Their Siren

Chapter Twenty

Julian

I couldn’t stand the look of her face. Her beautiful tear stained face. I barged in without her inviting me, hands reaching fie her even though she had already shaken off my touch only moments before.

“Hannah”

She threw off my hand like it had burnt her, her eyes wild.

“Julian” My brother stepped into the room, his eyes taking in her almost frightened state, the chaos of clothes and personal belongings strewn all over the bed.

“Don’t touch me, don’t you f*****g dare” She stormed away, as far as she was able in the confines of the small room. “Not you”

“Has something happened?” I kept my voice even even though inside I was dying. Dying to comfort her, dying to go to her and wipe the tears from her eyes. I didn’t move though. What ever was going on, she clearly didn’t want me any closer to her than I already was.

“You tell me, what did you do? WHAT HAS YOUR COUNCIL DONE?” She collapsed into a sobbing heap, leaving me standing there. Staring at her like a fool. Alexander swept past me, gathering her into his arms before I could even contemplate moving towards her. Her accusations had me confused. This wasn’t about her seeing us earlier that much was for sure. Something else was going on here.

“Hannah tell us” Alexander was making ssshing sounds as he held her.

“My family” she broke into sobs again. “Is this what you do, make a girl fall in love with you, then take another woman to your bed and go after her family. What did my brother ever do to you any of you? Wasn’t it enough that you humiliated me? That you have to hurt the people I love as well”

I could barely hear any of the words that were coming out of mouth. She was falling in love with us! “Hannah” I tried again when my voice came out a croak. “Hannah, we would never do anything to hurt you. Not ever”

She turned her accusing eyes in my direction. “You have hurt me; you could have just said that you had changed your mind. I’m a big girl I can handle rejection after a casual hook up. what I can’t handle is going after my family. That’s taking this too far. I want to go home” She hiccupped loudly, struggling to get her crying under control. “I need to go home; I can’t do this anymore”

“Hannah we would never go after anyone you love” Alexanders voice was soft, but his hands were firm around her as I tried to bring her to me.

Seemed my brother wasn’t in the sharing mood.

“And we haven’t changed our minds about wanting you either” I folded myself into a cross legged position, tilting her head up so she could see my face. I needed her to see the sincerity there. How her pain was causing me pain. “we could never change our mind about that”

Mi caught my brothers eye over her bent head, he was twirling her crimson ponytail between his fingers idly. He shook his head slightly. A clear warning that I wasn’t to push this any further.

“What’s happened to your brother Hannah?” He kept his voice soft. Like he was conjuling a frightened animal.

“He was attacked, he’s in the hospital”

I raised an eyebrow. I knew exactly what Alexander was thinking. How could we be blamed for an attack on her brother, people got attacked all the time. Every single day in fact. Human on human violence was common. More common than shifter on human. Hell, it was more likely to be human on shifter violence than the other way around.

“how…/” I didn’t get to finish as she raised her eyes to meet my face. Tear washed but angry. That spark was bark and growing my the second. Hannah was pissed.

“The attacker mentioned my name. someone used my kid brother to send a message to me. I’m a god damn teacher” she threw up her hands but didn’t move from my brother lap. “An art teacher, I don’t have enemies not until I came here at least” taking a sigh she smiled sadly. “Taking this job was the worst mistake of my life”

I didn’t even think I crushed my lips to hers, brutally. Knowing I would bruise her delicate skin but not caring. Her words ripping into me.

“You don’t mean that Hannah” Alexanders voice was higher than usual, but I couldn’t move away from the kiss.

Her lips had remained a hard line undermine but I could feel the tension seep from her shoulders. She didn’t push me away and slowly her lips softened.

I would take that. Kissing her again, I parted her lips with mine. Softer this time.

“Stop” Her voice held a note of laughter as she pulled away. “You need to stop because I can’t stay mad when you kiss me like that”

I kissed her again, brushing my lips over hers. Loving the look on how full and swollen hers were. “Then don’t be mad because I will never stop kissing you”

Hannah

I was a bad, bad person.

But I couldn’t stay mad when Julian was kissing me the way he was. His lips forcing mine into submission. Forcing mine open so his tongue could tentatively touch mine.

I should be madder than hell with them. For my brothers sake as well as my own. So why was I more turned on that I ever had been.

I was mad at them. I told myself again even as my fingers clutched at his shoulders.

“Stop Julian” I knew my voice was breathy and hated it. What the hell was wrong with me.? “Tell me what the hell is going on”

I caught the look Julian threw over my shoulder, the way he sighed heavily but he nodded anyway.

“There is a war, always has been I guess “Alexander started, he gathered me back against his chest, arms in my lap. I was secure in the circle of his arms, but he didn’t touch me. Even though I kind of wanted him to. “Humans, some of them know about us and we have been hunted like wild animals for centuries. More so recently”

“That’s horrible” Tears sprung up into my eyes again.

“The last few years, it has been children that have been taken. Young defenseless children. children we find…” Julian shook his head as if unable to say the next words and I found myself reaching for his hand.

“It’s ok”

“No, it’s not because it puts all humans in danger from us. The council have been retaliating more and more often. Humans that are mated to shifters are not common, but they do exist and its not a great person to be right now!”

“Mated?” frowning I turned between them. It wasn’t the first time I had heard that term from them.

“It is what you are to us, well what we hope you will agree to be, but I will explain another time. You see we may have caused this with your brother”

I turned shocked eyes to Alex, my mouth open to start shouting again but he silenced me with a hand. “Not on purpose Hannah. Never on purpose. But us choosing you, loving you may have set things in motion now. Not everyone is happy with our choice”

I gulped hard. Did he just say he loved me. That they both did.