Waking the Beast(68)

I hope you have time to relax with your Tah before anything else happens. For all our dreams, it isn’t an easy life we’ve chosen to take on. I’ve learned that even the best of dreams can be dipped in nightmares. I only pray yours are few and far between. Wish the same for me. I’m not sure which of us has more to fear. You with your mate and the promise of new life in your womb or me with four mates. We both have much that can be taken from us. May the gods bless us both.

Read the journals and papers. Take the hunt to them before they send another group for you. I’m sure you’ve already thought of this, but I thought I’d agree with you in writing. I know how you can sometimes doubt yourself. Read all the papers. I think you’ll find answers you’ve been looking for.

Above all else, remember that I love you. You are the sister of my heart, and I will always be here for you. You have my number. Call whenever you need.

Take care of Dad for me. I can’t take him with me. It’s too dangerous. I never got the chance to tell you everything, but someday I will. Until then, take care of your pride. I’m so happy you finally have the family you’ve always deserved. May it continue to grow and prosper.

Jess

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Abby had put the letter aside and focused on Tah and Logan, as well as getting rooms ready for more people. Thank God the house had plenty of them. Reno said they should have three or four more guys show up soon. There were many people who loved Tah and felt they owed him for saving their lives. Abby understood completely.

Reno had taken over security. Abby had no idea what all he was doing, but Finn and Murphy had jumped right in to help, and Tah was out there too. Three days ago he was shot, and currently, he was out running around as if nothing had happened. It was enough to make her head spin.

He was something to see now that he was no longer fighting inside his own skin. His body was relaxed, and it showed. He smiled. He joked. And just today, she’d watched him strip to the skin and shift with ease into the big lion he was. He was beautiful, and he was hers. Her hands fell to her belly as she watched the tree line for Tah.

“Your daddy is the best man in the whole world. I’m not sure how we got so lucky, but we did. Some day you’re going to grow up, and he’s going to teach you everything he knows.”

“God help us all,” Logan said as he stepped out on the porch behind her, making her jump.

She rushed to get a shoulder under his arm and help him to sit. “What are you doing out here? Does Diane know you’re here?”#p#分页标题#e#

“You mean Nurse Ratchet? Hell, no. I snuck out while she was busy somewhere else. Don’t make me go back down there, Abby.” His big eyes pleaded with her. “I think Jimmy Hoffa may be down there. She’s not the nice person you think she is. She tortures me, Abby. Torture.” He whispered the last word before leaning back and closing his eyes.

Abby smiled and did her best to hold her laughter in. She knew the truth. Logan didn’t want to be away from whatever was going on, and Diane kept reminding him he was human and it would take longer for him to heal. When he’d pointed out how quickly Abby had healed, Diane had said it was most likely from the bite Tah had placed on her. To which Logan had told Tah to just bite him.

It was sure to never be boring with Logan around. He really shouldn’t be up and moving yet, but Abby wouldn’t be the one to yell at him and send him back in. She’d let Tah or Reno do that. Or Diane if she arrived first. She really was quite the dynamo, though Abby couldn’t see her torturing anyone.

“Sit with me.” Logan patted the cushion beside him and Abby sat.

“Do you need anything?”

“A little lion to come take a bite out of me maybe, but as there’s only Tah, I guess I’ll pass for now.”

Abby did laugh at that.

“It’s good to hear you laugh,” Logan said, opening his eyes to look at her. “It’s good to hear him laugh. I was afraid for a while.”

“Me too,” she admitted.

“Don’t tell Tah or Reno, but I’ve always been more of a cat person.”

Abby grinned. “I can tell.”

Logan smiled down at her before easing his head back again and closing his eyes. “I’m just going to relax here for a little bit. Just for a little bit.”

Abby leaned her head back gently to rest along the back cushion beside his and closed her eyes in companionable silence. Logan had the right idea.

“Should I be jealous to find one of my best friends sleeping next to my mate?”

Abby jerked awake as Tah whispered the words in her ear. He was squatted next to her in a pair of the tight black boxer briefs she’d come to love so well.