Chapter 6: Flirting with Fire

Alpha Callen begins heading towards me to the stage since it's time to get ready for the lap dance round. The club workers brought a chair up on the main stage as he made his way to me. I begin to get a little nervous seeing him stalk towards me almost like he’s on a mission. 

Just before he gets to me, Emi, Joan and Terry show up with liquid reinforcement!

“Drink!” Joan shoves another Long Island in my hands.

“Oh thank god!” I breathe in relief as I begin sucking the alcohol down to maintain the level of exceptional buzz I have going for me at the current moment.

“Do you know what song you want to request for the lap dance? I can go let the DJ know for you!” Emi asks me as she checks over my makeup and grabs a small vial of perfume from her clutch to spritz on me as I continue drinking.

Alpha Callen comes up to me and quickly wraps his arms around my waist and proceeds to bury his nose into my neck again and gently kisses my marking area. This makes me stiffen a little but I quickly shake it off since I know he would never dare to actually mark someone that isn’t his mate. We’re just out having fun. I’m sure he can’t wait to try and take advantage of me later tonight on our way home. I roll my eyes at this thought and quickly push him away from me in a nonchalant manner.

“I think I have an idea of a good song.” I crinkle my nose and wiggle my finger at Joan in a ‘come-hither’ gesture. She moves to me and I whisper the song I want her to request and her eyes light up in approval.

“Oh yes! That’s going to look so fucking hot!” She squeals with approval as she saunters off to the DJ booth with Emi.

I turn back around and slam right into Alpha Callen’s chest, completely forgetting the fact that he was still standing right behind me even though I had just pushed him away. 

“Yooouu…need to behave yourself...s..sir!” I slur out at him pushing my pointer finger to his solid muscular chest. I found my eyes and hands slowly begin to explore his stone hard chest as he slowly pulled me in closer to him smirking.

“Is that so little one?” 

“First up…Margarette!” I hear the DJ announce as the girl climbed the stage to get ready with the man she chose as her volunteer. She was pretty, in a common way. I could tell she was a she-wolf but not a ranking one or even someone from an important family. She was just like Joan and Emi, out to have a good time. She wasn’t wearing anything fancy or special so, my guess is, she jumped at the prize money and wasn’t planning on being a dancer tonight either. Either way, she was going to give it a whirl and try her best to shake what she had.

I quickly blushed and let go of Alpha Callen’s shirt and immediately directed my eyes to the girl about to go on stage. I needed to pay attention to my competition. I couldn’t let the alpha’s little antics distract me on my mission to win this money that my friends roped me into attempting to win.

As she got in position and the DJ was given the go ahead to begin the song, everyone quieted down as she started her lap dance with her guy. Some clapped; the song was tasteful enough, but she seemed to just rub up and down and climb on him and dry hump him mostly. It was somewhat tacky and tasteless in my own opinion, but I wasn’t going to say much, since I had NO idea what I was going to pull off once it was my turn. 

As I continued watching her, I felt warmth wrap around my body and I looked up to realize that Alpha Callen had wrapped his arms around my waist and was resting his chin on my shoulder while he stood behind me as he continued to inhale my scent into his nose. It’s almost as if his damn wolf thinks my scent is catnip or something. I rolled my eyes and left him be; however, I did notice he paid no attention to the girl on stage or any other woman at the club for that matter. It sent a subtle chill down my back on the realization.

‘Xerxes is making me really nervous,’ Bree whimpered.

I didn’t even know how to respond to her since I was very much drunk and not caring about anything at this point anymore. I just wanted to have fun, give this Alpha a run for his money…or sanity…and survive the night so I could go back to my normal life come Monday. I only had three more weeks until I graduated and I couldn’t wait! After graduation, I could leave the pack on my own terms under the guise of college, and live my life how I wanted! 

“Alright! Give it up for Margarette! Next up…KELSEY!” The DJ ushered Margarette off the stage as the crowd applauded. 

“Joan! Give me my top! My titties are fucking freezing!” I shouted quite abruptly, growing a little nervous. She giggled and handed me my top. I shimmied it on quickly.

“You know it’s coming right back off on that stage girl!” Terry and Emi both chuckled.

“Yeah, yeah…whatever. The ladies need some warmth in the meantime,” I grumbled.

“I’m sure Alpha Callen there could lend you a warm HAND,” Joan laughed at her own pun.

I just sarcastically giggled right back at her while trying to unwrap Alpha Callen’s arms from my waist, but he let me know he wasn’t letting me go that easily. The next girl proceeded to do her dance as we waited.

“Isn’t there some other hugging posts around here you can sniff up on or something?” I twist in his arms and groan out rudely. He just looked at me a bit confused but growled when I tried to get out of his grasp.

