“Fuck, that was hot. She really did listen in practice.”
Kane shot a glare at Jamie for that comment. But he did admit to himself she was a fantasy come to life. All she needed was tight leather pants and a fitted leather corset, and wham bam, she would be his walking wet dream. He shook his head.
Kane growled so loud he would swear the ground shook as the half-changed wolf tried to punch his Faith. She blocked and dived for his legs, slashing them.
The wolf was fucking dead for touching his princess. He picked up his speed and growled again when Blake grabbed the guy he now recognized as Luke. Luke was trembling and pale. Faith’s body went limp, and the half-breed caught her just before she hit the ground.
A second later Kane reached them. “Give her to me.” Bengie passed her over, and Kane studied her body, checking all her cuts and bruises, mentally calculating so he could treat any if necessary. To make sure Luke got the same done, he glanced over at his brothers and father. “You deal with that.” He inclined his head toward Luke. “Because if I do it, I will kill him.”
A dull, meaty thud and bones cracking reached Kane’s hearing as he walked with his precious bundle back home, the half-breed following. His father growled, “Rules are rules, you touch a mate, and you pay the price. You’re old enough to know we don’t treat any woman like what you just did.”
“Mum said she would be safe, but she’s all bleeding, cut, and bruised. She is fighting people so they don’t kill her. She’s sad, I feel it.” Bengie crossed his arms over his chest.
Reaching the back door, Kane turned to the half-breed and asked, “What do you mean she’s sad?”
The half-breed’s eyes furrowed and a look of concentration passed over his face. “She feels sad, and not just because her body hurts her.”
Kane shook his head. “How the hell do you know, half-breed?”
“Mum had been trying to teach me. She said I could feel feelings inside people. I got it from her.” He shrugged his big shoulders.
Kane kissed Faith and cuddled her closer to his body. She snuggled into his arms, sighed, and opened her beautiful brown eyes. She smiled at him and kissed his chest. Then, as if she remembered everything, she froze and sat up in his arms. Looking around, she yelled for Bengie.
“I’m here. He took you from me but I followed. I won’t let anyone hurt you again. Sorry I got kind of scared before.”
Faith smiled at him. “Oh, Bengie, I’m so sorry for these idiots. They will never hurt you again, will they, Dr. Wolfen?”
She glared daggers at him. He winced at the Dr. Wolfen. She only seemed to call him that when she was really pissed. Fuck, he had only just got back into her good books, she had been calling him Kane. She kept glaring at him, and he sighed and looked at the half-breed.
“You’re welcome in our home.”
Faith frowned. “And…”
“Maybe I shouldn’t have put you in the hole.”
Faith continued to frown. “And…”
Jeez, what else! He was not going to apologize for protecting her.
Faith did her own little growl at him, which made his dick stand to attention. Fuck, she was hot, even sitting in his arms battered, cut up, and bruised. He shook those thoughts out of his head and glared back at her.
“And I’m so...” He knew he was being childish by refusing to apologize, but he’d been protecting her.
She pulled his head down, whispering so softly that if he didn’t have werewolf hearing he wouldn’t have heard. “Say you’re sorry to my brother, who is only twelve. If you don’t, I’m sure one of your brothers would gladly give up a room or two for us.”
He growled, frowned, and shook his head. Turning to the half-breed he whispered, “I’m sorry.”
He could hear his brothers laughing at him.
Faith smiled. “I didn’t hear that, Kane. Did you, Bengie?”
Bengie nodded and started to say yes, but Kane growled and nipped Faith’s shoulder. “Don’t push it, princess. That’s the best you’re going to get.”
Faith smiled at him, and it was one of her smiles that brought the whole sun out. He opened the door to their house and everyone went inside.
Chapter 7
Faith was exhausted, both physically and mentally. The last four days had felt like a lifetime. She had learned Kane loved her. The man she had loved since she was a little girl. She had thought nothing would ever come of it since she was human and she believed he saw her as nothing more than a necessary evil. But now they were mated. Not only that, she had learned she was switched at birth and her biological mother taken by demons, where terrible things were done to her. She had a brother who was half-demon, she had fought a demon, helped save two special girls, and lastly she had the two most in-depth, longest, scariest visions of epic proportions that she’d ever had.