Do you have family back home?”
She
nodded. “Five brothers.”
“ Wow.
That must make family get-togethers interesting.”
“ You
have no idea. It’s like having five extra parents but worse.
They meddle in everything and given half the chance they’d come
in and steamroll right through my life.”
Despite
her words she didn’t sound bitter at all. Quite the opposite.
Her voice was full of affection for these men. A stab of something
poked Seth in the chest. Not jealousy, more akin to longing. He
honestly didn’t understand the affect she had on him. Obviously
the fact she was in peak heat had gone straight to both heads.
“ I
can understand that.” Trent answered from the stove. “If
Seth and I had been blessed with a sister we’d probably smother
her to death. She’d have had to learn to kick our asses early
on if she ever wanted freedom.”
Daisy
laughed. “Exactly! I may look small but I’m more powerful
than most people think. Unfortunately I have to regularly prove it.”
Images
of Daisy rolling around the ground in a fight with another male made
him growl. Both Trent and Daisy turned and stared at him.
“ What
the hell was that?” she asked.
“ It’s
like I said. You’ve gone straight to his head, darlin’.
All the pheromones flying around the room are getting to him.”
“ And
they don’t bother you?”
Trent
set down the spoon he’d been using to stir the chili and turned
around. The easy laughs and jokes died. “Are you kidding? I’m
jealous as fucking hell that my brother got his hands on you first.
I’ve hiked up and down this mountain all day long with a
hard-on for a reason I couldn’t figure out until we got close
enough to realize what we’d walked into. Now I’ve got
images of you standing in the shower naked with water sluicing down
your lush body that won’t leave me alone. So yes, I am
affected, but it only bothers me because I can’t do anything
about it.”
Daisy’s
mouth dropped open and she stared at Trent. The scent of fresh
arousal filled the room and Seth grabbed the edges of the table with
a white-knuckled grip to keep himself under control.
The
tension in the room grew so thick he now understood the expression
“you could cut it with a knife”.
Daisy
slowly stood from her chair, obviously knowledgeable about making
sudden moves around aroused shifters. One aggressive mistake and the
resistance would end.
“ I
knew this wouldn’t work.” She breathed through her mouth.
“It’s too dangerous for us to stay together. Either you
leave or I will.” With those parting words she stalked from the
room and a few seconds later they heard the bedroom door slam.
“ Smooth
move, baby brother. Now we have to start again from square one.”
Trent
snorted and returned to the stove. “Don’t count on it.
She’s curious about it, I can tell. We’ll get through
dinner and see what happens.”
Seth
pushed back from the table. “I’m going for a walk.”
Trent
nodded. Clearly he understood what the earlier encounter had done to
him. “Don’t go far. Our little jaguar would be real
disappointed if I had to spend my night searching for you in the snow
instead of making her scream with pleasure.”
The
image of that went straight to Seth’s head. “Thanks for
that, fucker.”
Trent
chuckled. “Any time, bro. Any time.”
Chapter
Three
Daisy
flung herself on the bed and screamed into the mattress. This whole
situation was driving her nuts. There were two gorgeous and extremely
insane shifters sitting in her kitchen, dying to ease her pain, and
she’d run away from them like the coward she was.
She
rolled over and looked at the rough-hewn ceiling. Sex had never been
her thing. Not much anyway. Sometimes when she went in heat she
sought out a partner for some temporary relief and other times she
endured it like a good kitty would.
Unfortunately,
every season she didn’t bond and start a family the pain of
heat grew worse. She feared soon it