Their Siren

Chapter Nineteen

Hannah

I couldn’t help the tears that flowed down my face as I walked back to my own room. I walked slowly with my head held high, I wouldn’t run from them. I wouldn’t give them that satisfaction. Angrily I wiped the tears away with the back of my hand.

“Miss Hannah don’t cry” There was a note to the big dragons voice that I had never heard before. It seemed women in distress were his weakness.

“I’m not, its fine” I said angrily, I blew out a breath. I wasn’t angry with him; I wouldn’t be that woman who took it out on an innocent party. “Sorry” my voice was shaky, a sob threatening to burst from my mouth. “I’m fine really Wren thank you”

The big man patted my shoulder awkwardly. As if he didn’t know how to comfort me. As if my tears somehow were the scariest thing in the world. As I reached my door I turned again. I had a question, one that I hadn’t dared to ask until then.

I guess I had some secret hope that they were really serious about me, that I could believe in them.

“Wren will it hurt?” The sob broke free from my lips.

For a moment he looked taken aback, as if I had landed a blow that had somehow winded him. “I’m here to guard you Hannah, not hurt you”

I shook my head. Seemed my annoying guard had a softer side. All it took was a few tears and the thought that a woman, even if she was a human may be afraid of him.

“I mean when they make me forget?” I hiccupped the last bit. Truth was that I didn’t want to forget. Not a second of it. Not even the pain I felt right now at seeing all three of them in bed together. Julian’s arms and lips on someone else’s body.

He scratched his beard as if this was the first time anyone had ever asked him that. And maybe it was. “Maybe a little bit, it will be nothing compared to the pain you are feeling now. The pain being in love with an alpha pair of Sirens will bring you” He hovered in the doorway as I motioned for him to enter. At that moment I knew I was safe with him alone, no matter what Alexander had said.

I flopped heavily on the bed, eyes never leaving him. “Yeah I’m starting to realize that”

He shook his head. “They care for you, any of us can see that and why” His eyes raked over my body, not that there was much to see in my sweats and t-shirt. “Yes, I can see why” He held a hand up. “Don’t worry I’m not foolish enough to step over that boundary with you. Maybe if you hadn’t already been claimed but not with the council breathing down our necks”

“Human women huh?” I asked with a hiccupping laugh.

He shrugged. “Dragon women are almost nonexistent. So, for us there is no choice but only when the fates decide. Not until then.” Suddenly he snapped his lips together, almost as if realizing he was sharing to much.

“And you haven’t found the one?”

He shook his head. “I doubt there is a one for an old dragon like me, I’m too stuck in my ways” He barked out a laugh that echoed through the house. “But if there was someone out there, I would like them to be like you?”

I looked at him shocked. “ME?”

“Brave, fearless”

“Oh, I’m plenty scared right now” I said with a huff, slowly I stood. Moving to grab my half full case from the corner. How many times had I started packing it now? And how many times had they stopped me.

Stopped me with their lies, with their kisses.

He watched me the whole time. “But you have been brave. Bravery isn’t the absence of fear Hannah, its doing something even though you are afraid” I watched him shake himself. “Have you decided then?” He motioned to the case. My eyes followed his hand.

Had I decided?

I sat down heavily, tears flowing again. No, I hadn’t decided. Could I keep doing this? Keep fighting for something that might not ever be mine?

No, I couldn’t.

“Wren I am afraid” and that was the truth. It wasn’t so much the fear of having my memory wiped or the pain it may cause me. That was secondary to the niggling suspicion that I if I agreed I would be giving up on something that may just be worth fighting for. It would be something I would regret the instant I said yes.

Except I wouldn’t.

I wouldn’t remember it, or them. Or the time we spent together. The way they made me feel. That was the crux of it.

His bulk made the small bed tip as he settled himself next to me. He hugged me loosely. As if it was a new thing for him. “I will be gentle Hannah. I promise you that”

“Hannah am I interrupting?” I raised my tear streaked face and looked at Lyla’s sly smiling face.

