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That would play right into Dad’s narrative of monsters.
I threw my elbow back into the hard abdomen and scurried out of the man’s hold. Twisting quickly on my heel, I spotted Jaroth grabbing his side and shaking his head with his black horns at me, annoyance written all over his pretty face.
“What the hell, Jaroth?! What are you doing here?” I asked.
“What areyoudoing in Durnbone?” he asked, smoothing his shirt that clung to his body.
“Not expecting to find my ex-boyfriend,” I said through gritted teeth.
He stepped closer to me, his eyes darkening the way all incubi eyes did right after they had too much to drink and wanted someone right then and there. But I wasn’t falling for that shit anymore.
I moved away and poked him hard in the chest. “And why are you texting me?”
“Texting you?” he asked, taking another daring step closer and grabbing at my hips. “I haven’t texted you in over a year now, Sina. But I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the way you taste—”
Before he could finish his sentence, someone grabbed him by the collar and threw him out of the room and across the hallway. My eyes widened as I stared at four tall, muscular, sexy-as-fuck wolves.
Holy fuck.
Calder, Gaian, Darius, and Thayer stood before me. When I had left four years ago, they had still been high school boys, barely come into their own, shorter and skinnier then. Now, they were men with tattoos, piercings, muscles, and …
Get those thoughts out of your head, Sina. What are you even thinking?!
“Get the fuck out of here, Jaroth,” Calder, the alpha, growled.
I wasn’t surehowthey knew Jaroth, as I had started dating him after I moved away from Durnbone and behind my father’s back for the most part. Maybe they had been keeping tabs of my whereabouts or maybe they’d heard whispers of everything my father had been doing with me.
Jaroth stood up from the floor and brushed off the drywall that had fallen around him from the mere impact of Calder throwing him against the wall. He gave me a long and hard look, his gaze dark, then stormed up the stairs.
The four guys turned back to me, and I had to physically tear my gaze away from their muscles. These guys weren’t boys anymore. They weren’t the guys I remembered them as. They were wolves now. I could see it in their piercing golden eyes, those long, extended canines, and the veins pressing against their skin around every curve of muscle.
“Pretty Bird,” Darius said, stepping forward with his lips curled into a smirk. “It seems like our messages did get through to you. Welcome home to Durnbone. You’ve been gone for far too long.” He looked at the other guys beside him. “And you owe us an explanation.”
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An explanation?
Nerves zipped through me, and I found myself stepping back farther into the room. The four wolves followed me, their mere stature so much bigger and more confident than I ever remembered.
What kind of damn explanation did I have for leaving them?
None.
“My dad made me leave,” I whispered, holding my hands up, as if to show them I wasn’t dangerous. Hell, I didn’t even know why I was doing it. A human like me could never be dangerous to four ruthless wolves like them. “He smashed my phone and moved me across the country.”
“You didn’t say good-bye,” Darius said.
Dark skin, a single cuffed earring, and a fade with three-inch dreadlocks, Darius stood a bit stockier than the others. If it wasn’t for his gold family ring that he wore around his right thumb, I wouldn’t have recognized him.
“I didn’t think I was leaving,” I said.
“You left on your eighteenth birthday,” Thayer said, his voice deeper than it had been since I’d last seen him.
Last time I had seen him, he had been skinnier than the other guys, his skin free of any ink or scars and his dark brown hair cut short. But now, tattoos covered his pale skin from head to toe, his hair was messy on top of his head, and he had a large scar that cut straight through his left eyebrow down to his mid-cheek.
