Silent Bite-A Scanguards Wedding (1001 Dark Nights) Read Online Free Page B

incriminating underwear in his bedroom. He took a deep breath when he felt Blake’s hand on his shoulder. Instantly he turned to him. His half-brother gave a slight shake with his head and dropped his gaze. Oliver followed it to Blake’s jeans pocket. A little bit of black lace peeked from it. He grinned and shoved it down with his hand, making it disappear from Oliver’s view.
    Oliver mouthed a silent “thank you” to him and turned back to his future in-laws. If Mrs. Tseng hadn’t found the bra, then what was she looking at?
    With trepidation, Oliver took a few steps to walk around Mr. Tseng and saw what Mrs. Tseng was finding so offensive.
    He had to stifle a laugh when he finally set eyes on the offending item. There, between his nightstand and the bed frame, one of his boxer briefs had gotten caught and hung suspended between the two pieces of furniture.
    “I’m so sorry,” he said hastily, grabbed the item and balled it up in his fist, then attempted to shove it in his jacket pocket.
    “Maybe it was too inconvenient to get you to give up your room after all. We really shouldn’t have imposed,” her mother said.
    “No, no. You’re not imposing at all. I’m sorry. I guess I was in a hurry today.”
    Yeah, he sure had been in a hurry—in a hurry to make love to Ursula one more time before he was forced to move out of the house until the wedding. When he’d gotten dressed after they’d made love, he’d been in such a daze that he hadn’t found his boxer briefs instantly and simply grabbed a new pair from his chest of drawers.
    When he heard sounds behind him, he sighed in relief. The cavalry had arrived.
    “Well, it looks like our guests are here,” Quinn said from the door as he walked in, his wife Rose on his heels.
    “I’m so sorry we weren’t here to greet you,” Rose instantly apologized and stretched her hand out to Ursula’s mother.
    “This is Rose, my stepmother, and this is Quinn, my father,” Oliver introduced them. “Dad, Rose, these are Hui Lian and Yao Bang Tseng.”
    He watched as the faces of Ursula’s parents turned to surprise while they shook hands and exchanged greetings with Rose and Quinn.
    “You both seem so young,” Ursula’s mother said finally. Mr. Tseng nodded in agreement.
    “Good genes,” Quinn replied with a broad smile on his face.
    “We get that all the time!” Rose chirped with a soft laugh and exchanged a loving look with her blood-bonded mate. “We were practically kids when we met. We got married when we were very young.”
    Oliver swept a quick gaze over Quinn and Rose. Both didn’t only look like they were in their mid-twenties, they also looked nothing like him or Blake. While both he and Blake were dark haired, their supposed parents were both blond and had fair skin. There was no family resemblance among the four of them and rightly so. Quinn had sired Oliver with his blood and turned him into a vampire when he lay dying after a horrific car accident, and Blake, though he was their blood relative, hadn’t retained any of Rose’s and Quinn’s fair looks. Blake was six generations removed from them, and they were in fact his fourth great-grandparents.
    “I hope you’ll both be comfortable here,” Quinn continued.
    “We didn’t really want to put Oliver out by taking over his room,” Ursula’s father replied, motioning to his surroundings. “But thank you very much. I’m sure we’ll be very comfortable here.”
    “Excellent!” Quinn agreed.
    “Once you’ve unpacked and freshened up, why don’t you come downstairs, and I’ll show you around?” Rose offered. “It’ll be chaotic in the next few days with preparing for the wedding, so I’ve had the kitchen stocked with everything you might need, and rather than have regular sit-down lunches and dinners, I figured everybody should just help themselves to anything they want. Don’t you think so too?” She smiled at Mrs. Tseng.
    Ursula’s mother looked at her somewhat stunned, but