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But as I splashed through the creek, I saw movement on the balcony. My body tensed, expecting to find Amelia and Shaw having yet another wild bout.
But Shaw was alone. Amelia must finally be sleeping, and he had set himself as bodyguard. He leaned against the balcony, looking as lost as I felt.
Then he must have felt me watching him. His gaze snapped up and met mine across the distance.
The next second, he vaulted lightly over the balcony railing and crouched to catch himself, one hand braced in the grass. He leapt up the next moment and moved toward me.
I was not in the mood for my little brother’s gloating today. Especially when I knew his ways with women. Amelia was just another conquest.
But to me, she was the world.
Where the fuck had thought come from? I turned and raced off into the woods.
He shifted into a wolf himself and chased me through the woods. I was not about to run from Shaw, of all people. I turned and snarled at him, warning me off.
He growled right back.
I charged forward, diving into him and knocking him off his feet. His jaws snapped at me, coming close to my fur. I leapt up and away from him, ducking around him and trying to stay just out of reach.
He was fast and powerful, more than I’d realized when my brother and I had played before. Now, he had a fierce edge.
He lunged for me again.
I leapt and twisted out of his grasp. He followed after me. We raced through the forest, our movements blurring together in a haze of fur and claws. I stopped, turned and set my massive body against him, then leapt.
He tried to dodge around me but I slammed into him. The two of us snarled as we fought back and forth, both vying for dominance.
His throat was exposed. I had my opening to wrap my jaws around his throat, to bite just deep enough to sting and remind him who was alpha.
I didn’t take it.
He was my little brother.
I leapt back, shifting into my human form. I faced a snarling wolf who was larger than I was. Human versus wolf was a bad game. For several long seconds, he stared down at me with his lips curled back, revealing all those dangerous fangs.
Then he shifted back himself.
“What’s wrong with you?” he demanded.
Typical Shaw. Best defense is a good offense.
I swallowed everything I wanted to tell him about what was wrong withhim.“Amelia’s in heat?”
“Amelia’s none of your business.”
“So, yes.” I wasn’t going to argue that ridiculous point. Amelia was very much my business. “She hasn’t had it before?”
He shook his head. “Not with Nathan. But with an alpha in the house… closely related to her mate… her hormones must have kicked into gear.”
“That’s the last thing we need.”
An incredulous look spread across Shaw’s face. “No, the last thingwe needis to hurt her. To hurt Brennan’s girl.”
He didn’t say the words out loud, but I could still hear it:how could you?
“We didn’t know that,” I said. “Not until I started what has to be done. We couldn’t just take her word for it.”
“I could,” Shaw returned.
