Alpha Defender by Terry Bolryder

Author:Terry Bolryder [Bolryder, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-09T04:00:00+00:00

11

Thor eyed his brother warily as they both slowly changed, weak from transforming and whatever it was Matt had done to them. He’d never felt anything like it. Pure force, and then a feeling like the circuits in his body weren’t working.

“Lock?” he asked as he buttoned his jeans.

“Yes?” Lock replied, buttoning his own. Sometimes looking at his brother was like looking in a mirror.

“It’s good to see you,” Thor said, throat tight from some unknown emotion. He’d known Lock had to be out there somewhere, because they’d had a link since birth that when the other was badly wounded, they knew.

When Lock had been shot helping Misty back at the mansion, Thor had felt the bullet tear through his body and sheer panic had engulfed him. He’d felt like he was going to die.

Lock gave him a guilty look as he slumped into a chair. “I know I should have come back sooner. I was still figuring things out. And I didn’t want you in danger again.”

“If you’re in danger, I’m in danger,” Thor said, folding his arms and taking a chair across from his brother.

Lock looked well. His hair was a little unkempt, a little longer than usual, and there were a few stress lines around his eyes that would probably resolve with a little sleep and some good food, but all in all, he seemed healthy.

“Where have you been?” he asked. “And what has happened since I’ve seen you?”

Lock let out a hoarse laugh that was more like a bark. “What hasn’t happened?”

“You know what I mean.”

Lock sighed, a rough exhale of breath that made Thor think his brother hadn’t had a chance to relax in a long time. “You know how I was caught, right?”

Thor shook his head. “It was actually Fifi who even let me know you were in trouble. He didn’t have the power to do anything about it, but he told me to go to Matt. Said he could.” He scrubbed his hands through his hair. “That’s back when I thought Matt was a boy.”

“Fifi, hm? I thought he might have interfered.” Lock sighed and got a cryptic expression that Thor couldn’t read. “And as for Matt, even as a boy she kind of got under your skin, didn’t she?” Lock asked, a teasing gleam in his eyes. “I guess she can’t be all bad. She did turn on her family to let me go.”

He sighed and put his face in his hands, slowly pulling them down, stretching his skin. Then he sat up. “I’ve gone and done it now. It’s just, I’ve been preparing myself to come tell you what I know, knowing how angry it’ll make you. How angry it has made me. And then I see you, with her legs wrapped around your waist. Carrying her like it never occurred to you there could be something wrong with it.”

Thor nodded. “I know.”

“And then, it’s like, it was always us, you know? Somehow I thought I’d come back and we’d go back to the way things were, fighting the man, trying to win our way in the world.

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