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“Is Alaric all right? He roared.”
Gabe snorted. “He’s the happiest motherfucker on the planet right now.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You and that saber are truemates. No moreplaying on the full moon with the pack for you.”
Lia growled angrily and jerked Aubrey behindher back. Aubrey stumbled and the heel on her favorite pair ofshoes broke. “Keep your paws off my sister,” Lia said, her voicelow and threatening.
“They’re my guards,” Aubrey pointed out. “Andno one is putting anything on me right now until I figureeverything out. Except maybe some new shoes.” She slipped off herheels. “Did you say sister?”
Jonathon cleared his throat. “I need to do mywelcome speech and settle the humans. Aubrey, do you want me tosend Lia out of here? If you’re uncomfortable, I’ll removeher.”
Lia snarled and claws sprouted from herfingertips. “You can try.”
Aubrey put her hand on Lia’s shoulder. “It’sokay, Jonathon. I don’t want anyone to get in trouble. I’m fine.I’m just a little confused.”
“Lia will tell you what you need to know,” hesaid. Smoothing his hands down the front of his jacket, he glancedat Gabe and Lance and then strode from the room.
Lia relaxed only fractionally. “You two needto back off,” she said. “You’re too close to my sister.”
“We’re guarding her under her brother’sauthority,” Lance said, his eyes flashing to the amber of hisbeast. “He’s the master vampire of the city.”
Lia turned to face Aubrey. She scented theair and shook her head. “You’re human, but your brother is avampire?”
Aubrey nodded. “His name is Caleb.”
Lia took the heels from Aubrey’s hand andlooked at the broken one. “I’m sorry about that. My cat is veryprotective of my family.”
“It’s okay. They’re just shoes. My favoriteones, mind you, but shoes all the same.”
“I have some you can borrow. Maybe these canbe repaired. Come and sit down, and I’ll tell you anything you wantto know.”
“I want to know everything,” Aubrey said asshe sat in the front row and Lia joined her.
“Good.”
* * *
Aubrey was vaguely aware of Jonathon using amicrophone to welcome everyone to the NWFA fights and theintroduction of the first fighters, but she was entirely focused onwhat Lia said. Sabers couldn’t be with just anyone. They wereunable to conceive children unless they were with their truemates,and they weren’t able to find their truemates until they began tohave mating dreams.
“You’re saying that Alaric has been havingsex dreams about me for the last year?” She was both embarrassedand aroused. Just how detailed were the dreams? “I didn’t.”
Lia shrugged. “It’s the way of our kind. Thedreams are only for the saber and help us to know when we’re closeto our mates. The nearer we are to him or her, the more vivid andfrequent the dreams become. We were in California when the dreamsbegan for him, and he had maybe one every few weeks. We went toNevada, and the frequency didn’t increase. It’s hard for our peopleto move from state to state, so we joined with Jonathon who wascoming east on his tour. We’ve been here for a few days, and thedreams have been every night, so we knew you were heresomewhere.”
“That’s weird and cool at the same time,”Aubrey said.
“Are you upset?” Lia asked.
“Why would I be upset?”
She shrugged and looked out toward the arenawhere fighters were kicking each other’s asses and the crowd wasroaring its approval. “Humans sometimes don’t understandsupes.”
Leaning back in the plush seat, Aubrey said,“My brother is the master of the city, and my best friend is awolf. Plus, there’s Heckle and Jeckle back there, who are myfriends. I’m the manager of the city’s supernatural hotel. So yeah,I’m used to weird. It just feels strange to be talking to you aboutyour brother, who you believe is my truemate, without actuallytalking to him first.”
“If he sees you again, he won’t be able tofight,” Gabe said from where he stood looking down at thearena.
“What do you mean?” Aubrey asked.
