“Something like that.” Sam stepped forward so he was between his brother and me. His demeanor had changed from the soft lover I’d just been canoodling with to a cold and rigid solider. He strode to his brother and tossed a blanket at him. “Cover yourself.”
I continued to gape at the fact that there were now two of the most beautiful people... erm, men . . . or whatever, in my living room. Things were coming up Anna after all.
“Anna, this is my brother. You’ve been calling him Marv.Marv,”—he emphasized the name with some sarcasm—“this is Anna. My Anna. We are mated.”
“Wait, what? Marv, as in my grandmother’s llama?” I asked, realizing belatedly he’d said we were mated. That was the second time he’d mentioned that. But one can’t mate with a different species. Maybe mate didn’t mean the same thing to him. And yet, the thought of carrying the next generation of his kind didn’t terrify me like forgetting my pill in college used to. A warmth spread through me. I lowered a hand to my abdomen and was bombarded with visions of little boys and girls with ice blue eyes and dark hair.
That was weird.
I shook my head and focused on the fighting brothers.
“Yes. You see, my brother has been parading around this planet while my sister and I scoured the universes looking for him.” He spit the words at his brother. Marv. The llama. “Do you have any idea how long I’ve been looking for you? How could you be so . . .”
“I found her.” Marv’s rich voice broke. “I found her, and they took her away.” He collapsed forward and Sam caught him.
“Shit.” Sam brought his brother to the couch. “When? How?”
Marv shook his head back and forth. “I’m not sure about how long. I have been trapped in that miserable form for who knows how long.”
“This is not good.” Sam ran a hand down his face.
“Audrey too,” Marv said.
I blinked back at my former llama. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” I mumbled to myself, wondering how many times I got naked or picked my nose in front of what I had thought was my dog.
“Audrey?” Sam asked.
Marv nodded towards me. “That’s what this one calls our sister.”
“Shit!” Sam stood suddenly to pace. “I knew it. I knew there was something about you both. Fuck. My memory was off. I couldn’t—”
“It’s not just you. Those bastards are messing with us. They have some sort of power. I don’t really know. I just know they can hurt us.”
“Who?” Sam asked. His fists balled and his height seemed to grow; his muscles, too. Waves of anger radiated off him. I should have shrunk back at the sight, but to be honest, my horny brain liked it even more.
“Those Montgomery bastards. They tried to get your Anna. But Audrey interfered. She went after that Charlie prick.”
Poor Audrey.
“Why do they want me?” I asked. “When Charlie and I started dating he’d been nothing like that monster over here today.” As I spoke, the muscles around Sam’s neck bulged and he growled. Sparks shot out of his hands.
I put a hand on him. “Calm down there, big guy. It was never meant to be with Charlie. Not like us.” I placed a soft kiss to his shoulder and he relaxed a little.
Marv looked at his brother confused. “Does she not know?”
Sam looked to me. “Know what?”
A sudden trepidation tingled down my spine.
“Shit, doyounot know?” Marv shook his head. “And you were supposed to be the smart one.”
“Just spit it out, you cranky shit,” Sam said.
“Didn’t you think it was a little weird that you bonded with a human?” Marv asked, looking between the two of us.
Sam shifted on his feet, not answering.
“She’s one of us. Or at least partly. That’s why I came to earth to begin with—“
“She’s mine!” Sam roared.
The windows shook in their frames. Marv rolled his eyes. “Yeah, yeah. I didn’t come forher. I came for her sister.”
The news dropped like a bomb around me. Shape-shifting aliens. Love across time and space. Secret sisters. There was only so much a gal could take.
I have a sister?
The brothers looked at me. The last thing I remember was Sam’s strong arms around me before the world went black.
