Page 12 of November Reign
He attempted a smile. “Sure.” Then he turned and headed for his room.
I’d noticed a pattern. Oak always withdrew from everyone, me in particular, after he’d been out on patrol or an attack had happened. Considering how we used to be, I didn’t mind too much. Things between us were much better than they had been.
“I know that look. Knew it! You’ve got a crush on Oak,” Damon teased. “I thought it for a while, but just then, I saw it! Hearts in your eyes!”
“Shh!” I looked to see if there was any sign of Oak lingering in the halls.
“Not denying it, I see.” Damon’s face was more animated than I’d seen it for a while.
“It’s nothing.” I tried to play it off.
“Au contraire, big brother, it’s a huge deal.” He slung an arm around me. Given how standoffish he could be with me, it was rather startling. I froze in place. “Have you seen the way he looks at you when he thinks no one is paying attention?”
That drew me up short. “How does he look at me?”
“Like he’s the big bad wolf, and he wants to eat you.” Damon chuckled, probably at my expression. I could feel the heat in my face.
“He doesn’t,” I automatically denied.
“You’d so let him, wouldn’t you?” At my confused look he added, “eat you. I thought it was just one sided, but you like him back.”
Dazed, I nodded. My relationship with Damon always felt so fragile that a single lie could topple everything we’d built over the last few months.
“I think we’ll need Mori for this one.”
“For what?”
“Flirting basics. I need you two to fuck, and soon. About time we cut the sexual tension in this place.”
Mori was delighted to be pulled into one of Damon’s schemes. Those two were a dangerous combination. The sheer charisma they held alone made them irresistible when they were together.
Damon breezed into their suite, tugging me along behind him. “Mori, darling, I need you to teach my brother how to flirt properly.”
Their rooms had a small seating area where Mori was working on a laptop. Parker, our resident hacker and tech wizard, had checked all our computers and phones when we moved in. The bird shifter also joined his mate, Gregoris, on aerial patrols of the mansion and grounds. I didn’t get to see them flying as often as I liked.
“Hmm, who is he flirting with, sweetheart?” Mori had a wicked grin on his handsome face. He and Cody were so alike. There was no denying Mori was his dad when they were together. Damon let go of me to go to Mori’s side.
“You were right. Thyme has a crush on Oak,” Damon admitted with a sigh.
“Pay up then!”
Damon leaned down to kiss his mate. “Happy?”
“Always when I’m with you.”
They were adorable but also reminding me just how single I was.
“Why am I here?” I whined.
“Because Mori is going to teach you to flirt like an incubus does.”
“Um, I don’t have his pheromones or whatever, so that’s not possible,” I pointed out.
“No, but you have something better!” Mori stood from his seat with a grin on his face. “You havechemistry with the one you want. We’ve seen the way he looks at you.”
“Like he wants to eat me. So I heard. I’m not dinner,” I deadpanned.
“You could be something better. The one true love of Oak’s life.”
