Page 109 of Shadow City: Silver Wolf

Griffin walked out of the closet and toward me. "Here, let me help you."

He snatched my bra and helped me put it on, followed by the shirt. His help made the process so much easier.

"After our guest leaves," he said with frustration, "we’re going to get you situated in here. There’s plenty of room in thecloset and drawers, and if you need more space, I’ll move my stuff around."

"No, I wouldn’t want to put you out." This was his room, after all. I didn’t want to cause any problems, and him wanting me to stay here was enough for me. "I can make do with whatever you aren’t using."

"Put me out?" He grimaced as his nose wrinkled. "This is your bedroom, too. You have as much right to have whatever you want in here as I do."

A huge smile spread across my face, so wide that my cheeks hurt. Hearing him consider this to be our room made my heart happy.

"Wait..." He ran his fingers through my wet hair as he frowned. "You don’t think of this place as your home?" Hurt wafted through our bond.

"I just never wanted to force myself on you like that." I hadn’t meant to upset him. "Of course, I do, but I didn’t want to push things between us too fast."

"You’re my fated mate, whom I’ve claimed and confessed my love to," he growled and kissed me.I’m yours, which means everything I have is now yours, too. Get it through your head.

Feet pounded on the floors, and Sierra said, "You better get your butts out here before Rosemary and Killian go at it. They’ve been staring at each other, lobbing insults back and forth, and I’m not sure I can hold off the impending argument much longer. Unlike him, I’m not afraid of coming in there—Sterlyn doesn’t have any parts I myself don’t have."

"Uh...but I do." Griffin released me and winked.

"I’m not so sure," she said. "You’ve always been kind of wussy."

His mouth dropped open, and he marched to the door and yanked it open. "You don’t think I have a penis?"

"No, I do, but it got you to open the door." Sierra gloated as she sashayed into the room and looped her arm through mine on my uninjured side. "Which was the whole point. I figured you two were dressed by now." She tugged me toward the door. "Please get out here because Killian is irritable and worried about you. You scared us all."

"What?" I hadn’t done anything. "How?"

"The little freak-out state you were in." Sierra sighed as she leaned toward me. "Killian didn’t think Griffin’s shower plan would work, but obviously it did. I told him no one would know better than the person’s mate."

"For a second, I thought he was going to try to join us," Griffin said protectively. "And that would’ve caused some problems. But he was wise enough to not follow me into the bathroom with you."

"Oh, he thought about it." Sierra laughed as we entered the den. "But he knew you’d kick his ass out of the house."

Killian was pacing in between the two couches in the center of the living room but stopped when we entered. His dark eyes focused on me and his shoulders relaxed. "Thank God you’re back to normal."

I wasn’t sure ifnormalwas the right word, but I was in a better state of mind than I had been twenty minutes ago. "Let’s not push it."

"What the hell happened? They refused to tell me anything," Rosemary bristled, crossing her legs as she angled her knees toward me on the large pearl-gray couch. "Griffin texted me, asking me to come, and then I got the silent treatment when I got here."

"Wait." I turned toward Griffin. "You asked her to come?Again?" That surprised me. The two of them didn’t like each other very much.

"She can heal people, and you weren’t yourself." He shrugged as he sat on a matching loveseat perpendicular to Rosemary. "I asked her to come in case the shower didn’t work. Besides, we need an update on Carter, and I don’t trust hearing it from him."

"He’s a good guy." Killian crossed his arms as his jaw ticked. He looked an inch from having a meltdown of his own.

"Well, thank you for coming so quickly." She’d already helped us more than I’d ever expected anyone to. "And I’m sorry that they didn’t fill you in. They should’ve." I scowled at Killian.

"I was a little preoccupied with worry over you," Killian said as he tugged me away from Sierra and hugged me. "What happened? I haven’t been scared like that in such a long time. You took at least ten years off my lifespan."

"Oh, stop." I wrapped my good arm around him while keeping my injured one close. When he squeezed me, I hurt a little, but I wasn’t going to complain. "You’re healthy as a horse. Nothing could shave off those years."

"This is sweet and all, but why don’t you fill me in on what’s going on?" Rosemary motioned for me to come to her. "And if you want me to heal your injury, I can."

Under normal circumstances, I’d have said no; I didn’t like taking shortcuts. But we could be facing some sort of fight again by tonight, so getting back to full strength would be smart. I pulled away from Killian and faced her. "Are you sure you don’t mind?"

"I wouldn’t have offered if I did." She arched a brow and leaned against the back of the couch. "I took you as someone who would know that."

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