“Liam wants to walk.Do you need help with anything?”
“Your father will assist me,” her mother said.“Fresh air will help Liam, but don’t let him overexert himself.”
“I won’t.”
Sienna left her parents alone, aware she’d face an inquisition when Liam fell asleep tonight.She sighed.Liam would get his memory back soon.Then what?
Liam complained of nausea and dizziness and retired to bed early.
“Outside,” her father suggested.“We don’t want to wake the lad.”
Sienna tugged her T-shirt hem straight and nodded.She and her mother had kept the conversation neutral over dinner.Her mother must’ve told her brothers not to interrogate her because they’d been on their best behavior.During a discussion, they’d toss questions her way like frisbees.
She followed her mother outdoors.
“Tell us everything,” Papa said.
Sienna told themalmosteverything, and when she’d finished, her father sighed while her three brothers looked at her in admiration.
“Way to go, sis,” Kitto said.
“Liam seems a reasonable lad.He showed respect and didn’t gape or ask rude questions.He didn’t display disgust.It was as if he’d seen people like us,” Papa mused.
“Perhaps it’s his scarred face.Maybe others have teased him or rejected him because of his appearance, so he is more circumspect,” Mama said.
Papa’s direct look took her aback.“Either way, he seems respectable.You don’t carry his scent.”
Her spine stiffened.“Liam has been unconscious and woke yesterday.”
“Do you want to keep him?”Jago asked.
“We agreed to try a relationship before he injured himself.”
“You don’t have to do this,” Mama said.“Yes, we hoped you’d find a mate, but I haven’t seen any spark between you and Liam.We don’t want to pressure you.”
Sienna scanned her brothers’ faces, then her parents’.They mightn’t have wanted to burden her, but she’d still felt the silent expectation.She adored her family, and it hurt her when others shunned them.It wasn’t their fault they didn’t fit the typical feline mold.
“I was hoping for guidance,” she said.
“Sienna, you brought this man here,” Papa said gently, without blame.“You must decide whether to stay with Liam.Once you do, we will help.”
There it was—unstinting love—and it made her eyes burn.
She swallowed hard and lifted her chin.“I want to keep him.”
Chapter 4
Liamwokeabruptly,transitioningfrom sleep to full alertness in a blink.He was in a bedroom, and someone was with him.Slowly, he turned his head.Yep, a woman, although he couldn’t see her face since long black hair concealed her features.
He didn’t remember her or how he came to share the same bed.
He shifted his head a fraction and scanned the room.Yeah, he’d been here before, yet the place didn’t seem familiar, didn’t feel like home.Where the hell was he?He cast his mind back, trying to remember, but there was a yawning hole in his memory.Had he been drinking?He didn’t recall…
He and Scott had been…
Scott?
Whoa.Whatever he’d done had screwed with his head.He sat up, and agony jabbed him at the temple, ricocheting back to scramble everything spinning inside his brain.His name was…
