Fallen Protector by TL Reeve & Michele Ryan

Author:TL Reeve & Michele Ryan [Reeve, TL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: R2R Publishing
Published: 2019-08-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Gabriel was avoiding him. Rafe knew it. For the last three days, Gabriel had been holed up in his room with Halo, working. If it’d been anyone else, Rafe wouldn’t have minded, but knowing what he did about the other wolf and how the attraction building between them was getting to the point of explosive, it irritated the fuck out of him.

They were mates. Gabriel could say no all he wanted to, but the wolf inside Rafe had already claimed the guy. It’d been why he asked Gabriel about having a mate, to gauge the situation between them. Instead of giving a truthful answer, his mate decided to lie. The acrid stench burned Rafe’s nostrils and sat bitterly on the back of his tongue. Yet, Gabriel had done it to protect him. Deep down, Rafe understood the hows and whys of it. It also filled him with a sense of pride.

He appreciated Gabriel giving him space after everything he’d gone through, and yes, Rafe understood Gabriel’s apprehension and not wanting to push him when he couldn’t remember what happened to him while on Éviel. But, that was just it. He couldn’t remember. For all Rafe knew, he’d had a blast. All of it was consensual—minus the drug, of course. Or maybe he had consented to the drug. Shit, sometimes he was more fucked up than he realized. And, then again, maybe he was trying to rationalize it all to reclaim a piece of his control.

Hadn’t that been the reason he went to work out? To burn away the worry. To dissipate the aching knot in his stomach of not being aware and having his ability to say no, taken away?

Rafe groaned as he finished a set of bench presses and sat up. His muscles burned with exertion and overuse. He’d been at it for almost two hours, making a circuit around the small weightlifting area. An hour into it, Shax and Lix had joined him. Neither had said a word. They didn’t have to. If he wanted to talk, he would, same went for them. It was one of the things he liked about his crew. Their non-verbal communication skills were outstanding. They each knew when the other needed space and when they needed support, even if it was silent.

Rafe stood then turned toward the mirror, behind the small rack of dumbbells when he heard the commotion at the entrance of the area. Natalie and Gabriel were going at it like a pack of rabid wolves. Both narrowed their eyes as they snarled and snapped at each other. Whatever was happening, it wasn’t pretty. Sure, he could have used his exceptional hearing to eavesdrop, but he didn’t. Sometimes siblings needed space to hash out their own shit.

Except when he heard his name and Shax’s. He looked at the other man. Shax narrowed his grey eyes, and the corner of his mouth tugged upward in a devious smirk. The perverse asshole got off on watching both Natalie and Gabriel argue with each other, because he knew he got under Gabriel’s skin.

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