Unleashing His Alpha Read Online Free

ocean of her consciousness. He closed his book and set it on the little table that was holding his cocktail and he sat up straight, gesturing to the chair next to him, offering it to her.
    “I’m Shane,” he said, holding out his hand for her.
     
    She took it and felt his strong, sure grip and she liked it. It wasn’t rough and it wasn’t soft, but she felt an electric surge when she touched it. God, that was the hand that she wanted to feel on her skin, running over her body.
     
    She felt flustered. What was she thinking? She needed to get her head on straight and focused before she did something stupid that she was going to regret.
     
    “Just Shane?” She pressured him, urging him on to tell her his full name.
     
    “Shane Blackwood,” he said with a slight shrug. “It’s not the best name, but it’s the one I’ve got.”
     
    She giggled at that and held on to his hand. “Katie Harper,” she answered with a sweet smile on her lips.
     
    “Pleased to meet you, Katie Harper,” he said as she released his hand, not wanting to freak him out any more than she already had. “So what brings you to the Valdez Lounge tonight?”
     
    “Just got off work,” she said, gesturing to her provocative clothing. “I didn’t really have the chance to escape home and change, so I’m sitting in here like a twenty dollar whore trying to drink away the shame.”
     
    “So what is it you do?” Shane was grinning, showing off his fantastic smile and teeth that she wanted to feel biting down on her naked flesh. She realized that she was staring and shook herself out of the trance that she was falling into.
     
    “I’m a waitress,” she said. “I work at this smutty little restaurant that likes to think of itself as a Hooters and men tip me very well because they can see my cleavage.”
     
    “I can’t say I blame them,” Shane said with an awkward grin.
     
    She liked that. She wanted him to check out her cleavage, but his eyes never left her face, something that she loved. He didn’t leer at her and he didn’t stare at her body, but there was something about him that pulled her closer and closer as she leaned in to hear what he had to say. “What about you?” she asked him softly. “What does Shane Blackwood do?”
     
    “I’m a travel writer,” Shane said with a sad little nod, like he wasn’t impressed by his own line of work and knew that she probably wouldn’t be, either. “Yeah, I travel around the country and I write for a series of blogs. I review hotels, tourist destinations, movie theaters, and restaurants. I have six blogs, all of which pay me an average salary of seventy thousand a year and climbing. So, that’s the one thing I have going for me.”
     
    “Really?” Katie was impressed by that. It was something that she could greatly respect about him. This was a man who built his fortune and his destiny with his own two, remarkably handsome hands and was doing whatever he wanted. “That’s incredible. I wish that I could do something like that.”
     
    “Well, it’s kind of lonely,” he said with a shrug. “I’m always on the move and I know way too many people in way too many places, but no one ever wants to drop what they’re doing and go driving around the country with me.”
     
    “I think that sounds fantastic,” she said, tossing her hair out of her face. “So do you just drive from one end of the country to the other and back again, or do you have set destinations.”
     
    “I don’t really have a plan,” he laughed awkwardly. “I just kind of go where I feel like going and people give me suggestions of where to go, what to eat, or where to stay and I keep it all in a registry so if I’m ever in a town, I can pull up whatever it is I’m looking for and stop off at a couple of places, write about them, and then post it for the readers.”
     
    “How long do you stay in one place?” she asked him, wishing that he’d say something like months, because she might be