Chapter Twenty-Seven
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Jett
“Hope I didn’t interrupt anything?” Banes eyes glittered as he met me at the bottom of the stair , hastily I did the button up that had been hanging open at my waist.
“This better be important.” I didn’t even look at him as I swept out into the humid summer night. The sky was clear, stars shone over head and the moon was high and full, its silver light beautiful.
Everything seemed more beautiful under the light of a full moon.
“So I didn’t interrupt, I hope she was the worth the wait, man?”
I know he meant it jokingly. Hell I had uttered similar words to my brothers at least a thousand times before. But my hand closed around his throat anyway.
“Jett.”
Forcing my hand to relax its grip I took a step back. I couldn’t blame him for his jibes. It was unheard for me to wait so long for a woman.
Except she wasn’t just any woman.
She was Harper.
My mate.
“What’s going on?” I repeated , now wasn’t the time for that conversation, my brothers knew I had laid my claim on her, it was up to me to make it official or not.
“Sarah and..”
“Bat.” I finished for him, motioning him to lead the way. “The moon is making everyone jumpy.” And that was the truth. It was always harder to keep control of our emotions when the moon was round and full. Everything was amplified.
I needed to either shift.
Or f**k.
Or in an ideal world, both.
“I wish he would just bang her and get on with it.”
I rolled my eyes. “It’s more complicated then that and you know it. Those two have been doing this dance for years. But …”
“Yeah Diablo.” And there it was , Diablo. Bat would never disrespect his best friend by chasing after his baby sister, no matter how much he wanted to.
And his loyalty was killing her.
Before I had never understood it, the pain that always radiated from their eyes but now? Now I had met Harper? How would I feel if she left? If she rejected me like Bat did with Sarah constantly?
Yeah I got the pain now.
Glancing back at the darkened house, I broke into a trot. There would be no way she would be able to see us if she glanced out the window but I wanted to be further away, cloaked more in the shadows before I let the shift take hold.
And I would need to shift. Even with my human ears I could here the fight ahead.
“s**t Diablo will kill him if he hurts her.” Bane sounded genuinely worried.
“ He would never and you know it, what happened this time, anyway?”
He puffed out a breath but I knew he wasn’t out of breath more exasperated. “Bane … removed her from a… situation at the bar and they have been arguing ever since and then she caught him sniffing around one of the club girls… she knows it’s only because he can’t have her but she went crazy. The fight ended up out on the lawn and she shifted, he went after her but yeah.. here we are.”
Rolling my eyes I cracked my neck. How many times had I heard versions of this story?
Too many.
“Are we gonna be able to break this up without shifting?” I really didn’t want to shift with Harper in the house.
“Not a chance in hell.”
Bloody brilliant.
“Let’s do this then.” The quicker it was done the quicker I could go back to her. Maybe she would be awake still and we could pick up where we left off.
Maybe she would be asleep and I could wake her up gently with my mouth all over body.
That sounded like a brilliant idea.
I let the shift take over my body, the warmth radiating from my core as my animals happiness at his freedom flooded through me like euphoria.
There was only one thing better then the feel of being on four legs instead of two under the light of the moon.
Silently I padded the darkness, a black shadow in the night.
There was a reason they called me Jett. I was a shadow amongst shadows , the moon light glancing from my wicked canines. Making them stand out in stark contrast against the blackness of my fur.
The noise of a twig breaking had me shoot my head around. For what seemed like a life time I froze.
Harper.
And then she opened her mouth and screamed.
And screamed.
And screamed.
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