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“Their designers have good taste, then.”
She nodded. “I threw some stuff together for dinner, to make your lives easier. You’ll just need to stick it in the oven. The instructions are on your grocery list.”
Apparently, we had a grocery list.
It was too weird to think of there being an us for the grocery list thing to seem that odd.
“Thank you.”
“Any time. And since you already smell like your friends…” She crossed the room and pulled me in for a massive hug. “Our other brothers should be getting here soon. Jasper and Eli. They’re with some other members of the thunder—which is a group of dragons, like a wolf pack almost. They’ll be pissed if they find us here, so we have to go, but you have my number. Use it. I will if you don’t. Welcome to the family.”
“Temporarily,” I reminded her, though I returned her hug.
“Once a Sky, always a Sky.” She finally released me and stepped back. I hadn’t known their last name was Sky, but thought it was kind of funny, considering they were dragons. “Ready, Crash?”
I blinked at the name.
His name was Bash, wasn’t it?
“Yup.” The demon wrapped his arm around her waist, tucking her against his side and kissing her forehead before they headed out. “Good luck fighting fate,” he called over his shoulder. “For your sakes, I hope you’re better at it than I was.”
My gaze flicked between them, my curiosity suddenly sky-high.
August followed them to the door, and I couldn’t help but do the same. Peering past him, I watched Bash lift Brynn into their Hummer before he walked around to the driver’s side.
“What happened between them?” I asked August, who was already looking at me instead of them.
“I left her at his place so he would keep her safe while I went home to deal with the thunder. He fucked her, instead.”
I rolled my eyes. “I’m sure there was more to it than that.”
He forced his attention back to the now-empty dirt road. “His brother mated with one of her best friends, so they were around each other fairly often. He fought the urge to make her his mate for around a year. When she found out, she made it her mission in life to talk him into sealing their bond. After a while, she succeeded. They’ve been inseparable since.”
“Wow.” I had to respect a woman willing to fight for what she wanted. “How long ago was that?”
“Four or five years.” He slipped his hands into his pockets. “You need to shower again before the thunder gets here.”
“Why are they coming at all?”
“It’s a long story.”
I waited.
He let out a long breath. “Jasper, Eli, and I raised Brynn. We’re protective of her. The thunder found out that I made a deal with the demons to keep her safe, and they want to punish me for it. I’m supposed to be on my way to prison right now. Jas took my place as the leader last week.”
My eyes widened. “What?”
“The conversation you interrupted was me saying goodbye to my sister. She was trying to convince me to refuse the rest of the dragons.”
My horror grew. “They want to put you in the supernatural prison? Isn’t it full of violent criminals?”
“Yep.” His gaze remained trained on the forest. “When they see that we’re genuinely in heat, they’ll assign me a guard to stay outside. If we seal the bond, you’ll end up in prison with me.”
“Holy shit.”
“I won’t let it happen.”
“You said everyone seals the bond, August.”
