Inferno by Stormy Glenn

Author:Stormy Glenn [Glenn, Stormy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Abe cautiously approached the bed, watching intently for any movement from Danny. He was prepared to run back to the other room if he saw fear in Danny’s eyes again. That was something he never expected to see in his mate’s eyes and never wanted to see again.

It made his stomach churn.

Danny looked like an angel. His reddish-brown hair framed his all too pale face like a painting in a museum. His lips, while almost as pale as the rest of him, were the most luscious lips Abe had ever seen. He hoped he got to taste them.

When Danny remained sleeping, Abe slowly lowered himself to the bed and stretched his large form out alongside him. His hand hovered over Danny’s skin for a moment, the need to touch his mate riding him hard.

But he didn’t.

Abe was afraid if he touched Danny, he wouldn’t be able to stop. Despite his not knowing about it, Danny was still his mate and Abe had been waiting so long for the man to turn twenty-five so he and Ben could claim him. The anguish he felt that Danny didn’t know about them almost choked him.

It never should have been this way. Danny should have been waiting for them, cared for, cherished. Abe’s eyes fell to the cast on Danny’s arm. He gritted his teeth to keep from growling.

Danny should have been protected.

Abe laid his head down on the pillow next to Danny’s and just watched him breath. He could have stayed there for a thousand years if Danny hadn’t opened his eyes. Abe froze, afraid to move, afraid to say anything, afraid to even breathe. He didn’t want to do anything to frighten Danny again.

“Are you really a bear?” Danny whispered after the longest silence Abe had ever felt. He wasn’t moving away or demanding that Abe move away. He just laid there and stared at Abe as if trying to see the bear beneath his skin.

“I am,” Abe replied carefully. “Ben and I are both bear-shifters. Kodiak bears.” As if that would make a difference to Danny. As far as Danny probably knew, a bear was a bear was a bear.

“Like from Kodiak Island?” Danny asked. “That kind of Kodiak bear?”

Abe blinked. “Yeah.”

“Cool.” Danny grinned.

“Our people actually came from Kodiak Island. Kodiak is the ancestral land of the Sugpiaq, an Alutiiq nation of Alaska Natives. Our name in the Alutiiq language is Taquka-aq. There are a lot of Alutiiq stories that revolve around the similarity between bears and humans. Some of them talk about the mystical nature of bears because of their proximity to the spirit world. Only a few know how true that similarity actually is. We lived in harmony with the inhabitants of the Kodiak Archipelago for—”

“The Kodiak what?”

Abe smiled at the confusion wrinkling Danny’s forehead. It was an adorable look on the man. “Kodiak Archipelago is a group of islands, south of the mainland of the state of Alaska.”

Danny nodded as if he totally understood what Abe was saying.

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