“I’m just trying to let you get comfortable with being close to me,” He smirked as his eyes began flashing between black and brown. 

“OH you are trying to LET ME get more comfortable with ME being close to YOU huh?” I chuckled out in a flirty tone. He smiled with a nod and I just rolled my eyes and giggled. Alpha’s can be so arrogant it's laughable at times.

“Wouldn’t want you to get nervous on me later now would we?” He whispered in my ear in an almost sinister tone that sent a thick cold chill down my back that sent Bree into a frenzied panic in my mind.

‘Abort! Abort! Get out of here!’ Bree shouted, pacing my mind.

‘Shut up! You know I can’t! We are royally fucked right now Bree! Get over it!’

‘We need to get away from him, NOW!’

‘You know I can’t. Let’s just get through this night and we won’t have to see him again after tonight.’ I growled at her as I heard the DJ announce my name and that it was my turn on stage.

“Fuck! I need another drink!” I groaned.

“Don’t worry my sexy bitch! I got you!” Terry shouted, attempting to hand me a drink that I was glad to accept as Alpha Callen was trying to push the drink away from my grasp.

“Ahh ahh ahh, I think we both know you don’t need any more of that,” he grinned out with his arms still snug around my waist pulling me with him up on stage since it was time for me to start the song.

I knew I needed to pull myself together so I closed my eyes to try and re-center myself and focus on the fact that I needed to totally rock the shit out of this dance. I waited for Alpha Callen to sit in the chair. I adjusted myself to make sure everything was in place and covered properly. 

After another minute, I looked up to see the DJ waiting for my signal that I was ready and I nodded. He smiled and began the song that I asked Joan and Emi to tell him to play, ‘Bad Girl’ by Daya. I knew it was the perfect song to send a message to Alpha Callen and make me look too inappropriate to be someone’s Luna let alone his little play thing for the night. Alpha’s like their she-wolves more on the innocent side anyways, so this was the perfect ploy.

Everyone grew quiet as the song began and I came on to Alpha Callen with power in my walk, stance, look and gaze. I was determined to exude confidence and let him know, I was my own person and didn’t need anyone, especially not an alpha like him. 

I walked right up to him, bent down in front of him and ran my hands down his chest as I slowly slid down onto my knees right in front of him giving him the most devious and strong look I could glare at him. His eyes were shifting between black and brown, letting me know he and his wolf were fighting for dominance and who would win out was still to be determined. As I continued sliding my hands down past his chest, I stopped them at the top of his pants but let my head grow closer and closer to his belt buckle until my head was almost in his lap before I began to slowly stand up in a sultry manner.

The crowd instantly began the cat-calls and cheers and I am pretty sure I heard Joan shout, “OH FUCK YEAH THATS HOT!” 

I smirked to myself when I stood up and turned around to face the crowd with my ass directly in Alpha Callen’s face as I bent towards the crowd just slightly enough to begin to give my ass a little shake in his face before I twisted to look back at him with a provocative innocent look that I stared deeply into his eyes with as I slapped my ass in his face before biting my lower lip slowly. 

Alpha Callen’s eyes grew big and lit up with excitement as the crowd continued cheering. I turned back around to him and crawled into his lap and arched one of my legs onto his shoulder as I pushed his face into the area of my lady bits and shook his head, scruffing his perfectly kept sandy brown hair as I did so. 

‘Don’t get too carried away Celeste!’ Bree warns me.

I ignore her and keep going. I begin to untie my black halter top again as he sits himself back up in his chair. I move my leg back from his shoulder to where I am straddling him in the chair as I pull my top back off. 

I see his hands shaking. He wants to touch me so badly, but he knows he isn’t allowed to. I can touch him, and it is unhinging him just like I wanted. 

Just as the chorus hits, I begin rocking and grinding up and down on him before turning and sitting in his lap so my back is up against his chest. I grab his hands and bring them to my breasts and put his hands on them and squeeze his hands over them as I continue to grind up on him. I let his hands go and push them away right as the lyrics to the song say, ‘they can look but they just can’t touch it’ and lean forward so I touch the ground and push my ass back into his face and shake it. 

I continue to tease and taunt him, without letting him touch me again. I didn’t realize how epic this song was until I danced to it like this and I noticed that I was starting to get really turned on by my own dancing. I’m not sure why, but I think the thrill and the fact that I am rocking the crap out of this is giving me confidence I didn’t really ever exude before and I love the feeling. Suddenly, I love all the attention my body is drawing from all the men in the club. I’m loving the cat-calls and whistling. It turns me on even more and makes me grind up on Alpha Callen even more. I can tell the booze are really hitting me and I think I may be just a bit more drunk than I originally thought.

