“Years ago, I broke in and tried to save them. But without my power I am no match for the Fae Lords.”
My heart burst in my chest as his breath feathered over my neck. Need pulsed between my legs and I had to bite my cheek to keep from leaning forward and kissing him. I was suddenly and unexplainably infatuated with him. I wanted Brayden to be my soulmate—I wanted whatever meant he wouldn’t pull away from me in the next second.
He seemed to realize he was still lingering at my neck and pulled back, taking the heat and sexual tension with him and leaving me full of disappointment.
“The trees have ears,” he said, looking around again, and coughed before opening the door. “Come on, I’m wrecked. Let’s get some sleep.”
Right. It was nearly four a.m. now and I was exhausted. I was going to push the “trees have ears” comment from my mind because I couldn’t handle it right now. Stepping out into the cool night breeze, I sucked in a few lungfuls of air. It wasn’t until we reached the front doorstep that I realized I was going to sleep over at Brayden’s house. “Uhh, I should probably sleep at my hou—”
“Now that I know what you are, you can’t leave my side,” he declared, and then opened the door as if there was no further room for discussion.
I wanted to argue but I was too tired. I just shuffled after him in a daze as we passed the same cozy modern living room I’d been in before. The one he straddled me in and I’d shifted into my wolf and passed out in. I’d never seen the outside of the home, just his bedroom and this room. I walked away from a grey sectional and then went down a hallway. He opened a door and pointed to an empty twin bed.
“Sleep,” he commanded, and I just nodded.
I could make out Maddy’s form curled up on the other twin and kicked off my shoes as I collapsed into the bed across from her.
Brayden stood in the doorway watching me as complete exhaustion pulled at my limbs. The last thing I saw before I fell into sleep were his burning yellow eyes.
EIGHT
I was awoken to the smell of food and my stomach rumbled before my eyes were even open. Rolling over, my eyelids sprang open as a scream tore from my throat. Maddy was five inches from my face.
“Morning.” She grinned and I reached up to grasp my heart.
“You scared the life out of me!” I tried to calm myself down as the adrenaline rushed through my body. “What are you doing? Watching me sleep? That’s creepy as hell, dude.”
Maddy shrugged. “Brayden told me about last night. I’m trying to figure out which one of Lena’s sisters you are.”
Oh. I sat up quickly and whacked my head on the wooden headboard. “Ow.”
Maddy fell into snorts of laughter. “She sure is clumsy like Wren!” she called into the hallway.
Wren. Other than Brayden telling me that name last night, it didn’t ring any bells. Surely I would know if I were reincarnated and someone said my old name?
“Feisty like her too,” Brayden called back.
Maddy leaned forward, narrowing her eyes at me. “But you also remind me a lot of Lena,” she whispered and I went stock still.
“You said I wasn’t her. Brayden said I couldn’t be her either,” I told her, matching her lowered voice.
She shrugged. “That’s until you displayed Greywolf power. Now you could be any of them.”
Any of them? Any of the four sisters? “But Lena didn’t have her power. I do,” I said.
“Maybe it got fixed.”
I chewed on my lip; this entire situation was making me nervous. “Did you know them?”
Maddy chuckled. “Of course! They are my sisters-in-law! Lena was always my favorite but Wren was second. Blake is the funny one and, well, Natalie is cool but kinda bitchy.”
Yikes. I hoped I wasn’t the bitchy sister.
“Come on, let’s eat! I’ve got surgery at the vet hospital in an hour,” Brayden called out.
Surgery! I was instantly jealous and wondered what kind of surgery he would be doing.
“I threw some extra clothes and a clean toothbrush in the bathroom for ya.” Maddy winked and then left.