God, I hated her.

Wren looked between us; his face unreadable. “Remember what I said Hannah” he swept past Lyla and back into the corridor. Taking his usual place against the wall opposite.

“I have nothing to say to you Lyla” I walked to the door, a grin on my face. I knew I looked like a maniac, but I cared about that as much as I liked the woman standing in front of me. “Too you or to them” I nodded curtly over her shoulder. “Thank you, Wren,”

A smile quirked on his lips, one he quickly hid as Lyla turned and left.

I slammed the door behind her.

Alexander

“What do you mean Wren was in her room?” Julian’s voice was bitter, he was pacing up and down the room like someone possessed. “Why would he be in her room” He whirled on Lyla as she lounged on the chair by the window. His eyes were flashing. She shrugged, not at all effected by his anger.

“I’m sure it was innocent”

My head shot up. Why wouldn’t it be innocent? Hannah had been happy to tie herself to us. Why now when we were one step closer to being allowed to be together would she go off with a dragon of all people? And why would Wren allow it? She couldn’t be the fated mate of all of us.

Surely, she wouldn’t be so angry that she would bed him just to get back at us? The thought ripped from my mind before I could stop it, my brother turned as if in slow motion. A shocked look on his face. He was shaking his head fiercely as if to shake away the thought I just sent unwillingly to his mind. His eyes had bled back to their usual brown as the possibility overwhelmed him. There was a very human look of pain on his face.

I had to take a shaky breath to calm myself as the image of Hannah naked under someone else ripped through me. My heart felt like it was being torn in two as Hannah face flashed behind my closed eyes. Her face as it had been last night. I couldn’t stand the thought of that look on her face with anyone else. We were the only ones allowed to see her head thrown back like that.

I roared, grabbing the first thing to hand, a lamp and throwing it without thinking.

No.

I told myself over and over again, she wouldn’t. She hadn’t said it out loud, but I knew she had feelings for us. She had too. Otherwise this pain I felt would last forever.

I flopped onto the bed, head in my hands. Lyla lay a comforting hand on my shoulder. How could everything be going so wrong?

“Alex” her voice was soft. “I’m sure it was just him comforting her. She was upset” She patted my shoulder again and I knew she wanted me to look at her, but I couldn’t raise my eyes from the carper. I couldn’t even go to my brother and comfort him from the pain I knew he was feeling. I couldn’t do anything but stare at the cream carpet. “She obviously just needed comfort and he was there”

I knew she meant it innocently, but her words ripped into me, like a knife going through butter. Even if that was the case, we were the reason she had turned to another man. Had found comfort in the arms of another man even if was innocent.

I shrugged away from her hand. I need to think.

How could I make this right?

“Alexander” My brothers voice was strangled. “I can’t”

I knew what he meant. I couldn’t lose her either.

“We need to go to her”

Julian nodded.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea, she needs time to process” Lyla’s voice was sharp, and I looked at her with wary eyes. I trusted her with my life but this time my heart was telling me she was wrong.

We needed to go to her before she did something stupid. Something worse than seeking comfort. Something that would take her away from us forever.

Something that made her forget.

Julian straightened his shoulder, he nodded once and opened the door, already halfway down the hall before I got to the door. I caught up quick enough, but he had already knocked on her door when I reached him.

I took a deep breath, blowing it out heavily through my nose as I waited for her to answer. It was the longest few seconds of my life.

Her beauty took my breath away when she opened the door. She had scraped all that wild mermaid red hair into a high ponytail, it was so tight it made the angles of her face even sharper. The baggy t-shirt and sweats did nothing to hide the curves of her body from us. I craved that body more than I craved the ocean I was born in.

“You have been crying” Julian’s voice broke, her face was clear, but her eyes were red and puffy. He reached for her, and she stepped back out of his grasp. I saw the shock on his face, he dropped his hand to his side like a stone.

Things were worse than I had thought.

It was time to be totally honest. Council or not. There rules could be damned.

“Hannah, we need to talk”