Feral Shifters: Complete Series: Books 1-4 by Rose Callie

Author:Rose, Callie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

3

AMORA

Kian stalks up the stairs, his footsteps so heavy I’m afraid he’s going to fall right through the thin wooden planks. I stare after him, a sick feeling churning in my stomach.

Something clanks over by the benches. I swing my attention back to Malix as he draws a long length of rusted chain out of a wooden crate. He hefts it in his hands over the sound of Kian’s fading footsteps. Clearly, he’s not the least bit bothered or worried by the way his brother just stalked out.

I glance up at the ceiling overhead as it creaks beneath Kian’s weight. A moment later, the front door slams shut so hard it almost shakes the entire house.

Malix crosses to me, the chain dangling from one hand and a few pieces of hardware gripped in the other. He stops a foot away from me, shooting a glance up at the ceiling as he rolls a carabiner in between his thumb and forefinger.

“He’s fucked up right now,” he says, his full lips pulling to one side in a grimace. “He gets like this sometimes. Nothing to do but let him deal.”

I snort. “Somehow, I don’t think his method of ‘dealing’ is very healthy.”

Malix leans in and presses a quick, chaste kiss to my lips. “Kitty, nothing Kian does is healthy. You just gotta let him fall apart. He’ll pull himself back together afterward.”

As quick as it was, my lips still tingle from his kiss, and for a second, I can almost forget all the bad stuff. I have a wild impulse to grab Malix before he walks away and make him kiss me even more thoroughly. Maybe we could lose ourselves in each other for a while. It certainly worked the last two times.

But then my gaze drifts to Frost’s unconscious form. No part of me wants to leave his side, not until he wakes up and I’m sure he’s okay. I hit him hard, and clearly, something is wrong inside him. Something to do with the overburdening of shadows Quinton put on him. He’s like a balloon too full of air and on the verge of bursting.

He needs me. He needs us.

Obviously, though, Kian is upset too. When a man who doesn’t usually show his emotions appears to suddenly be drowning in them, there’s no way to deny that something is desperately wrong.

Motioning with my chin toward the stairs Kian went up, I say, “Should I go check on him?”

Malix shrugs, striding back over to the water heater. “Up to you.”

“Nobody should have to pull themselves back together without a friend. Not after what we just went through.”

He drops the chains next to Frost’s splayed legs and squats down to check the pulse in his neck. “You don’t really believe that. How long were you solo, dealing with your own shit, ‘pulling yourself back together’ when things got tough?”

“Fair point,” I hedge. Still, the thought of Kian out there in the cool early morning feeling some kind of shitty way makes my stomach roll uncomfortably.

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