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We’d agreed to meet at Jin’s gallery, since that offered the best balance between being a public and private space. I glanced through the first-floor window as I came around to the front door and saw all four of the guys had alreadygathered.
Damon was pointing at one of the paintings and making a skeptical face, but amusement danced in his eyes. Jin was laughing and shaking his head. Kyler jumped in between them, pointing to that painting and then another across the room, maybe to indicate some connection he saw between them. Seth stood back, watching the others with his arms folded over his chest, but even he looked relaxed and happy. My heart swelled with affection for all ofthem.
The closed sign was showing, but the door was unlocked. I flipped the deadbolt over as I came in. Whatever the guys had been talking about, the conversation stopped the second they sawme.
Jin leapt to lower the shade over the window. “Rose!” Ky said, striding to meet me, but his twin beat him there. Seth pulled me into his arms and kissed mesoundly.
I lingered there, enjoying the combined gentleness and power of his embrace. He eased back reluctantly. I turned and opened my arms to Ky, who claimed my mouth and swung me around at the same time. I giggled as he releasedme.
Damon caught me from behind. I tipped my head back to meet his lips. He kissed me hard, his hand stroking down my side with a hunger that promised more tocome.
Jin didn’t wait for Damon to let me go. When I looked to him with the other guy’s arm still around my waist, my artist teased his fingers over my cheek into my hair and leaned in. His sure and steady kiss combined with Damon’s determined heat behind me left my bodymelting.
When I’d had a proper greeting from all of my consorts, Ky stepped forward again, his gaze concerned. “Is your father already back? Everything’s taken care of with yourstepmother?”
I hesitated. I didn’t want to ruin this reunion with all the complications last night’s confrontation had revealed. Not yet. We’d have to talk about it soon, but it could wait a littlewhile.
“She’s gone,” I said. “She won’t be comingback.”
He beamed and kissed me again, so thoroughly I went weak in the knees. As Ky pulled back, Damon cleared his throat. “I say we take thisupstairs.”
“Mmm,” Jin said agreeably. “I think our consort deserves a bed when we can give herone.”
A flush spread over my skin. Oh, yes, I was going to enjoy the next few hours very much. “Lead the way,” Isaid.
We were just heading to the stairs at the back when a faint sound from outside tugged at my awareness. The distant rumble of an engine. I paused and felt the tug again. Just a slight nudge in the middle of my chest. My spark jittered withit.
“What?” Seth said, following my gaze with a frown. “Do you think you werefollowed?”
“It’s not that.” But I didn’t know what it was. Only that I needed to findout.
My body moved of its own accord. I hurried to the door and opened it. The sunlight spilled over me just as a motorcycle came to a stop by the sidewalk outside. My heart skipped a beat before the figure who stepped off it even reached for his helmet. Some part of me, deep down, alreadyknew.
“What—” Ky said behindme.
The guy pulled off his helmet and slung it under his well-muscled arm. His dark red hair gleamed in the sun, falling in a loose wave to just past his ears. His bright blue eyes caught mine. He smiled, slow and easy like he always used to, and plucked a folded scrap of paper from the pocket of his motorcyclevest.
The page I’d torn from my favorite book, years and yearsago.
“Hey, Sprout,” Gabriel said. “Something told me I’d find youhere.”
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