“Enough,” Lincoln said.“He’s panicking, and you’re not helping, Dom.”
Right.Dominic.The redhead was called Dominic.He was naked.He was a naked ginger, looking at me with eyes that had gone from copper to green.
Dominic growled.“I know, but?—”
All of them whipped their heads around.
“Ah, fuck.Better put on some pants,” Dominic said, then he walked out of the room.I tried not to look at his ass, I really tried, but the fever made me do things.
“Marcus,” Lincoln said, bringing my attention back to him.“I think Steven’s here.We should talk more, but if you feel more comfortable going with him, we understand.”
I heard growling from somewhere else in the house.Apparently, the drugs were good enough for me to hallucinate growls.
Lincoln ignored the possibly imaginary growls and went on.“If you don’t want to see him, you don’t have to, and we’ll send him away.”He paused and did a very intense staring thing.Under different circumstances, I might’ve found that sexy.Right now?Right now, I wasn’t sure.“You’re safe with us, always.Here, in this house, with us around, no one will hurt you while one of us still lives.Do you understand?”
Well, wow.That was right out of the hottest lines ever in the playbook.I blushed, and it had nothing to do with the fever.
“He’s right.”Ellis’s hand rested lightly on my forearm.When had he put it there, and why did I never seem to notice this big guy touching me?Was he a fucking magician?
“Damn right he’s safe.”Dominic looked into the room from the hallway, busy pulling a T-shirt over his head.“Might even nip someone if you ask nicely.”His grin was both pretty and wicked.Fuck.I really wasn’t thinking straight.
“Let me leave.”This time, when I tried getting out of bed, Ellis didn’t push me back.
Lincoln sighed.“I’ll let him in.”
He left the room.Dominic followed, but not before scowling at me.Not that I gave a hot fuck.
I wanted to run right out of there, but the moment I was standing, blackness rushed in, and I swayed.I’d have collapsed too, if Ellis hadn’t been there to steady me.My head was pounding with renewed vigor.
“I have you,” Ellis said.“It’s all right.”
Nothing was fucking all right.I wasn’t fucking all right.This wasn’t fucking all right.And fucking werewolves?What the actual fuck?
“Where is he?”I heard Steven bark from somewhere.
That was definitely not all right.This vacation was supposed to be all about how I would get away from that jerk.Who had fucked a fucking undergrad.While being in a relationship with me.And then he’d come home and slept in my bed.Ugh.
I was wearing socks, I realized as I looked down at my feet and tried to force the blackness away.
“I don’t like him,” Ellis said.
Well, that made two of us, not that I would tell the big guy holding me upright.I took an experimental step.I wasn’t super steady, but Ellis made it so I didn’t wobble too much.
“Let me through.”
Steven again, and some growling.Damn, they took their werewolf thing pretty fucking seriously.And the drugs.How had the drugs made me see…that?And where was the dog?The dog had to be real.Or had Dominic been on my bed this whole time, and I’d hallucinated that he was a dog?My headhurt.
Ellis maneuvered me through the house.What I saw of the place was chic, all glass and wooden furniture, lots of windows and large rooms.Rustic, but chic.It was classic “move away from civilization but with loads of money to make it comfortable” style.
Steven was fuming on the doormat, Lincoln and Dominic blocking him from going any further.The moment he saw me leaning on Ellis, Steven focused on me.
“What the fuck were you thinking not returning my calls, Marc?I was willing to talk this over, but instead you run away.Is that your mature response to an argument?”
“Argument,” I snorted out, my voice barely there.
That cheating bastard.He tried pushing past Dominic and Lincoln again, but that was a big fat no on the feasibility front.
“Let me through, you assholes.”Then Steven returned his attention to me.“You think you can just give it up to these guys and make me jealous?You look worked over.What did you do, suck their dicks all night long?Fine, I’m angry, Marc, but this makes us even, so stop being a damn brat, get your shit, and let’s go.”