When the song finally ends, applause breaks out briefly before the DJ tells everyone to cast their votes and I quickly move to put my top back on as I move off stage. Alpha Callen isn’t far off as he moves to adjust himself before getting up and following a little behind me.

“Holy shit Celeste! That was epically HOT!” Emi shouts over the song playing. 

“Yeah! If I wasn’t horny for men myself, I’d be like a sinner in church sweatin’ over your fine ass!” Terry giggles and claps. 

“Well, if anyone’s getting a piece, I know Alpha Callen sure can’t wait!” Joan chuckles seeing him move at lightning speed towards me from the stage. 

“Oh ya’ll hush!” I laugh and lightly slap their shoulders, “Now where is my skirt? I’m ready to blow this popsicle stand!” 

“You don’t want to stay to see if you made it to the last round? I thought you wanted that two gees?” Emi and Terry shout shocked that I would consider leaving.

“Oh honies…she’s wasted!” Joan laughed seeing how wobbly I was as Alpha Callen came up from behind me, catching me from falling as I giggled loudly.

“Here Alpha, help her put her skirt back on.” Joan walked closer and handed him my shirt and slowly helped guide my legs into it properly. 

“Ya’ll are the best!” 

“Yeah girl! You are too!” Terry laughed loudly.

“And the results are in! Let’s give it up for…KELSEY!” The DJ shouted the first winner of round two.

The crowd clapped before he continued, “and CELESTE!” 

“HOLY SHIT CELESTE! You made it to the final round!” Emi shouts super enthusiastically.

“I think she’s hit her limit.” Alpha Callen adds to the conversation.

“Hey…hey…just tell Kes-ley to split the mooney and I won’t dance!” I slur my suggestion out as I wrap an arm around Alpha Callen to steady myself. 

“That’s– that’s actually a good idea!” Joan pauses to think about this before continuing, “wait here! I’ll be back ya’ll!”

We stand around waiting and Alpha Callen immediately pushes a bottle of water into my hand, “drink!” He orders me abruptly.

“I’m good!” I smile and caress his face, noticing how serious he looks.

“You need to drink so you don’t get dehydrated.” He explains further pushing me to drink the water.

“Whatever!” I roll my eyes and begin sipping the water. 

“Ya’ll! She agreed! You get to concede and she will split the prize winnings with you! One thousand bucks for each of you!” Joan comes back to explain.

“WHAHOO!!” I shout and clap. 

After a little discussion, eventually we left the club, a thousand dollars richer and my dignity back in the club a bit, but at least I was moving in the right direction - towards home and the end of the night!

Before heading home, my friends talked us into going with them to get some late night diner food to sober up a bit. The diner wasn’t anything fancy, but the food sure was delicious when you are drunk! As the night progressed, I noticed just how untalkative Alpha Callen can be around others. I started to think that might be why Bree was so nervous around him.

“So, Alpha Callen…” I bite into some french fries and sip on my chocolate milk shake.

“Please, call me Callen,” he interrupts me with a sexy smirk plastered on his face.

“Callen…” I correct myself and almost blush, “why come all the way to the Red River pack? Your pack is out in California. What’s here that needed your attention?”

He glares at me as he finishes chewing a piece of his burger. Emi, Joan, Terry and I are all on pins and needles waiting for his response. We are all intrigued. He’s so mysterious and now I don’t know whether it is attractive, or scary like Bree feels it is. 

“Your alpha invited my beta and I out to consider a few small business ventures together and we are discussing a potential alliance.”

“Really?! How UN-excitedly boring…” I groan and laugh, biting into another fry.

“Well…you asked!” He laughed back at me.

“Are you gunna bring in another Starbucks or maybe a Red Robin or some cool new bar and grill?!” Terry asks.

“No. Nothing like that. Just the standard business trades and acquisitions. We typically handle shipping and receiving arrangements for other packs.”

“So now that we know Callen is boring…what are ya’ll doing tomorrow?” Joan inquiries with a devious smirk.

“Oh…you guys know I’m no good on Sundays. I have crap to get ready for Monday.”

“Yeah, yeah we know…you can’t wait to graduate so you can run away off to…c-o-l-l-e-g-e! Prissy girl!” Emi sticks her tongue out laughing and teasing me.

“Oh whatever!” I roll my eyes, “At least I don’t have to drive all the way back to California!” I giggled and poked at Callen’s side.

He smiled, “Who says I’ll be driving back to California tomorrow?”

I drop my smile and quickly stutter, “W..well, that’s usually how these things go…right?”

“These things…usually take longer than a weekend.”