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With a quick glance up, all three shifters stared myway.
“It’s none of my business anyway, Isaid.
“What are you talking about?” Oryn asked, closing the distance between us, placing a hand on my back. He kissed the top of myhead.
Dagen growled, glaring at us. “Can’t you see she has a spell onyou?”
I gripped my blade and backedaway.
But Oryn plucked the weapon from my grip and placed it on the table before cupping the side of my face. “Remember, you are always safe when I’m near. Never beafraid.”
He straightened his posture and faced Dagen, who stormed closer, his fistscurled.
“Back down,” Oryn growled as he pushed me behindhim.
“Please don’t fight over me,” I said, but my words fell beneathgrowls.
“She’s ours,” Nero said. “Oryn’s and my wolves have mated with her. And we love you like a brother, but we won’t let you harmher.”
Dagen paced to the fireplace and back, shadows crowded beneath his eyes. “What the hell? Has the world gone insane while I lay knocked out? She’s using magic and hypnotized you. I mean, fuck, she did the same to me when I woke up, and now I can hear snippets of herthoughts.”
I leaned out from behind Oryn. “Technically, I saved you,remember.”
“What do you mean, you can read her mind?” Nero stepped in between the two shifters facingoff.
Dagen smacked a palm against his own head. “Don’t know, but I can’t get her out of my head. Like right now, she’s admiring the dimples above your ass,Oryn.”
Fire scorched my insides, and I hugged myself. “Shut up. If you’re in my head, don’t blurt out everything to the entire world. Crap. Have you ever heard ofprivacy?”
His nose wrinkled, while Oryn offered me a sexywink.
“All right,” Nero started. “Let’s all sit down and take this from the top. I’mconfused.”
We all crashed around the table. Me wrapped in a blanket, and three naked men. Nero and Oryn flanked my sides, while Dagen remained across from me, eying me with a strange look of suspicion and curiosity. There was no time like the present, so I jumped right in, explaining how I’d brought back Dagen and how unappreciative he’d been, which gained me a glare from him. Even how he’d read my mind. I left out the part about him calling me “vile,” as it made me cringe just remembering his hatred, and I wanted to believe it was a spur-of-the-moment thing. Yet it lingered in my head… What made him hate humans somuch?
He huffed and drew my attention, staring at me as if he readied to retaliate. Right, he had a direct line into my mind.Son of a goat.Told you before, stop listening. Can’t you try blockingme?
“Trust me,” he replied. “I would if Icould.”
I shifted in my seat, and Oryn reached an arm across my back, drawing me closer to his side. His comfort kept me grounded when I wanted to throw a chair atDagen.
“That means you two are connected,” Orynsaid.
On my other side, Nero casually took my hand in his. “I’ve never read about anyone hearing someone else’sthoughts.”
“Neither have I,” I piped in, wondering if that was how I’d woken him up, by driving so much of my energy into him, that it had linkedus.
“So, we going to bunk out here while you all make googly eyes at each other?” Dagen asked. “Oryn, your pack is still out there attacking each other,dying.”
“You think I don’t know that? I’ve been out there, facing them, while you’ve been lyingaround.”
The tension in the room smothered me. “There’s got to be something that triggered the change. Oryn,”—I turned to him—“you were stuck in your wolf form, just like your pack, and it’s only affecting those in your territory,right?”
He nodded. “Mainly those who hunt near the Terra border, and it all happened on one day last week when we allchanged.”
“Then it has to be something…” I lost my train of thought because I bet my life the pack’s problems were connected to the priestess. Her replanting wolfsbane a week ago was also when Nero had said everyone had started acting strange in theDen.
“Your priestess is claiming our land?” Dagen slammed a fist onto the table, and Iflinched.
