Kain's Game (Shifter Fever Book 4) by Selena Scott

Author:Selena Scott [Scott, Selena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

It was a few weeks later when Valentina interrupted a Sunday with the family. She’d gone by herself into the woods that morning, as she was doing more and more often those days. Kain forced himself not to worry about it. That there was no way she would go back to Herta without telling him. But he also couldn’t make himself ask her about it. Somehow he felt like bringing up the subject would force it, and she’d leave even sooner.

He knew there was no way that she would stay on Earth. It was so clear to him that she wasn’t of this place. Just like it had become clear over the last weeks how much he wanted her to stay.

She was fully integrated into his life at this point. The little glass jars and bottles of homeopathic medicine that she’d made herself rested on his bathroom shelf. Her clothes were hung on the line in his backyard. It was food that he made that filled her belly. He’d taken to buying a single dark beer when he picked up the groceries, because sometimes before dinner, when they sat on his back deck, she liked to split one. He didn’t think he’d even set foot in his bedroom in weeks.

Yeah. He was good and thoroughly wifed.

He was enjoying every second of it. Except for the fact that every morning he woke up and wondered if today was the day she said goodbye.

So it was with an almost embarrassingly large leap of relief that Kain watched Valentina come out onto Ansel’s back porch where the rest of them were lounging. The first time they’d come to a family gathering separately, Kain had puckered his lips meaningfully and she’d kissed him quite passionately. It had had John Alec clearing his throat and the rest of the family raising their eyes. But no one had questioned it. And the tradition continued.

Today was no disappointment. She crossed the deck and kissed Kain, but he sensed something just a tiny bit different. Not distraction coming from her, but a certain kind of awareness.

He pulled back from the kiss with his eyes slightly narrowed but her focus wasn’t on Kain. It was across the deck, on John Alec, who was rising from where he’d been leaning on Milla’s lap, a spark in his eye.

“What’s going on?” Inka asked, looking back and forth between the two siblings.

Neither of them answered. But they were stepping off the deck and into the yard, their eyes on one another.

“Seriously,” Kain called. “What the hell are you guys doing?”

John Alec cracked his fingers and swung his arms once as he started to circle his sister. “Valentina wants to fight.”

Instantly Kain was on his feet. Not to interfere, but to get a better view. The entire family moved to the steps at the edge of the deck, all of them curious as heck to see the warriors spar.

If that could even be called sparring. Valentina unsheathed two katanas that had been

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