Page 76 of Brandy Snap: Part Two
I wasn’t sure how I should answer, because even having them both in my nest was enough to make me say whatever they wanted.
I didn’t want them to let me go. I wanted to be held and loved, and for them to carry away the pain of having to uproot my life again in a matter of weeks.
But I was saved from answering as a snarl ripped from my front door.
I gasped, flying out of their grasps to spin and face Caspian. He filled the entire doorway with a look of pure fury.
My heart fired in my throat, throwing me back to the moment his parents had invaded my nest in the same way.
Fear froze me as he stormed inside.
“You have some fucking explaining to do.” I could barely hear the words through his deep growl.
Three quick strides, and he paused just far enough away from me that he couldn’t reach me, like he was deliberately restraining himself.
But that wasn’t the thing that scared me the most. It was how dark stains dyed his red shirt around his chest, ending in splatters which dashed across his stomach, shoulders, and face.
Stained red fists clenched at his side as his sharp aura sliced through the room.
I winced as it hit me, flinching back as needles of energy sank into my skin.
Kai and Sin moved instantly, both of them darting forward, nearly blocking my view of Caspian.
Their backs were huge, walling in me, protecting me from their mate without a second thought.
As tension trembled through us, Kai reached up to grip the lone hair pin that kept his locks tied in a messy bun, and Sin casually slipped his hand into his pocket.
Burnt caramel stained the room as Caspian took a wheezing breath.
“How we doing there?” Kai asked casually, even though I could feel every muscle in his body on high alert.
“It’s been taken care of,” Caspian growled, his attention like a weight crushing me. Those thin shards which usually split his irises had swollen, and his eyes pulsed red.
“You might want to take a breath. You are not in a position to act like this,” Sin said coolly.
“This is Brandy’s nest, Cas. Back the fuck down,” Kai said as his grip tightened on the hairpin.
But he wasn’t listening to either of them, and the same panic I’d felt when Zania dragged me off into a room at the last party choked me again.
I kept telling myself since she’d slapped me that he was Zania’s son, and I wanted to take him away from her somehow. But this was the first time I really felt like they were related. Because that same twisted look she had when she stood in my living room shone from him, though I didn’t feel any calculated hate. Just his pure rage.
Sin talked about us being pack, but how could I mate with them when I was genuinely scared of Caspian?
But Kai and Sin weren’t afraid. They guarded me, confident, and ready if Caspian decided to attack. So I’d take my cues from them.
“So are you going to explain why the fuck Zania is paying you? And how long you’ve been working for her?” Caspian growled.
He didn’t even call her his mum. And I hoped it was because he wanted to distance himself from her.
Nerves suddenly flared in Kai as he turned, meeting me with a scared gaze. I wished I could reassure him, to tell him it didn’t mean anything, to beg and coddle him to make him understand. But I couldn’t look weak in front of Caspian. And I couldn’t afford to take my eyes off of him even though Sin had also turned to meet me with an icy look.
“What’s this about?” Kai asked.
I pressed my lips together. I didn’t want to lie to them, but it depended on how much they knew. Caspian found out about the cheque, but had they figured out I’d been sent to that heat suite?
Because I was still searching for why that had happened as well.
Whenever Caspian acted like this, it put my back up, and it made me want to find some way to annoy him. Even when I trembled from the force pounding out of him.
