“There are rumors that Brin has resurfaced.”
Caught off guard, I blinked, not sure how to handle that news.
I’d only met my biological father once, during what one might call extenuating circumstances.
I’d been dying. And he saved me.
“Are you sure?” I asked.
“He attacked the Summer Lands and slaughtered a number of the Luigseach. Then he disappeared again.”
I let out a bitter snort. “Yeah. He seems to be good at that.”
“That may have been why Muiredach went after Arlan’s barrow.”
“Why do you think that? There’s no connection between the two.”
Unless you counted me.
“It’s likely an attempt to shift focus from what happened in his realm to something else.”
I drew my knees up to my chest, resting my chin on them as Liam climbed out of bed. Gloriously naked, he strolled over to a duffel bag that I hadn’t noticed before.
There was something about a man’s backside. Broad shoulders that tapered down to a narrow waist before rounding into a hard ass.
My fangs ached with the desire to take a bite of those rock hard globes.
I must have made a noise. A hum or something.
Because Liam looked over his shoulder just then, his eyebrow quirking as he caught me red handed staring at his ass.
I didn’t look away, pretending confidence as I quirked my eyebrow right back.
Why should I be embarrassed to be caught admiring my lover’s body? It was a work of art. It deserved a little appreciation.
At least that was what I told myself as Liam bent over, displaying the chiseled lines of his torso to riffle through his bag.
My snort was soft. “Now you’re just showing off.”
The masculine smile he shot me was all too intimate. “I wouldn’t want you to get bored.”
As if that would ever happen.
Grabbing a pair of boxers and jeans from the duffel, Liam stepped into them before snagging a black t-shirt from its depths.
“What’s Thomas doing in Vegas anyway?” I asked.
Despite my paranoia last night, I wasn’t so arrogant as to think he’d rearranged his entire schedule to hop on a plane and travel to the other side of the country just to keep an eye on me.
Liam paused in the act of pulling the shirt over his head. “I’m surprised you don’t know.”
“Why would you say that?”
Thomas wasn’t known for his forthright nature.
“How exactly did you convince him to let you come?”
“I asked?” I couldn’t help the way my voice rose in a question at the end.
