gareth continued to stare straight ahead, refusing to take his bait.
The stoplight in front of them turned green.
“Step on it,” Gareth growled. “I want to get home before dinner.”
He wasn’t as calm and collected in his head, though. His mind was stuffed full of thoughts of Jasmine. He couldn’t get the image of her beautiful, half-naked body out of his head. Her long, golden hair that he wanted to thread his fingers through. Her wide, blue, seemingly innocent eyes. Jasmine’s plump red lips. Those gorgeous full breasts and hard nipples. Her long, tan legs. That short, tight skirt that he had wanted to rip off her body.
Gareth knew that seeing her topless was both a blessing and a curse. He couldn’t stop thinking about her, and his wolf was going crazy inside his head, demanding that he see her again.
It felt like it took forever to get home. Finally, they pulled into his long driveway. He hurried out of the car as soon as his Beta put it into park. Right when he opened his door, Jasmine’s scent hit him like a wall. He closed his eyes and breathed deeply, enjoying her floral scent.