For days, Gabriel danced around Danny like he’d ceased to exist, despite their agreement to try. It drove Danny up the wall. Worse, he couldn’t even leave the house, not really. Jason had forbid it after the adaphat had shown up, on top of the truck incident. Mostly, it was the injuries Danny had sustained from the accident.
A ridiculous response, in Danny’s opinion. He felt fine. But if Gabriel kept up his aloof bullshit, he was liable to snap. His mate in his bed every night didn’t help matters. So far, Gabriel was asleep when Danny came to bed, latched on to Danny like an octopus, then pretended nothing happened. A week of this, now.
Something had to give.
And then Adam stumbled out of his room one evening, disheveled and spooked. “Michael’s awake,” Adam’s boyish face split into a re
