Page 28 of Twinning and Sinning

"See, I told you that she would be alright," Dax whispered as he petted her hair. I scoffed while I grabbed a warm washcloth to wipe away her makeup. Seraphina didn't need it; her eyes were beautiful, like two summer willow trees blowing in the tall grasses of the Felician Meadows in Bergarian. The fiery red hair was that of the sunrise; all that was missing were the purples and blues that came along with it during the change of seasons.

Seraphina might have thought we were done telling her about our kind, but we were far from it. We had yet to tell her we were princes, lived in another realm, and we had come to take her back with us.

Unfortunately, we added a side quest to find out who sent out the new silver smoke explosives. That would be bad if the type of weaponry ended up in Bergarian.

Once her face was clean, I came up behind her and pulled her a bit closer to me. Dax had already possessively had his hand cupping her face, already asleep without a care in the world. Dax certainly lived in the moment while I planned for the next day.

She was leaving or wanted to leave. How do we tell her we were going to take her to a pack of Wolves? This would be the first step to show her our world on a smaller scale. Burying my nose into her hair, I took a long deep breath. Dax was right; it would work out.

The goddess had blessed us with a mate, and we found ours so much quicker than our father. I couldn't imagine having to wait one hundred and twenty-some years.

We had her; we had Seraphina now. The major hurdle we had jumped through and succeeded. We just had to convince her that we were here to stay and there would be no strangeness between my brother and me being in love with her.

Seraphina and Dax' breaths evened out, and so did mine. I let their soothing snores help me fall into my own slumber.

BANG BANG BANG

I groaned as I slung my arm over my eyes. The room was bright, meaning we had slept in late. Seraphina always woke up at the crack of dawn to make herself coffee and drag us all the way to that book shop. The extra alcohol and life-altering information didn't help her weary mind either.

The door continued to bang while Seraphina groaned in response. Her hair covered her face, nuzzled up against my side. During the night, she had switched positions, and my body pulled her into my embrace. Taking my hand, I slapped Dax, who was spooned up against our mate.

"Dax!" I whispered. He stirred until I tapped him on the cheek. Seraphina nuzzled into me further. I wasn't about to get up to answer the damn door. Dax rolled over and huffed. The door banged six times again repeatedly until Dax got up.

"Fine," he grumbled. "Whoever it is, I'm going to kill them," Dax's loud footsteps echoed through the bedroom while I held Seraphina tighter. Her response was a gentle humming noise that made me purr continuously. "So warm," she whispered. Clearly, she wasn't awake, and I prayed to the gods she wouldn't wake anytime soon.

"Shit!" Dax ran back into the room, both hands on either side of the door frame. "We gotta go, Dimitri. Get her up and grab her clothes." Confused, I felt the urgency through our brotherly bond and shook Seraphina awake gently.

"No," she whined and hugged me tighter. Ugh, I didn't want to move.

"What is the big deal?" I whispered harshly. Dax ran to the other side of the room, pulling clothes out of our bags and throwing on a pair of jeans.

"Bears, Werebears. They are coming this way, about fifteen of them. Jonas didn't like the scene at the bar last night and got a bunch of his buddies to come out here. That was Lonato at the door warning us." I pulled Seraphina off me, and her face landed with a soft 'umph' on the pillow. Her face jerked up, and she threw her hair back.

"What's going on?" her morning voice was low, and it went straight to my morning wood. Damn, she was so sexy with that raspy voice.

"We need to get dressed, babe. Quick." Not wanting to alarm her, I pulled her out of bed and got her clothes she had laid herself out to travel in, and pushed her to the bathroom. "Fast, fast, we need to leave!"

Shutting the door, I ran outside, Lonato and his two friends flanking him. "They are about five minutes out. This is neutral ground, and we can't start a fight. We should run since you have your mate."

Dax and I could take out ten bears on our own, but with Seraphina with us, protecting her and getting her to safety was a priority. No one would be able to watch her if Jonas decided to try and take her.

Seraphina stumbled out of the cabin, holding on to some of her belongings, dazed. "What is going on?" Lonato started growling to the south; an enormous pounding on the Earth could be felt underfoot.

"Let's go, Seraphina," Dax grabbed her by the biceps and pushed her in the back seat. Buckling her in, her eyes grew wide.

"What the hell is going on? You guys can't do this!" Dax hopped in the back with her while I got in the driver's side. "We will explain in a minute; just listen to us, alright?"

"No!" She yelled. "I need to know now! I don't completely trust you yet, and why the heck were you in my bed last night?"

"Babe, I need you to calm down," Dax tried to soothe. Fire in her eyes, she whipped her hair so fast I swear she almost knocked the wind out of Dax. "You dare tell a woman to calm down?!"

"Shit, not now!" I growled and threw the SUV in reverse. The tires spun out on the rocks as I saw one large black bear try to jump on the hood of the vehicle.

Seraphina squealed, pulling on Dax' arm. "That bear is huge! Why did it attack the car?" Dax growled as another bear pushed the side of the door.

"Damnit, it's Jonas." Lips curled up, and the mighty teeth were shown to scare us, but all it did was provoke. If Seraphina wasn't here, I'd kill him on the spot. He had deliberately started a war on the royals.

Gunning it forward, we headed to a small outer road with Lonato leading the way. The back road to the Red Wolves Pack was covered over in branches and overgrown shrubs. Seraphina was looking all around, watching the bears try to keep up with us. Bears were mighty, mean beasts, but they didn't have the range of motion and the speed a wolf did. With the right amount of practice and our alpha wolf status, we could easily take them on.

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