Man in the Middle [Wolf Creek Pack 9] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour ManLove) by Stormy Glenn (elon musk reading list txt) 📗

from Prince Zacarius and Devlin that your mate was human before he was converted. If you are saying that Justin is a vampire, then how can they be related?”

“Danny seems to believe that they have the same father,” the prince replied, looking even grimmer. “He says that his mother would never dream of being unfaithful to her husband but that his father would do just about anything to get what he wanted, including planting his seed all over the countryside.”

“He sounds like a real peach,” Taylor grumbled as he dropped back into his chair.

“He sold Danny to me without telling Danny anything about it. He lied to Danny and told him he was trying to find a blood donor for his brother Samuel, who he actually sold as a blood slave to another coven. Danny knew nothing about vampires until he arrived here.”

“Wait, wait.” Taylor glared at the prince. “You bought your mate?”

“No, but I suppose from my words that it would seem like that. I was actually trying to establish a contract with a willing blood donor. I was unaware that Danny didn’t know what he was getting into until he arrived. Luckily, we were able to figure out that we were mates, and forgo the contract all together.”

“And what happened to his brother?” Taylor asked.

“Prince Zacarius was able to locate Samuel. I purchased him.” The prince held up his hand when Taylor started to argue. “Before you get upset, please know that it was the quickest way to get Samuel out of the situation he was in. He was being used as a blood donor against his will. I could have tried to negotiate with the coven that owned him, but that could have taken months. Samuel needed to be rescued right away. Buying him seemed like the easiest way to get him home.”

“Is he still a blood donor?”

“No, of course not. Once Samuel arrived here, he was given his freedom to do as he wished.”

Taylor frowned, glancing down at his hands. “How is he now?”

Dominic sighed. “Traumatized. He refuses to leave his room and will only allow Danny in to see him. He wants nothing to do with anyone in my coven.”

“Can you blame him?” Taylor snorted.

“No, but I believe it will eventually cause problems. I suspect that Samuel is the mate of my second–in-command, Sully. The man hasn’t been the same since he rescued Samuel. He paces outside of Samuel’s room, and when he isn’t pacing, he’s going on missions, each one more dangerous than the last. I fear for his sanity.”

Chase knew exactly how Sully felt. Before the previous evening when he claimed Taylor as his mate, he had been getting more careless with his actions, looking for more and more dangerous situations. Now, his sole focus was keeping his mate safe. Nothing else mattered.

Except his other mate.

“May we see Justin now?”

“Yes, of course,” the prince said as he stood and pushed his chair in. “I apologize for keeping you from him for so long. I’m sure you can understand why I had to ask these questions.”

“We understand,” Chase said as he stood also and then waited for Taylor to stand as well before placing his hand in the middle of Taylor’s lower back. “But just so you know, Justin is our mate.”

The prince’s eyebrows shot up. “Well, I guess that makes us in-laws then.”

“I still don’t understand how Danny could be Justin’s brother if he was human before he was converted. Aren’t both of his parents human?”

“Before Justin arrived, I would have said yes, although I suspected after meeting Lowell Erickson that he was the spawn of Satan. Now, I’m not so sure.”

The prince grimaced, a gesture Chase was coming to recognize as the man thinking about something he wanted to say that Chase wasn’t going to like.

“I went to Lowell Erickson to find a blood donor because he knows about vampires. I never thought to question how he knew about them, though. At the time, I was too concerned with finding a blood donor.”

“Why?”

“I was sick, something that happens to vampires of my advanced years. I had too much contaminated blood in my system, and I was slowly dying. I needed a pure-blood source. Danny proved to be that source, which is why I signed a contract with him to be my blood donor.”

Taylor frowned as he peered up at the prince. “I thought vampires were immortal.”

“No.” Dominic chuckled. “We’re just very hard to kill.”

Chase mulled that over as he followed the prince out of his study and up the stairs to the second floor. If what the prince said was true, and he suspected that it was, then Justin would be very hard to kill as well. That could work in his favor, and in Chase’s favor as well.

Chase knew that it was already too late to stop his past from coming after him and his mates. The process had already started, and there was nothing Chase could do to stop it. But if Justin was harder to kill if he truly was a vampire, that would make things a little easier.

Of course, if Chase didn’t claim Justin, that might keep him safer as well. Chase just didn’t think that either Justin or Taylor would go for that idea now that he had claimed Taylor, and he wasn’t about to leave either man unprotected.

Chase and Taylor followed behind the prince. He hid the grin when Taylor’s head began to snap around, glancing at everything and everyone as they walked to the room Justin was being kept in.

Chase had to admit, the place was decked out. The prince definitely liked his creature comforts, and it showed. As they walked down the long hallway, Chase could see the way Taylor was going out of his way to avoid the expensive vases and some weird-looking chairs that looked like extremely fancy studio chairs. The ones directors sat in when they yelled “cut.”

“I see you are eyeing my Savonarola chair,” the prince said as they turned