Page 192 of Under an Endless Moon

Hesitation brimmed through her, though he could read everything she was trying to say in that gaze that covered him in an embrace.

In trust and truth.

“Do you feel it?” she asked, voice timid and brave.

His chest stretched tight. No doubt, he should keep the words locked tight, but he was unable to hold them back. “Yeah, I feel it, Raven. But that doesn’t mean we should?—”

Raven’s phone suddenly started vibrating from where it sat on her nightstand, and Otto glanced to the side to see the screen light with Haddie’s name.

Worry instantly gripped him, especially when he saw the same damned thing ripped through Raven’s expression.

She bit down on her bottom lip.

Reservations and fear spiked through the air.

Otto grunted, “Answer it.”

With a trembling hand, Raven reached over him and grabbed it, and she pushed back to sitting, her voice quiet when she muttered Haddie’s name.

Haddie started rambling, obviously crying, her words just loud enough for Otto to be able to make out since Raven had the phone pressed to her ear. “He just dumped me. On the freaking street. He’s such a jerk, Raven.”

Otto’s baby sister gasped and choked, while a vat of rage plunged into his stomach. It took everything he had not to rip the phone out of Raven’s hold.

“Where are you?” she whispered as those eyes came up to meet with his.

Guilt and dread roiled in them.

There was a break, then Haddie mumbled the crossroads.

What the fuck? She was halfway across town from where she was supposed to be. Near Iron Owls’ club.

Agitation barreled through his senses.

“I’ll be there in a minute to get you,” Raven said.

“I’m so sorry. I’m really sorry,” Haddie rambled.

“It’s okay,” Raven promised. “I’ll be right there.”

The line went dead, and Raven slowly let the phone drop to her lap.

Otto eased up to sitting, careful since he felt like he might split apart. “The fuck was that?”

Raven gulped, and she looked away like she was trying to hide whatever secret she was supposed to keep.

“Raven…please. This is my sister we’re talking about.”

She looked back at him, that guilt in full force. “I don’t want to betray her confidence.”

His eyes squeezed closed for a beat, then he was urging, “Is Haddie in trouble? If she is, I need to know.”

A single tear slipped down her cheek, and warily, she nodded. “She’s been seeing Gideon.”

Horror belted through him.

Alarm and a hatred so fierce that he couldn’t contain it.

He flew out of the bed and started for the door. “Don’t worry about pickin’ her up. That’s on me.”

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