His form tensed yet again, a troubling look crossing his expression before he finally smiled at me, but it seemed controlled. It wasn’t the sexy crooked smile I remembered. The one he freely gifted Natasha.
Was this going to be like this every time he looked at my red eyes? It was like it physically affected him.
The stupid uncomfortable feeling attempted to grip my chest, but I slapped it away from me before it could.
“She looks stunning in black and red, doesn’t she?” Dante asked while curling his fingers tightly around mine. I returned the squeeze.
“She looks stunning in everything…” Stepping closer, André gently kissed my cheek, but there was a certain restraint in his gesture.
“What the fuck is his problem?”
“Can you not be a bitch to him right now?”Star admonished. “He’s adjusting to not seeing Natasha’s blue eyes.”
André’s brows lifted in surprise, and his attention flew to Dante. I realized then that he could hear our thoughts too. For a moment, I’d forgotten about Dante’s shadows linking Natasha’s mind to theirs. Or was it linking my mind to theirs now?
Ugh, why was this so confusing?
“We are all the same person,”Star chided.“But they were never able to hear you or me before.”
“Right.”
“The fire burned through every block,” Dante admitted. “We can hear Starlight now… and Natasha.”
My second mate’s astonishment grew. “You heard Natasha?”
Dante nodded, his thumb caressing my hand. “When Natalia drank from me. She asked her to be gentle and not hurt me.”
A million troubling thoughts seemed to rush through André’s gaze when it focused on me again.
“Don’t look at me that way. I obeyed, didn’t I?” I huffed, dropping Dante’s hand and crossing my arms over my chest. “I’m not going toeatanybody, André. I just got an itch, and I scratched it. It was my first time so…” I shrugged. “You know how that is.”
A heavy breath left him, like the reminder of his first taste of blood wasn’t a pleasant one, but he slowly nodded. “Of course. I know you wouldn’t hurt us, or anyone.” André cleared his throat, instantly fixing his expression.
He regarded me with a mixture of awe and something else… hesitation?
My cheek still tingled from his kiss, but the stupid feeling he created fought to arise again.
“Whatever.”
A larger presence stole my attention to the left, and the second I looked, everything stopped. A larger-than-life, rugged hottie strutted along the hallway toward me.
“Holy shit,” I breathed, my arms falling to my sides as I slowly turned in his direction.
“Mine!”
“Can you stop claiming everything with a penis? We already have two mates.”
Chuckles burst behind me, but I was too entranced by the sexy lumberjack to pay attention to anything else.
“Well, hello darling… Who are you, where did you come from, and how can I get me some?” I asked when he stoppeda few steps away, causing a devastatingly adorable smile to capture his entire face, even his sparkling ocean-blue eyes.
Did he always smile like that? If he did, we were in trouble.
“You were saying?”
“Right. But obviously, I was unable to stop myself. I mean, have you seen him?”
“Hey, how are you feeling?” the hunk asked in a quiver-inducing husky voice, interrupting my internal banter and making my nipples instantly tighten.
