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“How else could a wolf make himself heard?” I stop stroking as I consider it.
Dariel growls. Not in anger, but in… irritation? Frustration maybe?
I resume stroking his back, and the growls turn into low rumbles of contentment.
“Makes sense,” Aden says. “Harley said touch grounds us, and it’s true. It does.”
We all fall silent as we think.
“Back when Rylan got in the house,” Kade says, staring at the wolf currently serving as my blanket. “Dariel took me down. He could’ve ripped my throat out, and I wouldn’t have been able to stop him. He didn’t. Before that, I thought he would kill Aden in the Cerberus, but this changes things.”
“Because you’re pack,” I say.
“Family,” Aden amends. “We’re family. Have been for years. Long enough for his wolf to know us—and you.”
We all focus on the wolf lying on top of me, making rumbling sounds of contentment.
“All this fucking time…” Kade breathes. “I thought it would eventually happen to me, too.”
“You never tried to be anything less than what you were,” Aden says. “You never locked one half of you away for years the way Dariel did. And you were still going for runs.”
“You weren’t caging your wolf,” I continue. “Not like Dariel was.”
When I slow my stroking, Dariel nudges my throat, and I wince when my shirt rides up, exposing my back to cold tile.
A frown creases Kade’s brow. “Dariel, come on, man. Let her up.”
Dariel growls and burrows harder into me.
“You have her pinned to the fucking floor. It’s cold, it’s hard, and you, my friend, are fucking heavy. Let her up,” Kade orders.
The rumbling growl stops, and Dariel draws his face from my throat to peer down at me.
I stroke his head. “The bed is more comfortable.”
After a long stare, as if he wants to make sure I’m not lying, he rises, and I push myself to my feet.
Kade crosses over to grab my hand and pulls me the rest of the way up. When Dariel turns to snarl at him, he grunts, “Nowyou decide you want to be possessive.”
I frown at him. “Possessive? What do you—”
“Nothing.” Kade leads me out of the bathroom, glaring when he nearly trips over Dariel, who refuses to get out of his way. “Just Dariel being difficult. That’s all.”
My bed isn’t big. Certainly not big enough to fit one woman, two men, and a large wolf, yet somehow, we squeeze onto it. Just.
I can’t imagine Kade or Aden are the least bit comfortable with all the grumbling Kade is doing. Hiding my smile, I settle under the covers as I bury my hand in Dariel’s fur.
Nearly five minutes later, Kade mutters, “No one is watching the cameras, but fuck it. I can’t sleep like this.”
He gets up, strips out of his sweatpants, and drops into a crouch before shifting.
There’s no silencing the fear spiking my heart at the sight of the lean white wolf beside my bed. I know Kade won’t hurt me, but I think my first response to seeing a wolf will always be terror. No matter who it is.
Kade sits on his haunches, studies me through liquid silver eyes, and waits.
I offer up a smile when my heart steadies. “I’m okay now. You can get in.”
He leaps up on the bed and settles himself down on my left with a contented sigh.
