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.”
