Rane’s Mate(13)
“So she doesn’t know the rest?” Rane asked.
“No.” Kane frowned. “I’m not so sure it’s a good idea now.”
“What, why?” Tray said.
“Because apparently this Jeremy Sento is the man that she would leave me for.”
Rane burst out laughing along with Tray. “No way,” they both said.
“Ask,” said Kane.
Tray smiled and turned to the women as he shouted over the squealing, “So this Jeremy whatever guy...” Tray glanced at Sara. “If by some miracle, he asked you to dump whomever you are with and be with him, would you do it?”
There was no hesitation at all as all four women laughed and as one said, “In a heartbeat.”
Rane, Kane, and Tray growled, which just seemed to make the girls laugh and squeal harder.
Sara spoke up, “Come on, there has to be a woman you would forsake all others for, an ideal woman?”
“Yes,” all three men said. “Our true mate.”
The women groaned. “Are these guys for real?” Remy asked.
“Yes.” Faith smiled. “Yes, they are. Don’t you just love them?”
Remy made a fake vomiting sound as Faith made goo-goo eyes at Kane. Then her smile turned wicked. “But if Jeremy Sento wants me, I will say bye-bye.” All the women laughed again.
Rane frowned, looking at Kirby. She had the same dreamy-eyed look as the other women. Turning back to Kane, he said, “I’m thinking we should cancel this before this Jeremy Sento leaves here in a body bag.”
“Nooos” drowned out his last words.
Faith pouted at Kane. He sighed and shook his head. “Fine, this Jeremy Sento and his band will be coming tonight just for you and—”
Squeals drowned out the rest, and Faith threw herself at Kane. “I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.”
Kane and Rane chuckled. Kane hugged her tighter. “You need to thank my family for this one. Rane, Tray, who wants to tell her the rest?”
Rane smiled. “Just hold it for a minute, Mum and Dad are just about to come in the door.”
Their parents came in, along with Griffen, Devlin, Jamie, Ava, Eve, Bengie, and his little sisters. Faith ran to her brother and hugged him. “Hey, buddy. I missed you.” She pulled him the rest of the way into the group.
“Happy birthday, sis.”
“I love you, Bengie.”
He smiled, showing his sharp, shining teeth, and hugged her again.
Remy hesitantly came forward. “Hey, buddy, where is my hug? I’m so sorry for the way I acted.”
Red tears ran down Bengie’s face as he hugged Remy.
“Come on, big guy, I didn’t mean to act the way I did.”
He nodded and hugged her tighter.
Faith’s smile was huge and she said, “Let’s go sit down, they’re going to tell me what the rest of my birthday present is.”
Eve and Ava couldn’t seem to hold it in much longer. “It’s a concert. We know from the squealing we heard that you know about Sixty Seconds to Venus. We also got some of your favorite local Australian bands.”
The screaming and jumping continued again, with his sisters joining in. Jamie came over and patted Tray, Rane, and Kane’s back.
“I thought you were smart, brother. Posters of him covered her wa—”
Whacking Jamie upside the head, Kane groaned out, “My God, shut up, Jamie.”
Griffen stepped forward. “We’d just like to add how much we love and appreciate you,” he told Faith. “This concert that we organized is to show all of that.”
Crying, Faith hugged everyone in his family. “I love you all.”
All the women surrounded her, hugging her again. The werewolves shook their heads, and Jamie spoke up. “Aren’t you supposed to be happy?”
“I am, these are happy tears.”
Rane looked at Kirby to find she was finally standing alone. Walking over to her, he gently grasped her arm and walked to the back door. “Can I have a word with you?”
Kirby glanced at him and looked back at Kane and Faith.
“I’m sure they want a moment or two. Please, little red.”
She seemed shocked by his niceness and nodded her head as they continued out the door.
Once the door was shut he turned to her. “I’m sorry.”
She looked at him like he had sprouted an extra head. “For what?”
He took a deep breath and looked into her big, brown eyes. “I’m sorry I don’t know how to act around you. I didn’t mean to offend you yesterday. I just didn’t want you in danger.”
She looked at him, studying his face. “Why? Why would you care how you act around me?”
Grounding his teeth, he took another deep breath. This was harder than he thought it would be. “You’re more than what I expected. You’re beautiful, perfect even.”