My spirit moaned. Missing it, only a faint inkling of recollection of what that’d been like.
“You need something, you come to me.” Meems gave me a pointed look. “Woman to woman. These hoodlums running around here don’t know their hands from their asses.”
It was all a tease, and I choked over her words.
“Thank you,” I managed around the rocks in my throat.
“If you all could stop badgering Brinley so I can show her to her room, that’d be great.” Exasperation colored Silas’s voice as he hollered from inside.
“Badgering? Hardly.” Elena scoffed as she pulled back open the screen door.
It appeared maybe he wasn’tkingaround here.
Then she turned to me with a grin. “After you.”
“Thank you,” I mumbled again, then I ducked through the door.
Yep.
Just as expected.
This place screamed Grandmacore.
Floral furniture and lace doilies and some truly uncomfortably-posed pictures on the walls.
And there it was—yarn and knitting sticks sitting on the arm of the couch.
“This way,” Silas grunted as he marched up the stairs.
I hurried up behind him.
He hit the landing, gestured with his chin to the only door on the left. “Meems’s room.”
He turned right down the long hall that seemed to run the full length of the house on the upper floor.
He ticked his head toward the first door on the right. “Brody’s room, my younger brother who is trying to patch in. For lack of better words, he’s a goddamned nuisance, so just ignore him.”
I gulped.
“Noted.”
“Opposite him is an extra bathroom.”
He kept moving. “At the very end of the hall is Elena’s room.”
He stopped at the two doors that sat between Brody’s at the front of the hall and Elena’s at the end.
“Kai’s room is here on the left. Mine is this one on the right.” He pushed open that door and strode in with my bags.
Blood careened through my veins.
I dashed to catch up to him, stalling out in the doorway because I was knocked senseless by the overpowering scent of him.
His presence multiplied.
I worried if I stepped through his door, I would be the one who was bathing in whiskey and cherries.
A giant bed sat against the right wall.
