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Leven pushed the plate across the table toward Ash, who joined us and sat next to me, snatching a handful of cooked meatstrips.
No one said a word and only the sound of chewing filled the void. I didn’t know if the brothers fought often or whether it was a stress thing. After all, they were minus servants or anyone to help them, and were dealing with a dying sibling. Tension was aguarantee.
“So, after breakfast, I think we can get started. Ash said the curse involves moon magic and that’s given me some ideasto—”
The door slapped open, and I flinched against Ash’s arm. In the entranceway stood a man—muscular, hair wild, and his body covered in fresh scratches. He wore only ripped pants reaching hisknees.
My breaths jammed in my chest because I recognized Talin from the cage upstairs, but he was a full humannow.
Around me, no one moved and kept eating. What thehell?
“You better be making another batch of those.” Talin had a honeyed drawl that caught my attention. He marched inside, as if all was right, and while he might have been the smallest of the brothers, he carried himself with an air ofimportance.
Ash leaned closer to me, his warm meaty breath on my ear. “It’s rude tostare.”
“Are you kidding?” I looked up at Ash, and he winked so sexily, I squeezed my thighs together to cover that tingling sensation. But no… no flirting to blindsideme.
“Sugarplum,” Leven said, “you’ve already met our brother,Talin.”
He sat across from me, sizing me up with the same ravenous expression he’d shown me when I’d found him in the cage and he’d readied to tear my throatout.
“Does anyone see a problem with this picture?” I pulled back in my seat, scanning the counter for aknife.
“Relax.” Raze leaned forward. “Talin’s episodes come at night, and during the day, he’s okay. Sometimes he’s a prick, but we lovehim.”
Talin chuckled, his facial expressions softening, the tense lines around his mouth fading. He threw a torn piece of meat at Raze, who caught it and stuffed it into hismouth.
Ash touched my shoulder, his fingers warm. “I checked on him before coming for breakfast and found him back to normal, so I let him out. You’resafe.”
I glanced from one man to the next, all four eating and unperturbed. “He could have killed me last night, and now it’s allnormal?”
“Yeah, sorry about that.” Talin winked my way. “But you smelled so delicious. I have no control of myself at night these days. But Ash said you’re here to help. Fantastic. Hope you’re better than the last three Razehired.”
Raze cut his brother a serious look, both eyebrows climbing hisforehead.
Surely, I was in some twisted world where they allowed someone who could morph back into a bloodthirsty beast wander freely through the house. What if the encroaching full moon trigged his humanity to slip faster away and he transformed during the day? Curses were tricky like that and neverpredictable.
“I’m not going to harm you,” Talin insisted as he crammed morsel of food into his mouth. His face was thin in the cheeks, and his brown hair short carried a golden hue. His lithe form might not have matched his brothers’ bodies, but upstairs, his grip had been iron strong. He wore the healed marks of his initiation across his shoulder andcollarbone.
“Sure you’re not.” I curled my hands in my lap. Okay, they were all looneys. “You know his curse might accelerate as the full moon approaches, so maybe someone should chain him up when he’s not in hiscage.”
Raze burst out laughing and slapped the table several times. What the hell was hisproblem?
“Oh, Talin,” Raze began. “You aresogetting added to Bee’s erotica in a bondage scene. I see it now! You’re tied to a wall, and she’s incharge.”
Fire hit my cheeks, and I burned up in an instant. Was he talking about my writings? “What did you justsay?”
Leven butted in. “Am I going to be init?”
My stomach plummeted, and my brain numbed at the realization that not only had Raze searched for me in the bedroom, but he’d searched through my belongings and read my tale. I balled my hands into fists.How darehe?
“Leven, we’re both already in the story, and damn, this girl has a filthy mind. You shouldseewhat she wants to do withus.”
“Shut up!” I yelled, trembling as anger raged in my veins, while embarrassment had meblushing.
“I want to read this now!” Leven glanced my way, his head nodding, his mouth opened as if he were a starveddog.
Raze smirked. “I never knew you felt that way, but I’m ready whenever youare.”
