None of them spoke. Pip wasn’t great with silence.
“Sorry, I didn’t have anyone to talk to for a long time, so I just got used to talking to him like he was human. You know?”
“Are you okay? Have you been injured?”
The big hunky guy with dark hair had really great eyes. Kinda swirly gold and brown. Pip couldn’t help but smile at him. “I’m fine. Just a bit stir crazy and a tiny bit overwhelmed. But I’m okay.”
“Good.”
Big Guy touched his hair and basically petted him.
“That’s the noise,” the one with gold eyes said.
“What was your name? I forgot already,” Pip said.
Gold eyes just looked at him.
Sawyer stepped forward. “Sorry, Pip. It’s been a crazy day. My name is Sawyer. These are my mates and guardians. Dakota.” Sawyer pointed to the big guy with gold eyes. Pip still held out hope that he was really Dakota’s mate. The guy could have been on the cover of a romance novel, even if he was slightly annoying. The sex was always better in his romance novels when the hero was a little annoyed at first, so Pip wasn’t going to give up on him yet.
“And this is Loch.”
Blue haired guy with the sword. Blue hair, water, lake, Loch. Got it. “Nice to meet you both,” Pip said.
“And this is Andvari.”
Blond Sword Guy nodded his head in a really elegant bow-like thing that was super respectful. He had his hair pulled back and tied in a knot on the back of his head. It shouldn’t be so damn sexy, but it showed his long neck and—
“This is Eduard.”
“Oh, you’re the eagle thing!” Pip said. He recognized the eyes. Eagle eyes. And kinda reddish hair. He was totally hot, too, even if he wasn’t giant and muscly like some of the others. He was sexy in a sleek and sophisticated way.
“Griffin,” Eduard said. “Not eagle thing.”
Griffin. Totally sexy and exotic, too. “Even better.”
Eduard smiled, and Pip forgot how to breathe for a second.
“This is Henry,” Sawyer continued.
The other young guy. Pip liked him. He was nice. Pip always could read people well. Henry had really kind eyes. And they were pretty, too. He was surrounded by pretty men. Life wasgood. “Hi,” Pip said.
“And Saeward.”
Pip nearly swallowed his tongue once more. Seven feet of pure perfection. He could ride those shoulders and…ride… This was the horse guy. Had to be.
“Hi.” So what if his voice was a little breathy? Next to hunky-hunk Dakota, and hunky-hunk Loch, this guy was totally a hunky-hunk of hunkiness.
“See?” Dakota said. “He did it again. I think he’s injured.”
Pip accidentally elbowed Dakota in the balls.
Sawyer had to cover his mouth for a second to keep from laughing.
“Sorry. My elbow slipped. It does that sometimes.”
“It happens,” Sawyer said as he tried and failed to stop laughing. “And finally, this is Draco.”
Pip just wanted to curl up under Draco’s arm and settle there forever. He probably would have done it, too, if Tony hadn’t chosen that moment to dart toward the house in a run.
