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She moved away from him before she lost her mind. “I don’t believe you. If monsters exist, then maybe magic does. You did something.”
His voice was low and dangerous. “Please stop calling me a monster. I’m your husband.”
“You’re not human!”
“Agreed, and that’s not an insult to my people.”
She blinked at him. “There are others like you?”
He started to rise and approach her, but when she flinched, he settled down on the couch again. The anger in his tone a second ago melted away. “My three men outside are like me.”
She felt sick. On some level it struck her as interesting that he called that Amazon goddess one of his men, but there were more important matters to consider. “And the wolves that chased me are your pets I guess?”
“My men.”
The shock refused to cease. “M-men? You mean they ch-change?”
“We do.”
She swayed. “I can’t handle this. I just can’t. There’s no way. I must have been in an accident and bumped my head. That’s the only explanation. There’s no such thing as people who can change into wolves, and I didn’t wait thirty-four years to get married only to marry an animal. Not possible!”
As she spoke, her voice rose higher and higher until she began to shriek. Sebastian surged to his feet and grabbed her arms. She screamed and tried to claw his face. He caught her hands and shook her once hard. The impact of having her head bobble on her neck snapped her out of the hysteria, and she clamped her lips together.
“Sophia.”
He paused as a commotion started outside. She couldn’t figure out what was going on, but something told her he knew. Hopefully, those beasts didn’t eat Harper. The
woman was on her own because Sophia didn’t have the energy to fight off her husband let alone his men.
Energy. Yeah, right. Like that’s all I need to fight them.
“I have to take care of something outside, but before I go, tell me something.”
She moved out of his hold and hugged herself. The shaking died down, but she didn’t feel like she was in control. “What?”
“Why did you come here to my half brother’s house?”
She frowned at him. “Because he warned me on our wedding day.”
Sebastian’s face turned stoney. “What did he say exactly?”
On several occasions over the time they dated, she had seen Sebastian angry. His voice would get all deep and his eyes so intense, it wouldn’t have surprised her if he shot lasers. None of that anger had ever been directed at her, and as far as she knew he was never physical with whoever pissed him off. What she had noticed was he’d fuss at his men and give an order, and they hopped to it like trained soldiers. Just like that woman’s attitude had been earlier, they were loyal to him. What he said was law. Now she realized it must be some extreme inhuman thing or whatever.
“He told me if I ever needed him and Harper, they would be here for me. He knew what you were before, didn’t he?”
“Of course, but I don’t appreciate him offering my mate refuge.”
“Will you stop with the mate crap? I’m not an animal. Wait, I’m not an animal, am I? I’m not going to start sprouting hair?” Sickness threatened to overwhelm her.
“No, you’re human. We cannot change humans into shifters despite the folklore about werewolves.”
Her eyes widened. “Werewolves?”
“Sophia, I said most of that stuff isn’t true. We do not change with the full moon, and we certainly don’t lose the human side to us when we change. How I think now is how I am when I’m shifted. Only my body changes.”
“I don’t want to know about it.”
“You will,” he insisted. “We’re linked.”
