“What?” She glanced up at Kellan, then away. Next to her, Horse let out a low bark. It was like he could sense how she was feeling and wanted to back her up.
“You’re not interrupting anything,” Eli told her. “Come in and tell us what’s going on. Is something wrong? Are you all right?”
She spun and glared at him. But her gaze didn’t meet his and he hated that.
“I’m fine. And I came to see Jake.”
“Yes, you did. Both of you can leave,” Jake said firmly.
She sent Jake a relieved look.
Anger filled Eli. If something was wrong with Arabella, he wanted to know what it was.
He needed to know so he could fix it.
What if she was hurt? Being harassed? What was going on?
“We can help, though,” Eli insisted.
“This is something private I wish to speak to Jake about.”
Frustration filled him until Kellan tapped him on his arm and shook his head.
Fuck.
He was right. Eli had no right to insist on anything when it came to Arabella.
Which was fucking annoying.
“If either of you need us, you know where we are,” he told them before striding out of the room with Kellan. They headed out of the police station. “What do you think is going on?”
Kellan leaned against his car, shaking his head. They’d brought two cars back with them in case they had to split up. “I don’t know.”
Eli paced back and forth. “I hate that we don’t know.”
Kellan nodded.
“She should come to us with any issues.”
Again, his brother nodded. Which was surprising. Maybe Kellan was more onboard with making Arabella theirs than he’d thought he was.
“But we have no right to insist and she keeps pushing us away,” Eli said with frustration.
The kisses they’d shared had been amazing. It was clear to see there was chemistry.
But something about that had scared her. Had it been too much too soon? Had they pushed too far?
What the fuck had gone wrong?
“She wouldn’t be able to do that if we were her guardians,” Kellan said suddenly.
Eli paused and stared at him. Damn. “I like the way you think. But how the fuck would that happen? We don’t live in Haven. And she’d have to agree.”
Kellan shrugged. “I just offered the solution. I don’t know how to make it happen. But I’m sure we can.”
“Do you want this too? Her? Being a guardian is a serious thing in this town.”
Kellan glanced away. “I don’t like feeling vulnerable. And she makes me vulnerable. She could easily be hurt, taken, used as a pawn to get to us.”
