Page 29 of Caution

Was that the proper protocol?

I had no idea.

But I knew my outgoing calls were going through because of what he’d said earlier, his insinuation that I just needed to focus.

Well I was rested now, the bath had been restorative, and cleansing.

I felt energized now, freshly charged.

Ready to take on anything.

As soon as I found my… husband?

Was that how I should refer to him now, in my head or otherwise?

I wasn't sure.

Whatever the case was, again, the union of his psyche with mine was instantaneous and I could feel him, feel his emotion.

He was pleased that I’d sought him out.

“I'm here,” he answered. “Speaking with Elias, downstairs.”

“Must have been a pretty important conversation for you to leave without consummating our bond.”

Why on earth would I reply like that, so boldly?

I couldn’t answer that.

But I didn’t regret it.

Especially when I felt his response to my words, a different pleasure than before, a deep surge of lust that brought beads of sweat to my forehead.

“In due time.”

A moment later, something new shifted. My eyes were closed up in my room, but I was seeing something totally different from my surroundings.

He’d pulled me into his head.

I was seeing his brother now—Elias, who I’d met and even spoken to before, largely because of Celeste. Even outside of her connection to him, I knewofhim.

Everybody knewofthe Blacks.

A trio of fine, mysterious, single brothers was the kind of thing that got around town.

As I watched, both brothers’ attention was pulled in the same direction, at a new addition to the room.

Their other brother, the youngest.

Parris.

He came in loud, silver fangs flashing as he spoke to someone on his phone. I could feel the flare of annoyance from both CassiusandElias, but Parris was either oblivious to it or simply didn’t care.

After a moment, he got off the phone, looking back and forth between his brothers.

“Aiight. As much of a blast as it always is with you viggas, can we make this quick? I have other things I need to be tending to.”

Elias raised an eyebrow at him. “You were summoned nearly an hour ago.”

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