Page 54 of Amethyst and Iron
He had his back to me and he was shoving his hand through his hair, a phone pressed to his ear and… talking?
Shit,I really was exhausted. I mean, hewastalking quietly, not even above a whisper, but I was a fucking wolf-vampire hybrid.
I strained and managed to make out what he was saying.
“A dozen? You’re certain? And Claudette? Harold?” I heard a pained groan. “Understood. Yes, ashes then burial also. Scent-wipe the grounds. They cannot be discovered. No. Do not pursue the perpetrator. Report when it’s done.Remnantout.”
Remnant.
He pocketed his phone in his black jeans.
“Do you wish to continue pretending that you are still asleep? Or would you like to have a conversation?”
I jolted.
He turned around slowly.
His wavy hair fell to his shoulders, a deep dark brown. Stubble framed his jaw. His eyes were a piercing steel gray just like mine. He stood tall and broad, a whole lot of muscle on him,clad in a weathered black leather jacket with a black top beneath, complete with the jeans—a sleek but hard edged black-on-black look. He had stakes holstered at his calves and a pistol at his right hip. Chunky rings adorned every finger.
But there was something that stood out above all the rest.
The leather chain with a golden wolf claw hanging from it.
Mynecklace. My mom’s necklace. We both had one exactly like that.
He saw me looking and clasped it, stroking it reverently. “Yes. This was gifted to me by your mother. Just like yours.” He gestured at mine that was visible with me apparently being stripped. I discreetly felt through the sheets. Okay, I was wearing some pajama pants. Really cozy ones from what I could tell. It was just my chest that was bare.
“You’re… I heard you call me…”
“I called you myson.That is most definitely what you are.” He smiled. “I am, indeed your father.”
Shit.That wasn’t something I could just… I couldn’t just reconcile that. Especially not right off the bat.
“You expect me just to buy that?”
“Youfeelit.”
I… I did.
That same deep-seated familial blood bond I felt when I was around my mom.
“If your senses seem a little off-kilter after what you suffered through earlier, perhaps this will assist to offer you the proof and reassurance that you need.” As I arched an eyebrow, his eyes shone as he spoke, “Creswyn.”
I choked. “How do you—”
“It was I who provided that safehouse for you and your mother.”
I blinked and pushed out of the sheets, swinging my legs around, my feet touching the floor.
A wave of dizziness hit me and I had to leave it at that, pinching the bridge of my nose.
“It will pass once you feed and eat. Both are required with your hybrid nature after sustaining such horrific damage.”
Horrific damage.“You saved me… stopped him.”
“Correct.” He came to the bed and stopped a couple of feet from me, folding his arms across his chest. “However, he is still out there. As such, you arenotsafe above ground.”
“Above ground?” I looked up at the beams, studying them closer.
