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He fucked into me over and over, my legs going around his waist and holding him close.
Then every muscle in my body tightened as he sent me over the edge. I called out my mate’s name and felt him spill himself inside me, the pleasure making my sight go fuzzy while the world became a softer, warmer place.
This was what I’d needed since the moment I found myself in a world I didn’t understand.
Trent fell on top of me, holding not an ounce of his weight up. He pressed me into the bed, surrounding me with the feel of him, the smell of him.
I held my werewolf and proved to him I was finally home.
* * * *
“And he’s happy?”
A few hours later, my head lay against Trent’s chest, and I felt truly calm for the first time in days. “Yes. He’s in love with Summer.”
A chuckle went through my wolf. “I wish I’d been there to see how Quinn handled that. I would think he might be relieved because he was always worried Marcus would come after Evan, but I would also bet that he was still freaked out by it. I take it Summer was fully grown.”
“She was, and she’s gorgeous,” I replied. “She looks like the queen’s twin almost. And you’re one hundred percent right. Quinn got all kinds of pissy about it, but Donovan was cool.”
“The king has always been a more practical man when it came to the children.”
I gasped and sat up, not bothering with the sheet that covered the comfy bed. “I forgot. I actually know something about the kids that you don’t.”
“Lee’s a latent vamp?” Trent’s lips curled up slightly, and he was the sexiest wolf in the world.
“How did you know that? I just found out.”
“I do have a cell phone, baby.” That grin did funny things to my heart. “Fen texted me, and then I got the news from Lee himself. I suspect Fen practically ran to the portal to send me the news. There’s no cell service in Frelsi. We have mirrors we can use, but Fen claims they are… What’s the word he uses? Sus. Mirrors are sus. So when he wants to talk, he uses the portal to Reykjavík. There’s a bookstore that serves as a front for the portal. They check in quite regularly when I’m on assignment. We’re used to being in contact.”
Because they had formed a tight unit. They’d been forced to rely on each other.
In the hours since he’d brought me inside the cabin, I’d told him everything that had happened on the outer planes, but we hadn’t gotten to the heart of what I wanted to know.
Now that it was here, I was scared of the answers.
Although I wasn’t sure where here was. “Where are we? Eddie didn’t tell me where we were going. Just said you would be here.”
“We’re in Southern Louisiana. This is a cabin Gray bought a long time ago. Don’t worry. It’s a safe house. We’re absolutely secure here.” Trent’s hand brushed over my thigh as he shifted so he was on his side, his head held up on his other hand like he was a deliciously hot centerfold. “We’re in an unincorporated part of Papillon Parish. There’s a small town not far from here with a truly excellent restaurant. I go there and I sit out on this big porch they have, and I think of you while I eat gumbo and jambalaya and drink a beer. Though I haven’t been here in a while because a few years ago Fenrir scared the crap out of some locals, and now they think there’s this weird Cajun werewolf thing running around. I couldn’t exactly tell them that he was a regular old normal werewolf.”
“He’s not.” I smiled because I could see Fen running around the bayou in that massive body of his and not knowing how to properly hide from the humans. He’d been that way when he was a little boy, a tiny human body that contained a massive wolf.
“No, he’s not,” Trent conceded with a sigh. “None of them are normal, so I’m not surprised it turns out Lee is a latent vampire. Honestly, it explains a lot. He’s the single most reckless kid I’ve ever met. Keeping him alive has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” Trent went quiet for a moment. “That’s a lie. Being without you was the hardest thing. Damn, you’re gorgeous, baby. You have no idea how hard it was to not get on a plane last night. Only logic saved me. Rufus pointed out that it would take longer to fly than it would to simply wait for Eddie to bring you to me.”
Rufus was the leader of the Atlanta primal nest and apparently a fan of logic.
“I know. I sat up most of last night wishing I could be with you. And then I finally managed to sleep and when I woke up, I yakked for a long time.” I’d talked to Quinn a bit before we’d left. He’d explained that because my pregnancy was facilitated with a pretty heavy fertility ritual, I should look forward to rapid onset of all the fun, you’re-carrying-another-life-inside-you symptoms.
Trent’s hand went to my belly. “How are you feeling right now?”
It was time to get to the rough part of this reunion. I’d been told the good stuff. My mom was okay. She was still in Dallas with my brothers. Jamie still worked for the Rangers and Nate had joined him. Jamie had married his forensic expert and they had two young children who were also protected by his status with the Rangers. Nate had married a shifter named Jeanie and he was about to become a dad.
I had a niece and a nephew I’d never met and one more on the way. My brothers were moving through their lives without me.
“Lost. A little broken.” I took a long breath and got to what I’d needed to ask since the moment Fen had called his papa Gray. “What happened to Gray?”
Trent’s eyes closed and he laid back. “Nothing at first. He was our best shield. He ran a lot of interference for us those first few years. Gray dealt with Myrddin. He played the game well.”
“He should have been with you. He shouldn’t have been playing the game at all.”
