Snapping her mouth shut, she hugged Rane as tight as possible. “This is fantastic news. With your super strength, and now my added abilities, you won’t be scared away by my brothers. For once, maybe I could win a fight, have a boyfriend. Oh, you could probably kick their arses for me and not even break a sweat.”
He chuckled, which made his rock hard chest vibrate. Mmm, she loved his body.
“After everything I’ve just told you, the first thing you think about and are happy about is that I’ll be able to beat your brothers up? And, little red, we are a lot more than just boyfriend and girlfriend.”
He growled the last and pulled her lips to meet his. She melted into his embrace as his hand moved down her back. Pulling her mouth away from Rane’s, she stared into his eyes. She had so many questions.
“Will I be able to run faster, or do you think you could teach me to beat my brothers in a fight?”
Rane sat up, pulling her with him, laughing. “You are a blood thirsty woman.”
She whacked Rane’s chest, but he just laughed harder. “It’s not funny. I’m serious.”
“Oh, I know you are, that’s what’s so funny. You have just learnt that you’re mated to a werewolf forever, and you’ll live longer, among other things, but all that matters to you is that you get payback at your brothers.”
She whacked him again. “What is so funny? I’m so sick of being picked last for every family sport thing. That’s not the worst though, when I was younger, they always picked on me, and even though I have an animal affinity, I still am not a fan of stick bugs, mice, rats, spiders, and snails. Do you know what I would find in my bed all the time? I even woke up screaming several times to mice crawling on me, or bugs, but the worst had to be the two hairy huntsmen spiders.” She shivered, remembering that morning. “They got worse as they got older. I never got to date, or make friends, as they were all terrified of my brothers.”
Rane hugged her tighter in a lame excuse to comfort her, but it was lost on her, being he was laughing so hard. She whacked him a couple more times until he let go and she got off the bed. He was laughing so hard she didn’t think he even noticed.
“It’s not funny. You’re acting just like them, and they’re one of the reasons I left, so I wouldn’t be picked on, and to make some friends, be independent, learn to stick up for myself against overbearing arseholes.” Turning, she started looking for her clothes. All men were idiots!
* * * *
Rane tried to stop laughing, really he did, especially knowing Kirby was getting cranky and looking for her clothes. The problem was he and his brothers would never do anything like that to their sisters, but their sisters would, and did, do stuff like that to them.
“I’m sorry, little red. I’m not just laughing at how cute you are, I’m laughing because in our house it was the other way around, the girls would terrorize us.” He grabbed her waist, pulling her back on the bed when she reached down to get one of her ripped pieces of clothing.
He pulled her into his body, but she remained stiff. He kissed her shoulder and up her neck murmuring, “I’m sorry. Please don’t be angry. Come on. I’ll beat up your brothers for you however you want.”
She finally relaxed into him, looking at his eyes and giggling. “I don’t want you to hurt them. The thought really only crossed my mind for maybe a second or two.” He smiled at her, and she sighed. “Oh, okay, ten, fifteen minutes tops. Oh, shoot, fine, I’m still thinking it’s a good possibility.” He chuckled and she joined in, chuckling along with him. Snuggling closer into him, she rested her chin on his chest as she murmured, “I hate to say this, as I’m so comfy, but we should probably head back to Faith’s and Kane’s. I mean, the reason I’m here this weekend is because of Faith’s birthday. I know we really haven’t finished discussing everything—”
He placed his hand over her mouth, silencing her. He moved her off him and on the bed, telling her to stay for a couple of minutes. Without even bothering to get dressed, he ran out of the bedroom and to the front door, opening it before the two battered and bruised werewolves had the chance to open it.
Fuck, something major must have happened. They should have been healed by now. “Come in. What happened?”
Blake stepped forward. “You and your mate need to come to Kane’s house now. We’ve called a meeting of every available werewolf.”
Nodding, Rane went to get Kirby from their room. He almost forgot about the two werewolves waiting in his hall when he saw Kirby bent over in one of his black shirts that came to her knees. She seemed to be looking for her other shoe. “Ah, little red, if we didn’t have to be somewhere now…” He moved up behind her, growling. She dropped the one shoe she had found and moaned as his hands snaked up her body. “Mmm, oh my, you don’t have anything else on.” He groaned.