“Ditto,” Vinna agrees. “No offence,” she offers me.
“None taken,” I reply.
Wekun releases a deep breath. “Why does everything have to be about fucking?” he asks rhetorically, looking from me to Vinna.
“TGV Forevahh,” she answers simply with a shrug, and all the guys with her chuckle.
Their reactions confirm what my nose has me suspecting already, and I turn to Vinna with an impressed smirk on my face. “All these guys are your mates?”
She smiles and gives them a warm look before turning back to me. “They sure are.”
“Fuck, and I thought three was a handful,” I mumble, looking back at my guys.
“That guy’s like easily two and half Chosen’s worth,” she tells me, pointing at Zeph over my shoulder. “Yeah, the grumpy looking one,” Vinna confirms as I look behind me.
I snort out a laugh at her description.
“Sorry, I’m not the best with names,” she confesses with a sheepish shrug.
I smile at Zeph, who just raises an unamused eyebrow at me, and wave her off. “No worries,the grumpy looking oneis accurate.”
We both chuckle, and then I feel hands on my face, coaxing me to tilt my head back. Zeph looks down at me and shakes his head. “I’ll show you grumpy,” he whispers in my ear, and it does all kinds of things to my body. I smile, and he plants a quick kiss on my lips before letting go of my head. I drop my chin back down, and Vinna looks perplexed as she rubs at the underside of her chin.
She then tilts her own head back, flashing me a peek of an identical rune under her chin.
“That’s your Sept rune,” Wekun tells her, answering the questions in her gaze.
“Oh,” she chirps, shocked, and then her shoulders relax a little like she’s relieved. “I thought it might be something else,” she confesses, and all at once her guys move closer to her, like they’re all magnets responding to her pull.
I watch as each of them discreetly reaches out to touch her and soothe her in some small way. I realize that they all just responded to whatever intense emotion Vinna was just feeling, and I’m completely captivated by the way they seem to ground her and calm her. She relaxes right before my eyes, simply from their presence and the small intimate things they’re doing to fortify her soul.
I don’t know her, although I think that’s definitely going to change based on our Sept runes, but it’s a beautiful thing to watch her be loved as deeply as she clearly is. Vinna gives her mates a grateful smile and leans into all of them, and I can practically see the soul-deep connections that link all of them.
“Well, now that we’ve gotten introductions out of the way, I’m hoping you both can help me,” Wekun starts, pulling me from my observations.
Vinna stands up a little straighter, confidence pushing the vulnerability out of her light green eyes.
“We’re here on a job already, but what’s going on?” she asks.
“I think the two might actually be related,” Wekun supplies cryptically, and it’s clear Vinna doesn’t know what he’s saying either.
“Aydin said you’re here about missing wolves, right?”
“Right,” Vinna agrees.
“Well, I think the third member of your Sept might be one of them,” Wekun announces, and shock filters through both me and Vinna.
A third member of our Sept?
I’m not even sure how I feel about having a Sept to begin with, let alonesurprise, here’s two members of it. Wekun clears his throat, and I can tell just by the sound of it that he’s not done dropping bombs.
“I think she’s in trouble, and we need to find her...fast.”
Called it.
Zeph pulls me back against him. Treno places a comforting hand on my shoulder, and Ryn reaches out and laces his fingers with mine. I look back at each of them in turn. I know we said we’d help Wekun, but I’m not sure if the development of Vinna and her mates changes anything for the guys.
Treno leans down and kisses me in answer to the question written all over my face. “Whatever you want to do, flower, we’re here.”
